on fiowing at a rate of 500 barrels daily. The same company was also engaged that it extends from a point about 150 in boring a second well on its prop- miles west of New Orleans, in Louis- erty. This reached the oil about De- iana, a distance of fully 150 miles. It is parallel with the Gulf of… … west from Beaumont, takes its name ing from about 900 to 1,100 feet. from a small body of mineral water The larger wells near Jennings were fed by springs, and up to the time of the oil discovery Arthur, by pipe lines, The Sour Lake district as yet struck at a depth of over 2,000 feet, while at…
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