Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-26
Mclean Wells Success
viii Mean Development
of North End of Field

the crew mas Deen engaged lOF SoLHe
time on a fishing job.
This location is directly north OF the
Blarney Castle dome, which is directly
in line with Campbells Rocky Ridge
structure. Directly south of this well
in Montana the California company
has leases upon about 1O,O00 acres.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Oil com
pany of Lethbridge is engaged in drill
ing on 11-1-14W, about three miles
northeast Of, S~weetgrass. Work was
! started about 10 weeks ago with a
standard outfit. When last heard from
! this well was down more than $40 feet
| and it was expected it would probably
! have to drive as deep as the Mclean
well. A.,
Drilling with a national ri;t the
| SommerviIle Oil company, OF Van
couver, b. G., is putting down a well
on 2-1-15 W, about two and a half
| miles east of S~weetgrass. This com
pany is going ahead as rapidly as pos
| siblc although it had been held up for
some time by lack of funds. This well
is down about 500 feet.
Segur-RoWe Well
The Mccullough outfit has q rig up
about a half mile east of Sweetgrass
but has been held up for some time
through inability to obtain tools which
had been used in the old Beaver well
and which had been purchased by Nc
CulIough and upon which delivery was
delayed through a claim held by the
government.
Some distance further east along the
border. in 29-1-11 west, about 30
miles east of Coutts, is being drilled
the Segur-Rowe well. This was spud-
ded in during the last week. This com
pany is being financed by Calgary
! capitalists, q large party of whom
came down by special car two weeks
ago and made a trip by automobile out
to the location. The well is located be
tween the old Grand Trunk Pacific
well, which was put down in 1915, and
the old Beaver well. 1t lies two and
a half miles east and four miles south
of the first Segur well in HIP W.
which was drilled in 1919 for the
Grand Trunk Pacific and which went
to a depth of $500 feet. In this vel
an oil seepage was encountered. 1t is
expected the present we'll will have
to be carried down to about 5000 feet
On American soil, three miles south
of Sweetgrass, the. Chamberlain
Fowler company is rigging up a stand
ard outfit and expects to spud III vers
soo This location is on 1882 W
on the T. S. Smith land and has beer
dubbed the Fly Swatter.
Leasor's Rights in Canada
Drilling upon township / and ?
range 10 west. is more general thar
on any other parts OF the oil structure
lying within Alberta because of the
Canadian laws bearing upon the sub.
| la9f nf p15DaroJ and oil FirhF1 ~ al
Canadian lands the mineral rights are
retained by the crown and the owner
of the land has no rights in the matter
Of oil development other than the act,
uai surface damage. This. however
does not apply to school lands. sec
| tons s and II in each township. anC
to sections p and three-fOurths OF
section %, which were retained by the
Hudson Bay company when it relin
| pushed the four western provinces
and the Northwestern territory to the
government.
On lands in which the government
retains the mineral rights oil leasor:
are required to pay 30 cents an acre
for the first year and 81 an acre fol
subsequent years with the provist
that the leasor must show $1,000 il
development work within the secont
year. failing in which the minister o
the interior may cancel the lease if h
so wishes.
However, all of township /. rang,
Is west. and that part of township .
range Is west. lying south of Milk riv
er and west of the Sweetgrass-Leth
bridge railway. has for years been Sc
aside as Il quarantine district within
which sheep and cattle moving from
Montana intosAlberta are held in quar-
antine for q period Of 30 days befor'
they can be taken further into Can
ada.
This quarantine district is under tn
supervision of the department of az
riculture instead of the department o
interior and the minister of agricultur,
has the disposal of the mineral rights
He decided to throw the district opel
for oil development by the lotter.
method under which no person coul'
get more than one section, the 81
cents yearly rental being waived and
filing charge of but $3.50 collected
providing a drilling outfit was put o.
the ground by August !, 1922. it bein;
necessary for the leasor to ~designat
Il tract of five acres upon which drill
ing operations are to be carried cut
VARIETY IN STAMP PRINTING
Efforts are constantly being mad
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