A hand-book of Louisiana, giving general and agricultural features . are from 1,700 to 1,875 feet in depth and obtaintheir oil, sometimes pure, sometimes with a large per-centage of salt water, from sands varying in the 35 or 40 wells now flowing or being pumped theproduct is from 50 to 1,200 barrels each daily. Oil isshipped pipe-line to the Southern Pacific Jennings-Heywood four-inch line going to Jennings;the Southerns eight-inch, to Mermentau, and the Crow-ley two-inch, to Crowley. Thirty cents per barrel isthe present shipping price. Owing to the uncertainty

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A hand-book of Louisiana, giving general and agricultural features . are from 1,700 to 1,875 feet in depth and obtaintheir oil, sometimes pure, sometimes with a large per-centage of salt water, from sands varying in the 35 or 40 wells now flowing or being pumped theproduct is from 50 to 1,200 barrels each daily. Oil isshipped pipe-line to the Southern Pacific Jennings-Heywood four-inch line going to Jennings;the Southerns eight-inch, to Mermentau, and the Crow-ley two-inch, to Crowley. Thirty cents per barrel isthe present shipping price. Owing to the uncertainty of titles to these lands,considerable areas of promising oil territory remain stilluntouched. An acre in the proven field sold a short timeago for $1,200. The well put down has flowed 49 aaysconsecutively, and yielded barrels of oil. It isnow pumping 1,000, barrels daily. Available, perhaps,300 acres. 54.

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