Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-26

The Sunburst field is wen in line, al
though a little to the west, with a di-
rect line extending from the great
Bow Island gas field in southeastern
Alberta, to the Byron gas field in
northern Wyoming, and, according to
/ Eugene Coste. one of the most cele-
brated gas engineers of the world,
there should be in the country north
of Great Falls an immense body OF
gas. Mr.. Coste, several years. ago,
and before the development of gas in
the Sunburst field, stated that some
place between Great Falls and the
Canadian line there is a body of gas
bigger than that of the Bow Island
field.
This field is about 40 or so miles
north of the Montana line and about
due north of a point midway between
Havre and Shelby. Into this. along IN
1918 or 1914, Mr.. Coste was sent by
Sir Thomas ,Shaughnessy, head of the
Canadian Pacific railway, to search for
fuel oil for the railway. He spent
about $685. 600 there and, instead of
finding oil. developed a very fine gas
field. of which the best well developed
about 100000 cubic feet a day.
Sir S~haughnessy did not want gas
he was after oil-so he turned the
field over to Coste, who went to Lon
don, where he obtained sufficient finan-
cial backing to put in a pipe line from
the wells to Lethbridge and Calgary
for the supplying of those cities and
about Is intermediate towns. About
81. 100000 was expended in this under
gary at 35 cents a 1000 feet for do
nestle use. Mr.. Coste has developed
four or five magnificent gas fields.
Right south of Billings and almost
directly opposite the Bow Island field
is the Byron gas field of Wyoming.
about 25 miles south of the Montana
line This is a more prolific field even
than the Bow Island, one of its wells
100000 feet of gas per day. No use
is being made of this immense reser-
voir of gas other than that one well
was purchased for the Lowell sugar
beet people for the providing Of fuel
for their refinery.
Billings is now being supplied with
gas from the Elk Basin field. which is
about 40 miles north of the Byron
field on the Montana side of the line.
In the extreme eastern part of the
state the towns of Glendive and Baker
are being supplied with natural gas
from the same anticline, while the city
of Havre has been using natural gas
for a number of years and gas is being
used on a small scale in various parts
of the state, having been found in shall
low wells sunk for other purposes.
One instance of the latter is that of a
farmer near Kremlin, just west of
Hayre, who was drilling for water and
found ample gas to heat his residence
and farm buildings. He even piped it
into his hen house and learned that by
thus heating the COOP he obtained more
eggs in the winter than in the warmer
weather.
However. all this country lies be- |
tween the Byron and the Bow Island
fields, two of the biggest oil fields in
the United States and Canada, which
makes it reasonable to expect that sim
liar fields may be developed in this
section of the state. 1t is very posi-
Bile that there is some connection be-
tween the Ohio-Berg No. / we'll, near
Shelby. and the immense pool of gas
which Enginee Croste said existed be-
tween Great Falls and the Canadian
line.