Use the excerpt to answer the question.
"All of a sudden, a chunk of mud came out of the six-inch hole with an explosion just like a canon [cannon] popping off."
-Al Hamill, Beaumont, Texas,
January 10, 1901
What modification to the environment resulted from
Hamill's description? (1 point)
construction afthe first oll
construction of a dam by
• the LCRA on the lower
Colorado River
the extraction of large
Beaumont
completion of the Buffalo
of Houston