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Santa Rita No. 1 was drilled by the Texon Oil and Land Company in the Permian Basin near Big Lake, Texas, using the rig that now stands here. Drilling operations, nearly abandoned at times, lasted twenty months before the well came in on May 28, 1923, at 3,055 feet.
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