Albert McCain

Started in the Spindle-top Oil Field of east Texas in 1918. In 1922 he was a drilling supervisor at Signal Hill oil field in Long Beach, California. In the following years he became a “Wildcat” oil well driller and by 1930 he was a director of the Orland Oil Syndicate. His drilling equipment for that project included one of the first steel-derrick drill rigs in California, drilling oil wells in the 4,000 foot depth range. His drilling operations also included large water wells in the Mojave desert. WWII saw him working oil production in the oil fields of Coalinga, CA. About 1937, Daughter Fern, in her late teens, was with Albert when he came to drill a water well on Back Ranch Road, Santa Cruz