The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-04
News Notes Of
The Oil Fields


Drilling is progressing in a salts
factory manner at the Charles Wheeler
well near B%rOadview.
April 10 is set as h date for drill
ing TO mmen on land about 400
Yards northeast of the new Rainbow
hotel at Shelby.
Representatives Of Independent job
bers and refiners will meet at Lewis
town April 9 for the purpose of per-
fecting a trade organization In petrole-
UNI products.
1t is reported that drilling on the A.
b. c. No. . well in the Devils Basin,
near Roundup. which proved a buster
at q depth Of 1000 feet, will soon be
started again.
A report from Havre states that an
other crew has been put to work by
1.-The Kremlin Petroleum company,
which has resumed drilling on it's well
near Kremlin.
Predictions are being frequently
heard in Northern Montana by oil ex-
perts that the Kevin-SunburSt field
will develop into one Of the largest in
the United States.
During the first two months Of this
year 80 oil and gas prospecting filings
were recorded at the Havre am office,
compared with one during the CORE
/, spending month in 1922.
Work of surveying the structure
south of the Winnecook ranch near
HarlOwton by the California Oil COM
I pany indicates much development in
? Wheatland county this season.
|, The Great Northern has purchased
= 125 cars to handle the rapidly increas-
ing output from the northern Montana
: fields and for handling Oil to be used
for fuel on the Kalispell division.
A great amount OF development work
5 is being planned in the BrOadview
: project this season. Those familiar
1 with the district have no hesitancy in
predicting that commercial oil will be
2 found before long.
q The Antelope Butte on company is
preparing to drill on acreage within
three miles of Square Butte, according
to an announcement. The structure is
considered very promising by geoio-
gists who have examined 1t.
. Announcement was made the other
. day that a contract has been made be
tween the Austin-Hackett interests of
the Mesaba iron range and Gilbert I.
Luce for the drilling of a we'll on the
Il Lake Basin structure lear Rapelje.
One of the most important develop
" ments in the Kevin-S unburst field was
1T the discovery of 30 feet of sand at the
I'd Ellis horizon, between 1874 and 100
l. feet, in connection with the bringing
VS. in of the Homestake ExploratiOn-HOwl
Mt ing we'll No. 1, March "a.
D. The Minnesota Flatwillow Petroleum
to company, which has acquired leases il
es the FlatwillOw district north Of Round
is up, has let a contract to the Jay Sc
e.. Drilling company to put down a ties
It. well in that structure. The contrac
ey calls for drilling to 5000 feet unles
e. oil is found at a lesser depth.
t. Operations are under way by TN
Sc Mountain Chief Oil company on tn
ms former O'Neil we'll On the Stone prof.
b. erty near Browning. For the presen
drilling will be. confined to the on
well. but II is intended, it is said, t
ID commence another in some favorabl
it section of the company's holdings at
it'll very early date.
Mt. Field officials of the United STATE
In geologist survey report hat Montana
led crude petroleum has dropped to Q
rts average of 6.S57 barrels a day. II
the total production during February
CIV this year was $4,000 barrels cOmpar'
ces with 10000 barrels during Februar
ced 1922. and 235.OO0 barrels in Janua
,si- compared with $4,000 barrels in ia
uary a year ago.
the Transmission Of crude oil from 4
vitn Kevin-Sunburst field in February W
fiji 1O,171 barrels, according TO report
ont the Illinois Pipe Line company to {
rri- state public service commission, 8
are proximately 7,647 barrels less than
lies January. This brings the total traI
.nds mission by the company in the
, of months it's pipe line has been in ope
ar ton to 56,976 barrels.
mol It is said that Hogan No. 2, VIII
ccu- was brought in a few days ago,
/, in Gated in the Hogan Oil company no
he , ings In the Kevin-Sunburst field. v
produce practically as much oil as
rood Hogan well NO. L, Wnich came III >"
t;,is time ago. Drilling operations N {
sons well commenced during the first p
n ,s of February. Oil was struck at
depth of 1,4OO feet, several hund
feet less than the usual depth for 81
a flow.
Settled production Of the o.
Elk Baker well No. 3 in the Kevin-Sunbr
field is estimated by officials Of
work company at 100 barrels per {
the which trebles the size of any well
citing the field and makes it even bigger t
and the wells of the Cat Greek field WI
orr in tho q nrIu DAYS Of that field frnnu