The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-12-18
HIS SENTENCE
COMMITTED
Judge Dudley Dubose Will
Soon Be AT Liberty.
PARDONED BY KNOX
The District Attorney at San Francisco Re
fused to Act on Technical Grounds
Dubose Will Come to Montana.

~ ihSoooSC was lCSGlNNO IOudy llpul
Senator Paris Gibson, stating that At
torney General Knox yesterday grant
ed ex-Judge Dudley Dubose, now in
prison in California for contempt of
court in connection with the Mcken
zie receivership cases at Nome. a
two months communication on the
ground that contempt of court is not
such ali offense as would entitle an
offender the usual communication for
good behavior 1t is expected that
Judge Dubose will return to northern
Montana after the expiration of his
sentence.
DIGGING FOR OIL.
Belton, Mont. Dec. 1S.-The man
ner in which oil wells are sunk
is a decided mystery to the gen
era public in this vicinity at the pres
ent time when the air is full OF oil
rumors. Following is the methods
used by the Butte Oil company at
kintla lake and a description of the
| buildings and machinery used.
AS is usual when any engineering
feat is contemplated site for opera
tions must first be settled. This was
evidently no little task in the case of
the drilling at kintla lake, where af.
| ter the site was selected it first had
to be cleared of underbrush and all
the timber had to be sawed from logs
cut on the mountain side and hauled
to the location desired Finally al
rno1v thG n n Mt nj
the construction of the derrick. a hug,
framework of two-inch plank, Z:
feet high and surmounted by the
crown block on which the pulleys rest
Then the double belt house, go fee
long. was completed and all wa:
closed in, making what is known
among oil men as winter rig" Con
Meeting the derrick with the bei
house is high structure which par
li..ily covers me walking beam ant
| ALSO houses III the lower part OF the
derrick In which the work OF drliilns
IS carried ON. On the right nanu slu,
OF the derrick house is the forge
useu III keeping urliis III proper con
u4,Aun. vn Inc siue larlneSt lrOn "a,
double belt house Is IA reel, d uull
wheel, on when is wound hundreds o.
4.eL ol = l., inch rope which Is uset
III raising and lowering the urlIilnt
tools.
On the outside and to the left OF tht
belt house is the sand reel, Ol
wlucn Is wound d smaller rope Whlcl
ra.ses ANA lOMeis the sand pump Oh
baller wnen taking out the rock arm
ings or crushed stones.
Ane power used is generated by ;
20 horse power engine, located aDOu
400 feet IrOm the derrick.
Now comes the work OF rigging
up and connecting everything II
readiness to commence drilling. rirs
commences the "spudding," which i!
being done while putting down tn,
hole in drift or slide ground and Il
carried ON until the solid strata Ii
reached. During the time spuddinl
is being done a 10 IA inch pipe ha
been gradually driven into the eartl
and is at last firmly planted into be-
lrOck.
When depth OF about 12O feet Il
reached the walking beam is connect
ed with the drill rope and the con
tinuous rising and falling of the pon
derous drill commences III real earn
est. There is continual drilling
pumping and dressing OF tools unit
, a depth sufficient to demonstrate Oh
or no oil is reached.
For the first .,o feet drilled l
inch hole is sunk and cased in W
: an eight inch pipe. The next 4oJ fee
, will be cased in with a six inch pip
and SO on, the deeper the hole
sunk the smaller the pipe used to cas-
r in. Perhaps when down to a dept
of thousand or more feet the pip
used will not exceed an inch in dian
eter. If after being down hundred
of feet and a dry seepage is strucl
the dry hole" or ''gasser" as it
i. termed, will be shot" This is dor
by lowering in the pipe sewers
hundred pounds of nitro-glycerin
Y which is first covered with water, al
is fired by go devil" a heavy ire
y object, dropped from the top OF Il
pipe. The terrific explostion that fl
I. lows skaters the rocks in the vici
lty of the bottom of the we'll for mai
d feet in each direction. and If there
oil near it will seep through t
cracks made by the explosion al
Id run into the oil we'll. If. after this
done, no oil is found. the pipe us
in sinking the we'll can be WITHDRAW
and used in another locality.