The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-03-25
FIRST OIL WELL WITHIN POWDER RIVER COUNTY
TO BE DRILLED NEAR coALwooD BY ANNA MAY
OIL co.-LoCAL COMPANY MAKES OIL DEAL

With the announcement that the Anna May Oil company
few months At least three wells with standard rigs win be
drilled in this unproven field and this company will be the first
The first well will be drilled on the anticlinal structure DE-
fined in the government geological report extending from
Stacey thence south Of C0awood to Grow creek south Of Pow
derle The probable location will be the Anna May Coy
kendall homestead about Ave miles southwest Of coawood
spudded in within 80 to 60 days The equipment viii be
Of 5000 feet - '''' - - " '"r~'
New York capital is back of the oil drilling enterprise
in this county, and it is said the company we'll financed and
not seeking additional money backing from this county or
state The company is capitalized at $1oO0 and the four
members board of directors Anna May Coykenda
Of Penn Yan y Louis a HiTsc oh" W. Pove'son and
Mr.. Poweson president of the company, and Roy v Cor
bn field manager from Batavia N. Y here to person
ally the field d. and nd % i've acn "f IN
signing up leases from the country in which they expect 10
operate The services of geoogst will be to ex
BILE or adverse the probability of OIL is said the COM
pany will proceed with it's intentions of drilling:
It is largely upon the basis of ''hunc that the Anna
Nav oil company was organized in New York with its pri
mary purpose drill for oil in this county, AM, in this theory
semnated by the Powder River County Examiner the only
paper within the county, printed at Broadus mother na
to the ng ssr who o "s n life the bat
te6eds of France khl active service for his country Coy
Kendall originally resident of York state travelled M et wes.
ward in quest Of country where he could regain MS eat
Fla located on homestead south Of Coawood and from that
time on improved He became soldier and was drecte.
overseas Arriving in Rochester he showed gain OF at 'ea
As pounds in weight the picture OF health and
young manhood The open west had cured him OF all ms All
men Incidentally he told his friends and relatives tat he
had hmch' there was oil his claim because he had oo
served an oily surface seepng with water from SPRINGS & Oh 1
claim When back he assured that wen "o"r
mt down there after the oil he felt would be found ne
never came back and last summer his widow completed Us
~ r own name Meanwhile Mrs Coykenda one OF the pll
cpa promoters in the that bears NJ her name MA
anhavnl considerable in oil ventures IN fcnns!
d Txas and IS credited with having struck oil III CONNER
cal Quantities in at least two wells drilled through the
ence Of .smnches'' Three other wells largely Plooeu ~
Young fortune by these specuhtions and Is Wiling " 'N
l. little more on discovering oil in this county.
It NAV be mentioned that the "hnnch Tor the propap
M near Coalwood has much backing in material form as
from favorable geological reports In the vicinity tea % IS
& That it's al contents readily dscernbe D! squeezns
under hand An ANALYSIS of this M heaH M asterm"
t f Now York interests exploit the field III that v''''