The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-08-09

M Stuart, the great Montana ex-
H. ' plorer, and discoverer of placer
gold at Gold creek, before Bill Fair
weather, noted oil indications in Fer
gus county. He made sketches of
the formation at the time, which are
preserved in his writings. And nov
comes Henry Sherard, the oil wizard
who discovered Is producing oilfields
in Wyoming, and will drill in the
section picked as oil producing by
Granville Stuart in the old days.
Henry Sherard is known as the
coil wizard of Wyoming" because of
his unerring geology. He has been
in Montana less than a year and has
mapped but three structures. One
of these, the Sherard No. 1, is being
tested by the Ohio Oil company. His
newest find is the Fort Maginnis
structure. This structure centers in
section 12-16-20 east.
In the past Mr.. Sherard has been
Employed by the Standard Oil COM
panies and he located all of his Wy
oming structures for such companies
as the Ohio Oil company. Coming to
Montana, he entered Independent
practice. He first located the Sher-
ard structure, neal Big Sandy, and
planned to drill the No. 1 structure
himself The Ohio Oil company
bought the structure, however, pay
ing a cash bonus and giving him val
liable acreage.
The Maginnis structure is a shall
low test and ideal, he says for a pri-
vate venture. 1t has been examined
by Dorsey Hager, vice president of
the Sunburst Oil & Gas company, and
by G.. G. Howard, chief g~eologist of
the same company. The surface is
Kootenai shales, at the top of the
dome, while the Colorado sands and
shales appear on the flanks and the
escarpment is formed by the Mowery
sandstone, middle sand member of
the Colorado.
According to the plane table map
by Mr.. Sherard, the structure has
900 feet of closure and it is structur-
ally the highest trap for oil in Fer
gus county. Cat Creek and similar
folds feed into this structure, which
is 1000 feet higher geographically
than Cat Creek. AS there is no in
.tervening faulting of extent, any
drainage from the Cat Greek area
would feed the Maginnis structure,
Mr.. Sherard states.
Maginnis structure is $500 feet
higher, stratigraphically, than Cat
Creek, and is in an area of structures
have insufficient east closure.
Maginnis structure has ample east
like Cat Creek, Brush creek,
O~iltana, Kootenai, in Fergus county.
Gas for Lewistown
Because it is so high s~tructurally,
it is believed that the Sherard s%truct-
ure is almost certain of gas if not
of oil. A pipe line to Lewistown
be about 20 miles by direct
route and should this prove a COM
mercial gas field, Lewistown will
have natural gas before the winter
is over. Lewistown refineries will,
of course, be first bidders for the
crude, should Maginnis dome produce
oil in commercial quantities.
The drilling operation is financed
by the Dea e Sherard syndicate,
which includes R. P. Jackson, Joseph
Great Falls, and Bruce
Radigan and Jack Wait of Lewis
town. Sherard has purchased a rig
and will personally supervise the
drilling, on a labor contract. Mater
Ials will be moved to the structure
Immediately.
Sherard is DriIIer
This is the first drilling Sherard
has undertaken personally in nearly
8 years, though he is an experienced
1riller. He has had wide experience
n drilling with small machines and
1rilled probably the deepest machine
In the state of Wyoming. With
small water rig he drilled 164O
leet, finishing with a three-inch hole.
Locates Wyoming Producers
In Wyoming, Mr.. Sherard located
he Lost Soldier, Grass Greek, Elk
3asin, Hamilton Dome, Lance Creek,
Dome, Rock Creek, Hidden
Dome, Maverick Springs, Pilot Butte,
Moberly, Lox, Buffalo Basin and Cur
~ Creek structures. Of these he lo-
.ated Rock Creek, Lance Greek, HID
Dome, Buffalo Basin, CurDy
Jreek and Lost Soldier structures TOT
he Ohio company. The Lost Soldier
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