Camp Well Services
3.8(22)During the fall of 1955, brothers Raleigh and J.W. Camp started their drilling business while still employed with Cone Mills in North Carolina. Their first well drilling machine, a cable tool percussion drill, was purchased from Jack Faw at Drillers Services, Inc. in Hickory, North Carolina. Mr. Faw had just started his business, a supply house for water well drillers, just a short time earlier. When the brothers realized they could make a living drilling wells, they both left Cone Mills and began working full time at Camp Brothers. Jimmy started working with his father, J.W., and Uncle Raleigh from the very beginning after school, on Saturdays and during the summers. He accompanied them to drill the very first well when he was only nine years old.