The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-01-27
CADDO LEVEE BOARD
Official Proceedings of the Special Ses-
sion Held January 26, 1910.

Shreveport, La, Jan. 26, IoIo.-At a
special meeting of the Caddo Levee
Board, held at office of the secretary
this 10th day of January 1910, there
were present w. V. Robson, president,
John M. Robinson, J. w. Dixon, H. L.
Heilperin, J. M. Sentell, J. J. Lay, w.
B. Means.
Attorney D. T. Land was present.
Minutes of meeting January 5 read
and corrected to read as follows
Office of the Board of Commissioners
Caddo Levee District-At an adjourned
meeting of the Board of Commissioners
of the Caddo Levee District, held on the
9th day of January 1910, at which all of
the members of the board were present.
the following resolution was unani-
mously adopted:
BE it Resolved, That this Board ac-
cept the proposition of the Gulf Refn-
ing Company of Louisiana to lease, for
development for oil and gas, the follow
ing described lands, to-wit:
The northeast quarter of the south
east quarter of section seventeen; the
northwest quarter of the northeast
quarter of section tWenty-two the west
half of the southwest quarter of section
twenty-si the north half of the north
east quarter and the south half of the
northwest quarter of section thirty
four; the northwest quarter of the
northwest quarter of the northwest
quarter and the south half of the north
west quarter of section thirty-fve; all
in township twenty-one, north of range
sixteen west, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
"The Gulf Refining Company of
Louisiana to pay with the signing of
the lease the sum of $I6,4oo.oo in cash.
"The Gulf Refining Company to obi
gate itself to deliver as royalty one
eighth part of all the oil that may be
produced and saved from such wells as
may be drilled on said lands in all cases
where the production from any we'll is
200 barrels Or less, and where the pro-
duction exceeds 200 barrels per day, the
royalty to the board to be one-eighth up
to 200 barrels an done-sixth on the ex
cess and the board to receive one
eighth part of all the gas which may be
produced and saved as royalty on ali
gas wells
The Gulf Refining Company to fur
ther obligate itself to pay a rental of
$2.oo per acre per year for each acre of
said land, provided that the rentals shall
cease as to- 2o5 acres with the compile
ton of one we'll on said land, if the
same produce oil or if the same has been
drilled to the lowest known oil sands in
the Caddo field; and provided further
that the rentals shall cease entirely with
the completion of the second we'll if the
same produce oil, or if the same has
been drilled to the lowest known sands
in the Caddo field.
The Gulf Refining Company to obi
gate itself to begin the drilling of one
well on said lands within ninety days
| after said lands have been certified by
| the State of Louisiana to the Board of
Commissioners of the Caddo Levee Dis
trict; and further agree that in the
event the first we'll drilled is a paying
oil we'll, to begin within ninety days
from the completion of such well. a
second WE'LL, the company to have the
| right thereafter to make as many at
tempts to find oil or gas as it pleases,
and to continue the exercise of such
right as long as it p1eases; the contract
to further provide that the said COM
pany shall begin the drilling of sec
ond we'll in any event within two years,
under penalty of the release of all of
said lands except 2o5 acres nearest to
and around the first well; the contract
to fully bind the said company absolute
ly to drill one we'll; the contract to de-
fine paying oil well to be one produc-
ing not less than 200 barrels of oil per
day for sixty consecutive days; and
"Be it further resolved, That W. "
Robson, president of the Board of Com
missioners of the Caddo Levee District
be and he is hereby authorized to enter
into contract of lease with the Gull
Refining Company of Louisiana, such
contract of lease to embody the provis-
/ ions as set out in the proposition above
recited and such other stipulations a:
are usual in oil leases on lands in the
Caddo field, such as the granting to The
), lessee free use of oil, gas and water fol
development and operating purposes
right of way across adjacent lands be-
longing to the board, the use of ada
cent property belonging to the board foI