CARRIZO SPRINGS — It’s lunchtime at Lee’s Steakhouse and the restaurant has few empty seats.
A nearby convenience store is crowded with long lines at the two registers and a queue at the gas pumps. Roads are clogged as tankers barrel through to deliver equipment to remote oil rigs.
Welcome to a county at the heart of the Eagle Ford shale, which some have called the most promising oil play in the nation.
Just two years ago, no one would have suspected that Dimmit County, pegged by the U.S. census as the 19th-poorest county in the United States, would be at the heart of a boom. There were few wells being drilled in the region, and local businesses were begging for customers.
But drilling in the Eagle Ford, a 400-mile-long formation stretching from East Texas to Webb County, has touched off a hiring frenzy in South Texas that is generating thousands of jobs.
Source: My San Antonio
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