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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
OIL STRUCK ON POPLAR DOME
DRTLERS REPORT STRIKING OIL AT SUR
PRISING DEPTH OF ONLY 1850 FEET
EXTRAORDINARY SHOWING OF THE PIONEER
VEL. LOCATED ACROSS THE RIVER FROM
P0PlAR. SAYS ROOSEVELT COUNTY INDIE
PENDENT

as a teld of great promise, and pre-
dictiOns have been freely made that
the Poplar Dome, when fully develop
ed, would rival the best oil fields in
the world.
"The Pioneer Oil and Gas Company
is a Montana Corporation and has
approximately 1900 shareholders and
has expended in the neighbOrhood of
S100,000.00 on this well, the drilling
of which has taken 3 years.
''This has been an exciting day in
the city of Poplar, and conversation
waxed so eloquent that many citizens
claimed there was oil on their shoes
when they crossed the streets-but
seriously speaking, this showing
means wonders not only for Poplar
and the surrounding country, but for
all of Northeastern Montana. This
section, and especially this field, has
been watched by the entire oil frater-
nifty, as the production of oil in East
ern Montana will have a great bear
ing on the possibility of large refinery
capacity in the Twin Cities, which now
are compelled to ship In practically
all of the gasoline used in that large
section of the country.
''The Independent is glad to broad
being drilled for the Pioneer Oil and
will be but the beginning of much
greater things in the way of produc-
tion and development.
Committee Goes to View Well
A committee of the following rep
resentative business men of Poplar
have gone to view the well, and if
any of our out-of-town readers will
write to any of the following, or tC
The Independent, they win receive
full report: Walter +. Brittan, Charles
R. Trinder, A. R. Milton, Fred Turner
and Erick Noun"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13

All has been struck on the Poplar
dome
At last It seems 10 be proven that
..ere i 9iI ia this section of Montana
I those having faith in the oil de-
o.- .-s n Sheridan county feel vindi-
fs--oI n their faith, if the news broad
.a.tad bv tie Roosevelt County indie
csrient In an extra edition proves to
5e well founded.
After reporting pressure at the Pho
moor we'll and expected oil discovery
.oo1 IN the regular edition of the
Roosevelt County Independent last
week that paper put out an coil Spe-
agI" Monday announcing discovery
as follows:
early yesterday morning the well
being drilled for the Pioneer Oil and
Gas Company, near Poplar, by the
diamond Drill Contracting Company
If Spokane, Wash, broke through a
hard impervious strata and when tools
were raised they were dripping with
oil Word was at once sent to Presi-
dent Philips, VINO was at Ine SCock-
boders' meeting at Bainville, and we
are told work is suspended pending in
wstigatiOn into the quantity and
quality Of the substance now at hand.
The Independent understands the
well is now down only 1850 feet
while the geologists' estimates ranged
between 1900 and $500 feet.
"The strike yesterday, it is hoped
Will reward long, tedious and expen-
sive work, the we'll having been com
menced in July, 1920, but has beer
retarded from various causes, about
which many do not agree.
"The Poplar Dome, which has beer
surveyed by a number of foremost
biologists, has always been spoken Of
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
Commissioners Rent 3 Rooms From Mem
OriaI Hospital For Year At $3.50. Per Month

tai. The proposition did not provide
that these rooms We're to be always
kept unoccupied for use by the county
at any moment, but it seems that
when they were not in use by the
county patients the hospital can also
rent them to any other patient who
might happen to need them. In other
words the arrangement proposed is
an indirect method of circumventing
the section of the constitution pro-
hibiting gift or donations for private
purposes. The rooms were, however,
to be paid for by the month after
the services have been rendered in
gstead Of by a lump sum in advance
as was the methods used last year,
and which action elected so much cri-
ticism Of the Board on the part of the
Public Examiner.
Commissioners Tyler and Ibsen said
the proposition looked good to them
and that they had been in favC% Of
entering into a contract with the hos
pital at the time of the special June
meeting when the first delegation
from the hospital had appeared before
them, but had put the matter over
until July because of the absence Of
Com. Lundeen. Com. Lundeen pro
tested and objected to the giving Of
all of this money to the Pler wvo 4
Hospital, in view of the fact that the
county doctors were getting such a
huge drag out of the county bon
us to keep them going anc ~. he
thought that these gifts e o1.d be
J distributed among all Of t. r titu-
tions of the county. He II he
wanted one third, or SEQ, fho DTo-
posed donation per moptN fog he 0Ut-
look Community HOsr' os one third
of the taxes of the cC,7o'v cane from
the territory north the 500 Line
'and adjacent to the aesn't2l ot Out
look, and that it We crly fsic that
CONTINUED 4: Pge Fcar)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
DIRECTORS MEETING
WHEAT GROWERS TO
HELD TODAY AT
LEWLSTOWN, MONT.

Hon. Clair StOner received a
wire from LewistOwn Monday,
directing him to be present at
that city, Friday, July 18th, to
attend a directors meeting of the
Montana Wheat Growers AssO-
ciatiOn occurring there today.
The message was relayed to Rep.
StOner at Malta where he is or
ganiZing for the Wheat Growers
in Phillips County, and he prob
ably drove, across to the above
city from Malta by car which is
only about 100 miles.
The Board of Directors recent
ly met Immediately after the
election of a new board which
occurred in June when Rep. StOn-
er was elected on to this board,
but owing to some confusion In
getting out the notices, Director
StOner did not get notice of the
meeting in time to get there for
the organization of the new board
: and as a result did not go over
at all.
: There is considerable interest
= being taken in this meeting be-
= cause of the fact that the money
8 for the final settlement Of the
= pool hasrnot yet been distributed
= IN spite of the fact that the pool
= was cleaned UP early in9June and
+ the checks were promised for the
= first of July. and the members of
= the pool are becoming impatient
y because of this unexplained de-
= Law and because the money is bad
3 Iy needed at this time.
= When this meeting of the Board
= of Directors has been finished, a
i complete statement from the pool
4 is expected Immediately, and no
doubt Rep. StOner will have news
for the members as soon as he re-
turns.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13

had extricated the young man from
where he hung and laid him out upon
the floor. County Coroner Nelson was
notified who came to McElroy immedi-
ately and after looking the surround
ings over declared the death to be ac-
cidental and Immediately got the body
ready for burial.
FUNERAL AT WESLEY
The funeral was held at Westby,
Thursday afternoon at 200 o'clock.
The services were performed by Rev.
Hall of Westby and the interment
was made at the cemetery at McElrOy.
The funeral was large one, being
held under the auspices of the Ameri-
can Legion of Westby of which he
was a member
This is the second funeral in the
Espeland family as the unfortunate
mans mother died less than two
months ago at her homestead near
that of her sons.
OBITUARY
John Espeland was % years old at
the time of the unfortunate accident
that caused his death. He was born
in Iowa, June 18th, 1891, going with
his parents from Iowa to Granville
North Dakota, when a small boy
where he grew to young manhood
He came to Montana eight years agC
and stayed while with his brother
Ingwald, who had taken p Homestead
prior to that time near what is nov
| McElroy. Later his mother filed OF
a homestead adjoining , Ingwald's
where she resided until she died abou
two months ago. After deceased be
came of age he filed on the home
stead where he was killed. The dea'
man leaves to mourn his death, thre
brothers, Selmer, Ingwald and Gus
tive, and two sisters residing in Dako
ia and Minnesota respectively. Johl
Espeland was a prosperous, homes
young man and was very highly re
spected in his neighbOrhoOd.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
Federated Farmer Labor Party Launched
STORMY SESSIONS OPENS AT.
CHICAGO TUESDAY, JULY 3RD
MOTHER JONES AND SEN. PETTIGREW LIVER
STIRRING ADDRESSES = FARMER -LABORITES
BOLT-FEDERATED PARTY FORMED.
Rv LUDWELL DENNY

Federated Press Staff Correspondent.
CHICAGO.-"I was born red, I'll
die red" Aplauding these words of
Mother Jones, the 700-800 delegates
of the Farmer-LabOr party and the
invite delegates from local unions
and working class political parties
launched here, July 3, the conference
of labor and farm groups to form a
federated Farmer-LabOr party.
Mother Jones, speaking with the au-
thOrity of a life work on the fighting
line Of the rank and file labor move
ment, put the proposition squarely be-
fore the delegates by saying, "All this
OPPRESSION and injustice is the workers
fault-they have been traitors to their
class, they can change conditions as
they wish whenever they get together
and fight together. The workers have
the social workers, the temperance
hounds, the suffragists, everything but
the right thing-class solidarity"
John Fitzpatrick, president Chicago
Federation of Labor, appealed for a
federated party along the lines of the
British Labor party, that property
may serve the interests of labor in
stead of debating to it."
LINES BROKEN BEFORE SAYS
COMINGS
AS old party lines were broken once
before and the people of the U. S. di.
vided on slavery, so today they are
ready to divide on another supreme
issue, privilege, said Lieut.. Gov. Geo
F. Comings of Wisconsin, head of the
Wisconsin delegation Of Is to the con.
vention.
PETTIGREW SPEAKS
The principal opening address wa,
given by former U. S. Senator Pet
tigrew, South Dakota. He said il
| part:
"The declaration of independents,
has never been in force. The consti
tuition was written by lawyers to pro
i tect privilege. The courts have us
urped the power of congress. w
should disfranchise the lawyers a
Russia has done. All power to tn
men who do the work and create tn
wealth. We should hang the prof
teers. Don't buy the mines and rail
, roads, take them-that win, not b
confiscation but only catching tn
thieves and restoring the stolen prop
/ erty Of the people, The meanest elias
is the middle class, the funkies, an
followers of the capitalists.
Don't let them talk harmony an
peace to you, that is their frauC
Raise the class issue, unite, go to wa
and you will lscare them to deatl
You will win"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
STANTON BANK AT
GREAT FALLS CLOSES

: Great Falls July 12.-The
; Stanton Trust and Savings Bank
: of Great Falls, of which George
E Fl. Stanton is president, closed its
s doors this morning when unable
= to liquidate its clearing at the To-
= cal clearing house.
: The closing was voluntary and
= State Superintendent of Banks
= SHELTON will arrive tonight to
= take charge.
= Stanton said the bank was
y solvent but it was impossible to
= procure money to meet the con-
> Germs obligations.
= The banks statement, issued in
= response to the formal call of
= June 8, showed resources of >
= 174,42S, with deposits of apprOxi-
mately $6OO,0OO.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
DELEGATION APPEARS BEFORE
BOARD ASKING FOR SHARE FOR
OUTLOOK HOSPITAL


BOARD ASKING FOR SHARE FOR
OUTLOOK HOSPITAL.
The Board of County Commission
ers met again Friday of last week
after the recess of the Regular Meet
ing ordered on Monday, July End, and
again took up the threads where they
had been dropped for the Fourth. All
members of the Board and the Clerk
were present. Many routine matters
were taken care of among them a
number of the claims filed by Dolin
which were not billed to the county
according to his contract which they
very seldom are. In fact it seems that
a printing contract with DOlin and
the county commissioners for that
matter is simply an excuse to have
the printing done by Dolin and does
not bind anybody after contract has
been awarded.
RENT ROOMS FROM HOSPITAL
A delegation Of officers from the
Sheridan County Memorial Hospital
appeared before the Board of County
Commissioners Friday afternoon, and
told the board how hard it was to
keep the hospital going and that the
less it got some support in the way
hospital could not continue open un-
of a gratuity from the taxpayers OF
+ Sheridan county and proposed, in view
of the fact that the law does not al
low a donation. out and out, that the
county rent three rooms from thu
hospital by the month at the rate 0.
$50 per month for each room or S18'
per month, Under the authority con
ferred by the poor law, to be used fOl
the care of the poor and iISligen
sick, these rooms to be paid fo
whether they are used or not o.
whether a poor person is housed II
any one or none of them for the en-
tire year in order to help the hOspi
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
Propeller for Aeroplane
Arrived Saturday

The propeller for the aerOplane
(which was broken the evening of the
Fourth when the pilot ran into a Fad
while landing, arrived in Plentywood
by express Saturday morning, July
seventh and the mechanics soon had
it attached to the plane and the ma
chine in tiptop condition. The pro
peller was ordered from Minneapolis
by wire and came by express.
Just as soon as the plane was in
condition, the pilot went to work ak
ing up passengers with which Lusi-
ness he was occupied for a couple. Ct
days, when the plane left Plenty|ood
for Wolf Point where it will perform
during the stampede at that city.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
SENATOR WHEELER
KICKS. OVER TRACES;
AIDS THIRD PARTY
MOntanan Announces His Action is
Only TempOrary-Says Democrat
Has No Chance In Minnesota, So H
Will Help Magnus johnson.

WASHINGTON, June Ex-senator
Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, an
nounced today in a telegram sent from
Butte and made public at his Office
here, that he intended to campaign
in Minnesota in behalf of Magnus
johnson, the Famer-Labor candidate
for United States senator.
"This does not mean," the senator
said in his telegram, chat I have
abandoned the Democrat party, but
that | am convinced the Democratic
candidate has no chance and it is i'm
perative that the people have another
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
COUNTIES RECEIVE
MORE LICENSE CASH

Helena-Montana counties will re-
ceive $89,783 more this year from
automobile licenses than last year.
Checks which are being mailed by the
secretary of state and fgurtes the
compiled show there are 10000 more
passenger cars and 400 more trucks
registered than in 1922. The total
this year was $1,000 passenger cars
and $3.50 trucks.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
HAIL STORMS AND HIGH
WINDS DESTROY CROPS

an nam accompanied by high winds
IN caa hail did much damage in the
TTg5,'e-.o&n NJ. country, Monday, July 9.
rJ:-i II: "Ihd came up with heavy clouds
orag %a.cA settled low and threatened a cy-
s;~.s s;oa5 lor time In the McElroy pre-
AMY AMY several buildings We're destroyed
t5o. .o one hte was lost. Those having
strar.I r', crops entirely or partially de-
0i..ye 0ri'oyed were Andrew Epsen. Oscar
P.,...' Harry Hunsdon and Severine
,7,g.:s. ,T1,.aeSs. The loss is estimated as
0T- : INTO the thousands of dollars.
'9 uJte insurance was carried.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
BOWDOLN DRILL BE-
LIEVED NEAR OIL

ClssoIoW us towns of Malta, Saco and
eycit" so" are again tense with
oil ~ ,S'.gA' S over the prospects of
y" Ro,,. IN the Bowdoin dome.
Ro.o51lu. 'ne HOmestake and the
af1r uoin ngs are working again
anS I' several weeks of cave-ins
doin IGslng trouble. The Bow
For works day and night.
has I bne .ne past two days the drill
terdsv yeen IN solid rock and YES
deDtb oe morning had reached a
ieye H.. 1'oV feet. Oil men be-
encountat ,',ot producing sands will be
$500 O,seted foet at approximately
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
JUDGE FELT CHAMBER
COURT In P'WOOD
Bill of Exceptions Settled In the Case
of Outlook Elevator Company VS..
American Surety Company and o..
]. BrOwn-Case to Supreme Court.

Judge Felt of Baker, Carter County,
arrived in PlentywOOd Thursday morn
ing on the train to hear argument on
motion to settle bill of exceptions IN
the case of the Outlook State Bank VS.
American Surety Company and o. j.:
Brown, which ease was tried last fall
in the district court on charge OF
Judges before Judge Felt. This case
has been pending in the courts now
for about six years. Attorney Lewis
for the Outlook Elevator obpected to
the settling of the bill of exceptions
and moved for a dismissal on the
Grounds that the time allowed by Law
for perfecting he appeal after notlce
given had expired, but the court over
ruled him and sustained Attorney
PauPs contention that he was within
his time, holding that the time toI
appeal does not run until after the
motion for a new trial had been de-
MED. The case will now go TO the
Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court recently ISSUED
an order ordering the transcript tlleC
in that court by the 31st day OF July
or the case would be dismissed ~ the
Supreme Court.
Judge Felt, who has been setting OF
the Supreme Court commission To-
the past three months, which delayed
his coming to Plentywood to hear tn
above motion, returned to his hom'
at Baker this afternoon. He had M
other business to attend to at Plenty
1uoOJ
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13
PLENTYWOOD WINS FROM
GRENORA BY SCORE OF z TO

Last Sunday the Plentywood team,
composed mostly of home boys, the
salaried players having been paid off,
iourneyed to Grenora and put up a
fine exhibition of baseball, winning by
a score of z to 4.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-07-13

Continued &: Prge Four
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
STUDEBAKER SALES
FOR FIRST QUARTER
BREAK ALL RECORDS
Early Shortage of Cars Is
Not improbable, As
vs serts Smith. SO

@Reports reaching the Studebaker
factory from all over the country
show that retail sales Of Studebaker
cars for the year to date, have broken
all prior records" says S. w. Smith,
manager of the Winerich Motor Sales
Company, local Studebaker distribut-
ors.
Cars have been purchased by the
public as fast as they arrived. They
have been ordered for immediate de-
livery to waiting buyers, rather than
TO take care of the usual spring de-
mand, and as a result there promises
to be a serious shortage of Stude-
baker cars during April, May and
June.
Several factors have contributed
to this record-breaking demand for
Studebaker cars. The first undoubted-
ly is the eyer-growing appreciation of
the automobile as the indispensable ne
cessity it is in the life of today. An
other factor has been the open win
ter the country over, with the excep-
ton OF a few sections. Then, too, the
increased percentage of closed car pro-
duction has emphasized the insistent
winter demand.
The so-called seasonal demand is
thing Of the past. Today we have
an all-year demand in the winter as
well as the spring, summer ard fall
in the last six months of the wear as
well as the first six months. And the
pubic benefits from this in q way it
may not perhaps appreciate. Speak
ing for Studebaker, for instance,
may say that q steady, consistent de-
mand for our product permits of great
er manufacturing economies than q
sharply fluctuating demand would,
and the public gets the benefit Of
greater dollar-for-dollar values.
"One OF the greatest advantages we
have is the fact that with the Stude-
baker line we do not have to lose
sales because of not having the type
OF car the buyer wants. The COM
plete line is an advantage in any
business. The piano dealer, for in
stance, knows he is wasting his time
trying to sell a customer an upright
when that customer wants a baby
grand. The piano man carries both
kinds, and player-pianos besides.
$50 it is with us. With thirteen
body types on the light-six, special-six
and bix-six chassis. we have q range
and variety Of models, open and en-
closed. to fit every taste and purse,
and this is an advantage not only in
selling a man his first car but in
selling him his second. third. fourth
or fifth and keeping him continuously
Studebaker owner"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
HUTCHINSON SAYS
HUPMOBILE DEMAND
is UNPRECEDENTED
Factory Official, Back From
Trip, Enthusiastic
Over Future.

The existence Of q buying demand
that will not be wholly equaled by
Hupmobile production for several
months is reported by o. c. Hutchin-
soon, general sales manager of the
Hupp Motor Car Corporation, who has
Just returned to Detroit after trip
which took him into more than half
of the states.
Beginning with the New York show,
Mr.. Sides has attended similar shows
in every large city of the country,
from Boston in the East TO Kansas
City. and from Minneapolis in the
North TO Oklahoma City. His trips
have taken him to more than twenty
of the largest buying centers in the
country.
At the same time, Mr.. Hutchinson
has been covering thousands of miles
of other territory. He found the buy
ing interest at the scores of shows
held the last three months TO be great
er than at any previous shows ever
held.
Discussing his trip in a letter to
Tom Little, manager of the Burton
Larry Motor Company, local Hupmo-
bile distributors, Mr.. Hutchinson said
that he was told by hundreds of Hup-
mobile dealers, bankers and other bus
mess men that conditions in their re-
spective localities were greatly i'm
proved and that the buying power was
much greater than a year ago.
THE reports OF Mr.. Hutchinson
are bearing out the prediction of Hupp
made some months ago that
1923 would witness the greatest sales
Of Hupmobiles in the history of the
commented Mr.. Little.
: Our chief difficulty right now is in
securing sufficient cars to meet the
demand.
Business houses. statesmen, bust
ness and professional men and women
are finding out more and more that
the motor car is an indispensable as
set