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Oil producing regions was discovered by a rancher drilling for water for his cattle

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While drilling for water in 1886, Bexar County rancher George Dullnig found a small quantity of oil, but he did not attempt commercial production. City crews in Corsicana were also drilling for water in 1894, when they made the first economically significant oil discovery in Texas.

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