The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-04

United States government. A little
more than a week ago, different re-
presentatives of both the Sinclair Oil
& Refining Company and the Ohio
Oil Company have quietly visited this
territory and secured what are aleg-
ed to be some of the choicest holdings
here.
Look for Mother Pool
During the past week, a corps of
geologists of national reputation have
been traversing the Northern part of
the state, and, while in this territory,
expressed the belief that the Mother
Pool' of oil which is feeding the Cat
Creek fields, is located either at or
near the famous Bowdoin dome.
The high grade gasoline and par
raffine test of the Cat Greek OIL"
stated one of these men, "shows very
plainly that the oil which is flowing.
from the Mosby wells has been filter
ed through heavy sands under very
high pressure, and this gives very
logical ground for the assumption
that there must be "Mother Pool'
somewhere in close proximity. Then.
owing to the fact that geology shows
that oil usually flows from the north
to the south, there is every reason to
believe that the original pool must
lie in Northern Montana"
Lease Thousands of Acres.
Leasors have covered with lease
thousands of acres on the Bowdoin
structure as we'll as the four other
formations in Valley county. These
are Eighth Point" which lies to the
south of Glasgow, the "Vandalia"
structure lying west of this city, the
"Willow Creek" anticline and the
"Glentana" anticline, some sixty miles
north of here. Preliminary surveys
have been made of all of these struc-
lures and with very favorable COM
ment, both from individual biologists
and from the United States Geolo-
gieal Department.
To Complete BOwdOin Well.
The Bowdoin Dome, as is known, is
the largest yet discovered, and COW
ers a territory of almost $50 square
miles. 1t is located west Of Glasgow
lying part in Valley and part in Phil
lips county. Last year test well
was started on this structure, by the
Bowdoin Oil & Gas Company, which
is composed almost entirely of local
capital. Owing to miscalculation
in the drilling operations this well is
not yet completed, and it is stated by
members of the company that in the
course of very few weeks roaming
will started to make the hole large
enough at the 1000 foot mark, to per-
nit the sinking of larger casing and
the use of a larger bit. When oper-
ations ceased the drill had reached
the 1890 foot mark. All geological
surveys of this dome agree that the
big oil-bearing sands will not be en-
.ountered shalower than the 5000 feet
level
B0wdOin to Be Big Producer.
One of the nations very best geol-
ogists-a man who has been employed
as the most reliable to inspect some
of the worlds great oil structures,
after making a survey of the OH
situation in Montana, reported that
the big oil pool of the state would
eventually be found in Northern
Montana. Years before drilling start
ed in the Cat Greek country, he assert
ed that oil would be encountered there
at very shallow depth, adding that
where gallons of oil We're to be OBJ
tanned from the Cat Greek structure,
barrels would flow from the Bowdoin
dome. This report was made more
than thirteen years ago.
Gordon Campbell, the geologist Who
located the structure which brou ght
in the first oil well in Montana, ag-
rees that the "Mother POOL is to To-
Gated north of the Missouri river, and
he is at present making surveys Of
the alleged structures lying near the
Canadian line in the counties west of
here.
Sinclair Gets Acreage.
The Sinclair Oil & Refining Com
pany has leased fifteen thousand acres
in one tract at Eighth Point. Other
large companies have had agents here
and leases have been secured by many
out of town people who undoubtedly
represent large interests.
Many local people have been taking.
up acreages on the different structures.
Messre Albert Nelson and Harry Yot-
ter have secured the lease rights on
large tracts in the Timber Greek coun-
try south and west of this city. They
have also filed for permits on large
acreage of government land in the
Eighth Point country.
oIFai hdSon mas DeeIl DuSy Tor the
past two weeks leasing on acreage
south of Glasgow and has several
thousand acres under lease at this
time.
E. A. Edberg has secured some big
acreage on Brazil Greek, south and
west of here. He has about $4,000
acres under lease to date.
The Selig Brothers and Edward
Gallagher have been working in the
vicinity of Eighth Point.
Other local parties have been busy
the past few days securing what
leases they could in different sections,
Miles City Anticline Comes North.
Great hope is expressed by the pro-
moters of the structure in the vicinity
of Brazil Creek. When the Sinclair
people were in this city they chose