The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25

'of the Missouri river.
Twenty-Five Producers on Cat Creek.
With the bringing in of the eBip
Lehman" we'll in the vicinity of VIM
nett on Wednesday, the number of pro-
ducers in the Mosby area now totals
twenty-one. Within the past few weeks
some of the largest operating COM
panies of the country have entered
Montana and are travelling the differ
ent structures securing holdings with
view to immediate activity. Among
these and Of most prominence has been
the Black Panther Oil Company of
Philadelphia, one of the major oil COM
panies of the United States, which not
onl y does its own testing and drilling>
but which operates large refineries in
different parts of the nation.
Films Entire Cat Creek Field.
During the past week, NJ. w. Erie
dell, vice-president of this company
completed a tour of the Mosby oil
fields, conducting unique and thor
ough investigation of that structure,
and incidentally had manufactured s.
900 feet of motion picture film depict
ing the activities there, as we'll as a
complete review of all of the holdings
that his company has been successful
in securing.
Says Mother POol' Lies to North.
! The Black Panther official is very
favorably impressed with the oil pos
klbllltles of Montana, and in speaking
of the situation, he is accredited with
asserting that in his opinion the whole
stretch of country running from Mus
selshell county to the northwest and
northeast will prove productive. He
states that his company has allotted
/ S3,0O0,00O for initial operation in the
state.
eff every rig were swept out of ex-
istence in the Cat Creek fields" said
Mr.. Friedell, ''and the best petroleum
authorities in the world were put in
the Montana fields to select drilling
sites they would just as soon drill
from the Reed ranch to the south, or in
sections to the far north of the struc-
ture, as on those sites which have al
ready been chosen"
Mr.. Friedell, it is stated, also added
that the Cat Creek oil is of the high
est grade produced anywhere in the
United States, adding, that this lends
reason to the belief that big mother
pool must lie somewhere in the state,
stating the theory which has already
been advanced that this Cat Creek
flow must constitute filtration through
sands at high pressure. And, in his
opinion, there is absolutely no doubt
but that this Mother Pool'' will be
eventually found as the results of ex-
perimants being made north of the
Missouri river.
VIII View BOwdOin Formation.
Mr.. Friedell lives in Philadelphia.
He returned to his home with his mo-
tion picture operator and geologists
last week, to return at later date in
the spring, at which time, he expects
to make complete surveys of the Bow
| doin dome and the other formations in
the northern part of the state with a
view to securing further holdings for
his company.
Await Results of Test Wells.
/ Many operators in the Cat Greek
! field have expressed confidence in the
Bowdoin structure, but their advent to
that territory, as one of them recently
stated while in Glasgow, is delayed
awaiting the result of the two test
wells which are to be completed there.
AS soon as the Bowdoin Oil & Gas
Company commences work on the COM
I pletion of their well, the work there
will be followed with keen interest by
every oil man in the Mosby fields. The
BoWdoin company expect to start un-
! der roaming in the course of three or
-four weeks. The Elk Basin Oil Com
pany which has been a successful op-
Grating concern in the Wyoming and
Canadian fields, will commence soon,
/ /, IL, IL 10
doin structure, their site to be located
at point on the Upper Whitewater.
Opheim Enthusiasts Leasing.
Oil enthusiasts in the Opheim coun-
try to the north of Glasgow, have been