New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1915-02-06

dandruff You can not have nice
heavy, healthy hair if you have
dandruff. This destructive scurf robs
the hair of its lustre, its strength and
it's very life, and if not overcome it
produces feverishness and itching of
the scalp; the hair roots famish,
loosen and die: then the hair falls out
fast Surely get 25-cent bottle of
Know IONS Danderine from any drug
store and Just try it.
two years Of oil development the
! production did not amount to
/ 100000 barrels in either year,
, but in 1904, the year in Wh:c h
the sulphur industry asserted, it
self, the output Of petroleum APP
proximated 100000 barrels, and
in 1905 this output was trebled.
In 1911 the production Of petrol
cum amounted to 10,720,420 bar
rels, VARIED at $5.66S,S14; it de
creased to 9,262, 439 barrels in
1912, but the value incl eased TO
81 ,023,S27. In 1913 both the pro-
duction and the value increased
markedly, the former to l2,49S,-
S2S barrels and the latter to %I2,-
255,931, the increase in proGuc-
ton in 1913 over 1912 being g.
235.3S9 barrels, or 35 per cent,
and the increase in value So, 222,
104. or n per cent. The average
value per barrel for Louisiana pc
troleum has advanced from 80
cents in 1911 to 75.S cents in 1Al2
and to 90 in 1913. In the ten
years of the production of pc
troleum in Louisiana the activi-
ties have shifted from the south
ern to the northern part of the
State, and the larger part of the
production at present is from the
Caddo district, near Shreveport.
in the northwestern part Of the
State. Acadia and Calcasieu par
ishes are the principal producers !
in the southwestern part. There
is good reason to believe that
Louisiana is underlain by one of !
the greatest gas fields in the Unit
ed States. but it's development or
a large scale must await the es
adjustment of manufacturing in
dustries which will provide for
its utilization, or it must be
transported by pipe lines to dis
tant points for consumption
the influence and under
the advice of the Louisiana Con
'ervation Commission the gas and
oil producers Of louisiana have
aiken effectual steps to minimize
he waste in natural gas to which
references are made in the report
or 1912.
During the last two Or thro'
'ears there has been considerable
development of natural gas in
and the production of
his frel in 1913 exceeded 3d.
100000. The natural gas develop
nents ae all in the vicinity Of .
'addo.
In addition to it's production ,
f petroleum and sulphur Lou
siana is also an important pro
ucer of rock salt, in value of
rhlch it ranks second among the
tates. The salt mines underlie
0 called islands which are really
hounds rising from the marsh
lnds along the Grlf coast in Ibe- Il
la Parish. Some Of the first ock q
alt mined in the United States
-as from the Petite Anse mines :,
n Avery Island, which were =
pened in 1862 and operated dur
lg the Civil War until the works >
ere destroyed by the Federal
oops. Earlier attempts at .
the salt deposit by dis
living the salt and evaporating >,
boiling were not successful. u
ming on Weeks Island was be- Ii
In in 1902. In the total pro-
nction of salt, which includes
e product from brine, Louisiana
nks sixth as to value among the O
ates. a.
Louisiana's clay products, ex- :,
uslve of pottery, were valued u
$63o, 491 in 1913, compared :.
it'll $523,643 in 1912. The one
her mining industry of any i'm u
'rtance is that represented by
e sand and gravel pits, which