Black droplets smeared the arms and faces of drillers at the crude wooden-framed derrick on the edge of Red Fork when the Sue Bland No. 1 discovery well came in on June 25, 1901, just half a mile from here. Though small, it drew the attention of prospectors including Robert Galbreath, who would unleash the Glenn Pool gusher on November 22, 1905. As the Glenn Pool developed rapidly under overwhelmingly independent wildcatters, Standard Oil Co. quickly became the monopolistic force confronting them because crude had to reach market before it could produce income or wealth, and Standard controlled much of petroleum transport. A pipeline was begun from both West Tulsa and the Texas Gulf to meet in the middle. Refineries came to West Tulsa, including the Uncle Sam, the Texas Co., Cosden, later the Mid-Continent, the Constantin, and others, while strings of tanker cars went to independent refiners. Across the Arkansas, wildcat speculators formed corporations, an oil bank, and began a district of art deco skyscrapers. West Tulsa and Red Fork did the work of drilling and finalling wells, building and operating refineries and pipelines, and sorting tankers leaving the Frisco Yard, which lay just around the bend to the north and east along the way that became the Mother Road.