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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-02

their advice and then do as ! please.
but they are a good thing"
petroleum So"
Smiling Joe Baker of Miles City
ranks next to Tom Arthur and Gov
ernor Frantz as a pioneer In the Cat
Greek oil fields. He brought in"
the famous Petroleum Sc well, and
it's story is typical of the way things
are done in the oil field. 1t can best
be used to show the possibilities and
it's the best little oil story over on
the Musselshell.
Baker also came from Oklahoma
where oil wells are thicker than In
dams in the Cherokee days and
where the medium of exchange con-
sists of royalties, units, oil stock
and leases. For several years Baker
had been in the real estate business
in Miles City. The oil lease bust
ness is something like the real es-
tate business, except it is just 1000
times faster-like Jazz music COM
pared to a Thanksgiving anthem.
So Baker wanted to get hold of
something iazzy and he told the
Powder River bunch he had a bunch
to get some land up at Mosby and
drill for oil.
Now an oil field is a great rou-
table, whose squares r sec
tions, quarter sections, and subdi-
visions Of quarters, all numbered.
The Architect of the Universe
the ball, which floats in a pool
oil away down in the middle of
the earth. You put your money or
one of these squares, OF on a little
numbered lot shown on the blue
prints, and the drill goes down and
Town simultaneously with a lot of
other drills. She hits the cap rock
md then all is excitement just like
t is around the roulette table when
he little ivory ball goes whir-r-
vhir-r and then stops In the bowl
With a rattle on the odd or even, the
black or red, and on a number cor
'esponding to a little numbered
quare on the board.
Roulette pays 35 to l.. You play
five-cent chip and win s1.75 or
-ou play SIS and receive SITS from
he dealer.
But with oil, it pays 100 to 1; 1t
avs 1000 to l., and sometimes 10,-
90 and 100000 to l..
A Little Sporting Event.
Baker told the Powder River peo-
lie down in Miles City that it was
great big roulette game and the
eople of Milesstown like a roulette
anne very much more as a pastime
ian kidnapping Nonpartisan lea
"Give us a pile of chips when you
back" they told Baker, and
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-02

trains Of these cars leave Winnett
for the refineries in Casper and Grey
bull every "a hours.
Present pipe line facilities are al
together inadequate. The pipe lines
belong to the Frantz Corporation
STANDARD Oil) and the Midnorthern
companies. Others are permitted to
use the pipe lines only a few hours
each day. The Petroleum Sc, for
instance, can really market less than
cne-fourth of what its we'll will PRO
duce daily Is the hours will permit
the moving of only about 300 barrels
per day.
1t takes a lot of faith in an oil
deed, to have such companies as
Frantz and Mid-northern, who had
faith enough to throw these costly
across the prairies to the near
railroad.
AS a result of conditions, Her
bert A. Hover has interested some
people in the east and middle west
in the field and these people are
ready to construct a six-inch pipe
line from the wells to the railroad
at a cost of several hundred thou
sand dollars.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-02

church in the middle west. This
conservation is of interest to Mon
tana people for two reasons. The
first is that Rev. Mr.. Bennett was,
previous to July, 1918, rector of the
Church of the Incarnation at Great
Falls and was very well known all
over Montana. The second reason is
that one of the ~consecrators was
Ri. Rev. Daniel S. futile of st. Louis,
presiding bishop of the Episcopal
church in America, who came to Mon
tana in 1867 and was the first Epis-
copal bishop of Montana.
Rev. Mr.. Bennett, while at Great
was a president of the Great
Falls Rotary club and vas very well
known and extremely popular In the
city. He is a western man, having
spent most of boyhood In the Black
Hills in South Dakota. He is only
38 years old, and is one of the young
est, if not the youngest, man of the
rank In the church which he
holds. 1t is understood that the pre-
sent bishop of Duluth, Rt. Rev
James d. Morrison, will retire at nee
from active duty and will live in the
east, although retaining his title of
of Duluth during his life.
Coadjutor Bennett, In case of
death of Bishop Morrison, be-
comes bisheH without s-thez
action of the Episcopal convention.
Rev. Mr.. Bennett is a graduate of
The Seabury school at Fairbault.
Mimi. While in Montana he was
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-02

he was off for Mosby. He picked
out several pieces of ground but fail
ing to get his first choice, he took
what ne could get and landed in
Miles City one day with a homestead
er and a lease all made out. But the
lease had to be signed by the wife of
the h~omesteader who had gone to
Wisconsin. Baker went to a Miles
City bank and told his story. He
did not have a cent of money over
the railroad fare for the homesteader
but he persuaded the cashier of the
bank to assure the homesteader that
$4,000 would be waiting for him
when he returned with the lease sign
ed.
Miles City always comes through.
The homesteader was no sooner on
his way to Wisconsin than Smiling
Joe Baker was out to sell Sc units
in his oil lease at $3.50 each in or
der to raise the $4,000 to pay for
the lease. In a few hours the
money was in the bank, just where
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-02
(By Will A. CampbeiI.)

To Thomas Arthur of Billings
former chairman of the democratic
state central committee, belongs the
credit as much as to anyone else
for opening the Cat Greek fields
AS long ago as last January, Mr..
Arthur told the writer of this arti-
Gle that when oil was found in Mon
tana, it would be up along the Mus
selshell in Fergus county.
'Now's the time to get in,' said
Tom. We've some good things
down in Wyoming, but wait until
Montana strikes Olive will get
more oil in six months than Wy
oming has secured in six years. 1
just feel those Wyoming wells are
fed from a source up in Montana,
and I'd say it was up around Mosby."
Tom has an oil dome on his shout
ders something like a water witch.
He doesn't use an apple tree twig
nor any other instruments, just his
head, and he had a lot of faith in
the Mosby field.
Biologists Scare Tom Out.
But the biologists shook this one
time and sent Tom Arthur back to
Billings with a roll of money he
had been given by his friends to in
vest in the field being prospected by
the Frantz corporation. Arthur ar
rived in Lewistown n day with a
whole bale of greenbacks. He 'flis-
tened i'm around the Fergus hotel
for a couple of days at a time when
it was infested with biologists, many
of the parlor variety. They had all
kinds of reasons for saying there was
nothing in the Mosby field, but some
of them never got nearer it than a
big leather chair in the hotel lobby.
talk, however, vas 81 dis
.couraging that Arthur threw the
money back into his grip and re-
turned to Billings. He had decided
not to put it in. But Tom sleeps
we'll and a good nights sleep re-
newed his courage.
He drew the money from the bank
and returned to Lewistown.
"I'm going to put it into that
field and go broke if necessary" said
Tom. "Ill either make a stake in
that field or join Joe Pope in drilling
for moonshine."
So Arthur went back and that is
the reason he is the personal rep
.resentative of the companies which
control the big output, own the pipe
and will be responsible for the
development of the big field, which,
they say, will be digger than Ana
conda by-and-by."
"Geologists make people cautious"
says Arthur. "They know so much
and so little, that their gable makes
business men think. Yes, I take
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-02
MAN FROM MONTANA BECOMES
BISHOP GOADJUT0R OF DULUTH

elected s%uffragan bishop of that do
cese, but refused to accept. During
the past summer he spent his vac
tion at Lake Mcdonald, in Glacier
Park, as the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles M. Russell.
Bishop TuttIe's History
Bishop futile was one of the in
teresting figures in the early his
tory of Montana. Consecrated at
the very youthful age of 80 in Trim
ity chapel, New York, in 1867, he at
once came west to take charge of his
diocese, which included Montana,
Idaho and Utah, a territory embrac-
ing 316,546 square miles, nearly to
the entire area of France and Spain.
Accompanied by the Rev. E. N. Stod-
dard, he began his work at Virginia
City, Mont, then a town of 1000 peo-
pie, where he built his first church at
a cost of $4,000. A Methodist min
lister and a Roman Catholic priest
already there and the following
year the bishop started on his first
visitation, holding services at Helena,
Deer Lodge, Bozeman, Gallatin,
and Bannack.
In 1857 Helena was a town of A.
900, and on August II of that year
Tuttle and the Rev. Mr.. Stod-
1ard held their first services in the
courthouse there. The next month
made Helena his headquart-
7rs, remaining there for seven
months, the Rev. Mr.. Stoddard hav-
ing gone east. On his first trip over
his territory, the bishop rode 1,245
miles. holding services in churches
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-02
GET HOLD OF A LEASE!
BUY A SYNDICATE UNIT!
DO SOMETHING and get I'M!

LET US TELL YOU ABOUT THE
PETROLEUM LEASING SYNDICATE
1T HAS SOME WONDERFULLY
ATTRACTIVE HOLDINGS IT HAS
A SMALL CAPITALIZATION.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-02

On Wednesday, November 18th,
1920, Rev. G G. Bennett, rector of
st. Paul's Episcopal church of Min
neapolis, was consecretated bishop
coadjutor of the diocese of Duluth,
one of the important districts of the
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-02

where there were any, but more Of
ten in saloons, billiard halls and log
cabins.
The first child baptized in Helena
was Norman B. Hotter.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-02

Cuticura Soap for the Complexion.
Nothing better than Cuticura Soap
daily and Ointment now and then as
needed to make the complexion clear,
scalp clean and hands soft and white.
Add to this the fascinating, fragrant
Cuticura Talcum and you have the
Cuticura Toilet TriO.-Adv.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-02

Hamilton-Black bears are more
numerous and their thievery Is be-
ing carried on this year on a greater
scope than heretofore and closer to
the city limits.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-02

Not including the A. C. M.
well, brought in a few days ago
ON the West Dome, there are
now six large producers of high
grade paraffin Oil in the Mosby
fields. The railroad is hauling
away to the refineries $500
barrels of oil daily, and but for
shortage of tank cars and yard
Accommodations this would be
much more, probably twice a.
much. An operator who has an
intimate knowledge of condi-
lions in the field, places the
daily production of the six Iarg-
or wells, all under leash, If al
lowed to flow to capacity, in
barrels, as follows:
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-02
I MA
AN OIL BOOM is AT YOUR
THRESH0LD~IT WILL BLOW
The DOOR OPEN IN SPRING

THERE WILL BE THE BIGGEST
RUSH OF PEOPLE TO MONTANA
IN 1921 THAN WAS EVER KNOWN
IN ITS HISTORY.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-02
THE M0SBY OIL FIELDS, AND SOME OF THE MEN WHO ARE
PROMINENT I'M DEVELOPING THE STATES NEW INDUSTRY

I Another man who will be given
credit in future years for doing a
great deal to develop the Mosby
field and interesting a large number
of people is Herbert A. Hover, for
merly of Helena, president of the
Montana Ranches company, and a
big operator in Montana lands.
Hover went to Lewistown several
months ago and secured some leases.
He picked out the ground he thought
he could best handle himself and sold
leases for cash and royalties to other
oil men and companies, but his pet
piece of ground is that held by the
Hover-Schwartz syndicate in which
a number of Helena business men
and bankers are interested.
This lease is located a quarter of
a mile west of the Petroleum Sc,
owned by the Miles City plungers.
1t is about the same distance from
the Big Lehman, No. /, which as
this article is Written wednesday,
is expected to come in" as it is
being worked by a big rig and down
to a depth where the cap rock could
be reached soon if not before this
story can be printed. The Hover
Schwartz syndicate has its casing on
the ground, the contract let for the
derrick and by this time probably
has an outfit on the ground. The
first outfit secured by Hover turned
out to be the property of some
Roundup operators and not of the
contractor who thought he could get
the use of it to drill the Hover
Schwartz hole, so Hover had to can
eel the contract and start after an
other rig.
Mr.. Hover is interested in a num-
Der of properties, and with the writ
of this article made a conservative
estimate of what the combined in
come of his present holdings would
be if 1~,000-barrel wells we're secur-
ed on each of the 26-acre tracts he
holds. The net income from his
royalties and units would be about
$4,000 per month, which is some
little income possibility and it looks
possible.
Senator Power Interested
Senator T. C. Power and Charles
B.. Power of Helena are among those
extensively interested in the eastern
Montana oil fields and have impor-
ant holdings in the Mosby district.
Wyman Ellis, formerly state man
of the Equitable Life of Helena.
S drilling on the "Montacal'' lease,
is held by Mr.. Ellis and some
California friends of his who named
t Jointly after their two states.
ellis is drilling away and within two
weeks should have oil-or water
II nothing, as the oil game goes, but
ellis has about as good a chance as
despite biologists who will
ind reason on one hand to say he
will never get a drop and others
Who say he has the best location on
he whole dome.
The Pipe Lines
Two pipe lines now carry the oil
rom the Mosby field to Winnett
there the oil is placed in big stor-
ge tanks on the top of a hill above
he railroad station. One of these
a two-inch pipe and the other a
our-inch, thrown down across the
without grading or survey
lg-just thrown down. But it re-
uires little pumping and the oil
.ows for the most part down hill
ito the storage tanks. From these
inks the oil is drawn from pipes
long the railroad into the great
INK cars furnished by the Milwau-
ee G st. Paul railway and two
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-02
WHY?
Magic Oil -- The Fortune
Maker, Has Been Discov-
cred on Your Lands

ARE YOU GOING TO SIT sUPINE-
LY BY-JUST SIT AND LET THE
HUSTLERS FROM OTHER STATES
COME IN AND REAP THE
WEALTH AND REV WAR S?
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-02-19
MONTANA IN SECOND PLACE.
Western State Exceeded Only BY Ohio
in Sale Of Savings Certificates.

Montana has won second place (next
to Ohio) in the states of the Union for
the per capita sales of the United
States thrift stamps, War Savings
stamps and Treasury Savings certi.
f1cates and leads all of the states Of
the Ninth Federal Reserve district,
composed of Minnesota, North and
South Dakota. Montana and parts of
Michigan and Wisconsin.
During the month Of October, Mon.
tana's sales amounted to $1O3, 1880
making a per capita sale of II cents,
while Minnesota showed a per capita
sale Of 16 cents The sale in the Da.
kotas was 6 cents. The general aver.
age throughout the nation was eight
cents.
In Anaconda. Montana. the school
children are waging a thrift stamp
contest sale and four American flags
6 feet by ten feet, are to be awarded
to the schools making the best show
ing. the prizes going to the grades
that buy the largest number Of Wal
Savings stamps per capita in the pub
lie and parochial schools. The contest
closes on the day that the schools
close for the Christmas holidays.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-02-19
CLEAN SEED WHEAT

The grains of seed wheat besides be-
ing all Of one variety, should also be
heavy, plump and spherical and free
from dirt, weed seeds or injured, sick
or immature kernels. Heavy seed pro-
notes stooling and the production Of
spring plants and benefits yield and
quality Of grain as we'll as making a
sitter straw. In a small or shriveled
seed there is insufficient food supply
or ar imperfectly developed germ, so
the plants from such seed usually have
not the power to live. although the
seed may sprout quite successfully.
Therefore the wise farmer will see
that his seed is r~ecleaned thoroughly.
One Of the most profitable things to do
is to run the seed through a tanning
mill a second time so that the kernels
will all be the same size which will en-
able them to get an even start and ma
ture at the same time.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-02-19
THE BEST WHEAT

Contrary to the common opinion,
seed wheat does not run out" 1t is true
that its quality will deteriorate and
the yield become smaller If left to its
enemies which are inherent In the
wheat.
It is therefore important that con.
certed action should be taken to es-
tablish more profitable farming meth
DDS.
It is wise to establish the variety
best adapted to soil and climate. In
almost every county Marquis wheat
should be urged. There is nothing the
matter with Fife and Blue Stem ex-
cept that they have not been kept pure
and the record will show that they
do not yield so well and are not SO
safe. but taking everything into con-
sideration, Marquis is the most desir-
able wheat. Velvet Chaff lacks bread
gluten and Is too soft. Durum is a fine
wheat for certain purposes. but has
a limited market, there being a de-
mand for not more than 10 per cent
of the total spring wheat crop. The
price of Durum is often 20 to 80 cents
per bushel below the price of No. l
Northern, which in itself Is argument
enough. This applies to the macaronl
drums which should not be confused
in any way with the so:called Red
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-02-19

If wheat has become heated or
moldy in storage OF from any other
reasons. 1t may not grow at all or else
have only a low percentage of germi-
nation. 1t is advisable therefore to
make a few termination tests from diff
ferent parts Of your seed wheat. This
may be done by taking an ordinary
hlotting paper, folded like a book. Wet
1t, open flat, count 100 kernels just as
they come, place them on one-half of
the blotting paper so that they do not
touch; tear a strip of cloth about two
inches wide and ten inches long, put it
in the fold Of the blotter, fold IS be-
fore. Pile up your tests, wrap q cloth
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-02-19
SALES OF
j.. s. SECURITIES
TO Be STOPPED
illegal Traffic in Savings Stamps
and Liberty Bonds to Bring
Penalties.
PROPOSED LAW PROVIDES
REWARD FOR CONVICTION
City and Village Councils Requested
to Pass Ordinance Aimed
at ScaIpers.

Following Investigations in Mime
apolis and throughout the Ninth Fed
eral Reserve district, when it was dis.
covered that a widespread effort pre-.
walls by promoters to trade worthless
stock for Liberty bonds and to pur
chase War Savings and Thrift stamps
at less than real value, efforts are un.
der way to have cities and villages
throughout the district pass an ordt'
nance providing criminal prosecutions
under civil authority.
The War Savings organization has
had prepared by the United States
legal department a proposed ordi'
n 1t will be first presented at an
early meeting Of the Minneapolis city
council and it has for it's particular
purpose the regulation by the police OF
War Savings and Thrift Stamps sales.
Penalties are Established.
The proposed ordinance provides
that "it shall be unlawful for any per
SON.. firm or corporation to purchase
either with cash or with obligations
or credits or merchandise, or to &C
cept for collateral any United States
War Savings Stamps or Thrift Stamps
from any person, firm or corporation
except the United States government
or duly authorized representatives.
The ordinance would likewise forbid
the sale of such stamps except by and
for the government.
For each stamp illegally sold a fine
of not less than $40 MOI more thar
$500 is provided and a reward of 81
is to be paid the person furnishing the
information resulting in a conviction
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-02-19
SPRING WHEAT

The acreage of spring wheat in 1919
was much greater and up to June we
had the promise of the very best crop
on record, yet the weather conditions
in many localities we're such that in
Minnesota, North and South Dakota
only about 114,OO0,0O0 bushels were
harvested. much Of it being very chaffy,
seabby and smutty and unfit for seed.
More than 100000 bushels have
already been marketed and u seed
requirements for the three states are
about 100000 bushels.
AS every gram man knows, the
wheat now being shipped is badly mix.
ed, full of trash and light in weight,
making much of it unfit for seed.
So 1t therefore becomes imperative
that all of those interested In the pros
perity Of the Northwest should unite
for action, make a local survey Of seed
conditions and where there Is a sur
plus Of good seed, make 1t known. and
where there is a shortage, Immediately
locate proper seed and make some ar
rangement for financing It and distrib'
uting 1t to the farmers. II there is
any 1918 wheat at your station Of good
quality, you should see that it Is
held for seeding? Don't mix 1t in with
the lev wheat to make grades. You
might possibly save a fraction Of a
cent, but you will sacrifice many BUSH
els in the next crop.
The farmer must first become pros.
porous before any one can prosper.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-02-19
The Five Fundamentals Which Will
Insure a Good Crop.
READ ITl!!

I. Choose the Best Variety. Mar
quis is the best, then Fife. then Blue
stem. Velvet Chaff is weak in bread
gluten. Durum has a limited market.
Red Durum has no market at all. Don't
sow 1t under any circumstances.
2. Clean Seed In Tanning Mill. To
remove weed seeds, shriveled kernels
and trash.
8. Treat for Smut and scab. Use
one pound full-strength formaldehyde
in 40 gallons Of water. Full directions
at any drug store.
4. Be Sure tho Seed VIII Grow. Fold
100 kernels into a piece OF wet blotting
paper. Keep damp for six days. Nine
ty-five kernels should grow strong.
5. The Seed Bed. Soil loose and fine
on top, packed solid beneath. Sow
with drill as early as possible.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-02-19
Glass Issues Warning.


Carter Glass, secretary of the treas.
ury, has issued a warning from Wash.
ington in which he says:
"A large number of persons are be.
ing duped by these swindlers. 1t is
the duty Of all citizens to act against
these fraudulent operations in govern.
ment securities at this time, when we
can i'll afford to dissipate our resources
for the profit Of the INSCRIPTIONS
few"
"Fostered by the greed and avarice
of people preying upon fellow citi.
zens," said M. E. Harrison, director,
there has sprung up a practice known
as 'scalping' War Savings Stamps and
Thrift Stamps. Complaints reach this
office from persons who have been
f1eeced and in accordance with plans
for the 1920 Savings Stamps sales, we
are inaugurating this campaign to do
away with these vultures of the finan.
cial underworld.
P. O. viii Pay If Stamps Must Go.
THE government has provided that
War Savings Stamps owners may cash
them in at any post office at the price
paid plus accrued interest. To illus.
trate.-suppose a person in May, 1918,
purchased ten War Savings Stamps at
the price of $4.16 each, a total of
$&1.60 paid and wishes to redeem
them in November, 1919. All he need
do is to go to the post office, give ten
days notice and at the end of that
period receive S43.4O. The scalper
would attempt to get these stamps at
81 or less"