'Kennedy?] JENNINGS DISTRICT. 129 
OIL SAND. 
The oil-bearing bed in this district is an unconsolidated coarse- 
grained sand. It lies at a depth of 1,800 feet in the Jennings No. 1 
and 1,635 in the Southern No. 1. In the Southern No. 3 the sand is 
found at 1,850 feet, and in the same company's Avell No. 4 it occurs at 
1,840 feet. In the Prairie Mamou well, half a mile to the southeast 
of the Jennings No. 1, a bed supposed to be the oil-bearing sand 
appears at a depth of 2,200 feet. In the Southern No. 2 an oil sand 
was found at a little over 2,000 feet. This, from the location of the 
well, is in all probability the same bed as found in the Prairie Mamou 
well. The thickness of the oil-bearing sand is not known, but it is 
at least 50 feet, since it has been penetrated to that depth in the Jen- 
nings No. 1. No well has as yet passed entirely through to the under- 
lying beds. In the Jennings No. 1, Home Oil and Development 
Company's well, and in the Southern Company's wells Nos. 2, 3, and 
4, the sand has proved to be oil bearing, but in the Prairie Mamou it 
is dry. The Pelican well No. 1, in sec. (33, T. 2 S., R. 9 W., is also 
dry, and these two wells have been abandoned. The Crowley Oil 
Company is drilling a well in close proximity to the Prairie Mamou, 
and claims to have reached a depth of 1,700 feet. The Home Oil and 
Development Company's well is over 1,700 feet in depth. 
Considerable quantities of petroleum have been found in the South- 
ern Oil Company's wells Nos. 3 and 4. The same company's well No. 
2 supplies a fair pumping quantity, and the Jennings No. 1 flows 
somewhat spasmodically. These, with the small quantity already 
mentioned from the Home Company's well, are the only producing 
wells in the field at the present time (June, 1002). 
More or less gas accompanies these oils, but this has no such pres- 
sure as that found at Spindletop or at several other places in the 
Texas field. A considerable flow of gas occurred in the Pelican No. 
2, but this is the only strong flow recorded. 
These wells are about the same in size as those at Spindletop. The 
Jennings No. 1 is a 4- inch well, and the Southern No. 3 has been 
brought in as a 6-inch well. 
Arrangements are being made to bring this oil into market, and 
already a 6-inch pipe line is being laid from the field to connect with 
the Southern Pacific Railroad at Jennings. Some efforts are being 
made to utilize the bayrms Nezpique and de Cannes for barge purposes. 
In some respects the petroleum produced in this field is of a better 
grade than the Spindletop oil. It is much freer from sulphur and will 
offer less difficulties in refining, although the proportion of illumi- 
nants will not be greater than either the Beaumont or Sour Lake oils. 
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