Sources: Mississippi State Oil and Gas Board monthly bulletin and Form 1OA
from International Oil Scouts. 
 THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF MISSISSIPPI 455 
 
 
Table 6.—Oil and gas well drilling and total crew-weeks spent in geophysical
oil aM gaa prospecting in 1967, by counties 
County Prov 
 
 
Drilling 
 
 Geop~y~ical 
 — (reflection 
wells seis!nolrnph), 
 Total crew-wades 
 
 
. 
ed field wells 
 
Exp 
loratory 
 
 
Oil 
Gas' 
Dry 
Oil 
Gas' 
Dry 
 
Adams                         50         58 6          75 189      
Amite   2  6 8 —- 
Attala       1 
Chjckasaw                                   1                      1    
    
Claiborne     1 1 -- 
Clarke 23  4 1 9 37 144 
Clay       1 
Copiah       10 
Covington       4 
Forrest   2  2 4 1 
Franklin 45  38 4 70 157 3 
Greene 2  1   3 21 
Hancock                                                      1 1________

Harrison                                                      1 1       
Hinds     1 1 
Holmes     1 1 3 
Humphries                                                            
Issaquena     1 1 
Jasper 10  8 2 5 25 105 
Jefferson 1 1 6  20 28 4 
Jefferson Davis  3 3   6 16 
Jones 8  6  1 15 39 
Kemper       i 
Lamar 1     1 
Lauderdale       1 
Lawrence                                                             
Leake                                                               
Lincoln     1 1 s 
Madison 2    8 10 5 
Marion  4 2  2 8 8 
Monroe   1   1 1 
Neshoba       4 
Newton       2 
Oktibeha       6 
Pearl River  2 2  2 6 10 
Perry       11 
Pike 3  1  2 6 
Rankin 3 1 3  4 11 51 
Scott     6 6 32 
Sharkey   2  1 3 3 
Simpson 1 1 1  3 6 20 
Smith 24 1 4  2 31 78 
Stone       S 
Waithall  1 2  1 4 11 
Warren  1 1   2 16 
Washington       1 
Wayne 2 1 1 1 6 11 121 
Wilkinson 22  21 8 80 131 10 
Yazoo 11  9  1 21 59 
 
Total: 
 1967 208 16 179 22  313 738 869 
 1966 221 38 181 27 1 341 809 669 
 
 
1 Includes cc'ndensate.