The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-05-25


Parish.
The nights are again cool, but the.days
are warm enough, and the nearby farmers
are putting in full time in their fields.
Mr.. Sidney Gardner, who has been at
tending the Tulane Medical School (of
New Orleans) the past year is again at
home. He came in Sunday.
Misses Emmie Dickson, Leola and Ollie
Startling of Walnut Hill, Ark, spent the
intervening time between Friday morning
and Sunday evening here very pleasantly
with friends.
"Brookdale Farm" was not presented
Saturday as was intended, the weather
proving altogether too bad. Instead, it
was played last evening, to full house,
and took we'll. 1t is the best play yet pre-
sented by home talent. Considering the
short time in which the play was studied
and the few rehearsals, it was fine. Every
member of the caste was well adapted to
the part assigned. Taking it all in all, it
was spang-up, good play.
THURSDAY.
Mrs. ]. G.. Lee of Bolinger was visitor
yesterday.
A meeting of Bossier Lodge, K. of P,
was held here Tuesday afternoon.
Evangelist Ben West left yesterday ev-
ening for Austin, Texas, to be gone for
some time.
Mr.. John S. Boggs of Vivian spent two
days of this week here with his father,
Hon. W. B. Boggs.
A petition, with III signers, asking that
a third rural mail route Leading out Of this
place be esta blished, was forwarded to the
authorities at Washington, D: c., yes
terday afternoon.
Mr.. j. F. Taylor, at one time principal
of Plain Dealing High School, but who
now resides in Magnolia, Ark, arrived
here yesterday morning for few days.
stay with friends.
; The school entertainment last evening
proved success from every point of view.
There was full house present to enjoy it..
Each number on the program was we'll
t. rendered, and some exceptionally So.
t Quite deal of credit is due Miss Josephine
q Stone, one of the teachers in our school,
for her pains taking work during the re-
hearsals, which was evident. The door
3 receipts were 1920, and after deducting
: about SIP for expenses of building the
stage, etc., the remaining $25 will go to
the general school improvement fund, to
be used as partial payment on desks for
;, the teachers. JACK.
n The Mineral Resources Of Louisiana.
y Mr.. Editor: For more than a third o1
century have been close observer oil
h the mineral resources of Louisiana and
8 am fully persuaded that too little attention
# is given to this possible source of wealth
% know that this idea is sneered at by some
n experts, who claim that these evidences o.
the presence of minerals is superficial ant
deceptive. But think that whatever sub
stance lies on the surface of the earth, no
:, subject to drift, must come from the in
- terror to the surface. The glacial theor,
= will do for pebbles and small stones, bu
:. cannot account for great boulders o
- gelena as far south as Sicily Island, in thi
" State. This mineral may be found Their
in quantities contradicting anything o
,e glacial drift.
J. During 1884, in company with an exper
y mineralogist, | canvassed Webster Paris
l. in search of iron. On the east side Q
70 Bayou Dauchite I pointed out to MI
as Enderle great mound of boulders, weigh
y ing hundreds of tons, piled across de
IS, preston in the earth, showing whenc
ne they came. While was chipping off som
r, fragments for analysis, heard the expel
s. whistle. When asked for what purpose h
ne did so his response was, Il see more iro
here than can be seen on the surfac
within ten miles of Birmingham"
This ore, upon analysis at the Eeder'
he assay office, showed 40 per cent OF pnl
Nv iron. Further south and east | foun
similar deposits, with similar evidences
as upheaval.
At the base of College Hill, in the tow
:. of Minden, found immense deposits
ny coal. True, the experts said it was brow
as coal, and useless for fuel. So it was ga
of the surface coal of Birmingham by Il
'n' coal owners of Pennsylvania. Thousan'
en- of tons of Birmingham coal was tran
no ported to markets where buyers refused
cir purchase it, until the miners had go
deep enough to find where the pressu
n, had held the bitumen, and at once tn
gh coal became popular for all uses to viii
ION coal is put. / have found similar depos
rs. in Bienville Parish.
'ay In Webster Parish | found alum, o
ent tanned by evaporation of water viii
flowed through the alum deposit. In Il
tie, parish also found the strongest sulphur
his yellow sulphur-water ever smelled
es- tasted by me.
his The source Of salt supply for the VIII
err country during the Civil War was lit
ars further south, in Bienville Parish.