The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-08-04

While it was generally known about
town that a drilling contractor had
been here to look over the ground for
the Pioneer Oil & Gas company, and
submit a proposition to complete its
we'll on the Booth farm south of the
river, nothing definite was given out
as to results. On being interviewed
this week by u representative, the
officers of the company, realizing that
the news would be of considerable in
terest locally, stated that a contract
had been signed with the Diamond
Drill Contracting company, of Spok-
ane, Washington, to continue the pres
ent well to a depth of $500 feet, unless
previously stopped by the company on
account of oil production or otherwise.
j. w. Phillips, president Of the COM
pany, further stated that this contract
would afford a thorough test of the
structure at or near it's center, and
would be of great value in any other
drilling, since the company would have
a perfect log Of all the strata pene-
trated, thru using this core drill meth
cd. He also stated that this drilling
company enjoyed a splendid reputa-
ton for reliability, and has contracted
to reach $500 feet or no pay at all,
with heavy forfeits for failure to reach
5000 feet and $500 feet respectively,
if it is found necessary to go down to
those depths.
Drilling is to start just as soon as
the machine and equipment can reach
here from Spokane, and in the mean
time water and coal are being arranged
for and men are busy at the plant get
ting everything in readiness for oper-
atoms.
Two carloads of casing and equip
ment will have to be transported to the
we'll site, and it will be necessary to do
considerable work on the roads on
both sides of the river to make them
passable for heavy hauling, he said.
A number of townsmen have visited
the scene Of the new oil discoveries in
the Kevin-Sunset district, and were as
founded at the activity in all lines of
business inaugurated Immediately af-
ter the encouragement Of these strikes
and the influx of so many of the big
oil operators. The Independent real
ICES something of what it will NEAR to
Poplar and the surrounding country
should oil be discovered here. We
know, too, that our local men are not,
under present conditions, able to fl
nance the drilling of such a test we'll
alone, and therefore we believe much
credit should be given to the Pioneer
Oil & Gas company for succeeding in
interesting outside capital in develop
ing this structure for oil. 1t lay here
for untold thousands of years until
the %geologist of that company first
noted its possibilities, and it behooves ,
all who are interested in furthering it's
development land who are not y to do
everything in their power to help push
this test we'll to completion now that
a guaranteed contract affords the op-
portunity. !!
Discard your smoked glasses, let in
the clear light of day, and try to Wis
ion the future expansion of industry
in this community should hits we'll
once prove the field and thus bear out
the contention of the dozen or more
eminent biologists who have confirmed
the report made by J. w. Phillips, and
as we understand, have pronounced the
Poplar dome one of the most favorable
structures for oil production in the
whole United States.-Poplar Indeper-
dent.