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Houston Chronicle, by Vicki Vaughan Posted By: Dreadnought- Mon, 23 May 2011 12:35:16 GMT CARRIZO SPRINGS ' It's lunchtime at Lee's Steakhouse, and the restaurant has few empty seats. At a nearby convenience store, there are long lines at the two registers, and there's a wait to fill up at the gas pumps. Roads are clogged as tankers barrel through to deliver equipment to remote oil rigs. Welcome to a county that's at the heart of the Eagle Ford shale, which some have called the most promising oil play in the nation. Just two year ago, no one would have suspected that Dimmit County, pegged by the U.S. census as the 19th'poorest county

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