The cable tool rig replaced the spring pole drilling method used in America’s earlier oil fields. It used a bit suspended on a steel drilling cable, dropped into a hole so the impact broke up the formation, with the broken pieces removed by a bail. This method made possible the deeper penetration necessary in the Southwest. The cable tool rig was introduced in Texas in 1866, although some use of cable tools had been made around 1840 in the North. Texas gave the southwestern oil industry the first lease, the first oil pipe line, the first wooden and iron storage tanks, the first iron drums for transporting crude oil, and the first use of the augur principle later employed in rotary rigs. The cable tool rig brought in the first important wells of the Permian Basin. Parts of rigs actually used at Big Lake in Reagan County, where the No. 1 Santa Rita blew in during May 1923 as the first well in the first major oil field in the Permian Basin, were used to reconstruct this rig. The cable tool rig and the men who used it were credited with the great development of the Permian Basin.