Nichols, C.F. (sold)
C. F. Nichols (1890 - November 15, 1949) was an oil magnate in Texas. He is credited with founding the Bee County (Texas) oil industry. He drilled Bee County's first oil well in 1930. Nichols died of a heart attack on November 15, 1949.
Apex of the Texas Gusher Age.
[Texas Oil and Gas Deposits.]
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This is a c. 1936 C. F. Nichols diazo map of Texas oil and natural gas deposits issued at the height of the Texas Oil Boom (1901 - 1940s). The map captures the brief moment when Texas (and the United States) was poised to dominate global petroleum production : the emergence of industrialized Texas, and the beginning of the modern Oil Age. The map was produced using a printing technique intended for fast, short-run printings in the field, suggesting that this was a document not intended for general publication, but for corporate internal planning. That this document should be produced under the copyright of oil magnate C. F. Nichols raises the implication that it was intended for his company's strategic planning of oil drilling and exploitation. (more details)