The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-06-16
Prospects for the kintIa Lake Oil Re-
gion Are FIattering.
EXTENSIVE PRODUCERS OF OIL
Many Other Wells van Be Drilled
This Year-Canaoian Company Al
ready Has a Flowing WeII-Pipe
Line Routes for Transporting Oil
Proposed Both North and South.

Il he Helena independent Oh ldle
date contained the following highly |
interesting description of the oil
field OF Flathead county.
During the past couple Of years
few publications could be glanced
over without having the eye arrested
by articles descriptive of oil fields |
in the south, west and north, each
of the several localities attracting
many people. A great deal of money
was expended in development, and
in some of the places, notably the
Texas and California fields, returned
great fortunes for the comparatively
small investments in lands and de-
velopment. TIL success of the Texas
field especially, brought with it a
food of fraudulent OIL propositions,
schemes based upon lands in the vi
entity of successful oil fields, but
which could not possibly contain any
Oil, or in other districts or states,
wheI' it was claimed there was Oil,
but which, owing to the geological
formation, could not produce petrole-
UNI, and these have discreditcd oil
lands, other than those located in the
midst of tn fully developed fields,
and these lands have long since
reached a value that has taken them
faT from the reach of those who
nave not a command Of large and
ready capital.
During all this enthusiastic boom
ing Of oil fields both cf legitimate
and illegitimate order, a field that is
not the largest, but that gives prem
Use of being the best producer of
high grade petroleum of any section
of the continent, either of the past
or present, was discovered in Mon
tana, and the lands were largely Sc
cured by Montana people, who, after
having the district thoroughly eX-
ported, are showing their faith in
them by investing their own money
in extensive development that will
be in full progress as soon as the
condition of the road into the field
from the railway will permit the
hauling Of the necessary supplies
and machinery, and successful re-
suits to be secured by the de-
velopment before the arrival Of an
other winter are not discussed by
those interested in the fields or ia
miliar with them, as possibilities but
as certainties.
As but an occasional brief and in
cidental item has been published in
either the home or foreign press rel
alive to this field. some detail of it's
environment will be of interest.
The field is locally known as the
Kintla lake oil district and is located
in the northern part of Flathead
county 1t is eliptcal in form, from
seven to ten miles wide and about 25
miles in length, about one-third of
the valley lying in Canadian terri
tory. north of the international
boundary. The valley is sealed In
and surrounded on the north and east
by the high and precipitous noun
tains of the main range of the Rock
les. and on the west and south by
the equally heavy Whitefish range
spur of the Rockies.
In the Rockies that border the
northern part OF 'he OH hei!S are III.
great crow Nest eoa' "''os ma
nave neeh opehe" an" 'o'e" ~ '''
prudncerS during Ihe paS' wv" "
three years. The southern part OF
the oil field extends into the Nortl
FORK eoal ileIos, which, WIN, NV
are not pro"ucihS' ""lis !" '"' Il"
seh'e Oh lrahSlo''a''o" ~
the pfoauC'' nave ''' '"'''' '''.'
Ct F'lohed 10 o'''"nS'r"' '"' 'Ni''
ehce OF great Goa "''"S''' ,""'
7ehI Owe '''I''S ol COUNTY "' ="
race q me N'h'N ''''1'' ,N'"N ~
OH "is'ri'' IS sHN"'N "''a"'"''NS', y
from me ho''"" - A",''''' '''t -
the north 'orN OF '"' r'''''''" w.
WIN some S'na"e' ,'lo"'"' ,'S ''''