The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1922-11-10

ability as pubic speaker attract.
ed attention early and he was elect
ed secretary of state the year that
the fusion of the populists and
democrats swept Governor Robert
b. Smith and his ticket into power.
While Hogan was serving as sec.
rotary of state he studied law, and
when he went out of office was ad-
mitted to the bar and began prac-
tice, locating in Billings. In a few
years he built up profitable prac.
tice and was elected state senator
from Yellowstone county. He be-
came interested in the Soap Creek
oil development of three years ago,
and brought in one of the first
producing wells in that district.
He and his associates went into
the kevin.Sunburst field early, &C.
quired considerable acreage, and
the first well they drilled is cred.
tied with a flush production of
from 500 to 1000 barrels daily.
being the sensation of the new
northern field. The story Of the
coming in of this new we'll follows:
With an initial production that &C.
lipses any other we'll in the field and
is estimated at from 500 to 1000
barrels flow on flush production, the
Hogan we'll in sw IA sw IA section
1852 W. virtually drilled itself in
at noon one day recently, according
to reports from the field. The well
was drilled but eight inches in to
the sand, drilling depth of 1,435
feet.
When eight-inch casing was sci
on the cap rock and the hole cleaned
out. the drill was sunk eight inches
into the sand, hardly having adjust.
ed the screw before the crew quit
to go to lunch. The men had Just
reached the bunk house when the
we'll blew itself in, according to re.
ports telephoned from the field by L.
C. Stevenson, who arrived at the well
a few minutes later.
During the half hour that Steven.
son was at the we'll. the oil, coming
with a head of gas, shot high over
the crown block four times. Be.
tween these times it was flowing over
the casing most of the time, he said
After blowing out, the oil would be
lowered and during the last few feet
of the rise in the casing, it could be
seen rising at the rate of almost 8
foot second in the eight-inch cas-.
ing, he reported.
Borrowing Tankage
A head was placed on the casine
with a 2h-in connection and thu
flow was sufficient to force out al
the oil the 2h Inch pipe would take
all of the time. There are two $50
barrel tanks on the location and 1
dam is being thrown up for an emer
gency reservoir, Stevenson said. tn.
owners of the we'll made a hurried
trip to Shelby to arrange for add
tional tankage, while the Sunburs
will loan two 500-barrel tanks.
Stevenson said that the production
appears to be Of the best grade o
light green oil yet obtained in tn,
field. Examination of the sand show
ed a sand of good texture.
Stevenson made a conservative es
innate that the we'll will be of so
barrels a day flush production OF
its present flow, to settle to a FLOW
In the neighborhood of $50 barrels
Experienced oil men at the well, rep
resentattves of big companies an,
the larger independents, made esti
mates that varied from 500 barrel
to as high as TOO and 1000 barrels
These reports. 1t is reported, SCENE,
small to inexperienced observer