On Tuesday, April 7, 1921 at 2: 30 in the afternoon, it was Gladewater's turn to find the black giant. Twenty-five days were required to get the five-inch drill pipe to the Woodbine sand using two boilers and a wooden Jack Post rig.

The well was about a mile south of town in the Sabine River bottom, on land belonging to Judge H. R. Snaveley.

Excerpt from Gladewater History Book, 1973