Cameron Parish Research Articles

East Hackberry Salt Dome, Cameron Parish, Louisiana

The East Hackberry salt dome, Cameron Parish, Louisiana, was discovered in 1926 by means of the seismograph. It is a knob on a large salt mass which includes West Hackberry. Most of the oil is produced from Miocene sands which are approximately 3,900 feet in depth, but the producing sands overlying the cap rock are probably Pliocene. The oil (18°-24° Be. gravity) occurs in a narrow zone on the south flank of the dome and in a small area overlying the cap. The initial production of the wells ranges from 25 to 3,000 barrels of oil per day, and from 1927 to the end of 1930 a little more than 2,000,000 barrels of oil has been produced from thirty-five wells

The Breeding Birds of the Vicinity of Black Bayou and Bird Island, Cameron Parish, Louisiana

The Breeding Birds of the Vicinity of Black Bayou and Bird Island, Cameron Parish, Louisiana

A New Species of Anopheles in Louisiana 1

The continuation of the mosquito and malarial survey and control work, begun in September of last year, 1921, was again taken up this June. As the coast section of the State had never been systematically exploited in this connection, it was originally the intention to investigate the mosquito and malarial conditions of Terrebonne, St. Mary, Vermillion and Cameron Parishes. For certain reasons which will become evident later on, the work had to be confined to St. Mary and Terrebonne.It is, of course, needless to repeat here that the prevention of disease dissemination by insects depends upon the eradication of the disseminators. This, in turn, implies that the latter should be known specifically as well as for the individual habits of each one.While primarily engaged in conservation work during the early spring of 1901, the writer incidentally found a species of Anopheles on Terrebonne Bay which appeared unusual to him on account of its having unspotted wings.