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intensive study. It contains some impartial inquiry into the economic effects of the
regulation of production. The conclusions are that prorationing and the unit sys-
tems tend to promote monopoly and that it is to the interest of the majors to
control production. Forbes studies the social effects of controlled production.
GARDNER, FRANK J., Ira Rinehart's West Texas Oil, a Study of the
Petroleum Industry in Fifty-five Counties of the West Texas Permian
Basin (Dallas, Rinehart Oil News Co., 1949). 499 PP-
Rich in technical data, these two loose-leaf volumes contain little conventional
historical analysis.
Reference Report on Oil and Gas Fields of the Texas
Lower Gulf Coast, Railroad Commission District Two (Dallas, Five
Star Oil Report, 1951). 240 pp.
Like other publications of Gardner, this work is primarily technical; yet it,
in common with the others, contains information of some historical importance.
Reference Report on the Oil and Gas Fields of the Texas
Upper Gulf Coast, Railroad Commission District Three (Dallas,
Five Star Oil Report, 1952). 484 PP-
A sequel to the foregoing, this volume has a brief history of prorationing and
conservation.
Rinehart's North Texas Oil (Houston, Rinehart Oil News
Company of Texas, 1941). 342 PP-
Burkburnett is the focal point of this study, which contains a historical introduc-
tion to the North Texas oil fields during the period 1870 to 1941. The volume is
filled with valuable statistics.
South Texas Oil, a Study of the Petroleum Industry in
Thirty-one Counties of the Rio Grande Embayment, 2 v. (Tulsa, The
Rinehart Oil News Company, 1947)- 398 PP.
While this book contains only a brief historical introduction to the South Texas
petroleum industry up to 1947, it has a wealth of technical data on specific fields.
Texas Gulf Coast Oil (Dallas, The Rinehart Oil News
Company, 1948). 311 pp.
The historical value of this volume lies in the chronology of production activities
in the Gulf Coast region.
GARDNER, FRANK J., and ROBERT L. PHIFER, The Oil and Gas Fields
of West Texas, Part z: Railroad Commission District 7-C (Houston,
Five Star Oil Report, Inc., 1953). 304 PP.
The book has no historical information as such, but contains a great deal of
technical data on West Texas fields.
GLASSCOCK, LUCILLE M., A Texas Wildcatter; a Fascinating Saga
of Oil (San Antonio, Naylor, 1952). 126 pp.
A dutiful wife tells the story of how her husband struck black gold in East Texas.271
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