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pecting. With the discovery of the Beaumont oil pool in 1901 there 
was renewed activity in prospecting in the Sonr Lake district. Ten 
companies have put down wells in this district, of which three have 
been successful in obtaining petroleum in commercial quantities. 
The Sour Lake district, as shown on the map (fig. 5), includes an oval 
area measuring about 6 miles in length and 1 to 5 miles in width. 
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The general course of its longer axis is approximately southwest and 
northeast. This territory has been as yet very imperfectly explored, 
but from indications afforded by the wells thus far drilled it is alto- 
gether probable that the productive. territory will be greatly resl ricted 
and found to form a pool similar in form and extent to the Spindle- 
top pool. The limits given on the accompanying map are very 
largely hypothetical. 
