It’s almost as if someone set out to make Marshall Eye Jr. Drilling Co. Inc. an example of the pitfalls of the water well drilling business. Only the most resilient survive.
Marshall Eye founded his drilling company in 1958 near Potosi, Missouri. He built it up using first a cable-tool rig, then a table-driven rotary rig and, finally, a high-pressure top-head air rotary. Marshall Eye Jr. Drilling became his area’s largest provider of well drilling, pump installation, well inspection and waterline repair services. At its peak, the company was completing up to 200 residential water wells a year — right up until the founder’s death in 2008.