The Wolf Point herald., 1922-03-23

y eoPPCu WHICH, Tic IllSt HOW Q
e oil titled the casing. Operation
: were at once suspended until al
4 rangements could be completed t
;. control the we'll. The amount 0
: production will be determine
within few days.
Announcement of the bringins
IN OF the we'll at Kevin has caused
a sensation in the oil world. Within
tWenty-four hours after the frs
report had been made special train.
were on the way from Texas, Okla
homa and other states to Montana
and oil men by the hundred were
Hooking into Great Falls and from
there to the site of the we'll.
| AS there are no accommodations
for the public at Kevin, those who
are making their headquarters
there are compelled to live in Pull
man sleepers, but building of a
hotel will be under way in a few
days and if the first reports of the
Importance of the find are CON
t1rmed, new boom town will
spring up shortly that promises to
rival some of the famous oil camps
of Texas, Oklahoma and other
states.
Drilling was resumed at the
Campbell we'll last week, after hav-
ing been shut down by four months
of winter weather. Melting of
snow had provided water for drill
ling and work was resumed, the
drillers first raising string of
eight-inch casing which had been
lost in the hole. Drilling was re-
stunned at 1,720 feet and had pro-
ceeded only 65 feet when the drill
passed through a hard cap rock
and into a sand. The tools were
pulled and the oil had risen 700
feet in the hole before the string
could be pulled out of the hole. The
oil did not come over the top of
the casing.
The exact horizon of the strike
has not been fully determined, but
it is believed to be either in the
lower Kootenai or the top of the
Ellis formations. Only the drill
will tell the thickness of the sand
but Mr.. Campbell believes that it
is a big sand. Campbell is the ori-
ginal exponent of the theory that
oil has its origin in the Devonian, |
below the Madison limestone, and
comes to the upper sands by verti-
al migration, due to faulting.
The we'll is located in the north
cast quarter of the northeast quar-
er of section 10, township IS
lorth, range 3 west, Toole county.
t is owned by Campbell and the
Gordon Campbell-Kevin syndicate.
Though the syndicate has only a
8 per cent interest in the test we'll,
t owns IA, $40 acres checkerboard-
d by Campbell over the structure.
The well was spudded in on s
April IA, 1921. At two horizons
as was encountered and on Octo-
er 8 good showing of oil was
ound, in quantity sufficient to
rovide a gallon of oil on each t
ailer. This condition was recog- 1
lied by Campbell as similar to Cat /
reek, this gray sandy shale being /
milar to that encountered in the c
at Creek field. t
Approved by no less than six I
eologists of eminent standing, the c
-evin structure has for several {
lonths occupied the principal s
lace in oil interest in Montana. Six G
ltfits are now ready to drill the
and many others will f
ome in Immediately, following c
lis strike. The Kevin-Sunburst [
ga is one of the places hard hit a
Z the drought and hundreds of a
ought stricken farmers will be Il
Iddenly transformed from pow 81
ty to riches. p
Several times before the start of al
e well and during the drilling, 81
ordon Campbell stated that if II
-barrel we'll, a pumper, were
ought in, he would be we'll salts ir
ID. The area is SO great that b
e field would then be the greatest m
the country, he said. None ex- &c
cted that the field would produce w
gusher. w
There are three "high" spots on ar
= structure, designated as the =
'cky Ridge dome, on which this
ike was made, the Sunburst
me, east of the Campbell we'll
d the Gas Ridge dome, to the
18th. All of these will produce,
S believed.
The next completion will doubt