Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-05-20
ESQ to 5OO-Barrel Output
Tapped in Frantz No. 2,
Proving Deposit West
ward Six Miles.
Flows High Green Grade
SO Per Cent Gasolene;
Lewistown Celebrates
Exciting Discovery.
Special to The Daily Tribune.

Special to The Daily Tribune.
Winnett, May 19.-Already flowing
oil at an estimated rate of between 25(
and 900 barrels a day, Montana's SECOND
commercial oil well IN the Cat Greek
field, which has already proved itseli
to be far greater than the Frantz dis.
covery well, was brought in at 10:3C
o'clock Tuesday night at the west camr
of the Frantz corporation in section IA
township Is north, range % east, just
about four miles northwest of the dis
coyery we'll on the Mosby dome.
At depth of 200 feet, one foot Of
the sand underlying a thin hard shell
was penetrated and oil began filling the
casing In two hours it had filled 4W
feet Of the 1O-inch pipe and in n period
of 10 hours had risen TO within 100 feet
of the top.
At o'clock Wednesday morning, the
oil still rising at the rate of 100 feet an
hour and soon after overflowed the
casing. Superintendent L. s. Lantz has
gone to the field and provision will be
made Immediately to care for the over
flow.
Coming with a strong flow and filling
rapidly the large casing that had been
set in the hole, the well is believed to
be a strike so much better that it will
bear no comparison with the first dis
covery. Thousands of additional acres
have been brought within the proved
productive area.
While full accounts of the strike are
still wanting, the hour Of the discovery
and the likelihood of it proving mere
momentous than the one before are def
nitely known. By touch, the driller
knew that the oil sand had been pene-
trated and Immediately stopped opera
tions to watch the results. In an hour
the oil had risen more than 100 feet
and was flowing in rapidly.
Fine Grade Green Oil.
The baler was let down and tests of
the flow were made at frequent inter-
vals The oil was light green and ap-
parently of the same high grade as that
obtained in the discovery well and was
free of any trace Of water.
This morning cave-ins below the cas-
ing failed to obstruct the flow from the
one foot of sand that had been pene-
trated. The oil, it is reported, is in the
top sand in which water was found in
the discovery and indicated much better
production.
Building Dixie to Hold.
From $50 to 300 barrels of oil every
"a hours is flowing from the well. it is
estimated this evening by Superintend-
ent l.. S. Lantz. Efforts to check the
flow have failed, and teams, as many
of them as could be got, have been put
to work in building dixie in a coulee
into which the oil is streaming.
A tank of the oil from the new well
was brought to town and a celebration
got under way. Oil men and all are
more than jubilant and there was little
sleep tonight.
Tanks Rushed TO Scene.
Tanks have been rushed to the loca-
ton, and it is probable that tankies
will work all night in putting up a stor-
age for the oil. In the meantime at
least 1000 barrels can be stored in the
reservoir being created by the dam
thrown across the coulee. Despite these
preparations to take care of the oil.
it is not unlikely that tanks cannot be
put up fast enough or the dam built
high enough to take care of all the oil.
Indicating high production, the oil is
coming in heads and gushes in n 10-inch
stream from six inches to q foot over
the casing. In the intervals between
heads gas, frothing on top of the set
tied oil, escapes from the we'll The
flow of gas and oil is continuous, in
dicating water pressure in the syncline !
that is likely in the opinion of many to |
bring the total production easily to four
figures