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...library of about 7500 volumes, English, Armenian and Turkish. Students are encouraged to read and library work is a required part of the language courses, with the result that the number of books drawn per student during the year has averaged over fifty. Back here in the interior of Turkey, they have had sixty or seventy periodicals regularly on the shelves in the college reading room...
Aintab falls within the territory of the French mandate in Syria, and seems to be the only interior city where there is an American college, where complete regulations and social freedom will be guaranteed to the entire population, both Christians and Moslems, by a foreign power. There is little doubt that Turkish students will take advantage of the new opportunity. A proof of the new spirit is seen in the fact that since the surrender of the Turks to the French on February 8, 1921, the Turks of Aintab have invited the Americans to take over the management of their...
...industry by private enterprise. The best proof of this is the fact that within three days after the new code had gone into effect about eighty applications were entered for oil concessions, and during the past year about 160 British and American prospecting parties have been scouring the interior for new claims...
...bulk of the known oil deposits in the Republic lie in three fields; one on the northwestern coast, which has not proved to be extensive, and two in the interior, which are among the most promising field in the whole of Latin America, not excepting Mexico. One of these interior fields, the two million acre DeMares concession lies about four hundred miles up the Magdalena Valley, near the river town of Puerto Wilches. The Tropical Oil Company of Pittsburg which had been operating that concession, was amalgamated early in 1920 with the International Petroleum Company, a Canadian subsidiary...
...other interior field is the so-called Barco concession of about 1,500,000 acres near the Venezuelan border adjoining the prolific Maracaibo wells. This property, together with the oil rights on about two million acres nearby, is being exploited by the Carib Syndicate of New York, in cooperation with the subsidiary of the Henry L. Doherty interests of Pittsburg. Transportation problems have somewhat embarrassed these operations since the field is accessible only from the east by way of the Catatumbo River and Lake Maracalbo; but it is now proposed to lay a two hundred mile pipe line...