The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-08-07
CADDO LEYEE BOARD
5fneial Proceedings of the Special SEES
sion Held August d 1910.

At a special meeting of the Caddo
LeVee Board held at the Office of the
secretary this the 4th day of August
1910, there were present: w. V. Rob
son, president, ]. NJ. Sentell, J. J. Lay,
w. B. Means, J. NJ. Robinson, H. L.
Heilperin and ]. w Dixon. Attorney
d. I. Land was present.
Minutes Of meeting July II read and
Improved.
The following bills were allowed and
ordered paid; Caucasian 500, Times
$I.o5.
Mr.. S. w. Mason Of the Caddo Abb
stract Company appeared before the
board and offered to make a complete
map of the Levee Board lands, as per
their written proposition, for the sum
of $4,000, After some discussion Mr.
Robinson moved that the board contract
for the map which was unanimously
carried
On motion bids for leasing lands
were opened as follows:
Gulf Refining Company, So acres in
section 70, township FL, range 10, bonus
$500 per acre.
Gulf Refining Company, 100 acres in
section IS, township ~, range IS, bonus
$500. per acre.
Gulf Refining Company, to substitute
$50 acres in section 7, township p, range
IS, in place of So acres leased in error
July 2I, 1910.
i L. E. Etchison, ) acres i'll section IS,
township 2I, range I6 $4,000 per acre
bonus
i L. E. Etchison, 30 acres in section IS,
township 81, range 10, $500 per acre
bonus.
The board then went into executive
session.
Open session resumed
On motion the request of the Gulf
Refining Company to exchange 50 acres
for the north half of northwest quarter
section z, township ~, range IS, was
granted, and the president authorized to
sign lease. Carried
Bid of Gulf Refining Company on SO
acres was amended to a bonus of $3.50
per acre with the right to drill in nine
months with a privilege of six months
further on payment of $500 per acre
additional bonus and the usual royal
ties. On motion the bid as amended
was accepted and the president author
| lied to sign lease Carried.
Bid of Gulf Refining Company on 100
acres in section IS was rejected.
i Bid of L. E. Etchison of $4,000 per
: acre bonus on 5 acres IN section s.,
township II, range IS, was on motion
accepted and the president authorized to
Il sign lease Carried.
a Bid of L. E. Etchison on 40 acres i'll
section IS, township II, range IS, was
rejected
Communication from Assistant State
Engineer Lombard giving an extended
report of condition of the levees above
and below Shreveport read and vote
of thanks was rendered Mr.. Lombard.
Letter from Major F. NJ. Kerr Of date
j August 2 was read and ordered printed
in the minutes:
New Orleans, Aug. 2, 1910
Hon. w. v. Robson, President Board
| of Commissioners, Caddo Levee Dis
trict, Shreveport. La: Dear Sir-1n
compliance with the wishes of your
J board, as expressed in resolution
passed at meeting held April 81, 1910,
Ecopy of which was transmitted to the
j Board of State Engineers by Mr.. S. n.
Ker1ey, secretary of your board, under
, date Of May "a, 1910, the Board Of
State Engineers 5begs leave to report
+ that an examination by Assistant State
: Engineer Lombard and myself has re
) Gently been made of conditions north of
Shreveport, between Twelve Mile bayou
/ TO the northWard, Red river to the east
) ward, and the high lands to the west
i ward, with the view Of considering the
| practicability of diverting the mouth Of
/ Twelve Mile bayou from the point at
| (which it now enters Red river, to Cross
/ byaou, by way of The Pass and Bon
lner's Ditch, and the extension Of the
/ public levee line above Shreveport, from
) its present lower terminus, on the Cuba
: place. to Cross bayou, by way either Of
the route of the Z. S. & N. Railroad, or
J the west bank of Twelve Mile bayou
and old river.
/ This examination. from the physical
$ point of view, in the opinion Of the
Beard of State Engineers, demonstrates
J the practicabifity of the proposition.
I The present line of public levee above
+ Shreveport can be extended southwark
{ from its present lower terminus e
/ Cross bayou, with material benefit to all
t that section of the district above Shreve-
!. port, above Twelve Mile bayou, and ten
! Itative benefit TO the greater part of it
I below Twelve Mile bayou, by either