Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1920-10-06
An Account of Trip to !.
Yellowstone National Park
BY the Editor Of the Shear.

AS we stated last week, we began the
hOmeward trip from Great Falls on the
morning OF Aug. Is. Our good friends
Mr.. and Mrs. BystrOm, who had made
our three days, visit with them SO very
pleasant, accompanied us as far as
LewistOwn, some 100 miles, on
our way home. Their son Gerald and
two other boy scouts from the city were
left at the Rotary Camp some 40 or so
miles out, an idyllic place In beautiful
canyon, where the boy sconts Of the
city were to spend a two weeks outing.
How we wished we had been a boy
again and could have tarried in this
delightful spot but we had to- hasten
on: Late in the evening we arrived at
Lewist0wn, which is town of about
10000 people, in the center of the IA
NOUS Judith basin, andsin the midst of
rich agricultural and mining section.
1t Is in an oil region now rapidly de-
vel0ping. On the same day We arrived
there was great excitement because an
oil guSher had been struck about 80
miles east from there and everybody
was talking oil, Our party found COM
Portable accommodations at hotel and
next morning after breakfast we motor
ed around the city for while taking
in the sights. But the sad moment ar
rived too soon when we had to part
with Mr.. and Mrs. BystrOm, and the
gentle and always willing to-serve
school ma am Miss Martha Mortenson,
who accompanied the Bystroms in their
car. With signing hearts we babe one
another bood-bye. Yet we all felt that,
though separated by time and space we
were to be, that there is nevertheless
zone tie that binds our hearts in
Christian love- -. .....
s. Well, we caught the oil fever at
4 ewistown, just like all the other PEG.
pie Of the place, and Tor that reason
we, decidedEto see the 'sgusher on our
way home After IN so mile nipe0Ver
long stretches of bad roads Through A
rough and shilly country, we arrived 4
the on we'll located p miles east Of.
sWinnet shortly before the sun went
down on. Monday Aug. 16. 3 And It urps
~ did spout some oil. u rom the top ct
IA 4-inch pipe: gushed a brownish-gray
liquid estimated at 1900 to 1000 barrels
per day, and said to be 81 per cent pufe
gasoline fact, we.were told fllat the
oil could be used in autos without being
refined The we'll had produced q small
flow of Oil since it was put down last
April, but the big flow was struck the
day before our visit, after it had been
cleaned out. The well is 1900 feetsdeep.
The drilling company was not prepared
to take care of as much oil, so after fill
ing a number of big oil tanks which had
hxy N Ap1i6 VIC
into a dry coulee just below the well.
A two inch pipe line was being con-
structed to Winnet. the nearest rail
road station, q miles distant, where
the oil is to be run into Oil tank cars
and hauled away. but that line can only
take care of one-half Of the flow. The
well is located on land filed upon by
returned soldier, who no doubt will
profit handsomely. We had now seen
oil, as well as water both hot and cold,
pour from the earth's interior in Mon
tana. Coal, copper, silver, gold and
other riches are also taken from the,
womb of Mother Earth in that state.
Montana is more than one sees on the
surface-one must go down thousands
of feet to find out what the resources
of the state really are.
From the oil well we had intended to
20 to Mosby, few miles further east,
hoping to find road leading eastward
from there to the North Dakota line,
but we learned from Mr.. A. A. Morris,
president of the First National Bank
of Roundup, who had come out to see
the we'll, that it would be very risky to
travel east over the bad roads and upon
his advice we followed his car, retrac-
ing our way to Winnet and from there
to Roundup, where we arrived about
ten in the evening. We felt very CRATE
full to Mr.. Morris for having been our
pathfinder in the dark night. And not
only that, but when we parted in the
evening he showed us the way to a
good hotel and also told us to come