Eastland Cosden Oil and Gas Company Oil Map.

BENEAR, M. A..

$1,500.00

Item Number: 147521

Eastland, TX:, 1919.

Rare original oil map of the Cosden Oil and Gas Company in Eastland, Texas. Cadastral oil map of the central Texas county west-southwest of Ft. Worth, showing land ownership, oil, and mineral claims, scale of 1 inch = 4000 feet, legend of symbols designating oil and gas exploitation: Location; Rig Up; Drilling; Producing Well; Gas Well; Dry Hole; Abandoned. Signed “Proper of M.A. Benear” in the upper right corner. In very good condition with slight creasing and light rubbing to the extremities. No additional copies that we know of.

In 1917, just as the cotton boom was disappearing, a major discovery of oil occurred at Ranger, on land leased from the Texas and Pacific Coal and Oil Company by William K. Gordon. The discovery touched off a spectacular oil boom that lasted into the 1920s. Some other oil companies participated at the oil boom are Prairie Oil Gas, Markham Oil, Sinclair, Gulf Oil, The Texas Co. "Texaco", Magnolia, etc. Thousands of expectant workers and investors flocked into the county, among them George L. "Tex" Rickard, the boxing promoter; Jess Willard, the heavyweight champion; and novelist Rex Beach, who set his novel Flowing Gold in Ranger.