CALCASIEU 
 
 Proposed Contract and Specifications for the Sinking 
 of Shaft , &c. r for the Calcasieu Sulphur and Mining 
 Company of Louisiana , at their Mines in the Parish 
 of Calcasieu , in this State ; laid before, and now 
 tinder consideration , by the Board of Directors of 
 said Company , jfor acceptance , or otherwise : 
 
 Know all Mex by these Pretexts, That Mr. 
 Constant Louis de Ham, of Newport, Kentucky, of 
 the first part, does hereby enter into contract and 
 agreement with the Calcasieu Sulphur and Mining 
 Company, a duly organized corporation under the 
 general laws of the State of Louisiana, and domi- 
 ciled in the city of New Orleans, in said State, rep- 
 resented by a special committee composed of Michel 
 Musson and Charles Gaschet de l’lsle, of New 
 Orleans, on behalf of the Board of Directors and 
 Company, of the second part, for the following 
 purpose, and in the manner herein below set forth 
 and designated. 
 
 Article 1. 
 
 The said De Ham agrees to sink a wooden shaft 
 of not less in depth than one hundred and twenty 
 
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 (120) feet, not less in inside diameter than eighteen 
 feet eight inches in the clear, and disposed in a 
 rectangular form, with an inscribed ring or circle, 
 giving a total thickness of two feet of timber, as 
 fully described in the plan and specifications to be 
 by him furnished, and in accordance with the spe- 
 cifications '’of the Company hereto annexed and 
 made part hereof, lettered A. 
 
 Article II. 
 
 The said De Ham agrees to sink the iron ex- 
 tracting shaft furnished to him by the Company, 
 after the system of Kind & Chaudron, and in 
 accordance with the specifications of the Company, 
 lettered A, as above. 
 
 Article III. 
 
 The said De Ham agrees to execute, complete 
 and deliver, in a perfect workmanlike and artistic 
 manner, and in compliance with the plans and spe- 
 cifications above referred to, the said preparatory 
 and extracting shaft, and the derricks therefor, 
 within fifteen months time, beginning fifteen days 
 after the date of ratification of this contract by the 
 Board of Directors of the Company. In default 
 of said De Ham complying with the conditions of 
 this article, he hereby obligates and binds himself 
 to pay to the Company a sum of One Hundred 
 Dollars per day, until the completion of said shaft. 
 Article IV. 
 
 The Company agrees to pay to said De Ham a 
 bonus of Eive Thousand Dollars ($5000), condi- 
 tioned that he completes the shaft within ten 
 months from the date of his commencing the work, 
 
as stated in Article III. Due allowance of time 
 will be made by the Company for such delay of the 
 work as may occur in furnishing by the Company 
 the double tubing which might be required in 
 passing the calcareous stratum. 
 
 Article V. 
 
 The Company agrees to pay the said De Ham 
 for said work, the sum of One Hundred Thousand 
 Dollars ($100,000), in the following manner : 
 
 1st. When each and every sixty feet of the one 
 hundred and twenty feet of the wooden revetment 
 shall have been completed in a satisfactory manner 
 and received by the Company, the sum of Six Thou- 
 sand Dollars ($6000) shall be paid to said De Ham 
 
 2d. At the end of each and every month, the 
 Company will pay to said De Ham the sum of 
 Eighty Dollars for each and every running foot in 
 depth in passing through the stratum of quick- 
 sand, to be measured by the length of the exterior 
 tubing inserted, beginning from the foundation of 
 the wooden shaft. 
 
 3d. Tor the excavation of the balance of the 
 shaft through the calcareous stratum to the sulphur 
 bed, the Company agrees to pay to said De Ham 
 the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and 
 every running foot, said payments to be made 
 monthly. 
 
 4th. After the successful lowering of the inte- 
 rior extracting iron shaft, with its attachment of 
 the moss box, the Company agrees to pay said De 
 Ham the sum of Three Thousand Dollars ($3000). 
 
 5th. When the necessary concrete will have 
 
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 been inserted around the shaft, and when the water 
 will have been pumped out of the shaft, the Com- 
 pany agrees to pay to said J>e Ham the sum of 
 Eour Thousand Dollars ($4000). 
 
 6th. When the false revetment below the moss 
 box, and the twenty additional feet of excavation 
 below said false revetment, shall have been com- 
 pleted, the Company will pay to said De Ham the 
 sum of Four Thousand Six Hundred ( and Eighty 
 Dollars ($4680). 
 
 7th. The balance of the contract price of One 
 Hundred Thousand Dollars will be paid to said De 
 Ham in the following manner : 
 
 1st. Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000) in 
 Eive Hundred Shares of the Capital Stock of the 
 Company, at their full paid price of Fifty Dollars 
 ($50) per share. The said Five Hundred Shares to 
 be deposited and held in trust in the bands of a 
 third party, hereafter to be agreed upon, for deliv- 
 ery to said De Ham on successful completion of 
 the work. 
 
 2d. The balance remaining due will be paid in 
 cash to said De Ham on successful completion of 
 the work. 
 
 3d. The above two last payments, constituting 
 the second half of the contract price, is to be con- 
 sidered the fifty per cent, of back per centage 
 retained by the Company, as a guarantee for the 
 faithful execution of the work. 
 
 Article YI. 
 
 The Company reserves the right of appointing a 
 Supervising Engineer or Agent at the mines, upon 
 
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 whose certificates of approval and measurement of 
 the work as it progresses, the above partial and 
 final payments of money and delivery of stock to 
 Mr, deHam will be made. 
 
 Article YII. 
 
 The said DeHam obligates himself to furnish, on 
 or before the first of January next, 1874, good and 
 solvent security to the Company in the sum of 
 Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000), that he will 
 faithfully and diligently execute the work according 
 to contract, plan and specifications, and complete 
 and deliver the same within the time therein speci- 
 fied. 
 
 Article YIII. 
 
 In case of failure of the shaft, the said DeHam 
 obligates and binds himself to sink another of the 
 same kind and dimensions, after the system of 
 Kind & Chaudron, without additional compensa- 
 tion, and the partial payments made to him shall 
 be imputed to the second shaft, thus not exceeding 
 the contract price of One Hundred Thousand Dol- 
 lars : and the said DeHam further obligates himself 
 to remove at his own expense the derricks and 
 other apparatus and tools from the first to the second 
 shaft. The Company, on their part, agree to bear 
 the expense of removing the extracting engine, if 
 necessary, and the cost of replacing the iron tubing 
 lost in the first shaft, and needed for the second 
 shaft. 
 
 Article IX. 
 
 It is distinctly understood and agreed between 
 the contracting parties hereto, that the price of One 
 
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 Hundred Thousand Hollars, payable as above stipu- 
 lated, is to embrace all the charges and demands for 
 the execution of the work, and no extra compensa- 
 tion for materials, labor or supplies, shall be 
 made by DeHam on the Company for doing said 
 work. 
 
 Article X. 
 
 In case of the death of said DeHam, it is under- 
 stood and agreed between the contracting parties, 
 that this event happening when the preparatory 
 shaft shall have been completed to the sulphur bed, 
 his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns will 
 have the privilege of finishing the work, they as- 
 suming all the responsibilities and obligations of said 
 deHam under this contract, and deriving all of the 
 benefits of this contract, provided that a delay of 
 not exceeding twenty (20) days be and is hereby 
 allowed to said heirs or legal representatives or 
 assigns, for the resumption and continuation of the 
 work to completion, on the terms and conditions of 
 this contract : in default of which the Company 
 will have the right of completing the work and 
 taking possession without the intervention of a 
 court of law T , at the risk and expense of the heirs 
 and legal representatives or assigns of the seccession 
 of said DeHam. 
 
 Be it furthermore understood and agreed, that if 
 the death of said DeHam should happen before the 
 sulphur bed is reached, as stipulated in the first 
 clause of this article, then and in such an event this 
 contract shall cease and be annulled between the 
 contracting parties, and the following settlements 
 
will be made by the Company with bis heirs, legal 
 representatives or assigns, (less the liens and privi- 
 leges which may be due by said Deli am to his 
 laborers and material men for work and materials 
 furnished to him in the execution of the work, and 
 also less the partial payments which he may have 
 received from the Company on account of the 
 work), to wit : 
 
 1st. If his death happens when working through 
 the wooden shaft, the Company will pay his heirs, 
 legal representatives or assigns at the rate of One 
 Hundred and Ten Dollars ($110) per running foot 
 in depth executed and accepted. 
 
 2d. If his death happens when passing through 
 the quick-sand, the Company will pay to his heirs, 
 legal representatives or assigns at the rate of One 
 Hundred and Twenty Dollars ($120) per running 
 foot in depth, executed and accepted. 
 
 3d. If his death happens when boring through 
 ealareous stratum, the Company will pay his heirs, 
 legal representatives or assigns at the rate of One 
 Hundred and Forty Dollars ($140) per running 
 foot in depth, executed and accepted. 
 
 Article XI. 
 
 This obligation and agreement, though dated in 
 Kentucky, is to be governed in its construction by 
 the laws of Louisiana, and is subject to the ratifica- 
 tion of the Board of Directors of the Calcasieu 
 Sulphur and Mining Company within thirty days 
 from the date hereof. 
 
 Article XII. 
 
 As an amendment to Article III of this Con- 
 
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 tract, it is mutually agreed and understood between 
 the contracting parties, that the phrase in said arti- 
 cle begining with the words “ within fifteen months 
 u time begining fifteen days after the date of ratifi- 
 “ cation of the contract by the Board of Directors 
 u of the Company,” and there ending, is altered to 
 read as follows : within fifteen months from the 
 first of November next (1873). 
 
 Thus done in the city of Louisville, State of 
 Kentucky, on the Nineth Day of September, A.D. 
 Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-three, in presence 
 of the subscribing witnesses and in duplicate. 
 
 [Signed] ‘ C. L. DE HAM, 
 
 ML. MUSSON. 
 
 OH. G. DE L’ISLE. 
 
 Attest : Gus. A. Breaux. 
 
 Alex. Boxxeval. 
 
 SPECIFICATION S 
 
 For the Smiting of a Shaft at full level ( according to 
 the system of Kind & Chaudron ) in the Parish of 
 Calcasieu , State of Louisiana , for the Calcasieu 
 Sulphur and Mining Company of Louisiana , and 
 which are made part of the contract dated September 
 9 tli, 1873, between said Company and Constant Louis 
 de Ham , of Newport , ICentucky. 
 
 Article I. 
 
 The shaft will be located on a spot which will be 
 ultimately selected by said De Ham and the Engi- 
 neer or agent of the Company. This location shall 
 
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 not be situated more than five hundred yards from 
 the two artesian borings made by the Company, of 
 which the plans and details have been turned over 
 to the contractor. 
 
 Article II. 
 
 The sinking of the shaft is divided into two dis- 
 tinct operations — the preparatory shaft, and the 
 extracting shaft itself. 
 
 SINKING OF THE PREPARATORY SHAFT. 
 
 1st. In sinking the preparatory shaft, the Com- 
 pany leave the contractor at liberty to use whatever 
 means he may choose, upon the condition that he 
 will make use of the iron revetments already on 
 the spot. 
 
 2d. The two artesian borings, executed fifty 
 yards from each other, have given, the first, one 
 hundred and sixty feet, the second, one hundred 
 and sixty-five feet of clay, with intervening strata 
 of running sand. Next, the first, one hundred and 
 seventy-three feet, the second, one hundred and 
 seventy-nine feet of quick-sand. Thirdly, the first, 
 one hundred and ten feet, the second, eighty-four 
 feet of calcareous stratum, intermixed with clay 
 strata. 
 
 3d. The upper part of said preparatory shaft to 
 he of wood, not less in depth than one hundred and 
 twenty feet, not less in inside diameter than eigh- 
 teen feet eight inches in the clear, and disposed in 
 a rectangular form, with an inscribed ring or circle, 
 giving a total thickness of two feet of timber, as 
 fully described in the plans and specifications to he 
 furnished by C. L. de Ham. 
 
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 4th. It appears from the boring that the calca- 
 reous section contains two crumbling places, one 
 from four to five feet in height, the other from 
 seven to forty-live feet, as shown by comparing the 
 two borings. If for this section a new and single 
 iron revetment is needed, it would require to be 
 from forty-two to seventy -two feet in length. 
 Should such revetment be found necessary, 0. L. 
 de Ham agrees to give notice of it to the Company, 
 and wait until said revetment can be procured and 
 delivered to him, without giving him cause for 
 claims or damages from the Company for said 
 delay. 
 
 5th. The preparatory shaft must be constructed 
 in such a manner as to prevent the crumbling of 
 its walls, and to allow the introduction of the ex- 
 tracting tube, leaving an annular space of three and 
 one-fourth inches for the concreting, in a word, 
 leaving an open vertical space, cylindrical in shape, 
 of twelve feet seven inches and live lines diameter. 
 Its depth will be determined by the position which 
 the moss box will occupy, as will be stated here- 
 after. 
 
 6tli. Fourteen feet above the spot on wdiieh the 
 moss box shall finally rest, the excavation will be 
 progressively contracted so as to have on the eight 
 or nine last feet exactly the diameter of the moss 
 box, which consequently, will be tightly fitted into 
 the place prepared for its reception. 
 
 7th. In contracting for this work, the Company 
 will deliver to the contractor the following materi- 
 als, viz : 
 
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 1st. An extracting steam engine complete and 
 already put up, and also two engines smaller in 
 size and not put up. 
 
 2nd. A steam cylinder with m crwsiii-Hg- for the 
 trepans work. 
 
 3d. A large and smaller trepan complete. 
 
 4th. Two sand pumps. 
 
 5th. The necessary rods for the work of the tre- 
 pans and sand pumps. 
 
 6th. Two adjusting screws, chains for the beam 
 to work the trepans. 
 
 7th. Aset tools, such as are gen eraly used in 
 rescuing a lost or broken tool in the shaft. 
 
 8th. The necessary iron to construct the elastic 
 piece and the working beam, connecting the trepan 
 w ith its working cylinder. 
 
 9th. Also all the buildings, improvements, saw 
 mill, shops and tools, the whole as described in an 
 inventory, to be signed by the contracting parties 
 at the time of the delivery of same, also all the 
 timber on foot needed for the w T ooden shaft, der- 
 ricks, cord w T ood for engine and fuel. 
 
 It is agreed and understood that the said ma- 
 chinery, tools, buildings and improvements shall 
 be kept in repairs by the contractor at his own cost, 
 and shall be returned by him after the completion 
 of the shaft in good order, wear and tear excepted. 
 
 THE EXTEACTING TUBE. 
 
 1st. The final lining of the shaft or extracting 
 tube w ill be carefully put together as prescribed by 
 Mr. Chadron in his works, of which a Copy has 
 been furnished to said 0* L. deHarn. 
 
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 2nd. Lead joints will be inserted between the 
 rings and carefully rammed into the interior. 
 
 3d. Two coats of minium paint will be put 
 between the iron and lead, one on the iron flange 
 before setting the lead packing, another one on the 
 lead packing before resting on it the next ring. 
 
 The Engineer or Agent of the Company shall 
 take good care that the lead packing shall not be 
 disturbed from its original position while setting 
 the various pieces of the iron tubing. In case the 
 minium should be found unsuitable, the contractor 
 agrees to adopt any other paint proposed by the 
 Compary. 
 
 4th. The outside surface of the iron tubing will 
 have to be protected by a strong coat of paint con- 
 taining a certain quantity of coal tar. 
 
 5th. In preparing the moss box, the moss should 
 be well rammed in its proper place so as to be com- 
 pressed one-third of its original volume. 
 
 6th. The contractor shall set the moss box 
 within the stratum designated as hard and compact 
 limestone, in the lithographic sketch hereto an- 
 nexed, if said stratum is found to be impermeable 
 to water; otherwise, it will be set in a dry spot in 
 the sulphur bed. 
 
 7tli. The concrete will be composed as follows : 
 hydraulic lime, one part ; sand, one part ; gravel, 
 one part ; cement, one half part. Yet some modi- 
 fications, provided it is approved by the engineer 
 or agent of the Company, may be introduced in the 
 above compound, each part having been examined 
 and accepted by the said engineer or agent before 
 
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 being used. Said hydraulic cement shall be fur- 
 nished by the contractor, either by purchase from 
 the Company or by purchase elsewhere. Six con- 
 creting spoons will be placed together, around the 
 iron shaft, and the work will go on without inter- 
 ruption until completed. 
 
 8th. Below the moss box the false revetment 
 will be set in its proper place. 1st. It is composed 
 of three trusses made of ron. Those trusses will be 
 placed as prescribed by Mr. Cliaudron, one after the 
 other, and exactly centered with the axis of the 
 shaft. 2d. Of four sections of iron revetment, 
 divided into segments, which will have to be con- 
 creted externally. In order to join those pieces 
 with the moss box, it will be necessary to force 
 between them a belt of wedges, carefully arranged, 
 and not exceeding two to two and one half inches 
 in thickness. 
 
 9th. The Company will furnish for the execu- 
 tion of this work, an iron tube four hundred and 
 fifty-two feet in height, with all the necessary appa- 
 ratus for lowering it into the preparatory shaft, 
 such as false bottom, suspending rods, descending 
 screws, assembling and connecting bolts, lead joints, 
 and also all the pieces of the false revetment. 
 
 10th. The Company will also furnish for the 
 execution of this work, the iron tubing, which is to 
 pass through the quick-sand, and being composed 
 of segments to be bolted together with lead joints 
 between the flanges. Said tubing has two hundred 
 and thirty-six feet in height. 
 
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 Article III. 
 
 Tlie work being completed, it will have to be 
 accepted by the engineer or agent of the Company. 
 
 1st. The shaft shall be sufficiently strong to 
 stand the mining operations. 
 
 2d. It must be exactly vertical ; no allowance 
 will be made in that respect. 
 
 3d. There must be no Alteration of water through 
 the various joints of the tube above the moss box. 
 
 Any thing not in accordance with the above spe- 
 cifications will cause the rejection of the works. 
 
 Einally, the shaft will be extended twenty feet 
 below the false revetment. 
 
 Thus signed in duplicate, this 9tli day of Septem- 
 ber, 1873, for its identification with the contract of 
 even date. 
 
 [Signed] C. L. DE HAM, 
 
 ML. MUSB03ST, 
 
 CH. H. HE L’ISLE. 
 
 Attest : Gus. A. Breaux, 
 
 Alex. Boxxeval. 
 
 Copy op Kesolutioxs, etc., passed Sept. 19, 1873. 
 
 The attention of Stockholders is respectfully 
 called to the following resolutions, passed by the 
 Board of Directors of the Company on the 19th, 
 September, 1873; and are informed that Subscrip- 
 tion Books are now open at the office of the Com- 
 pany to receive the leans called for under the same. 
 
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 New Orleans, September 13, 1873. 
 
 To the President and Directors of the 
 
 Calcasieu Sulphur and Mining Co., of La. 
 
 Gentlemen — The Special Committee appointed 
 by resolution of 12th inst., to prepare a form of Re- 
 ceipt for Stock, to be borrowed, in accordance with 
 a resolution of 25th July last, beg leave to offer the 
 following, and add that said report be amended as 
 follows : 
 
 1st. That articles 5tli and 6th of said Report he 
 amended to read as follows : 
 
 “ And further, we recommend that such stock- 
 “ holders as may desire so to do, be called upon to 
 “ subscribe voluntarily a loan of not more than 50 
 “ per cent, and not less than 25 per cent, of the 
 “ number of shares of the capital stock of this Com- 
 “ pany held by them, as a loan to this Company, to 
 “be used by pledge, sale, or otherwise by the 
 “Directors, according to their best judgment^, in 
 “ completing the sinking of the shaft, opening of 
 “ the galleries, and generally for the benefit of this 
 “ Company, with the understanding that a Receipt 
 “be given to each subscriber, as per annexed form, 
 “ for the amount of stock loaned as above. 
 
 “ The right to vote upon the number of shares 
 “ named in said receipt in all elections and other- 
 “ wise being expressly reserved to said lender, his 
 “ proxy or recognised assigns, until said Company 
 “ shall have disposed of and sold said shares of 
 “ stock thus loaned and said lender being duly noti- 
 “ tied thereof, shall surrender this receipt in order 
 
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 “ to have said sale recorded on the hack thereof by 
 “ the Secretary of said Company 
 
 Said stock thus loaned to be returnable either in 
 kind or the Company paying the market value hgse 
 on the day of return, within twelve months success- 
 ful operation ot said Sulphur Mine, or sooner, at 
 the option of the Board of Directors of said Com- 
 pany/'' 
 
 Eorm of Receipt. 
 
 ]\ T o Loan of Shares 
 
 Xew Orleans, 1873. 
 
 The Calcasieu Sulphur and Mining Com- 
 pany oe Louisiana hereby acknowledges to 
 
 have received from * 
 
 Shares of the capital stock 
 
 of said Company as a loan, made to the said cor- 
 poration under and by virtue of Resolution passed 
 by the Board of Directors thereof, on the 19tli day 
 of September, 1873 (a copy of which is on the re- 
 verse hereof). 
 
 This Receipt not being negotiable, but the same 
 being tranferable upon the Books of said Company 
 by said lender on its surrender, or to be delivered 
 to the Company on the return of the stock in kind 
 or money, to himself, his legal representatives or 
 assigns, in the manner and at the time set forth in 
 said resolution.