, 1922-02-08
ROUNDUP WORK
BEING RESUMED
Three Wells Again Drilling
Following Delay Caused by
Cold Weather.
Special to The Tribune.

Roundup field work has been resumed
m three oil wells. accordns 20 reports
received here In the Devils Basin
drilling has been resumed in the
Adams well In 24-II-24 and with nor
mai activities should be completed in a
few days At last reports the wei
was down more than 500 feet, and good
Roadway was being made. u build
ers arc putting the finishing touches
on the Van Dusen No 2 rig which
will start drilling soon. As soon as
the builders have completed that rig
they will begin work building n rig for
the Tn City oil company on 9-i1-24.
where a deep test will be started. hat
well Is to be drilled to n depth OF p
500 feet in order to test tho three
sands Of the quadrant formation. 9th
or wells are projected by the Reliance
Oils, Limited. a Butte corporation. and
by the Shamrock OIL company. which
has some acreage in the Devils Basin.
a well as some other structures. and
which conducted n stock selling cam
paign IN Wisconsin last year.
In the Howard Coulee near Round
IN the dri1 is reported TO have been
making depth for more than a week
following the setting OF a string of
1O-inch casing at 1.15o feet h well
is now down more than 1850 feet and
instructions are 10 drill TO the Kote-
iiai sands and hen return TO the Big
Wall and complete that well for the
Victory on company.
In Willow Creek, also n field near
Roundup. tho Montana Pioneer COM
pany has finally drilled past a string
of tools which has baffled tho work
men for some time. Tho string was
pushed to one side successfully. and
casing set past the pot where tho
blockade took place. This well is now
making depth and should be in the
second wall Creek without much de-
lay.
In an effort to r~eorganize tho Cor
don CampbelI-Kev syndicate. Gordon
Campbell has announced at Lewis
town a plan OF oil development for the
Rocky Ridge field during 1922. The
first step is to complete h test well
now down 1870 feet in the northeast
quarter of northeast quarter 1858.
This is to be ollowed by manufacture
of casing-head gasoline from the nat.
ural gas which is already flowing in
commercial quantity from that well.
Other wells are to be drilled. spotted
solely for oil and gas. and h latter.
Mr.. Campbell believes. will become n
big "gasser." Plans also include, when
necessary, construction OF an oil pipe
line three and one-hal miles long to
the Great. Northern and a refinery.
The company is capitalized at 81. 00o.-
600.
c. NJ. Beecher OF the United States
bureau Of mines. tho county attorney
and the county clerk and recorder of
Fergus county have taken steps to
N-
the last legislature requiring the plug.
ging of abandoned oil Wells. which Mr..
Boecher has pointed out. 1eopardizes
the entire Cat Greek field. It is said
that oil companies in various sections
of Montana are violating the law.
Helena and Bozeman stockholders in
the Cat Creek rs OH at a
meeting in Helena decided to put down
a well on their holdings in SWhSWA
1850 in what is Known as h Ante
lope area of the Cat Creek field. The
property of 40 acres was acquired last
summer and had been partially H.
nanced when winter set in. The Home
stead company, one of h most sue
cessful of the independents. with sew
eral producing wells, is TO spud in
shortly on the 40 acres to h east OF
the Cat Creek rs and the Jack Rab-
bit company will put down n well on
the 30 acres Immediately west of the
property. The officers are nearly all
Helena men, including DR.. Watt. pres
ident; H.. L.. Hart. treasurer; DR.. II.
l.. Mills. secretary, and o.. r. Zach
airy and j. G. AIintline. vice presidents
BY way of showing the general in
terest which has been created in all
parts Of the country in Montana oil
the oil industry. the AFRO Oil and
Refinery company at Lewistown is in
receipt OF n letter from n fruitgrower
in Grand View, Wash. asking for a
price on so barrels OF crude oil to be
used for spraying fruit trees. The
letter stated hat Investigations now
are being made by horticultural ex-
perts with a view to providing the eff
cheney OF. Montana crude for that pur.
pose.
The Gas Products company has TAX
en- an appeal to the supreme court
from the judgment in favor of the at
torney general and h county attor-
ney of FaIlon. The action was
brought to restrain these officials
from executing a chapter of the last
session laws against the company
which operates a plant at Baker,
Mont, for manufacture of carbon
black from natural gas winch would
have the effect OF closing the plant on
the ground that such use OF gas is
wasteful.
The derrick of the Western Petrol
cum Exploration well on the Willow
Creek structure near Choteau was
blown down by a recent storm and
must be rebuilt in order to pull the
casing in the we'll
information recaiyed IN HeIeua Is
20 the effect that the Absaraka OIL
company has recently let contracts for
the drilling of two deep test wells in
L. An.aInna .Ara..l.rrn Of III Mo-.