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...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...
...evident, then, that the greater part of the more promising Colombian deposits is in the hands of Americans, though it may be noted in this connection that the Carib Syndicate is associated with the British-controlled Burlington-Royal Dutch Shell interests in the exploitation of the western Venezuelan fields adjoining the Colombian properties of that syndicate...
...valuable collection of ethnological specimens has recently been received by the University of Pennsylvania Museum from Dr. William G. Farabee, who is at the head of the university's Amazon expedition. The specimens were collected in the southern part of British Gulana among the Carib and Arowak Indians and other hitherto unknown tribes. They include clothing for men and women, made from the feathers of the Macan and other birds of rich plumage, paintings of religious ceremonials on sticks, bead work, bows, and arrows, spears, hammocks and domestic utensils. None of them, according to archaeoligists at the university, show...