The Tatum Lumber Company’s W. S. F. Tatum No. 1, in Sec. 14, T. 2 N., R. 16 W., Lamar County, Mississippi, encountered salt at 1,516 feet. This test proved the fourth interior shallow salt dome in the state of Mississippi.
W. S. F. Tatum, president of the Tatum Lumber Company, planned a test at this location because he had noted a peculiar drainage pattern surrounding an area in which pine seedlings would die after reaching a height of 2 or 3 feet. A seismograph survey of the area was made in 1940 and a location was recommended which coincided...
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