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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25
HONESTAKE NO ONE IS
10th WELL REPORTED
Flows $50 Barrels and Came in on Cat
Creek Last Friday Evening At
ter % Days of Drilling.

Lewistown, Feb. 2O.-The Home
stake No. l well was brought in during
Friday night on the anniversary of the
discovery of oil on Cat Creek, making
the twentieth producing oil we'll to be
completed in this field.
The Homestake is a closed corpora
ton owned entirely by Great Falls and
Lewistown men. The sand was reached
at 1850 feet and though it was barely
nenetrated, oil gushed over the casing.
The initial production, carefully mea-
sured, not guessed at, is $50 barrels.
This we'll was completed in % days
of actual drilling and it is the largest
one to be brought in west of Joe Bak-
er's Sc petroleum. The casing to the
sand is 10 inches, the largest run to
the sand in any we'll in the field.
The Homestake was organized by
Julius C. eters of the law firm of Smith
& Peters of Great Falls. Mr.. Peters
and other Great Falls and Lewistown
men control the company.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25
FEDERAL-AID ROAD BUILDING
REACHES HIGH MARK IN 1925

Federal-aid highways constructed
last year cost more than double the
average amount spent annually for 10
years in building the Panama canal.
The cost of the work completed during
the fiscal year of 1920, including the
amount paid by the States, totaled APP
proXimately $4,000, 000.
The construction of the canal is re-
garded the world over as a record
breaking achievement in regard to the
dispatch which which it was carried
out. The cost, however, was only
313 100000, and a l0-year period vas
required to complete it, the average
rate of expenditure being only $751;
600, 900 a year.
Comparing the magnitude of the
Fedcral-Aid program with the entire
highway program of the United States
the significance of federal aid is read
lily seen, Federal money allotted to
projects actually under construction at
the end Of the fiscal year 1920, namely,
Sl03,925,O94 was only slightly less
than the total expenditure of SlO6,S6l,-
O53 from state funds for highway con-
struction during the calendar year
1919. In spite of untoward economic
conditions, the amount of Federal-Ald
business handled, as represented IN
1920 by the number of projects, was
Approximately 25 per cent greater dur-
ing the single year than all previous
work done under the act since 1910.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25
DRILLING TO START
IN LIBERTY COUNTY
5000 Petroleum, a Missoula Corpora.
ton Signs Contract with Little
Sage Oil Company.

Joplin, Feb. &c. NJ. Roos, one of
the officials of the 5000 Petroleum
Corporation of Missoula, was in jon
lin Friday and signed up a contract
with the Little Sage Oil & Gas Co. to
develop the oil fields orth of here.
The 5000 petroleum corporation has
put up a $4,000 cash bond as evidence
that they will do business according
to the contract which stipulates that
the company must have a geologist in
the field by April and if the findings
are satisfactory drilling must com
mence on or before June /.
The leases, which over over 60, 900
acres, are to kept in escrow until drill
ing operations are actually under way
and then they will be checker-boarded
in 40 acre tracts, the 5000 Petroleum
corporation receiving 10 forties and
the Little Sage Oil & Gas Co. six in
each section.
The 5000 Petroleum corporation is
acquiring quietly a few other leases
in the northern part of Liberty county
and they expect to be the first com
pany to begin drilling operations in
this territory.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25
WHEAT is HIGHER
BREAD CHEAPER IN
CANADA THAN u. S.

Ottawa, Feb. 22.-Canadian farmers
received $3.50 a bushel for their wheat
at the shipping point from July 81,
1919, until December 81, 1920, while
merican wheat growers received 1925
the Canadian wheat board filed in the
during the same period, the report of
also stated that during this time bread
house Monday declared. The report
was sold in Canada one ond one-half
cents cheaper than the prevailing price
in the United States.
The wheat board was created by an
order in council on July 81, 1919, to
preclude futures trading transactions.
Fifty per cent of the exportable sur
plus of the crop was exported before
December 81, 1919, the report said.
The balance sheet showed assets of
$10,5OO,0 600, against which there we've
outstanding participation certificates
valued at $40, 900 600.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25
CARTER HAS CLAIM
OF new OIL FIELD
Considerable Development Expected in
GOOsebill and GenOu Sections
Near Great Falls.

Carter, Feb. 19.-Great interest has
been aroused during the last few
weeks in the Carter country in the oil
possibilities in this vicinity. On the
north, east and west development work
is contemplated, placing Carter geo
graphically in the center of the de-
velopment.
Fifteen miles east of Carter can be
seer the rig of the Transcontinental
On Co., which will spud in now within
a few weeks.
North of Carter lies the Goosebill
country, in which section several COM
panies have taken leases with the un-
~derstanding that drilling operations
will commence within 60 days. 1t is
an easy grade and good road from
Goosebill to Carter and places this
town IN an advantageous position as
the nearest railroad point.
To the west is the Genou field which
has been f%avorably reported upon b,
several biologists. Nearly all of this
country has been leased by local PEG.
pie who have made arrangements witt
reliable companies to give the fields 2
thorough test.
The Great Northern railway has
been given data and it is hoped that
the company will extend its line out
into that country. The roads leading
from Carter west and north into the
Genou, Russell and Aznoe sections are
well graded and improved, making il
easy to haul heavy loads with trucks
and teams.
Two townships west of Carter have
been leased by local people who prom
Use a drilling rig within a few months
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25
Montana Oil and Gas Review
DIRECTORS REPORT TO
Be SHOWN AS MOVIES"
Philadelphia Stockholders To Witness
a Novel Demonstration of the
COmpany's Holdings.

Roundup, Feb. 19.-The most unique
idea yet conceived in a directors re-
port for a stockholders meeting will
be peresented at the meeting of the
stockholders of the Black Panther Co.
when they hold their annual meeting
March l in Philadelphia. Vice Presi-
dent w. M. Friedel, who has been in
Montana for several weeks in the in
terests of the company, employed Geo.
T. Clinton, a local photographer to &C
and motion picture films were taken
ag%gregating about 5000 feet of the ac-
Invites of his trip.
Starting with his trip to the Butte
Jardine properties, and the Champion
mine, in which the Black Panther have
interests, films were made of the IA
nous Sixteen Mile canyon, and from
there they went to Tiegen, where the
Black Panther company put on a spec
tacular campaign for oil and gas leases
holding an immense meeting of farm
ers for that purpose, all of which was
duly filmed. Pictures were then taken
of the Tiegen oil structure, and the
party then went to Marion, Ind, where
motion pictures were taken of the re-
fnery which the company OWNS. These
have been developed and printed in five
reels, and when Mr.. Freidel presents
his report, these films will be shown
to the stockholders as a veritable rep
resentation of the interests which the
company owns or controls. 1t is be-
lieved that this is the first time mo-
ton picture films have been used for
purpose. Mr.. Clinton expects to
from Philadelphia soon after
the first of the month.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25
Plans Submitted to Congress for
Establishment of Western End
of Route as Military Road.
WASHINGTON IS ASSISTING
TIVE Sections of State of Washington
Highway to Merge With Roose-
welt Trail. Spokane-Puget
Sound Portland Is Route,

Ultimate juncture in the Puget
Sound district of the state of Wash
lngton, of two sections of state high
ways, one an east to west route just
south of the Canadian line and another
through the Pacific Coast states along
the coast as part of the Theodore
Roosevelt International Highway, with
the expectation that both routes will
be designated military highways and
receive Federal aid, is sought in bills
that will be introduced in both houses
of the Legislature of Washington, ac-
cording to A. w. Tracy, general sec
rotary of the Theodore Roosevelt In
ternational Highway Association, with
offices at Duluth, MINI.
The Theodore Roosevelt Internation-
ell Highway already marked from Port
land Me-, to the western line of Mon
tana, and slated to pass through Wash
ington and thence down the Columbia
river on the Oregon side to Portland,
the western terminal, and the Roose-
welt Highway in California, Oregon
and Washington, along the coast, are
the two highways under consideration,
Washington Legislators are seeking
to have the Theodore Roosevelt Inter
national Highway extend westward
from Spokane to Puget Sound and Their
south to Portland instead of excluding
a large part of Washington by pass
ing through the southeastern part
from Spokane to Walla Walla. This
proposed change in the routing is now
before the executive committee of the
Roosevelt Highway Association fol
consideration.
The coastal Roosevelt Highway pro-
ject originated in California. Oregon
has taken up the project and has pas
sed a bill to bond the state for $4,000
600 to build the Oregon unit of the
road, provided the government will APP
propriate a like sum. At the present
time the question is the subject of a
strong fight in the Oregon legislature.
Should these bills go through and
a junction of the two highways be per-
fected, the Theodore Roosevelt Inter
national Highway will have a valuable
asset IN a coast wise road that will be
wonderful from it's scenic possibilities
and offer to the tourist the greatest
system of a transcontinental highway
in the North Continent.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25
TRIBE SUES U. s.
FOR LARGE AREA
Gros Ventre Indians Want Pay for
1000 Acres at a Price of
SIPS Per Acre.

Havre, Feb. 23.-Suit against the
government for the value of 1000, OOO
acres of land valued at $1.25 per acre
is to be filed by the Gros Ventre In
dian tribe, now on the Fort Belknar
reservation. The land covered by the
suit lies between the mouth of the
Musselshell river and Powder river,
south Of the Missouri.
The claim of the Indians is based up
on an unratified treaty made by the
tribe with federal representatives on
July IS, 1866. Simon First Shot, Joe
Growing Four Times, Isaac Blount,
Henry Archdale and Raymond Feather
constitute tn delegation chosen by the
Indians to conduct the litigation.
Judge Rose of Havre has been re-
tanned as counsel for the tribe. He
says the suit is authorized under an
an act of congress of June 3, 1920.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25
FRENCHTOWN VALLEY
FARMERS ARE CRIPPLED
BY OIL EXCITEMENT

Missoula, Feb. 21.-According to the
story told Saturday night a tract of
160 acres of land in the Frenchtown
valley has been purchased by Missoula
men for $4,000, and is to be tested
for oil. The story is that a drilling
outfit will be on the ground in a few
days and that drilling will be common
ced in the near future. Men interested
in the Frenchtown valley oil projects
gathered together with several geolo-
gists and went over the ground thor
'oughly and interesting developments
are expected from a meeting to be held
in F%renchtown. So interested in the
oil situation have the farmers become,
that it is now almost impossible to Sc
cure more land leases.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25

The Farm Bureau is holding a series
OF Farm Bureau farm accounting
schools as follows: March 5, Nashua;
March 7, Glasgow; March 8, Tampico;
March 8, Hinsdale. Anyone wishing
to attend one of these schools should
write the Farm Bureau office for ap-
plication blank, as only twenty-five can
be accommodated at one of these
schools. The school lasts all day. One
book is completely filled out by each
student.
Frank L. Redfield reports his cattle
doing fine and that the silo is the
thing. The Redfield Bros. made their
silo last fall. They have a six-foot pit,
which is an ideal arrangement. The
Redfield silo is of the wooden hoop
type, a very satisfactory silo for this
country.
o. B. Moore Of Larslan community
sent in % new members and reports
that the last Farm Bureau meeting
was a big success and full of business.
Showing that the Larslan community
is working together.
John Lee of Thoeny community sent
IN eleven new Farm Bureau members.
Renewals to the Farm Bureau are
coming in in good shape. We have
several to hear from vet. 1t is hoped
that we will in order to keep our men,
berShip oVer one thousand.
The Equity Store at Nashua huvs
cream for the Farmers Cooperative
Creamery of Williston. During the
year 1920, this store paid to it's Gus
toners S26,9O7.3S. This paid for 2O75
cans or 81 tons of cream. Two years
ago this station and store in Nashua
bought no cream. This SURF looks like
Valley county was going into the
dairy business. When every store in
the county buys SO tons of cream in
a year then we will have a big farmers
~up-to-date creamery in Valley county
More dairy cows for Valley county
to eat up our rough feed and alfalfa
staraw, because Valley county is going
INTO livestock. corr and alfalfa. These
crops knock the gamble out of farming
January Sth the Wild Rose Farm
Bureau met at the school house. The
meeting was opened by a Farm Bureau
song by Mrs. Clyde. Then a debate
was given. The subject was: (Which
is more profitable, tractor or horse
farming The debaters for the trac-
tor We're: Delmer McVee, Walter Nit,
telstadt, Ellis Jennings. For the hor,
ses, II. c. Clyde, Ben Pagan, Mrs. Ellis
ennings. The Judges were Mrs. Tuna,
cliff, Mrs. E. 7. Phelps, Roy Brown
q. Hansen and Mr.. Robinson. The de.
baters for the horses won by five
straight votes. The rest of the even,
ing was spent in dancing and eating
lunch. Three members were secured,
herman Mittelstadt, Otto Teichirt, Ole
Slavland. February 9th is the late OF
the next regular meeting, which will
be a card party. Gus Hansen is to be
manager of the evening.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25
Farm Bureau News Notes
BY Nj. E. STEBBINS

The Farm Bureau movie machine
has arrived and is ready for use. OPP
helm was promised the first show and
should have had it because that COM
munity was the first to urn in it's
quota of new members. But to have
a well arranged schedule Opheim did
not get the first show, but was one of
the first.
The next set of dates is as follows:
Beaverton, March l; Tampico, March
2: Genevieve, March g.; Casche Creek,
March 4.
The next set of dates is as follows:
Oswego, March p; Vanguard commun-
ity at the K. K. Bondy residence on
March %: Grain March %; and Lars
Ian, March oath.
These shows will be free to farm
bureau members, but a charge will be
made to non-members. Non-members
had better be members before or on
the date of the show.
The Farm Bureau has a list of pure
and certified seed of all kinds for sale
in the state. Write in for the list or
TO" information on the variety you are
interested in.
Gophers are coming out. Get a sup
ply of poison at all the distributing
centers.
n Farm Bureau was successful in
getting the half rate through on hay,
in order to try to find a market for
the surplus hay in northern Montana.
Andrew Stiley has Just purchased a
registered Angus Bull to head his
herd. Mr.. Stiley shipped his bull from
Iowa.
Bob Dix and Peter Burger shipped in
from Sidney SO registered White wy
andottes and three registered cocker
els. These birds We're prize winners
last fall at the Richland county fair.
Bert Hauge is selling his fancy white
Leghorn cockerels for $1,000 each.
Some of them are going to Iowa.
Do not neglect having the germina-
ton and purity test made of your seed
grain. Remember, the Farm Bureau
is glad to do this for you free of
charge.
George Woods of the Center School
community purchased 25 bushels of
certified Abundance seed oats of the
Williston Satisfaction. Mr.. Woods
should be in a position in another yea,
to supply his neighbors with good seed
oats. This variety is recognized as one
of the very best for northern Montana
and Canada. Otto Hegberg got Il
bushels of the same oats. This tool
all the oats the station had for sale.
DR. R. V. Rogers is ordering more
sunflowers for this year. Speaks vel
for sunflowers in the North Country
The different communities should Sc
lect their gopher exterminators at ar
early date and notify the Farm Burea,
office of their selection. The extermin
ators will then receive complete in
structions.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25
OIL EXCITEMENT PREVAILS
IN BLAINE COUNTY AREA
Well on Clear Creek Down More than
1000 Feet. Several Gas Peck
cts Encountered.

Harlem, Feb. 23.-Interest in oil de-
velopment in Blaine county continues
to increase. Each week sees new com
panies in the county being organized
for the purpose of acquiring leases or
dealing in royalties and acreage. The
eyes of all the big operators in the
country are now turned towards this
section of the state in hopes that this
field will prove to be the mother pool
of the Montana field.
Gas Pockets Struck.
The drilling rig southwest of Chi
nook is now nearing the depth where
oil may be looked for. They have
been making fine progress lately and
at the present time the bit is down
about 1900 feet. Last week a gas
pocket was struck at a depth of 1000
feet but that has happened on several
other occasions during the process OF
drilling. Gas pockets have been drilled
nto that were sealed tight and the drill
dropped into them with a terrific roar
when they We're pierced. Last week
when a gas pocket "a penetrated it
rushed to the surface in such a volume
that it was feared the rig would be set
on fire.
Leasing Lana rapidly.
In the vicinity of Harlem, land is
being leased as rapidly. The Harlem
Oil & Gas Co., which is the pioneer
company in this field has gathered in a
big block of leases and no doubt some
ative steps towards the development
of the field will be taken during the
coming summer.
The Wayne Greek Oil Co. is showing
great activity in development work
Biologists We're here last week and
this week looking over its holdings and
though no report is given out, it is
understood conditions are favorable
enough to have a drilling rig brought
in soon.
Leases Pooled.
At Riedal, down in the extreme
southern part of the county, landown-
ers have affected an agreement where
by leases covering several thousand
acres were placed in the hands of
George S. Kennedy. A feature of the
agreement provides for setting aside a
percentage of all royalties into a less
or's royalty pool in which all unit
holders will share.
The Roundup Mutual Oil & Gas Co.,
WHICH mas OlllCcS III ITedI ais, q
secured acreage amounting to about
5000 acres on a promising looking
structure southeast of Chinook.
Royalty Syndicate.
The Veja Dome Royalty Syndicate is
one of the latest organizations to be
formed at the county seat for the pur-
pose of specializing in the new oil
fields. R. E. O'Keefe, F. D. Oversen
and L. N. Beaulieu are trustees. This
syndicate has acquired one-half of one
per cent of the oil or gas on 5000 acres
of leased land on the Veja dome on the
first and second contours.
The Tri-City Oil Co., interested in
the oil fields south of here, are looking
over possible structures north of
Chinook with a view to getting a foot
ing in the new oil fields that are being
developed.
The Montana Royalty Co. has been
organized at Chinook for the purpose
of dealing in oil royalties in the new
oil field southwest TO Chinook. The
officers are John Staff, president; j. R.
Smyth, vice president; Ed Fredlund,
secretary-treasurer.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25
GREAT FALLS AUTO SHOW
TO BE HELD ON MARCH Is

Great Falls, Feb. Undetermined
to create an added interest in 1921
models of automobiles as have been
done in previous years, the members
of the Montana Automobile Distribu-
tors association have determined to
hold their sixth annual show on March
Is to 10 in the Palm room of the Hotel
Rainbow.
The progress that has been made by
the automobile industry the past few
years will be revealed in the coming
show, and all new models of the pop
ular cars handled by Great Falls
dealers will be shown.
Owing to the lack of a permanent
exposition hall the elaborate settings
of the Palm Room will be used as a
background.
The officers of the association are:
A. P. Heaney, chairman; Ed. Butler,
Lee Forest, R. E. Mcknight, George
Prentice and w. w. Wight.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25
BELIEVE TEN DAYS
DRILLING WILL REACH
SANDS AT WINIFRED

Lewistown, Feb. 22.-Drilling is
again in progress at the Kansas-Mon-
tana, near Winifred, after a shutdown
due to the recent cave. A week or 10
day more of drilling ought to bring
this well near completion if the esti-
mates of the management as to the
distance remaining to GO are correct.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25

Indiana members Of the American
Legion are investigating a proposal TO
establish a Legion state monthly mag
azine, following authorization by the
state executive committee.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25

The United States Department of
Agriculture experts say that Ameri-
can rice is as good as that grown any
where else in the world. This wears
crop is about a fourth larger than ever
oWoh
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25

Births are outnumbering deaths in
France for the first time in years.
This is the most encouraging symptom
of that country's recovery from the
wars ravages.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25

A New York state authority on po-
tatO growing states that the small po-
tatoes are better for seed than the
larger ones.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25

When Russia brings her corn produc-
ing lands up to the standard of Amer
ica's corr lands she alone will be able
to supply the worlds cereal needs with
the exception of maize and rice.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25

For quick service try the Courier
Classified Ad. column.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25

The Farm Bureau has a list of pure
and certified seed of all kinds for sale
in the state. Write in for the list or
for information on the variety you are
interested in.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25

Gophers are coming out. Get a sup
ply of poison at all the distributing
centers.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25

O. B. Moore Of Larslan community
sent in % new members and reports
that the last Farm Bureau meeting
was a big success and full of business
Showing that the Larslan community
is working together.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-25

DR. R. v. Rogers is ordering more
sunflowers for this year. Speaks well
for sunflowers in the North Country.