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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-31
Lasker Entertsins.

Chairman Lasker, Of the United
States Shipping Board, entertained
four at luncheon on Monday at the
New Willard Hotel.
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II Is the charm which always attracts,
which all women envy and men admire.
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Mrs. James Finnegan, Of New
York, is a guest at the Wardman
Park Hotel for a brief visit in
Washington.
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Albert Halstead, United States
consul general At Montreal. and Mrs
Halstead. who were visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Wilcox. left yesterda,
for Canada.
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The annual convention of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
opened at the New Willard Hotel
today for q two-day session. Ap.
proximately 600 delegates are pres.
ent. H.. ......~
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H. q. Van Pelt, Of Waterloo,
Iowa. Is visiting In Washington
and Is staying at Wardman Park
Hotel. ,,,..
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Make your dreams come true

time to apply cold cream IL you need II.
You can safely use powder and that be-
coming touch Of rouge on clean skin. .
Don't neglect throat
and shoulders
Care Of your skin must extend beyond
the face il you want to be admired for
complexion beauty. Use Palmolive for
your daily bath aud let Il do for your
body what II does for your face.
1t will keep your neck and shoulders
smooth, and your arms and hands soft
and white These are attractions As con-
spicuous as q blooming, blemishless face.
This beauty treatment
costs little
Judge Palmolive by quality and you
will expect to pay at least IS cents cake.
But the popularity which keeps the Palm
olive factories working day and night
naturally reduces cost Quantity produc-
ton Is always economical.
Thus this finest facial soap is offered
at 10 cents a cake-a price all can afford.
You can economically use Palmolive for
every toilet purpose, fer it costs no more
than ordinary soap.
THE PALMoLTvE COMPANY
MILWAUKEE o "a
TINE PALAoLIvs COMPANY o. CANADA ussst
TORONTO ONT
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Mrs. A. M. McDonaugh has re
turned from Fort Ogelthorpe, Ga.
where shk has been the guest Of
her brother, D. @. Parry.
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A. w. Rouband Whiting.

i. A. w. Rouband, OF New York, 10
spending. q few days in Washing
ton and 10 staying at Wardman
Park Hotel: - .. -.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19
Better Service for Kevin

The enormous increase IN the tele-
graphic business at the local station
and also at other points adjacent to
the oil field has caused the Western
Union Telegraph company to plan ad-
ditional facilities for these stations.
U. G. Life, district manager of the
company, recently made an inspection
of the lines from Shelby to Sweet
Grass and promises improved service.
Owing to the lack of telephone con-
nections at Sunburst and other in
conveniences caused by round about
service, much business is given the
telegraph company that would other
wise go over the telephone.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19
Widely Advertised Theory Put
Out by Promotion Co. Shattered
by Startling Statements of Hager

north, range west. Both wells were
promoted by L. C. Stevenson of Great
Falls, Montana. The Sunburst well
No. is good for 200 to $50 barrels,
SO gravity oil, depth at 1850 feet, the
thickness of the sand % feet. The oil
was found in sand of the Kootenai
group. The Sunburst we'll is located
well down the flank of a giant struc-
ture.
The discovery well was located by
Mr.. Gordon Campbell in 1921, and
was completed in March, 1922 These
two wells open what seems to be one
of the largest producing areas in the
United States if not in the world, for
single pool.
Gathering Area Is Vast
Geological conditions are unusual
here. The Sweet Grass Arch is 4
great structural feature, some 300
miles long and $50 miles wide. A
cross-fold cuts this great arch in the
neighborhood of Sunburst and Kelvin
and forms a reservoir to which the
oil drains from all sides. This cross
fold has a south dip of so miles,
west dip of so miles, an east dip of
20 miles and north dip of $50 miles,
which gives a tremendous drainage
area that is not paralleled within the
borders of the United States. The area
which seems likely to develop as an
oil field is roughly IL miles square,
and roughly comprises about four
townships. The great size of the fold
was what discouraged many geoIo
gists from recommending tests of this
dome as it was their belief that there
could not be enough oil to fill such 4
vast reservoir. Large wells are not
looked for although they may come
Operating Cost Low
Operating conditions are cheap as
holes can be completed for from nine
to ten thousand dollars, in from two
to three weeks time. Portable drilling
machines are best fitted for work
here. There are few troubles in drill
ing, as the Colorado shale, which most
of the drilling has encountered, stands
up very well. 1t is interesting to note
that these wells start in Colorado
shale, in which some of the best fields
of Wyoming are found. However, the
Colorado shale has not produced oil in
commercial quantities in Montana, ex-
cept in Elk Basin, on the line between
Montana and Wyoming.
Foresees Other Pools
"Ihe importance of this strike
Continued on Page 81
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19
Plucky Men Gamble
Making Reservoirs

The recent heavy rains not only
filled all the old reservoirs and
sloughs but stocked up with the
previous fluid so essential to drilling
operations many reservoirs built by
local men and oil companies plucky
enough to take the generally consid-
cred poor chance Of heavy rains this
late in the season. Among these were
William Seabrook, who hired damn
thrown up on 19 and 30-35-2W, and he
together with B. C. Hurd, control the
water in the lake northeast of Kevin,
from which the Gladys-Belle is
piping water about mile to its drill
ING operations in the east half of the
southeast quarter Of 18-35-2W.
Art Louis, field manager for The
company by that name, which is drill
ing the we'll next expected in on l4-3o
3W, just north of Kevin, being local
resident and knowing the scarcity OF
water during the summer and fall
months here, built dam and reser-
voir on land near operations and the
recent rain has repaid his foresight.
The big reservoir back of the Camp
bell discovery we'll has been filled,
which will furnish a reserve for much
drilling in that vicinity. The Rainbow
company is using water from this as
we'll as for the Campbell operations.
L. w. Baker, local agent for Artlee
Beardslee, the Great Falls retired
who has such large lease
holdings here, has seen to it that a
number Of substantial dams were built
at strategetic points in the field, most
of these being completed before the
heavy rains.
All of which puts the field in very
favorable position, as water is gener-
ally scarce in most oil fields, many
places in Texas it cost from $15 to
$50 per day per well or drilling and
until water wells were brought in
from the deep sands of Cat Creek,
water commanded price of one dol
lar barrel in the field.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19
Standard Co. BUYS
Land East Of Aloe

The California company has pur-
chased from Robert j. Holland all q
section 6, township 33, range west
paying $12,800 for $40 acres.
- This is at the rate of $40 an acre
and sets new price scale on acreage
in the southern part Of the field. This
acreage is four miles east of the sta
ton of Aloe and is eight miles south
and east of Kevin.
This purchase is taken to indicate
growing faith of the California com
pany in the south slope of the Gas
Ridge anticline. The California COM
pany has taken protection" acreage
in all parts of the field. Recently the
California company spotted a well in
the SEA SWA of section 13-34-2
west, which would seem to give cred
ence to the theory that the Troy
Sweet Grass diamond drill test does
not fully establish that there is no oil
in that section.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19
Shaffer Will Drill
West Of Ohio Well
Another Well Known Oklahoma Oil
Man Has Secured Acreage in Keyin-
Sunburst and Rig Ordered for
Early Drilling.

Following a visitation to the field
on Wednesday by j. K. d. Shaffer,
president of the Shaffer Oil company,
and w. c. Wright, geologist, it be-
came known in Kevin that Mr.. Shat
fer has secured 80 acres in 33-36-2W
and that well would be Immediately
started. 1t is understood that rig
has been ordered through the local
lumber company's office While the
exact location of the site was not an
nounced, the selection was made while
these gentlemen were in the field. It
has also been rumored that this well
will be Immediately sunk to consider
able depth unless an extra heavy flow
of oil is found sooner, as thorough
test of all sands is desired.
Although Mr.. Shaffer has retained
his interests in Shaffer Oil, since his
brother, c. B. Shaffer retired from
the organization last fall, he is acting
Independently in the local fields.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19
Gladys-Belle Adds
to Kevin Holdings
Oklahoma Concern Now Drilling Two
Holes in East Part of Field Buys
Half Section More Near Kevin-

Another block of acreage near Ke-
vim has been taken by an active drill
ing company and another well is to be
started before fall. The land is the
half of southwest quarter, the south
east quarter, and the south half of the
northeast quarter Of section "a, 35-2
west. 800 acres and has been leased
by the Gladys-Belle Oil company from
H. E. Fryberger, a Minneapolis at
tornev. The consideration has not
been made public but it is known that
Mr.. Fryberger was asking good
price. The Gladys-Belle company has
only recently entered the Kevin-Sun-
burst field, first taking hold OF
big block of acreage east OF the Sweet
Grass hills where they have hole
down nearing the 1000 feet level and
where oil was hit in a well drilled
there some years ago. After the
second producer was brought In here,
the company made deal with w. nj.
Fulton on the permit he was drilling
on in 1912 west and are now making
a rapid hole there. They took over ~
acres in 1882 west from the Three
In One Oil Syndicate and have spud-
ded in on that. Last week they took
an additional forty in that vicinity
and now with the Fryberger acreage
and no doubt other acreage purchases
not yet made public, they are to be
real factors in the development of the
local field as we'll as the pioneers IN
what many believe to be good field
in the Sweet Grass hills.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19
Canadians Organize
Drilling Companies

Lethbridge, July 13.-F'unds are not
lacking for the development on the
Canadian oil fields, two companies
having just announced to sink wells
near Coutts and on the old govern
ment quarantine station, north and
east of the Sunburst we'll. These COM
panies are the Coutts-Sweet Oils,
Limited, and the Baalim Lethbrilga
Syndicate.
The former is headed by A. ]. Nc
Lean, former minister of public y o.ks
for Alberta, and wealthy stockman,
and associated with him are G. r.
Mitchell, former provincial treasurer
of Alberta; w. Livingstone, Calg s'y
oil magnate; A. L. Wood, financier of
Taber, and other Calgary, Winnipeg
and Lethbridge business men. They
are now moving rig from the Dko-
toks field to location just north Of
the border and will spud in within the
next two weeks.
Raising $4,000 in a Few hours, and
now over the top in their initial OBJ
jective of $25 1000, the Baaiim Leth-
bridge syndicate, local pool headed
by A. G. Baa i'm, Of the Baalin Motor
company and the Western Discover
les, Limited, are negotiating with
drillers to sink test well in section
12-1-15, also on the quarantine sta
ton. This group Of Lethbridge men
will spud in without delay, as govern
nent regulations make it imperative
that development must begin on this
acreage before August l or the leases
will be subject to cancellation.
In the Pawoki lake country on the
Canadian side just north of the Sweet
Grass Hills the Thompson Oil COM
pany of New York, is pounding away,
having spudded in over ten days ago,
Just north of this outfit is the Dream
field Oil company's acreage and rig,
which after long cessation, may be-
gin operations soon.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19
Refinery to Build
Because of Kevin
President of Franz Corporation Quot
ed as Saying Kevin Field Expected
To Develop Need for Refinery In
Montana.

That the Kevin-Sunburst oil field is
expected to develop to such production
that the big Franz corporation, plo-
neers in Cat Creek, will build a re-
finery in this state, is given IN
statement to Helena paper by James
G. Stanley of Denver, president and
general counsel of that company. Ac-
cording to the report given the Helena
paper Mr.. Stanley Figures with the
increased production of the Cat Creek
and the Kevin field, the supply of
crude quantities for a refinery in
Mortana is assured for at least three
years. The fact that the exploration
of the Kevin- Sunburst field has been
the means of bringing the big com
panies to consider putting in a refin-
cry in this state is significant, as all
Standard production from the Cat
Creek has gone to the Wyoming
plants.
Speaking of the local field, Mr.
Stanley is reported to have said: 1--WE
have great hopes in the Kelvin field
and have already laid basis for
acquiring production from that field
when developed, which we hope and
expect will produce in such quantity
as to justify our building refining
plant in Montana"
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19

have made their home recently, has
this to say:
"After having acquired enough OF
worldly goods to keep the wolf from
the door of his home and from the
homes of his children and perhaps his
children's children, E. L. McWhorter,
manager of the Kevin-Sunburst Real
ty company, is leaving on Saturday
for his old home, in Birmingham, Ala
bama, perhaps to return, perhaps to
stay.
"McWhorter on March /, 1922,
called himself broker, but was ac-
tually broke. Today he leaves be-
hind the brokerage business and the
title, but takes with him upwards of
100000 in cold cash, representing
about half Of his winnings, at present
prices, in the Kevin-S -Sunburst oil field.
Mr.. McWhorter is in Great Falls
today closing up his affairs. His faith
er, J. w. McWhorter, who is also an
investor in northern Montana oil, has
been in the field for the past few
weeks, and he is taking his son back
to the old home town with him when
he returns on Saturday.
Betting everything he had, Nc
Whorter plunged in royalties and
leases in the Kevin field in the fall of
1921.
sHe has closed a number of other
deals, retaining about half of his
lease and royalty holdings. He has
enough of either leases or royalties to
give him a comfortable income and he
has scattered his holdings over the
field in such way that he cannot
lose, "no matter how the cat jumps
Mr.. McWhorter is one of the first of
the new batch of Montana oil million
aires. He is well satisfied with his
holdings, he says, and he now intends
to keep what he has and "let so-reone
else make some money in the field.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19
Suit For Oil Land

Shelby, July 15.-Action has been
brought in Toole county by J. c.
Smith and Leigh Wade to enforce
specific performance of control of
purchase and sale Of the Sls SWA
SNH. SEA of section 80, NW14NWA
5S12 NWA, N 1-2 SWA of section 81,
township Sc, north, range west, con-
tanning 320 acres.
The complaint alleges that the
plaintiffs and the defendant, Irvine
S. Sprecher, entered into contract
on June IT, 1922, for the purchase
and sale of this property at $27.5O
per acre. The purchase included 1212
per cent royalty retained by the de-
fendant under a lease which he made
to Gordon Campbell some time ago.
The complaint also alleges that the
plaintiffs made DEPOSIT Of $500, the
balance to be paid within 30 days and
that the plaintiffs have complied with
all of the terms of the agreement on
their part to be performed, but that
the defendant has failed and refused
to comply with his part of the agree
ment.
The plaintiffs further seek to re-
cover the sum Of $4,000, which they
claim as damages alleged to have
5een sustained by them in the loss of
profits due to the failure of the de-
fendant to complete the transaction
between him and the plaintiffs.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19

In flat contradiction of the widely
advertised theory, as shown by con-
tour maps prepared by geologists for
the Sunburst Oil & Gas Co. and circu-
lated by the thousands, comes the
statement from Dorsey Hager, Cali
fornia geologist and said to be an au-
thority on such matters and who is
now identified with the same COM
pany, that "the Sunburst we'll is To-
Gated WELL DOWN THE FLANK
OF A CLINT STpJ Il 1URE.' The
statement is made III an article by
Mr.. l.a3e, published ny G-r;.t Falls
po' e ; ond is his fir:. public uiinted
uttera, CT regarding the local field. No
given as to the exact location of the
structure, and local oil men, many of
whom have been working on 'hunch'
or upon the popular conception of the
structure as advertised by the promo
tion company, are now busy revising
their ideas in the light of the Hager
statement, and it may be possible that
many of those will come to Gordon
Campbell's conclusions regarding the
field.
Following is important excerpts
from Mr.. Hager's article, portions re-
ferring to the history of the company
with which he is now identified and
commencing its officers being omit
ted:
"The recent discovery of oil in the
Sunburst we'll in section 81, township
36 north, range 2 west, Toole county,
Montana, has attracted a great deal
of interest to that area. The Sunburst
well is the second producer in the dis
trict, the first well being the Gordon
Campbell WE'LL located four miles
northwest from the town of Kevin |
and seven miles southwest from Sun
burst well, in section 16, township 80
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19
Development Activities

T. S. Hogan,22-35- 2W.
Ohio-O'Hanna No. l, section 1886
west.
Ohio-Claire Stevenson No. l, section
1852 west.
Ohio-Swayze No 1, section 94-36-2
west.
Ohio Sander No. 1, section 1862
west.
Ohio-Barr No. 1, section 2-35-2
west.
-Davey No. /, section 1852
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.
Location
O'Neil & Catlett, NE 15-35-3W.
Rainbow No. 2, NV NV 15-35-3W.
Sweet Grass Oil and Land No. l.,
SW SW 6-35-1W.
Producers Oil & Gas, SW SW 21-
36-2W.
Sunburst- Ohio No. SW Sc 1886
2W.
Potlatch No. 1, 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. 1 SW Sc 3-35-3W.
Northern, 9-35-2W.
Sunburst O. &. L. Co., 1034-2W.
Dawson -Merkle No. 1, NWA NEA
9-35-2W.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19
KEVIN'S ORIGINAL LEASE MAN
MADE RICH BY INVESTMENTS
RETIRES TO SOUTHERN HOME

Although the Kevin-Sunburst fielo
is only little over three months ole
since it was proven that oil was under
the ground, hundreds of men have
been already made comfortable we'll
to-do who were broke" many have
been made wealthy and several rich
Among the latter is E. L. McWhorter.
Last Tuesday, check, not the first
that ne has received nor the last he
will get, for $20,0O0OO was deposited
to his credit in a Great Falls bank for
the lease on 80 acres of ground, the
purchase being made by one of the
well known capitalists who recently
entered the oil game. The lease pur-
chased covered the northeast of the
northeast, section "a, and the north
west Of the northwest of 35, township
-36, range west, and the price figures
at $3.50 per acre.
Mr.. McWhorter came to Montana
from Birmingham, Alabama, about a
year ago and while not knowing any
thing about the oil game he had faith
in the men who were then pioneering
here and took leases and invested a
small fortune in royalties, getting
them at that time at low figur
Since the strike in March he has done
nothing else but make out assign
ments and deeds and keep tab on his
bank account which recently grew to
such proportions that he concluded to
take rest, and Saturday, he and his
family left for their old home in Ala
bama. He still retains much royalty
and some very choice acreage, much
more than he has sold, and no doubt
will be back at intervals to watch the
progress Of the field and his invest
ments.
Other deals Mr.. McWhorter closed
before leaving included the sale of V
per cent royalty to Mrs. N, G. Bullard
of Great Falls in 80 acres in 32-36-2
west, the price being $40 per acre.
The lease of 12O acres in 32-36-2
west to William G. Bridewell of Great
Falls at $3.50 per acre.
The leasing Of 40 acres to the
Homestake Exploration company in
1882 west, at a price Of $3.50 per
acre, it is said.
Mr.. McWhorter purchased from the
Homestake company 27a per cent roy
atty in 120 acres in this section IL.
Mrs. William J. O'Haire Of Sun
burst last week sold to W. G. Bride
well of Great Falls onefourth Of one
per cent in 800 acres, 1852 west.
Speaking Of the success of Mr.. Nc
Whorter, daily newspaper of Great
Falls, where the McWhorter family
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19
Mid-Northern Drill
Site in Kevin Sector
Big Company Which Has Done Much
to Develop Cat Creek and Recently
Brought in Gushers There, Ships
Rig Here.

After much preliminary work and
scouting in Toole county, extending
over a long period, The Courier hears
that the Mid-Northern has decided to
put down we'll in the Kevin section
of the field and rig for this opera
ton is said to have already been ship
ped. The site for the Mid -Northern's S
first well is said to be on an 8O-acre
tract recently obtained by that COM
pany in 9-35-2W.
Guy Craig, superintendent of the
company and who has had charge of
the extensive and successful opera-
tions in Cat Creek where but recently
gushers have been added 10 the com
pany's many producers, was at Kelvin
Wednesday,, making final arrange
ments, it is understood, for the drill
ing of the first hole. Township 35,
range west, is getting more play,
outside of the territory OF the two
than any other sector, a
new Site being chosen in that town
ship almost daily.
The MidNortheln has large block
in tie northern part of Toole county,
south and west of Sweet Grass, which
was leased last year and it is under
stood that its holdings have been
enlarged this season in that section,
and its entry in the Kelvin sector is
the first known of the conlpany's in
tention to operate in this part.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19
KEyIN- -SUNBURST FIELD

Producing
Gordon Campbell-Kevin Syndicate
No. /, NE NE 16-35-3W.
Sunburst Oil & Gas company No. l
Sc SW 34-36-2W.
Drilling
Holding and Royalty, Sc NE 81
35-3W.
Sunburst Ohio No. /, NE NV 8
35-2W.
Aloe Oil Syndicate No. 1, Sc NV
6-34-2-W.
Rainbow No. NV Sc 9-35-3W.
Orchard No. l, Sc Sc 9-35-3W.
Coe No. 1, SW SW 4-36-2W.
Gladys Belle, NE NE 1874 east
A. E. Louis Corporation, NE Sc
14-35-3W.
Homestake No. 1, NE NV 3-35-2W
Three-I -In-One Oil Syndicate No. l.
SW SW 8-35-1W.
Troy-Sweet Grass Oil company No
/, NE NV 2S-34-1W.
Sunburst Oil & Gas company No. 2
NE Sc 5-35-2W.
California company No. 1, Sc Sc
10-35-3W. Shut down, 500.
Gladys-Belle-Fulton No. 1, NE NE
1-34-2W.
Gladys-Belle-T Three -In-One No. 2,
NE Sc 18-35-2W.
Gordon Campbell-Kevin Syndicate
No. 2, SW SW 1O-35-3W.
Ohio-Reibe No. /, NV NE 395-
2W.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19
Another Rig In East

According to information given The
Courier there will be another rig on 4
site either in section Z, 8 or 9, 34-ZWr
probably in s on the Hurley ranch,
Joe Baker having closed deal with
Skillen & Son and A. ]. Eulberg, it IS
said, whereby the former is to drill =
well in the near future.