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Show World's Deepest Oil Well Looms In Louisiana Abbeville La.-Eyes cf cil men ana geologists were locused on h.s Gulf Coast town today as dr ll;."i prepared to pa-.h to completion winit piomises to ba the worl-U deepHSt cU weU and the maximuin penetration to date cf the earth s crust reaching to a depth cf anaosi te.o i r,d one half miles. The woh Continental Oil Company's Comp-any's Alvin Hrbert 1, ha.i alrerdj been dr lied to 10,952 feet, wiia a record "string" of 7-inch casing, or pping, cemented at that dep.n. Its objective is a virgin petroleum pool in the geologically ancient. Oligocene sands, believed to be within drilling- reach. Continental Oil Companp's eng r.-eers on the scene believe the weU is in condition condi-tion for drilling to 13.000 feet at least. The final push toward completion, comple-tion, beginning this week, will come co-me de with the 77th anniversary cf climax operations on the Drake well in Titrisville. Pa., first ever drLUd. which was brought in as a producer in August. 1859. at the then record rec-ord depth of CsJV.. feet. Company spokesmen said the Alvin Hebert 1, as it stands, uncompleted, un-completed, is the deepest well evr drilled alcng the Gulf Coast, the fourth d:epest in the United States and tire lifth deepest in the world. The deepest well ever drilled was McElrov 103, in West Texas, which was finally abandoned at 12,786 feet. Other drep wells were said to be: Perry 1, Kern County, California, Cali-fornia, 11,377 feet; A-Day-Nc 1, Caddo County, Oklahoma, 11.230 fest, and ChitorarJ 1, Ploesti, Rumania, Ru-mania, wh ch was abandoned at 11.092 feet. The world's deepen gold mine, on the South African Rand, is 9000 feet in depth. Dr. and Mrs. J. E. OtteTr4"fTT' ily of Llttlttc-n, Colorado, are m itii'g here at the G. w. Br-iicnie. Br-iicnie. ' arl Mrs. ChrUrtie Edwards of g Diego, California, .s vlsitliig i for lour weeks at the horn, oi 'u paients, Mr. and Mrs. Parley p T |