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Show LOUISIANA POSSESSES NEW LIGHT OIL POOL Far!y df velopment that may turn cut to be an Important new liuM oil field in r.aime county, north T.oiil.ana, is in-d: in-d: Mtl by tite arrival of oil men from 1'.:"ierert r:i:ts of the country at Shreve-port. Shreve-port. northern Iiuisimut. oil headquarters, HC"orin to tl.e Boston News Bureau, This is the resif.t of t hv two bit; we1!--broiiar'-.t in. one by iI-jc Standard Ol companv of Louisiana, having a few variously estin-ated at from lO.O-'M) to 27.-o-M barre's daily, and ort? by the Howe Oil company, a l".oo0-b.xrel pr.shor. In the Horror field. Claiborne county. Amonp well -known operators in this flid are the Standard or" Louisiana. Girlf Refining: con-panv. Himb Oil & Refirdnp company com-pany and Arkansas Natural Gas companv. com-panv. Claiborne county is sitimted In thp northwestern part of the stato, about fifty miles east cf hreveort. and on the Arkansas Ar-kansas border. Oil has been found at a depth of V-'O fee: in fairly pood quantities, quanti-ties, but new oil discoveries axe at r depth of l"',00 frr. One of the f'rst difficulties to b overcame over-came In developing- the Homer field ! s tne lack of transportation and storage facilities, fa-cilities, which are entirely Inadequate to meet new demands on them. Oil field equipment Is also scarce. . Hurinp A i: rust there was considerable drilling activitv in this district, fourteen completions beinc recorded, thirteen of whih were producing wells, raving- dally, o-.itput of between 75 and 6'1 barrels ea"h. This does rot fnr'.uda the bie weiis of the Standard Oil companv. j |