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The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
Fulton, East Kevin
May Prove Part
Fulton Mcknight Permit Section l.
34-2W, Being Drilled Jointly With
GIadys-Bell Resumed Drilling Sat
urday Night After Underreaming.

After encountering most encourag-
ing showings somewhat below 1000
feet, the Fulton well, being drilled
jointly by the Gladys-Belle and Full
ton & Mcknight, was underreamed
and casing set and drilling was to be
resumed Saturday night. The gas
showing here is said to have been one
of the strongest in the field and ac-
cording TO I. Delashmutt, geologist
and field manager for the Big West
Oil company, preparing to drill on To-
cation just northeast of the Fulton,
the latte we'll is at an interesting
stage and important developments
may be expected at any time.
The Big West company have tim
bers on the road, probably delayed on
account Of the railroad strike, for
light standard derrick and most of
the tools and equipment being already
on the ground, Mr.. Delashmutt said
that it ought not to be long before the
Big West hole would be started Its
location is the northwest of the north
west of section 6-34-1 west, where a
small hole was begun last year and
where now real well is to be drilled.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
Carter Company Comes
With Full Force Of Men

Following the establishment of an
office by the Carter Oil company at
Shelby, its crew of field men, geolo-
gists, scouts and office force began
arriving in that town in force last
week and it is understood the COM
pany is to have number in the field
from now on. The company is said to
be an active buyer of acreage, among
other deals made public being the
purchase of 100 acres of the Rocky
Ridge Realty company holdings two
miles south of the town of Sunburst.
The trac. is described as the SA
NWA and the NJ SWA Of 20-36-2
west. The Carter Oil has just pur-
chased the R. K. West tract east OF
Kevin. Transfer of 320 acres belong
ing to Horton G. Abell the west half
of section 26-35-2 west, has been COM
pleted by the Homestake Oil company
which is drilling the Abel place.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02

who worked for Colonel Graham,
panned out three pans of dirt and
took $54 worth of coarse gold out
Gold Butte is the central promentory
of the three high points of the Sweet
Grass hills. A lake lies south of the
butte from which the water may be
pumped with which to hydraulic the
gulch. 1t requires only gas enough to
develop $50 horse power which Will
lift flow of 200 inches of water $50
feet, a distance of 1000 feet. The
gold butte bar will produce more
wealth than did the famous Alder
gulch. 1t will take eight years to
wash it out West Butte is said to
contain wonderful specimens of mines
but the main vein has not yet been
located. In East Butte are great de-
posits of iron, estimated at millions
of tons, also great block of million
or more of tons of the finest marble.
in Montana
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
Gas Power May Pump
Water To Gold Mines

Recent oil development in the
Sweet Grass hills by the Gladys Belle
company, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, when
a gas flow of 100000 feet daily was
struck at a depth slightly less than
1900 feet, may have bearing on the
development of gold claims in the
middle butte, in which a number of
Toole county people are said to be in
terested, says the Sweet Grass Ad-
vocate
These gold claims are waiting on a
supply of water for development and
gas is looked upon as possible power
factor in supplying the water.
When Gold Butte was a rip-snort-
ing town, the miner who lacked the
price of drink would take his shovel
and pan and cross the road from the
old saloon and one painful of dirt
would yield enough gold to pay for
his drink. That was at the time
Barnes Arnold took $4,000 from the
sag on the upper end of Gold Butte
bar on place 100 feet long and from
Is to 20 feet wide, digging down
from two to three feet. They quit
when the water gave out. jim Wall,
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
Drilling Campbell No. | Well
To Deeper Sands Resumed
Discovery WE'LL After Water Has Been Cemented Off at
Below 21OO Feet Will be Sunk to Depth Which
Campbell Considers Productive.

With a firm faith in his location
and theory of the structural condi-
tions, Gordon Campbell, ,discoverer of
oil in the Kevin-Sunburst field, Mon
day morning resumed drilling at the
No. l we'll in section 16-35-3 west.
The hole had reached better than g.,
100 feet some time ago when big
flow of water was hit, it is said. This
has been cemented off and time al
lowed for it to set before drilling re-
sumed. There was also some delay in
securing sufficient tools as the Camp
bell Syndicate No. 2 has been in oper-
alton. 1t is reported that oil strata is
considered likely at about 2,200 feet
and the progress of the drilling will
be watched with interest. Unknown to
many the Campbell well has baled
oil recently, The Courier
learns from a reliable source.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
Ringing Well Near
White Sulphur Paradox

When the Mid-Northeln spuds in
it's proposed well on the Ringling
structure in Meagher county, probab-
ly within the next 10 days, this com
pany will be drilling one of the high
est "oil wells in the world" from the
standpoint of altitude. 1t will be at
the other extreme from the famous
California well under the ocean q
short distance off the coast.
The altitude at the Ringling we'll
location is a little less than 1000 feet.
Stratagraphically, this well will be
as low as any successful oil well in
Montana. 1t starts in the Kootenai
formation, below the point which is
the source of production in the Cat
Greek field.
A rig is now being built and prep
arations for spudding in are prog
ressing rapidly, according to Mid
Northern officials in Billings.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02

The Ohio company is making rec
ord in sinking wells, the Barr being
the second to be drilled to what is be-
lieved to be production depth and it
has two more, the Sinden we'll on sec
tion 1862 west, and the Harmon,
section 26-36-2 west, already expect
ed in, which within the short time the
company came into the field is consid-
cred a creditable record. In addition
there are four more holes being drilled
by this company and it is said they
have spotted eight more locations and
this is credited as many new rigs and
a vast amount Of equipment is in the
yards at Sunburst for the Ohio, and
it would appear that dry holes or in
sufficient production is not to stop
the company from making thorough
test of wide area in the sector in
which it is operating.
A Great Falls report quotes Jack
geologist associated with r.
vine E. Stewart, as saying he esti-
mated the flow at not less than 3,0OO,-
300 feet. The best flows in the field
have been a fraction of
his amount. The Ohio Sunburst- Riebe
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
Permit Validated

Valuation has been virtually COM
pleted on the Sunburst- we'll on
section 10-34-2 west the first 500 feet
being almost drilled at the time Ste
venson was there On the Zimmerman
lease in section 1882 west, the Sun
burst is placing a National machine
on the ground with the expectation of
spudding in within the next few days.
The Sunburst has spudded in on the
Boyce lease in section 23-36-2 west.
Oil men will watch this we'll with in
terest as it is the furthest north with
the exception of the U. C. Coe Drill
ing company well on section 4-36-2W.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
Molumby Syndicate
Takes Over Company

The Holding and Royalty well has
been taken over by group of Great
Falls people organized under the
name of Molumby Oil Syndicate Inc,
and will be drilled on down from its
present depth of 500 feet, according
to report from Great Falls. This well
validated the Campbell permit. The
company takes over 120 acres de-
scribed as the SEA NEH, 20; and
the SA NWA, 21-35-3 west. The new
syndicate is composed of L. J.. Mo
lumby, president; Fred Andretta, DR..
J. M. Hardin, Dave Davidson, E.
Springer, Emmett Jordan, F. Daley
of Helena, G. H. Bennett, W. B. Rose,
Los Angeles; Frank Mcdonald, Pete
Conran and E. A. Johnson.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
Records Show
A Big Interest
Ohio and Other Companies Don't
Weaken on Field, But Are Buying
Much Additional Acreage, Records
Show.

"It's great life if you don't
weaken" seems to hold true in the oil
game as we'll as many other endeav-.
ors and if all those owners, buyers
and spectators interested in the Ke-
vim -Sunburst field follow the example
set them by the big experienced oil
companies they ought not to weaken
This is brought to mind sharply the
past week by the closing of the large
deal by the California company which
includes the payment of S400 per acre
for some stuff near the Campbell
well, which by the way is the high
est price by quite margin of any
sale in the entire field. And then fol-
lows additional large purchases by
the Ohio Oil company, some 1850
acres in township l west, east of the
company's present operations, which
are reported to have been recorded
One lease Of record is on the east
half of section 14-35-1 west, 320 acres
given by Margaret Seymour
Joseph Ehlinger has leased 800
acres to the Ohio, described as the
SWA NEA, SEA, SEA SW Ia of
section and the N1a NEA of section
1881 west. This is south of the Gas
Ridge dome
Anna X. Fischer has given lease
on 320 acres in the same district de-
sciibed as the E1a NWA, 10; SEN
SWA, So SEX of and the w 1-2
SWA and NEA SWA, 2-33-1 west
A fourth lease taken by the Ohio
was given by G. w. Rankin, on $40
acres southwest of the producers It.
is the SEA of IS and the NEA of
24-35-1 west.
Kenneth G. Luke has leased 480
acres to the Ohio, described as the
VIZ of 31-36-1 west and the NWH of
6-35-1 west.
The Carter Oil company continues
active, having taken over the third
block of acreage. George Coffey, Jr-
Of Choteau has assigned leases on $40
acres of land, comprising all of sec
5ion 4-34-1 west, two miles east of the
Fulton well, now drilling.
All the major companies continue
,uying in the field. The Carter now
las protection acreage two miles east
If the Fulton well, an ample foothoId
n the field.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
Make New Transfer
Rhoades Group Land

Transfer of the properties of the
Xevin- -Sunburst Oil company from
Gordon Campbell to the former
Rhoades group has been completed in
Toole county by Roy E. Ayers, pres
ident of the Kelvin Sunburst company.
The Rhoades group has 6,400 acres
d, is the field, described as follows:
1900 acres in township 34-3 west;
2,280 acres in township 1873 west;
100 acres in township 34-2 west; $50
acres in township 36-2 west; 1880
acres in township 36-2 west; 100 acres
in township 36-1 west; $50 acres in
township 37-2 west A transfer was
made following completion of alb
stracts covering all the property.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
First We'll Spudded
North Of Boundary
Coutts, July 26.-Spudded in!

Coutts, July 26.-Spudded in!
At $50 p m. today the No. 1 well
of the Coatts-Sweet Grass Oil Co., on
the Quarantine reserve was spudded
in, and drilling on the Alberta side of
the big dome is now an actuality.
AS the IL inch bit pounded into the
ground to start its search for oil
cheers went up from the throats of
SO or so Coutts, Sweet Grass, Leth-
bridge and Taber people present.
The spudding in of Mclean No. /
is the first step ii the development of
the Boundary Dome, but it is not to
be the last, for five more rigs are in
the field on the Quarantine pushing
work to comply with the government
regulations.
According to the laws of the Cana
dian government, lease holders must
spud in not later than August 1
which was Sunday.
1t is thought the other six will spue
in before the time limit The Baalam
well will probably be next. 1t is locat
ed in section 12
Some real hustling is being done,
by all the companies which are the
McDonnell-Philips Syndicate, section
10; the Oil Lands Exploration Co.,
section 2; the Alberta Oils Ltd, of
Calgary, with two rigs in section "a
and II.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02

well is now estimated as making 250,-
600 feet of gas and this is providing
the fuel for several boilers.
4 The drilling shows the Barr well to
be 20 feet higher, structurally, than is
the Sunburst producer, three-quarters
of mile west in section 34-36-2 west
it is said. With the Sinden we'll in Sec
tion 1852 west, showing 80 feet
higher, there is possibility, accord
ing to geologists, that the gas pres
sure here may be even greater, a
situation that is puzzling however,
since the flow in the Barr is much
greater than that in the Troy Sweet
grass in section 21-34-1 west, some
400 feet higher.
Oil men of the north fields, says
the Tribune, who are now swarming
about the drilling wells, were report
ed to be much encouraged by the
showings of the Barr well and the
today will draw the at
tention of the oil men of the entire
state. Drilling is expected to be slow
since it will be necessary to work in
4 dry hole.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
Two Cars Per Minute

Lethbridge Herald: The writer
counted automobiles on the Leth-
bridgeGreat Falls auto highway
which runs directly through Coutts-
Sweet Grass to Sunburst and Kevin,
one day last week, and found that the
average number of cars from O'Clock
in the morning until late in the eve
ming was on the scale of two per
minute passing a given point on the
this including heavy hauling
trucks as we'll.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
KEyIN-S N-SUNBURST FIELD

Producing
Gordon Campbell-Kevin Syndicat
No. 1, NE NE 16-35-3W.
Sunburst Oil & Gas company No.
Sc SW 34-36-2W.
Drilling
Holding and Royalty, Sc NE 21
35-3W.
Aloe Oil Syndicate No. /, Sc NV
6-34-2-W.
Rainbow No. 1 NV Sc 9-35-3W.
Orchard No. /, Sc Sc 9-35-3W.
Coe No. 1, SW NV, 1852 west
Gladys Belle, NE NE 1874 east
A. E. Louis Corporation, NE Sc
14-35-3W.
Homestake No. /, NE NV 3-35-2W
Three-In-One Oil Syndicate No. l,
SW SW 8-35-1W.
Troy-Sweet Grass Oil company No.
1, NE NV 28-34-1W.
Sunburst Oil & Gas company No. 2,
NE Sc 5-35-2W.
California company No. /, Sc Sc
1035-3W. Shut down, 500.
Gladys Belle-Fulton No. 1, NE NE
1 1-34-2W.
Gladys Belle -Three-In-One No. 2,
NE Sc 18-35-2W.
Gordon Campbell-Kevin Syndicate
No. 2, Lincoln, SW SW 10-35-3W.
Ohio-Reibe No. /, NV NE 3-35-
Nv.
I. S. Hogan,22-35- 2W.
Ohlo-O'Hanna No. l, section 1856
west.
Ohio-Claire Stevenson No. /, section
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
Development Activities

1852 west.
Ohio-Swayze No. 1, section 1885,
west.
Ohio-Sanden No. 1, section 1857
west.
Ohio-Barr No. 1, section 2-35-l
west.
Ohio-Davey No. /, section 34-36-l
west.
Ohio-Davey No. 2, section 1852
west.
Rice No. 1, NV NV 8-35-2W.
Homestake No. 2, 26-35-2W.
Black Magic Oil company, SW Sc
16-35-3-W.
S. C. K. Syndicate we'll No. 2, SW
SW 35-36-3W.
Sunburst Oil & Gas-Suhr, SW SW
10-34-2W.
Location
O'Neil & Catlett, NE 15-35-3W.
Rainbow No. 2, NV NV 15-35-3W.
Sweet Grass Oll and Land No. i,
SW SW 6-35-1W.
Producers Oil & Gas, Sc Sc, o.
36-2W.
Potlatch No. l, Sc SW 27-34-1W.
Big West No. INV NV 6-34-1W.
California Co., Sc Sc 13-34-2W.
Potlatch No. 2, NV SW 28-34-1W.
Apex No. / SW Sc 3-35-3W.
Mid-Northern, 9-35-2W.
Sunburst O. & G. Co., 10-34-2W.
DawsonM Merkle No. 1, NWA NEA
9-35-2W.
Winnie g. Richards, section 1862
".
S. c. K. Syndicate we'll No. 8, NE
sW, 26-35-3W.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
Driller Burned

A singeing, which proved painful
but not dangerous was the reward of
driller who forgot he was in the pit
of an oil we'll and started to smoke a
cigarette in the pit of the Ohio-Sun-
burst Harmon well on section 26-36-2
west.
The resulting explosion of gas
started a lively blaze that frightened
as much as it injured the driller and
was extinguished before it had done
any damage to the rig. The injuries
of the driller were not sufficient to
cause a trip to the hospital.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
Drilling Actively Continues
In the Present Louis Well
With Continued Small Showing of Oil, Operations Are
Going Ahead. Drill Being in Very Hard Substance
Says Report

A visit to the Louis well Sunday
evening revealed only small oil show
ings on the sump with drilling still
continuing, in what was declared to
be very hard rock. The drill has
reached depth of about 1000 feet
and the gas pressure is strong. 1t
appears that the well is to be sunk to
the lower sands.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02

the directors on their recent visit to
Spokane. 1t is understood that the
company has been furnished $4,000
by Spokane business men, who parti-
cipate in the company's extensive
holdings.
A well is to be drilled, also, on the
Keystone permit in Kevin district
This will be handled under a separate
contract, and negotiations are now
under way with Wyoming operator
who will drill out the acreage. A hole
must be drilled before December l.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
Ice To Cool Sunburst

Two car loads of ice was shipped
from Great Falls has been shipped to
Sunburst by Joe Herring who will re-
tail the precious stuff which makes
the lemonade and other drinks used
by the residents of the sun-named
town of such a temperature as to cool
the thirst of the most "het-up" oil
man as well as to preserve the food
for the many restaurants and hotels
of the booming oil camp.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02

The second well drilled by the Ohio Oil company,
known as the Ohio Barr well in the northwest of the
northwest of section 25-2 west in Sunday an
immense flow of gas which first tapped at about 1885
and continued force until 545 when the flow
estimated at 100000 to 100000 cubic feet
The gas said be extremely dry was of such force
that water, sand and small particles of rocks we're
thrown cut. Further drilling will only done in daylight
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
Another Well For Kevin

Another test of the lower part of
the Sweetgrass arch is to be made by
the Keystone Oil syndicate of Great
Falls, in the Little Muddy creek dis
trict, it has become known as the re-
suit of financial backing secured by
The National leader., 1922-02-06
The Harding Farm Conference-Bunk!
Big Business Dominates I-Discusson of Adequate Re-
lief Carefully Excluded From Program

was chairman of the joint committee
of congress which recently "investi-
gated" agriculture and made report
which recommended nothing impor-
tant or fundamental. The present
conference would have been unneces-
sary if this Republican congressional
committee, of which Anderson was
also chairman, had reported for ac-
tion any adequate program for relief.
The keynote of President Harding's
speech to the conference gave further
evidence that this is '3bunk confer
ence" to soft-salve farmers without
doing anything effective. The presi-
dent said:
1t can not be too strongly urged that
the farmer must be ready to help himself.
This conference would do most lasting good
if it would find ways to impress the great
mass of farmers to avail themselves Of the
last analysis, legislation can do little n more ore
ize and help himself.
In other words, the conference will
give some good, wholesome advice to
the farmers, but no government aid
or congressional action may be ex-
pected. They pass bills to guarantee
the railroads rates to make profit on
their investment, and pass tariff to
enable big business to keep its prices
above cost Of production. But there
will be no legislation to guarantee or
assure farmers a living. 80.
The Farmers National council, Bliss
building, Washington, D. c., has pre-
pared suggested program for the
Harding conference which includes
revival of the grain corporation and
a government pool of grain to assure
cost of production to producers, and
other adequate and necessary meas
ures. Copies of this suggested pro-
gressive program can be obtained by
writing the council at it's address.
John N. Hagan, former commission
er of agriculture Of North Dakota, in a
speech the first day presented the plan
for the revival Of the grain corpora
tion and for fixing minimum prices to
cover cost of production. The same
plan was advocated by J. M. Ander-
SON, president of the Equity Coop
erative exchange. But theirs were
"voices in the Wilderness"
The National leader., 1922-02-06


"farm" conference authorized by
President Harding. Mr.. Markham re-
ported as follows:
The delegates will be conservatives. A
in making up his lists. The pro.
sraa9u,1o gram for discussion has been ARRANGED ran
the discussion has been guarded. MIR. Wal
lace has been careful to keep out of the
topics top discussions that do not fit in With
with the farmers problems.
This confession of Harding adminis-
tration supporters is sufficient indica-
tion that nothing adequate or funda-
mental can be expected to result. It
is not farmers conference. Read
this list of typical delegates:
ers; Robert McDougall, president Chicago
dent National Livestock exchange; George
.nt tecK, rsprssentat.ve OF Farm i%pe
presdent %sni 1nos Gs1tra
Merriam, president Farm Mortgage Bank
ers' association; Frederick B. Wells and
respectively, representing the Minneapolis
Chamber Of Commerce; Edward 8. Butler,
president New Orleans Cotton exchange:
National federation W. Dubois Brookings,
of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and
George Woodruff. of the American Bank
ers' association.
Harding and Wallace did not even
take any chances with the conserva-
tive delegates who compose 80 per
cent of the conference members. To
prevent the election of farmer chair
man, or chairman in sympathy with
adequate reform measures, a chair
man was named by Secretary Wallace
instead of being elected by the meet
ing. Thus, the committees appointed
by the chairman to handle important
subjects will be conservatives and re-
dictionaries and will put through the
program decided upon in advance by
the Republican administration.
The chairman for the meeting
named by Wallace is Representative
Sydney Anderson of Minnesota, law
yer and Republican henchman. He
The National leader., 1922-02-06

DGAR M A r K H A NJ,
Washington correspond
ent for a string of big
Republican newspapers,
let the cat out of the bag
regarding the so-called