Roping Horses for Sale near Sulphur, LA

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Quarter Horse - Horse for Sale in Beaumont, TX 77705
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Offering for sale a six-year-old quarter horse gelding. Great for roping an..
Beaumont, Texas
Brown
Quarter Horse
Gelding
13
Beaumont, TX
TX
$600
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About Sulphur, LA

Sulphur is named for the sulfur mines that were operated in the area in the 1900s. In 1867, Professor Eugene W. Hilgard, an experienced geologist who was prospecting for oil and other minerals, conducted exploratory borings in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana and discovered sulfur in the caprock of a salt dome. However, the sulfur was beneath several hundred feet of muck and quicksand containing deadly hydrogen sulfide gas, which made mining extremely hazardous. Repeated unsuccessful attempts to sink conventional mining shafts in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in the loss of many lives.