TOPIC: Spindletop, Sour Lake, Big Thicket Areas NAME: Gilbert, W. C. INTERVIEWER: Owens, W. A. PLACE: Beaumont, Texas TAPE NO. 116 DATE: 7-22-53 RESTRICTIONS: None Gilbert- Well, the next morning these Germans came back in my office and still offered me the $25,000 and I told them that I had leased the land.