At eight o’clock in the evening on October 3, 1930, the Daisy Bradford No. 3 well struck oil. It was a gusher, and set of a spectacular oil rush in the East Texas field. It was the largest oilfield every discovered up to that time.  The well was brought in by Columbus Marion “Dad” Joiner.  Joiner had begun drilling in Rusk County in 1927 with rusted, third-hand equipment. According to legend, a geologist from Texaco told Joiner, “I’ll drink every barrel of oil you get out of that hole.”  In 1930 Joiner began to drill eight miles west of Henderson, Texas on Daisy Bradford’s farm with a wooden rig and used tools.  His first two wells were dry holes, but when the Daisy Bradford No. 3 came in, it changed Texas and the world.