Geologist Charles Gould, founder of the University of Oklahoma Geology Department in 1900, mapped the Panhandle's geological features during surveys from 1903 to 1905 and later used evidence he had seen to guide oil and gas exploration north of Amarillo. His reports led to the Panhandle's first gas well on the Robert B. Masterson ranch in 1918, and he later helped set the location of the Gulf No. 2 on Samuel Burk Burnett's 6666 ranch in Carson County, which became the Panhandle's first successful oil well in 1921. In 1922, Gulf Production Company drilled the Gulf Dial No. 1 north across the Canadian River on the Dial Ranch after extending a 13-mile gas pipeline from the Gulf Burnett No. 1 to fire its boilers, overcoming the river's quicksand, floods, and lack of bridges. The Gulf Dial No. 1 became the first producing oil well in Hutchinson County and, along with Gulf's Burnett No. 2, stood at the forefront of thousands of wells that created great wealth, jobs, and new towns including Borger, Stinnett, and Gruver. That same year, the Smith-Capers Well on Dixon Creek briefly appeared to be a major strike and led to the formation of the Dixon Creek Oil Co., headed by Tex McIlroy, whose seven thousand barrel-a-day Dixon Creek gusher put the new field on the map. Watching the area since late 1925, Missouri businessman Asa P. "Ace" Borger bought 240 acres from John Weatherly after news of the Dixon Creek well and founded the town that gave the Borger Oil Field its name.