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The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-05
WELL NEAR kelvin
MAKES PROGRESS

The Aloe Oil company, two miles
east Of Kelvin, had reached a depth
of 100 feet Wednesday morning, ac-
cording to B. M. Howe, president of
the company, who was at Great Falls.
A visit to the well Monday evening
showed the crew at work but no fur
Their information was obtained.
The operations are now going well,
according to Mr.. Howe, the question
of a water supply seemingly being
settled with a temporary haul of about
a mile and probability that it will
be permanently settled by the COM
pany taking over a nearby water well
that promises a good supply and at a
distance that will make possible the
laying of a pipe line.
Mr.. Howe, who is a veteran driller
in California fields, has gathered
about him for his new operations a
crew of his old drillers in that dis
trict, all of the men having worked
with him in his previous operations.
William Russell and James Fritz are
drillers and Sam Henry and William
Stuper, tool dressers.
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OIL FIELD NOTES

A. P. Heaney, Velie distributor ir
Montana, has sold 80 acres of his
holdings on the Sunburst dome, re-
ceiving 500 an acre or $4,000. Nose
Zimmerman, we'll known st. Paul cap
italist, was the buyer. The land is
the S 1-2 NE IA of section 1852
west.
Winnett, June 28.-The new Frantz
well in the northwest corner of the
northeast quarter of the northeast
quarter of section IA, offsetting the
Mid-Northern in section II, was drill
ed into the sand two feet June 27 and
Superintendent Sontag reports that
the we'll is registering 1000.
Browning, June 27.-Drilling at the
Homestake, so miles north of Brown
ing, had reached a depth of over 1000
feet.
Browning, June PA delay vas
occasioned in the spudding in of the
Northwest Petroleum company well,
% miles north of Browning, but is
now drilling in the company's second
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BIG FIELD DECLARES OPERATOR

J 1t takes 300 miles of travel to see
the Kevin-S unburst Oil fields, says r.
1. Barton, oil operator who was at
Kelvin last Wednesday after spending
several days in the field. He was sur
prised to see the extent of the field
and the proportions of the activities.
1t takes 800 miles of travel to see
the actual development" he says.
"There is much trading, with real
money passing hands.
"At Sunburst the trackage is filled
to capacity and l am told that eight
or 10 cars had been moved on to Sweet
Grass to make room on the siding.
travelled 800 miles by automobile in
our trip, but we did not then visit all
the wells. The roads are in fairly
good shape. Everywhere we saw
trucks and wagons hauling rigs and
machinery. There is so much action
and the country so big that it is hard
to get head or tail to it.
"There are wells drilling at pretty
distant points but I believe that they
all have corking good bets. 1t is very
hard to tell anything from the surface
conditions, but l believe that they are
going to develop a tremendous field
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hole on the Milk River anticline.

hole on the Milk River anticline.
John E. Dawson of Great Falls ant
George Merkle of Belt have purchased
an 8O-acre lease in the w IL NV
IA of section 1852 west from A. L
Bradley of Gilman, who purchased il
from the Homestake Oil company
which secured the tract from the Kali
ispell-Kevin company. A rig has beer
shipped and a well will be spudded in
by Guy Craig by July 20.
Twelve carloads of rig irons ano
tankage is in transit to the Montana
warehouses of the Parkersburg Rig &
Reel at Winnett, Great Falls and
Kelvin, according to w. c. Bolden, its
representative, who was here the past
week. This shipment will supplement
eight carloads received last week.
Singley Oil & Development Co., a
new corporation Of Lewistown men,
are said to have acquired acreage in
the Kevin-Sunburst field and expect
to develop it.
R. G. Wilson, field manager of the
A. B. Erik Co., has been joined by his
wife and they will make their resi-
dence for the summer at Sunburst.
Major G. G. Howard, geologist, is
again in the field here, after complet-
ing a plane table survey of the Vimy
Ridge structure.
Since the bringing in of the two
big wells in Cat Greek a deal is said
to be on looking toward a consolida-
ton of the Elk Basin and Independent
pipe lines from that field.
r. l. Barton, we'll known oil oper-
ator of Lewistown, spent several days
at Kelvin and the oil field last week.
1t is likely he will take a hand in the
game here.
A drilling campaign for the testins
of the Vimy Ridge structure, north of
Fort Benton, was announced We'd
nesday by F. G. Elder of the Hager-
Stevenson Montana company, which
has taken over a drilling agreement
J. C. Morrison of Fort Benton,
who originally leased up the $4,000
acres on the structure.
Gordon Campbell has taken over &
structure, in the extreme east-
srn end of the Sweet Grass arch, sec
100000 acres through C. E
of Chester, elevator man. Mr..
Campbell, discoverer Of the Kelvin
ield, has agreed to have a rig on the
structure by December II, 1922.
lie secured the leases through the
Black Coulee Oil & Gas company
md the Dolby Ridge Oil & Gas com
'any. The first well will be south
f Joplin. The acreage is in town
hips 20, 3, 81 and 80 and in ranges
!, g., 7 and 8 east.
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Well First
To Come in, Belief

The Louis Oil Company's well just
north of Kelvin is expected to be the
next to hit the oil sands, according
to information reaching The Courier.
While drilling only a comparatively
short time, it is said operations have
gone ahead continuously and some
predict that Field Manager A. p.
Louis and Contracting Driller H. g..
Whittekind may beat the good record
Of 16 actual drilling days of the Sun
burst Oil & Gas Company's producer.
The coming in of this we'll is import
ant in that it will prove uninterrupt-
ed production of the oil sands from
the discovery well to the Sunburst
No. 1, which no one familiar with the
structure doubts.
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in OIL
AT RIGHT TIME

Montana is stepping out as an oil
producing state at the psychological
moment in the history of the petrol
cum industry"
This is the statement of Walter M.
Durham, an oil fields follower for
So years. He was in Great Falls
seeking a position as field superin-
tendent in the northern development.
He returned from South America
only five months ago after an extend
ed stay in the newly opened light oil
fields. He believes that Montana will
open up many other new fields and
become the great oil state of the west.
Mr.. Durham is one of the best read
oil men in the industry, having entire
tabulations of dates and production
figures at his tongues end. He de-
clares that a startling decline of the
Hsettled" production of the oil fields
nation is bringing about a shortage
that will send prices to new record
heights.
"From the period November 30,
1920, until April 80, 1922, production
of fields not considered in their
flush" staged dropped 100000 barrels
he says. with growing con-
sumption that exceeded the production
the 10 years ending 1921 by 391,-
1862 barrels says that there AN
5e only one result and that is that
Montana will have oil to market at a
time when there is a shortage suffl-
,ient to push the prices up to a place
If great profit for Montana producers.
Montana is to be congratulated on
lot having discovered oil during the
,eriod of low prices" He relates
hat the first advance in oil prices
vas on January 2, 1912, a three cent
ldvance. The amount of the advance
increased through succeeding years as
ollows: July 7, 1913, the first five
ent advance; August 2, 1915, the
irst 10-cent advance; August 49,,
917, the first 2O-cent advance; Mar.
8, 1918, the first 25-cent advance and
november 7, 1921, the first 50-cent
dvance.
Glenn Pool, the greatest light oil
ED in the world, came into produc-
ion at about the same time that some
illinois fields came in and 45,OOO,OO0
arrels of oil were thrust on a market
nat had no outlet. Montana's oil
elds are coming into production at a
me when the markets of the world
re clamoring for more oil, he said.
He says that California has only
DO, 900 acres of proven oil land. Po-
initial fields in the Sweet Grass arch
realty exceed that area.
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camp has been completed on the Hon
non ranch, in section 26, another Ohio
location.
Eight Wells Spotted
Eight wells have been spotted by
the Ohio Oil company, we'll scattered
over its leases. In addition to the
Reibe we'll now drilling the Ohio has
two National machines on locations,
and other machines are en- route.
The Ohio will drill an offset to the
Sunburst producer, on the south, al
so on the Barr ranch, the Swazey
ranch, the Harmon ranch and in the
southeast quarter of section three,
one mile southeast of the producer.
The Sunburst Oil and Gas is spotting
two more wells.
Is Area of Sixty Square Miles
Four wells will be watched with
great interest, Mr.. Stevenson says,
these being the Sunburst Oil and Gas
No. 2 in section 5, on the west side
of the field; the Three-in-One in sec
ton 1851 west, on the east side;
the Coe we'll in section 1862 west in
the north and the Homestake well in
section 26-35-2 west, on the south.
These wells are at a point 10 miles
apart, north and south, and six miles
east and west, an area of sixty square
miles, an area of more than one-third
of the producing acreage in the state
of California.
Town Lot Brings $1,000
The town of Sunburst is feeling the
boom. A 25-foot lot on the main
street sold for $1,000 during the past
week and $1,000 was offered for the
adjoining lot, to be used as a site for
a business block.
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SAYS NEW FIELD IS
SCENE OF ACTION

Great Falls Leader-A graphic pic
ture of the activities in the Kelvin
Sunburst field is brought back to
Great Falls by John Stevenson of the
Sunburst Oil and Gas Company or
g%anization, who on Sunday visited the
field for the first time since the ar
rival of production.
"The great fleet of trucks and auto
mobiles at work on the Sunburst
dome reminds one, from a distance, of
a great ant HILL" he says. Though
oil men say that activity is only be-
ginning, the real business and excite
ment of the oil industry is around
Sunburst. The Ohio Oil is going about
the development of the field in a sys-
tematical way that leaves no doubt
but what they are confident that it is
a big field.
Can See Eight Rigs
"From a high spot near the No. 1
Sunburst well it is possible to see
eight rigs and as many more are go
ing up. With the Homestake and
derrecks up in the vicinity of the dis
covery well, together with the camps,
this district stands out as most dense
" populated
Mr.. Stevenson says that the Ohio
people set another record in having
rugged up their No. 1 rig in three
days. He arrived shortly after the
well was spudded in, before noon on
Sunday. The Sunburst Oil and Gas
company is preparing to build a per-
manent camp in the southwest cor
ner of section 35-36-2 west, to house
several crews. The well in section
west is about ready to go. Wa
ter has been piped from a reservoir
three-quarters of a mile away.
Day Will Drill for Ohio
George 0. Day.is moving his Star
rig, used in drilling the keystone
we'll at Vaughn, to the Barr ranch to
drill for the Ohio Oil company. Al
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-05
Black Magic Said
to Have Started

The Black Magic, a company which
is selling stock on a capitalization of
S225,000 on 40 acres, it is said, and
which has been reported to have been
ready to spud in many times since
May 5, is at last at work, according
to a report given out by the Great
Falls offices of the company where
the stock selling has been carried on.
The 40 acres advertised as the COM
pany's holdings in this field is south
west Of the Campbell we'll.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-05

Sunday, the score being IL to 10. The
local boys showed many signs of i'm
provement and altogether faced three
of the Sunburst pitchers, while Frank
Omally and julie Aldrich did stellar
work on the mound for Kelvin.
Batteries: Kevin-Omally, Aldrich
and Lutrill. Sunburst: Cornett, Ko-
KEEL and Gohn.
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ARTHUR TAYLOR
Clothes Cleaned and Pressed-Leave
orders at Hub Restaurant
Nice line of samples of Made-to-
Measure Clothes at $25 and up
kelvin =: MONT.
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BAKERY FOR kelvin

D. K. Miller, who recently sold the
Kelvin Hotel cafe, opened a new bak-
cry on Central avenue Friday of last
week. MI. Miller expects to serve
ice cream and light lunches, consist
ing of pie, cookies or doughnuts and
coffee and will do the baking for Ke-
restaurants and hotels.
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kelvin WINS

The Kelvin nine was victorious in a
close game played with the Sunburst
aggregation on the local diamond on
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MARRIAGE LICENSES

Elijah Beasley. 800 W Twelfth St: Ger.
tie Beesley 326 W. Twelfth ST..
Ace Risk, 1887 Northwestern Ave: Ethel
L. Burkett. 2522 Schurrnann Ave.
Arthur E. Eischwitz MI Olive III; sadie
(. FeasteT Washington Hotel
Harold Hampton, Providence, L; Mari
L. Patterson, 1922 n. Alabama St.
Walter NJ Schmidt 1916 Leland Ave.
GLADYS Wroten. 253 e. Minnesota St.
Alex Robinson, 500 E Court St: Eliza
beth Parker. $50 f. Court St.
Frank E. Stevens. 921 E. Maple Road
Myrtle NJ Thompson. 1891 Schurmann Ave
Edgar Bradford, 22b N. Allegheny St..
Martha Keys, 226 n. Allegheny St.
n. Lawyer. 221 n. State st.
Lewis D. Parker New Augusta Ind.
Thelma NJ. Marcunn, New Augusta. Ind.
Robert L. Hartmann 1888 Reisner So
Myrtle Stapleton. 1920 S. fremont Ave.
Charles W. Chtders Y NJ. C. A; GLADYS
Van Dyke, A10 W. Fortieth 81.
Tom Adams 1880 W. New York ST.;
Ioie J. Hodge. Blue Greek. Ohio.
Albin F. GustafsOn. ia n. Delaware st.
Woodson Edwards. 725 W. Walnut "a.
Mrs Susie Harris $40 Bright St.
Elmer Breedsn. 2402 W. McCarty So
Helen Byrne. 551 Holly Ave.
Charles NJ. Hunter, s34 W. Tbirty-First
ST.: Effie Vaughn, 1888 Eugene st.
Arthur p. Mcmahon. 1850 Julian Ave
Florence b. Thomas. 1850 Julian Ave.
Frances Hartsock, 2343 n. Meridian St
EmTuitt Bridgewster, 520h E Washing
ton St. Furn Carpenter. 5201 E. Wash
ington ST.
Irmie Cismas 161 Geisendorn St: Mary
Soloman. 161 Geiseudorf St.
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CHICAGO HOGS STEADY
Cattle and Sheep Hold Generally Firm
Despite Receipts.

By United Financial
CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-Demand for
lightweight hogs was fairly active at
the Chicago stock yards today. but
slow market among the heavier
classes held prices about even all
around Receipts were 35 900. with a
stale supply from last week OF little
more than 1000. Big killers took only
500 In direct shipments from other
markets, but were slow to enter the
market. Total receipts at the ten big
markets were $1,000 against $4,000
week ago.
Cattle prices were about steady. a
few sales showing losses Of IS cents
from Saturdays average. Receipts
were 10000 OF which the killers took
only 100 head direct from outside
trading points. The total run OF cat.
tie at the ten chief markets was about
even with the corresponding day last
week at $1,000.
Fresh receipts Of $4,000 sheep and
lambs was considerably in excess Of
expectations. but d run Of good grades
held the market at steady figures.
Railroad delays caused the bulk of
the days shipments to reach the pens
late. but trading was brisk after the
first arrivals were sent to the scales.
The ten big markets posted receipts
OF $1,000 against 45. 900 last Monday.
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SPIRITED BUYING
CAUSES CHICAGO E.
GRAIN To RISE
Wheat Leads Way in Upturn,
Corn and Oats Following
Close Behind.


CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-Heavy buying
by local houses with Eastern seaboard
connections caused all grain prices to
rally on the Chicago Board Of Trade
today and close at good gains over Sat.
urday's averages. Predictions of a
heavy movement of corn and wheat
for export were made following the
buying of the Fasteners. Local short
interests began covering frantically at
the first Indication of the advance.
Wheat was the leader In the new
upturn, prices advancing 203c over
opening levels.
Although export buying was the
chief influence in the strength Of corn,
reports from numerous sections Of the
corn growing States added to the bull
ish tone Of the market.
Fairly heavy hedging sales in the
oats pit made that grain slow to fol
low the advances in wheat and corn.
prices closing at fractional gains over
opening figures.
Lack of demand from local packers
and reports from Eastern sources in
dicating the European outlet was be-
coming less Favorable caused lower
prices IN provisions today.
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BOND TRADlNGS QUIET
Slight Recessions Follow Early Morn
ing Advances.
Aug. al
BIZ ". II. GRIMES


United Financial stan Correspondent
NEW YORK. Aug 21.-Bond trad
ers today started the week with a
squirt Of furious trading which speed
ily carried many issues among the
secondary rails to new highs for the
year. While trading quieted in the
afternoon and while there were some
Iecessions from the days best levels.
prices were still at a considerable ad-
vance over those of last week.
Throughout the day secondary
rails. particularly the Missouri Kan
sas & Texas 5s and the Seaboard Air
line and St. Paul issues were the mar
ket leaders in activity. while some
Erie issues We're frequently on the
tape.
The high grade rails. leaders OF last
week. were comparatively unaffected
Despite this inattention they held
steady. and any recessions from Sat.
urday's closing levels were slight
The foreign government issues APP
peared n little stronger as did the
Liberties, although there were no
price advances worth mentioning IN
these groups.
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THIEVES ESCAPE
Make Getaway With Dishes and Ra
7or Strap.

Miss Lulu Hughes. owner OF a va
riety store at 1902 E. Washington ST.,
accosted two junk wagon drivers
whom she saw enter the house OF
William H. Davis. 25o6 E. Washing
ton ST.. today. The men made a get
away. The police found g safety ra-
zor and strap and some dishes wer1.
missing.
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FAIR NEARS CONCLUSION
Merchandise Exposition Begins Final
Week.

BIZ United Findncf0I
NEW YORK. Aug. 21.-The Nation
al Merchandise fair opens it's third and
last week today and unless it proves
the best Of the three weeks from the
standpoint Of business done, many ex-
hibitors will be disappointed While
the crowds in the second week were
not at large as the first. the business
done was better.
The section of the fair in the Grand
Central Palace closes Friday night
while that in the fist Regiment, Arm
DRY ends on Wednesday.
Sellers of cotton cloths today were
preparing to quote advanced prices
after the strong opening in the cotton
market. Some sellers would not quote
today until they had seen the progress
Of the cotton market through the first
hour or two.
Prices may be advanced in the wool
en- textile market. The prices named
at the openings attracted buyers and
resulted in some good business in wool
ems and worsteds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-21
DEATHS

Henery Burghleim. 114o E. Market, acute
nephritis
George E. Bennewitz. 81. English Hotel.
acute parenchymatous nephritis.
Paul Robert Bruder 4 months 632 E
New York, neocolitis
John Linakey. "a, 329 Minerva. chronic
Bright's disease.
Allen E. Fisher. 8. 1908 E. Michigan,
fractured skull, accidental.
Estells May johnson. 90 1910 N Haugh
pulmonary tuberculosis.
Charles Chapman. 81. 141e Blaine. cere-
hral hemorrhaSe.
Nathan Sheppard AZ city hospita,
chronic nephritis.
Robert C. Bernard. 5 days ST. Vincent
Hospital, obstruction of bowels.
Lula D. Miller, 40, S65 W. Pratt, chronic
myocarditis.
Gladys I. Michael, 20. 1868 Madison. pull
monary tuberculosis
Helen swigert, "a, 80 The Lexington.
broncho pneumonia.
Andrew j Unversaw, So, SAP w Market
chronic myocarditis
John A Barrett, So, Long Hospital,
chronic interstitial nephrits.
William James Erwin. 81. 1920 Newman
carcinoma.
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LOCAL BANK cLEARINGS
NEW YORK CALL MONEY

Indianapolis bank clearings Monday weTe
-, $50. 600: bank debts we're 81 sos, 600
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accepted belief in England, provide
the one disturbing factor needed to
plunge the Continent into hopeless
ruin. The Weekly Outlook expressed
the view entertained In many quar-
tiers, by saying:
There is but one alternative 70
European settlement through which
debts and indemnities are cancelled.
armies reduced, and the Nations Of
che Continent united in peaceful CO
operation. and that alternative Is war.
European civilization will not and
cannot survive more ware. Al least
not until we have worked two or three
generations to repair the ravages Of
the last one"
Lloyd George Firm
Premier Lloyd Georges consistent
refusal to compromise in the recent
London conference. thus forcing the
situation to a head, is regarded as
one of the premler's boldest strokes.
1t is predicted this decision will prova
TO have been worth rlskinY the en-
tente's termination. in order to avoid
further British support of the French
in coercion Of Germany.
The decision also was based on ths
theory that if France intends to pre-
cipitate a continental crisis. the
sooner that policy IS frankly revealed,
the better it will be for all concerned.
British authorities felt last week
that Premier Poincare was proceed
ing along more cautious lines than
might be expected from his previous
attitude This encouraged the Brit
ish to feel that some second thoughts
may have caused Poincare TO recoNa
slider his uncompronising program
But the seriousness with which tbs
situation is viewed is apparent from
the policy of delay which Is being fos-
tered in the deliberations Of the rep
arations committee. The trip OF the
commissioners to Berlin Is understood
to be a plan to mark time as long az
possible before rendering a decision, in
the hope France may cool down in the
interim.
Commission May Dissolve
II a final decision as to granting 3
moratorium. however, leaves the rep
aration commissioners deadlocked-
the English and Italians on one side
and the Belgians and French on tbs
other-ft probably would mean the
withdrawal Of the French and dissolD-
ton Of the commission
According to the British point Of
view a morotarium already exists
owing to the genuine inability Cd GeT-
many 10 pay. The question, TO the
British mind, consequently rsvOlves
around the bigger issue Of whethsr
France Will consider the opinion Of
the rest OF Europe. or ect in o@ha1ce
of her. former allies and ths machinery
of the Versailles treaty, Upon that
question, British authorities conkeEsd
hinges the future Of Europe and tie
question must be decided within The
next fortnight.
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BIRTHS


lowe
Dennis and winifred Sullivan .1e4o
Bates.
Carl and Mary Clark. 1929 s. Belmont.
Robert and Helen Baker 1910 Naomi
George and Cecilia Runkel 1862 Union.
Ralph and Grace Misamore. 1911 Schur-
man.
Henry and Minnie Schakel 1923 Brook
side Parkway.
William and Leths Howard. 1880 Sheldon.
Harry and Carol Lapp, st. Vincent Hos
pital.
Carl and Marie stecg. St. Vincent Hos
pital
Charles and Esther Hyde, 1890 Sunset.
Conner and Fern Hine. 27I5 E LasaIIe
John and Margaret MulvihiI. city hospital.
Girls
itol.
Herbert and Frances Cox. SI7 W. Tenth.
Michael and Margaret Carr. $40 n. Parker
Frank and nellie Kellie. 1915 N Delaware.
Greenwood and Lena Pembe-ton. 1145
Madeira.
Earl and May Wslborn. city hospital
William and Bessie Woodburn. 1863 Doug
Las.