The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-01-10
MORE OIL CLAIMS,
KintIa Lake District Again In Evidence
1920 Acres Taken Up,

The kintla oil district was yery
much in evidence in the Office of the
county clerk and recorder yesterday
ana the number of new placer mining
claims filed caused chill to run uD
the backs of the deputies who, at the
time the additional filings were being
lndeXed, We're check reading some OF
the previous forty. which had been
filed on the Flathead oil territory, dur.
ing the last months OF 1900.
The claims filed yesterday number
ed ~ and brought the total number
which have been entered by John F.
Forbis, John o. Bender. John o.
Rourke, James w. Forbs, H. R. Bart.
lett, l.. o. Evans, A. j. Davis. and
j, ii. Taylor up to 81. and as each
claim covers 100 acres, these gentle
men, all of whom are said to be resi-
dents of Butte, now controls 1920
acres of the Flathead oil country.
The 62 claims are filed on land com
mencing north and west of Kintla
lake. on each side Of the north fork Of
the Flathead river, and follow that
stream south east, through township
81, 36 and 35, north of range q west
as far south as Oil creek.
There cannot be question as to the
value of the land, not only from the
indication of large bodies of oil, but
from the fact that the Canadian coal
district has been traced to within a
very few miles of the Montana and
Flathead boundary line, and from
statements made by surveyors and
mining experts, who have recently
been in that district, the same veins
of coal have been traced along the
north fork of Flathead river south
east through this county.
The fact that the gentlemen who are
named as lOcators of all the claims
filed, have had experts in the district
since early last spring, and expended
the sums they have is a guar
antee that the country is rich in coal
and oil.
1t is known that they have ordered
Oil rigs, with which to commence
work as soon as the necessary ma
chinery can be transported into the
country. and that they have cut a
good trail as well as run the surveys
for pipe line, which will reach the
railroad between Belton and Coum-
bia Falls
The prospect of the Flathead coun-
ty oil district becoming a large pro-
ducer as well as the coal fields be-
ing developed in the near futupe seems
decidedly promising.
The % claims filed and located are
as follows:
Bench placer claim in sec 8, tp 35n,
+ q W.
Falcon placer claim in sec 8, tn 35 n
r q W.
Old Ben placer claim in sec 10, tp 35
n, + 21 W.
jay placer claim in sec "a, tp 36 n.
r q W.
Locus placer claim in sec Is, tp 35 n
+ 81 W.
Magpie placer claim in sec 80, tp 36
n, 81 W.
Oleo placer claim in sec 10, tp 35 n,
+ 81 W.
Cuckoo placer claim in sec 9, tp 35 n,
r 21 W.
Macaw placer claim n sec 4, tp 35n,
T. q W.
Emu placer claim in sec 4, tp 35 n,
+ 81 W.
Oriole placer claim in sec 8, tp 35 II.
r q W.
Ibis placer claim in sec 4, tp 35 n,
r 2l W.
Repeater placer in sec 8, tp 35 r,
r q W.
Raven placer claim in sec Is, tp 35
n, + 21 W.
Optic mining claim in sec 3, tp 35 n,
r 21 W.
Osprey mining claim in sec 5, tp 35
n, 21 W.
Kopje mining claim in sec 3, tp 35 n,
+ q W.
Vulture placer claim in sec 5, tp 81
n, + 21 w.
GasOlene placer claim in sec 4, tp
35 n, + 21 W.
Miller placer claim in sec 10, tp So
n, + 21 W.
AUX placer claim in sec 33, tp &c u,
+ q W.
Startling placer claim in sec 80, tp
SO n, r 81 W.