The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-08
kelvin SUCCESS
HELPS B0WD0IN
CONVINCES MANY THAT BOW
DOM FIELD WILL BE EVEN
MORE PRODUCTIVE.

Malta.-That the attention Of the
big oil operators is being turned to
the Bowdoin field is very evident. Ev-
cry day some new outfit is in the field
looking the situation i've and by
spring we may expect to see a number
of rigs working in this field. Follow
ing is what the Great Falls Tribune
has to say Of the Bowdoin field:
It was the hunt for museum spe-
cimens of skeletons of prehistoris an
finals, not the hunt for oil, that led
to the visit to the Bowdoin structure
neal Malta in northern Montana sew
eral years ago Of one of the first pro-
minent biologists to make a survey of
the area.
Barnum Brown, a prominent geolo-
gist, was sent to northern Montana by
the Museum Of Natural History and
the result of his study of the region
south of Glasgow of the skeleton re-
mains of many mammals that inhab-
tied the earth before the rise Of man.
It was then that several of the bust
ness men and stockmen of the dis
trict came to know him, and in the
summer of 1916 they raised a pool to
bring him again to the state to spend
80 days looking yer the country with
the view of ~ascertaining it's possibility
as an oil structure. The result was a
report on the Bowdoin dome, which had
impressed the eastern geologist. Gov
eminent biologists were even then
entering the district with a view to
making a survey.
Although interrupted by the war,
the structure has seen some activity
almost since that time, but the great
impetus to development same with the
discovery of oil in the Kelvin Sunburst
field. Like the Kevin-Sunburst field,
Bowdoin dome is what is known as a
"flat" structure. The dips are COM
paratively slight compared with what
biologists had conn to expect in other
work in the Montana and Wyoming
fields.
When the success of operations in
the Kevin-Sunburst field became as
sured, however, the operators of nor
thern Montana almost at once turned
their attention of the Bowdoin struc-
ture as offering similar possibilities.
The result has been a rush of in
dependent and big companies to the
region, that had it not been for the
Kevin-Sunburst, would have made a
pronounced boom for the northeastern
part Of the state.
Today three wells are being drilled
within what is believed to be the high
of the structure. The drilling opera
tons are the most extensive that any
single structure Of northern Montana
with the exception of the Kevin-Sun-
burst field is now enjoying. The Phil
lips County Oil & Gas is drilling on
nwAneA, section 6-32-33 e; the Bow
doin Oil & Gas on skswA, section
35-32-32 e; the Homestake Explora-
ton on 1922 e.
The subsidiary of one Of the largest
Montana Independent companies, the
Exploration company, is
drilling on Bowdoin, having obtained
several thousand acres of leases and
placed itself in an important position
the field. Other Independents that
have been active this summer in leas-
ing on the structure include the Con-
solidated Exploration company, headed
BY several of the prominent bankers
and business men of Great Falls, A.
M. Kent, wealthy individual operator
Montana and Wyoming fields, and
other interests represented by some
of the leading lease brokers of the
northern fields. The Standard CON-
panies that have been most active in
clude the California company, operat-
ing company in Montana for the Stan
dard of California; the Midwest Refin-
ing company, and the Mutual and
Frantz organizations.
Among the many who have been
active in lease and land holdings in
the area are w. A. Bower of Great
Falls, formerly a we'll known news
paper mar in the state; Frank M. Bell
OF Butte, who has holdings with his
associates throughout northern Mon
tana; B. P. Sandlie of Malta, county
attorney of Phillips county; H. G,
Robinson, president of the First State
bank; Fred Whiteside, an operator in
Montana and Wyoming; W. F. Kroegel
a business mar of Saco; A. E. Easton
druggist; C. E. Taylor, a large lane
owner; Louis Skala of Malta, who has
been active in leasing; John Survant
a business man and merchant of Nal