The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-04-08
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.
Natural gas has been discovered near
Forbing, seven miles south of Shreveport.
An election will be held May 18th in
LaSalle Parish to- determine the parish
seat.
Fire at Kentwood destroyed saw mill
and 100000 feet of lumber, causing loss
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Reports show that much. more building
was done in New Orleans the first quarter
of this year than last.
Beauregard Camp of Confederate Veter-
ans in New Orleans, entered a protest
against lying school books.
The Louisiana delegation. in the House
split on the adoption of rule on the
Payne tariff bill. Broussard, Estopinal,
Pujo and Wickliffe voted with the Republic
cans, and Ransdell and Watkins lined up
with the Democrats.
Mr.. A. l.. MERGER, VT Vincennes, Ind,
who has had long experience in gas fields,
says: In the Caddo field we have discov-
cred four distinct oil.bearing and gas
producing strata, the first of which has an
average thickness of forty eight feet.
Thus, by long odds, the Caddo field is the
largest oil and natural gas field in the
world The first oil sand is struck at
about s42 feet from the surface. Below it
or ctn, ~
next at 1910 feet, and finally the fourth at
2120 feet, and the farther you 60 down the
better it seems. Indeed, the supply is
without limit.
New Orleans States: From New Or
leans, distant northwestward about 100
miles, are vast deposits Of rock salt, which
: lie in strata like bituminous coal and are
blasted out in great chunks in the same
manner. This deposit is four to ten feet
thick and extends over an area of many
square miles, even under the waters of
the gulf The miners drill rholes in the
solid body Of salt and blast it out with dy.
Mantle, just as they blast out coal else
where. A good deal of the product is re-
fined in New Orleans, but the bulk is
shipped to various parts of the world.
These are supposed to be similar salt de-
posits in other parts of the State. There
are salt wells at Shreveport, 400 miles
away.
East Carroll Banner-Democrat: One
million, four hundred and one thousand,
six hundred and seventy three acres of
land capable of producing, under proper
manipulation, all the rich and diverse
crops of Louisiana, of supporting homes
for hundreds of settlers going to waste, in
the Fifth Levee District. This is the report
of the board appointed to examine into
the subject of systematic drainage in this
district. This board was composed in part
Of scientific United States officials, with
all the resources at their command who
absolutely affirm, that the project of drain
ing the marshes of Louisiana is not only
feasible, but necessary condition to the
progress of the States development
When such an utterly repulsive spot on
the earth's surface, as Panama. has been
rendered not only habitable, but even at
tractive, as place of residence, through
the skilled efforts of the United States
engineers, assisted by the scientific knowl-
edge of the medical corps, it is nothing
less than a crime for the people of Louisi-
ana to neglect, not only the dangers, but
the possibilities of the marshes. What is
the use of screening the stagnant waters
adjacent to centres of population, when
thousands of acres of such breeding places,
for the fevers of semi-tropical climates,
remain to do their deadly work?