Who were these mysterious "we"? Behind this pronoun was a representative group of more than thirty independent oil producers, led by M.K. Egbert. Like his brother, Albert D. Egbert, he was a hereditary doctor who, however, left his practice and turned to oil production at the very beginning of the oil boom in Oil Creek Valley. It is worth saying that both brothers turned out to be very, very successful oil industrialists, competently developing all the areas of activity available at that time, except for refining.

At first, of course, there was not enough money, so Albert had to share his first purchase, the Davidson farm, with another equally famous oil industrialist of the time, Charles Hyde. Thus, the farm land of about 15 hectares passed into the ownership of the partners for $2,600 and half of all the oil they managed to extract on this plot. The plots subsequently acquired by the brothers yielded good production rates, and they themselves were patient enough not to rush to exit projects when things were not going well. Soon they achieved not only prosperity, but also a special position and respect from other independent oil producers. By the way, Albert's own residence became the first residential building in the so-called oil patch region to use natural gas for lighting and heating.