Commemorating 50 Years — Hobbs, NM
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N 32° 40.998 W 103° 08.730
13S E 673868 N 3617698
Commemorating oil conservation
Waymark Code: WM115BQ
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 08/18/2019
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member QuesterMark
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Although discovered six years after the state’s first oil well, many soon called it the most important single oil discovery in New Mexico history. The Midwest State No. 1 – discovery well for the Hobbs oilfield – is commemorated with a cable-tool rig placed there in 1952 by the American Petroleum Institute.

The time capsule plaque placed here reads:

TIME CAPSULE
COMMEMORATING
50 YEARS OF
OIL CONSERVATION
1935 1985
INTERRED 1985
TO BE OPENED 2035
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