Is the highest confirmed offer in DeSoto parish, the one the police jury signed for $28,000/acre? Also does anyone know what percentage of royalties the police jury got??
The highest offer I personally have received so far is $20,000 per acre from Chesapeake. I am in 15n, 14w, east side of Stonewall. It is already more than I could have imagined but over on the west side of Stonewall, I have heard offers of more than $26,000 per acre.
Bonus money is great, and like you say more than most people could imagine, but is anyone effectively negogating more than 25% royalty. If this turns out as big as they say the royalties may be where the big money's at.
I have seen some comments from Caddo area about $30/30%, but have not seen anyone confirming those numbers and especially not in DeSoto. BTW, I'm out of state so I'm following this from afar.
The highest I have seen a copy of was in Caddo parish for $25,000.00 and 25%. It was not a good lease however because there were many clauses in it that will deminish the royalty with costs and allow the company to pretty much do whatever they want with the peoples land. It is better to have good land protections and maintain land owner rights than have a few extra up front $$$ in my view.