The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-07-10
TREASURE ISLAND IN
MISSISSIPPI SOUND

Find Liquid Fuel on SoH OF State
| of issippi-Expedition Planned
to Visit Horn Island for Week
End Trip-Engineer and Surveyor
of Gulfport on Trip-Find Will Be
| Great.
New Orleans Pitayune:
Alas and alack for the Mississippi
seekers of oil; alas that an old Or
| leanean, native OF Louisiana, who
| has gone to Mississippi for the past
! forty years week in and out, should
strike the Mississippi oil field first
and own half OF the island on which
it is located. Thi smay be cheerful
news to McCaughan, who has been
boring for oil at Gulfport for year
| or so behind a fenced-ln-tract, but
the fact remains that Z. Iayior
Gauche, president Of the State Board
of assessors, and Paul Jahnke have
purchased from the United States
Government half of Horn Island, 2oV
acres across the west end, ostensloiy
! for the white sand, but in reality HOT
the oil that is there.
And now they are saying at the
CITY hall that it used to be Grandpa
Gauche,' but hereafter it is to De
Foxy Grandpa'-the idea OF the MIS-
sissippians sleeping on their re-
sources all the while, and Grandpa
going in there and buying up half OF
ThArn iS doubt
about the purchase of the land' TOT
it is on record at Jackson, MISS, ana
Thursrdaya Sept. "a, 1903, the GATE
when it was recorded.
And Major Longstreet, who is the
owner of the property that has d
club house on Horn Island was there
at the time of the sale and sought to
get ownership of just that space ne. ne.
cessary for the site on the west end, end
This where the old military s. resser-
walton was in the year 1874. Grand
pa is of the belief that Major Long
street must have Known Of the pres
ence of oil on the island, and wanted
to get a slice anyhow, he got this
small, strip with the understanding
that not a. barrel Of sand was to be
SOU OK SIfSiI N"dJ:
1--WE haven putiit all over the wise
ones of eMississippt," said Grandpa
last hight. 1d'pffere are only a. couple
fof us in this, Paul Jahnckesand iyeurs
truly YOU know, there IS. horse
Shoe In the island ~fsoEa- which we
getting the white sand tina
is IA, eommerGial product all over the
country. - We. haye been taking the
sand from this horse shoe Tor years
and, years, and you can't show me
the place that seems to have lost
boatload Forty feet away from the
horseshoe the sand has no CONNER
cial value, and the same applies else
where on alt-the~isiands. You fel-
lows in the City Hall have been won
dering why1 Slip over to Mississippi
City every Friday. If you had taken
the trouble to follow me you would
have found me sneaking over the
island, and when l found the OIL IN
idications l got busy, and a couple OF
surveyors have been over with me
since then, and newer mind the rest.
Don't have any concern about the
Standard Oil, located In Baton Rouge
for it won't. be long, before you Will
see the big oil steamers loading at
Horn Island for ports in Central and
South., America. We. bought half the
island because the horseshoe IS at
that end, 1anybody cam have the re-
mainder of it. 5.l% 49,.
i@But you haven't get 10 the story
of the oil find on Horn Island yet:
We are going to have. some tall
doings over there, on July 4th when
prohibition is to buried in the bottom.
of the sea for several gladsome days
The good schooner Wilhelmina Is
Etodayt laying Dat the wharf a, Gulfport,
awaiting the arrival of Commodore
Gauche / and Com missary aPni
Jlahndke, and let me tellF you he IS
some commissary,navi and other
things too numerous to exclaim about
+ And on the morning of the. GLORIOUS
Fourth the coed Ship is to pull an
Choir. spread sail and away to the OIL
fields of Horn Islsna.ss and ahoard
this majestic craft there Will be
some foodstuff that will fit well with
the Fourth. And as long as 4 nave
started to tell you of the; cargo, let.
als; qxnot, oveElQok IfhasIaiseeiianeous
udHIISSt- AS sttts4>ss " -
iron pipe, lstowed slmztt1e hold alnnss
with the drilling and other i'm
plements are there to celebrate the
Fourth, with, and not for eit dfiilihg
as -sau would Infer. The surveyor
from Gulfport and the one from Ne"
Orleans are merely on the shipping
list as as junk and ballast. You VIII
Also find in the hold and on deck Oh
the good ship Wilhelmina some , rea,
Eylfye freight in the persons OF Paui
[iTahfYcke, E. X. Huey, Mark A. MORSE
EsfahJ NcGairer .sJamess Barrett sfha
..sss,raYnF: AZ Hoelket;a ',N.a McGnaw'
Rons Spearing !: George bureau. Henry,
IImbach, Henry' Puderer, and the clNl
kengiaeer and surveyor, Mr.. galloway. it
of Gulfporte - 7bnsl -, ,'s,CE,.'s
; .+1t would not, udo ito say that. we
have struck. the caparock 2 ana, nave
cemented in-the eight.ineA' plpS "
pressas aabiew -eut,if, af eeasse. thsEe
would, ,noa be A. better day ior Tue
fireworks than the. Fourth, and we
expect blythe. night of !, the nations
holiday to- have the oil in and hight
lher up and, make henlifs tor the
gull coast the IKE Of which lives not
lin the memory Of mortal man On the
gtiH coast ss,..,.z Il. s. .aa s., J,
: sfWhy, Yes, i haven't told you about
fthas.a 81 The. fact is ]. was the DIS
eoveref of the oil. II saw some, me 81 the
tdark liquid oozing out OF the Wnl.e I've