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The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-07-03
Continental tOBuild
StOrehOuSe at Kevin
Other Industries Will Follow Close
Business Men Thinks; Work
Should Start This Week.

AS announced the Review last week. the Continental
ply will build house pipe Kevin
according the latest advises they have least thirty
supplies the road the coming oil of the United
States
Clyde Closer representative of the company Kevn
Tuesday, from information received the should begin
least by the latter part of this week The location understand
will be the Great Northern RghtoWay just north of the
depot the side of track This
Kevn citizens for this kind of undertaking what
been lacking make Kevin the leading oil town.
than right that Kevn should have such industries for it setting
right the Of the field with producers our
expected with the of the Continental will
be supply houses well other industries following
suit for Keyin the real center of OIL
Following will quote what the Great Falls Daily Tribune
had say of the matter it's Thursday the 26th
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-07-03
NEW COMPANY is FORMED
TO DRILL KEVIN- -SUNBUHS1

Announcement was made this weel
Of the organization Of the Interna
tional Oil Syndicate which will en-
ter the east side of Kevin-Sunburs
field and start drilling Immediately
Hugh M. Jones, president of tn
company, has left Great Falls fo5
the field where he has made arrange
ments to move the drilling rig a
once to the company property, known
as the Ferring permit, in section
81 35 1w. Mr.. Jones, together with
A. E. Landry and S. M. Bonneau o.
Gravelbourg, Sask., Canada, heads
the company, which is largely finan
ced by Canadian capital.
1t is the intention Of this com
pany, to spud in it's first well at onct
and complete it at the earliest poss
ible date. Production is looked TO-
at 800 feet or less. With the mum
ber of producing wells in the i'm
mediate vicinity and with no dry hole
the acreage on which the compan.
is drilling is looked upon as very
promising and with the development
of production will open up consider
able new territory-M Montana Oi
Journal.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-07-03
STIR IN NORTH SIDE
STRUCTURES

There is much interest In the nortl
side oil fields recently as the resui
of the visit here during thes-past
week of two men looking up the poss
Utilities of the field. B. G. Edger.
ton of Oconomowoc, Wis, spent sew
eral days here looking over the stu
alton in regard to the Cherry Ridge
and Coal Greek structures. He has
several places out in this north coun
try that he took over on 'mortgag
foreclosures and stated that he wa
anxious to make a deal to have :.
test well put down in the section
where he has holdings.
A Mr.. Ostlund, who has been fol
lowing the oil game in Montana ano
who had some valuable leases in tn,
Hepp structure, has been here tn
past week. He has block OF leasei
on the Cherry Ridge structure ane
has been going over the proposition
with the land owners again tiiii
month. He states that some shallow
holes will be drilled this summer IL
an effort to find the missing side OF
the Cherry Ridge structure.
The rig timbers to replace the oi
derrick on the Bows structure, recent
" burned to the ground as the resul
of stroke of lightning hitting tn,
rig during an electric storm, arrived
here this week. The rebuilding OF
the derrick and the repair of the out
fit is to be rushed thru as rapidly as
possible and drilling will resume
soon. The gas flow is partly under
control altho the heavy rush of gas
estimated around twelve million fee
has been a difficult problem.
Transactions in oil royalty rights OF
the Bowes structure are being plac
ed on record with increasing frequen
cy. There is considerable interest il
the holdings out there and small par
cells are finding fairly readysale
Opinion.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-07-03
Cement Stops Water
AT vanmeer Producer

Bob Vanmeer, head of the
Vanmeer producer, which came
in as the biggest commercial well
in the field. was in Kevin Tues
day for short time. Mr.. Van
meer informs us that they have
finished cementing the water
from his well, which has caused
considerable trouble for the past
few weeks. 1t is his opinion that
the we'll will show more activity
from now on than it ever has, as
ne claims that they have an alb
solute shut-off Of the water made
possible by cementing.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-07-03
CARTER MUST GET TO
WORK AT SUNBURS1

Carter Oil company will be callet
upon to resume drilling operations il
Kevin-Sunburst field as a result o
the completion of the Homestak
Exploration company's Whitman No
l producer in SW SWA SEA 2 8!
2 w, which, while uncompleted, ha
every eyemark of an excellent well
The Carter has two offsets on it
Lind lease. The Ohio OH company
must drill third offsets on the Sun
burst -Stockmen's National bank
lease.
The Homestake drilled about a
foot into the sand, at 1916 and thu
oil quickly rose 1000 feet, and thef
mounted to the top of the casing
In attempting to pull the 10-incf
casing the drillers pulled the crown
block in.
That the we'll will make $50 bar
rels is the estimate of Fred Platt
E. NJ, Of the Northern Oil lnforma
tion Bureau who says: GAS gen
eral rule in this field the production
of we'll can be guaged' by the way
the oil rises in the hole after the sane
has been penetrated, provided the
well does not flow. For instance !;
well in which the oil rises some 8Ol
feet will give an initial production OF
around so barrels and will settle tt
around 20 or 25 barrels, while foul
to five hundred feet of oil in the hole
means that the settled production
can be estimated at from 10 to 1t
barrels. Montana Oil Journal.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-07-03
Editor E. R. HoIderby
Loses Maxwell Car

E. R. HoIderby, editor of the
Sweetgrass-Sun was in Kevin on
Tuesday morning looking for an
estrayed Maxwell car that some
low-down thief had helped them
selves to on Monday night. Pret-
ty tough, "Pinkey," and the man
that would have the nerve to
steal anything from an editor
well, you know what | think of
them.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-07-03
WELL IN CANADA EXPLODES:
MAN KILLED, DERRICK COM
A. D. BROWN, FIELD MANAGEP
FOR SANITARY FIRM, IS VIC
TIM OF BLAST OF UNKNOWN
ORIGIN; WILL REPAIR DAM
AGE TO OUTFIT

Lethbridge, June 28.-A. D. Brown
field manager of the Sanitary Oi
company, was instantly killed her,
Saturday afternoon during a ter
rife explosion at the Sanitary No.
well on the Pakewoki Bird reserve
near here. Efforts made to deter
mine the cause of the explosion wer.
wholly without success up to lat.
hour Saturday night.
Mrs. Brown, wife of the victim
the accident, was at the well and
her direction the body was brough
to Lethbridge. The body will b.
forwarded to Great Falls, Mont.
where the funeral will be held ane
burial will take place.
SO terrific was the force of tn
explosion that the entire derrick wa
hurled clear of the top of the wei
and the casing was lifted severa
feet. Operations will be suspended
for some time, but p. G. Thompson
manager-director of the Sanitary
said that developments will continu,
in this field and that the well will b,
put in shape as soon as possible, al
though the explosion will retard worl
to considerable extent. The wei
was about to be completed when tn
explosion occurred.
A. d. Brown was not known t
Great Falls oil men, who were seer
Saturday night, but it is thought tha
he was here year or more ago a;
a stock salesman.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-07-03
BUILD kelvin TRACKS
FOR OIL INDUSTRIES
CONTINENTAL SUPPLY WILL IN
STALL STORE, WAREHOUSE
AND PIPE RACK; GIANT IN
CREASES REFINERY TO 1000
BARRELS

Five hundred feet of siding will be
Immediately built at Kelvin for the &C
commodation of determined upon oil
industrial enterprises that are regard
ed by the people there as the fore
runner of activities that will make tn,
original northern Montana oil town
one of the principal distributing CEN
ters in the Kelvin -Sunburst field.
The trackage, which was ordered il
Thursday, will be built by the Great
Northern railway for three industria
buildings, to be erected by the Cont
mental Supply company, it was sta
ted in Great Falls by J. S. Book, gen
eral agent for the road. The build
ms will be a store, warehouse ano
a pipe rack. A $4,000 initial order
for stock was placed Thursday by
Clyde Closer, who is understood to
be the Continentals Kevin represent
ative.
Another outburst of the oil indus
try at Kevin Thursday was the an
nouncement that the Montana Clan
refinery, operated by Gray & Cooley
will be Immediately enlarged from it,
present capacity to 1000 barrels
daily. Two large condensers, steam
tanks and stills now are on tn
ground and will be installed as soof
as the building is made ready. A
portion of the brick work for the en-
larged plant now is completed, Mr.
Book said.
The Montana Giant now is handling
a considerable amount of crude, II
addition to the production handled
at the present small plant at Ke
vim. Between June ] and June 26
this company shipped 80 cars of crude
oil to Spokane, and Thursday 10 emp
~ cars arrived at Kevin for loading
fuel oil produced by the Giant re
finery will be purchased by the Grea
Northern.
Location of the ContinentaPs store
warehouse and pipe rack at Kelvin wa
brought about by the extensive de
velopments Immediately to the east
and the geographical location of thu
town with reference to the produc
ing field. More than Is wells nov
are producing or going down shor
distance east of Kevin and Mr.. Bocf
stated Thursday night that excite
ment is running higher in the TOWN.
than az any time since the Campbell
discovery was brought in four mile
to the northwest.
In a long distance telephone con
versation Thursday night with ke'
vim citizens it was learned that tn
town is confident of forging ahead te
a position comparable with any 0.
the other northern Montana oil CEN
ters. The location there of the Con
tinentals distributing plants is con
sidred to be the first of several tha
will be attracted by the swing of tn
oil industry towards Kevin.-Grea
Falls Tribune.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-07-03
Queen City
Drill No. 5
Dry Hole Last Week Does Not
Discourage Canadian Com
puny- Drill Another.

Just because the Queen City
Oil company brought in sulph-
ur water we'll on their holdings
in Sc corner SET nw4 5-34-2 west.
late last week, has not discourag-
ed the directors and stockholders
the least bit, and they are up and
at it again. This time they will
drill their No. 5 we'll offsetting
No. 3 directly east, center Of the
south line Of the seA nwA 4-35-
2 west. Material IS now on the
ground and contractor w. ]. Ell
lott, says that he will be ready
to spud in by the latter part of
this week.
The No. we'll which hit sui
phur water, was drilled to a depth
of 1906 feet, where, according to
f. Sommerville, director of the
company, claims they struck
good sand. Stockholders present
at the No. 5 we'll last week were:
F. Sommerville, director, L. Paul,
w. Armour, V. Johnson, w. Pirt,
all Of Regina, and E. C. Cecil of
Calgary.
Quite bit of activity seems to
center around this section since
the Queen City brought in their
No. 3, well, claimed by oil men
to be the best producer in the
field. T h e Johnson-Sunburst-
Corey spudded in Monday on the
Sc swA nwA 1872 west; the
Sunburst- w hitman-Corey No. q
W sgginlf up the southwest Off
set on the ne nw4 sw4 A, Sun
burst -Crumley-Corey No. 2 has
spudded in the south offset on
the NV neA swA 4.
The Shoshone Oil company is
rigging up its No. 4 well on the
Storm permit, offsetting on the
east the Sunburst- Crumley- Corey
producer, in the sW nw4 sci 4-34-
2 west. The Crumley we'll is
making around 100 barrels day. !
The Vanlmeer-Storm No. 2 south |
of the big producer. is drilling |
below 500 feet in the CIVIL SCI
sci A. Contractor w. E. Burks
will make record time on this
we'll if he continues at the pres
ent drilling rate.
The Spartan-Montana well on
the Swift permit is drilling close
to 1000 feet. This well should
be completion this week. 1t is
east and south of the Vanmeer
producer.
The offsets TO the Seattle-Swee-
ney we'll have thus far yielded
The Sunb. Whitman
Corey No. l, northeast offset, has
been abandoned at 1921 feet.
There was about 15p feet of oil
in the hole. A shot of nitro was
used and the oil flow disappeared.
The Newton & McMurray we'll
east offset, had like luck. Ohio
Oil company has plugged and
it's Sunburst-Norem
we'll in sw ne4 net 1912 west at
l473 feet, having a showing OF
oil which disappeared after be-
ing shot.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-07-03
BIG WELLS START
DRILLING IN WEST
319 HOLES DRILLED IN kelvin
SUNBURST FIELD SINCE 1922
OIL RUN DURING MAY AP
PROXIMATES 10000 BARRELS

The largest activity in the Kevin
Sunburst field at this time is in tn,
neighborhood of the Foster-Sweeney
we'll in Sec. 5 BAN 2W and near thu
Van Meere Oil Syndicate well in Sec
BAN 2W. The Foster-Sweeney wei
has been producing around $50 bar
rels per day and the Van Meere wei
has been producing at times as higl
as 500 barrels per day at the sam,
time is making considerable water
Within the last fifteen days as man,
as ten or twelve new wells in thu
field have been spudded in. Accord
ing to the report of F. G. Platt, E
M, who publishes weekly scouting
reports on the field, the field has tn.
following history of production an
dry holes since its discovery in 1922
Bruins No. A Dry
Producing oil wells in the Kevin
Sunburst field, 155; producing gas
wells, IA; wells producing water in
commercial quantities, 1; dry hole
on the structure, SO; dry holes OF
the structure, Is; drilling wells, 81
rigs up, 10; validation holes, II; to
tai 319.
Mr.. Platt also reports that up tc
June /, 1924 the Illinois Pipe Line
has run 1916 barrels
oil from the field.
Bruins No. A of the Western Petrol
cum Exploration one location to tn.
east of Bruins No. 2, was drilled t
the depth of 1866 feet and found non
orductive. There was a showing o.
3il in the Ellis 1T 1850 feet but no
enough to justify the company in
shooting the well. The Ellis produc
ng horizon was reached about 10 feet
over than in the Bruins No. 2. Th
horizon in Bruins No.
vas reached at 1927 feet; a differ
snce in elevation between Bruins No.
, and No. of about 13 feet. Since
he general dip of the structure
oward Bruins No. from Bruins No
}, the inference is that Bruins No
| was drilled in a low place on thu
structure.
Adding to the amount of oil rul
" the Illinois Pipe Line company, an,
purchased by the small refinery
Zevin and the amount used for de
,elopment purposes the production
or the month of May in the Kelvin
sunburst field approximates 10000
arrels.
Because of the fact that the struc
ure is large and oil is now being pro
uced in Township 36N, Range wv
township BEN, Ranges 1, 2 and 3W
nd Township BAN in Ranges l an,
w, with considerable gas having
cen found in Township 32N, Range
w. it would seem that the field ha
great many possibilities. A yer.
mall part of the same has yet beer
respected .-Trius, CIV. Va.,) News. |
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-07-03
Shower Gets 60 Days

Harley Shower, who has been
held in Jail for the past three
weeks in connection with the
robbery Of Great Falls store,
was given a trial at Shelby Sat
urday before Judge Greene. He
was sentenced to sixty days in
the county Jail, the jury setting
the penalty.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-07-03

A. Goeddertz, Jrs, has had his
house painted to a nice white color,
making it the incest appearing res
idence in Kevin. Jack Sohn, was
the artist.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-07-03

W. Armour, stockholder of the
Queen City Oil company came dowr
last week for few days visit in tn
field. He returned home Friday.
Otis Thompson, formerly Kevin
ite, but now residing at Kalispel
came over last week Tor few day
visit with relatives here.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-07-03

Quite number from here atten-
ded the dance at Sunburst Saturday
evening. A good time is reported
by all,
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-07-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. A. Johnson O.
Shelby were Kevin visitors Sunday
afternoon, looking after oil inter
ests.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-07-03
Mrs. R. B. Thompson
Called to Michigan

Mrs. R. B. Thompson, and son Robt.
departed Saturday night for Hartford,
Michigan, in response to tele-
gram stating that Mrs. Thompson's
mother, Mrs. E. M. Hoard, was crit
ically i'll with cancer of the stomach.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-29
Stand Fast for the Farmer-Labor Party
CONTINUED from page one)


munsts the workers and farmers and against the
capitalist parties They present movement for
independent political action by workers and farmers the
most hopetul developments in the American labor
dustria workers join forces
Party they will create fighting organization that win
concessions to them from the present capitalist
and which Will onward for fight against the whole
system OF exploitation and special privilege.
1T IS because the Communists recognize in the Farmer
Labor Party this great step in advance
they have thrown themselves heart and soul the
of building up this movement
While fighting with the workers and farmers their
struggle things the Communists have
yer concealed their principles They that the u-
mate solution OF the class struggle between the capitalists
and the workers and farmers only thru the esab
shrent of Soviet Government and Dictatorship of
Proetarat. While fighting shoulder shoulder with the
workers and farmers in their struggles of today Com
munists know thru the lessons of experience that
only thru government completely dominated by the
capitalists that the existing system of exploitation be
abolished.
THE attack by LaFoIIette the Farmer-Labor Party
should purpose. It should every worker
and farmer consciousness that the producing group in
capitalist society rely upon it's strength
surrender itself to the leadership and possible betrayal by
any individual politician It must organize its strength in
class party and rely upon that party make its fight and
not upon individuals.
The to LaFoIIette should be energetic
fight for the June 18th Convention Every workers and
farmers organization should send delegates there. The
Workers Party will continue its efforts to make the June 18th
Convention great demonstration of workers and farmers
realize there the hope of the workers and farmers
for party to fight their battles.
FORWARD TO THE CLASS FARMER-LABoR PARTY!
FORWARD TO THE WORKERS. AND FARMERS
GOVERNMENT!
Central Executive Committee,
Workers Party of America,
William z Foster Chairman.
c. E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-29
June IL Convention
Feels the Steam
of the Engineers
Continued from page one)

Continued from page one)
be held in st. Paul on June 18th, says
1.-THE Farmer-Labor Party Of Mime
sofa is rather Of local nature, but is
distinct third party proposition. II
has not as a third party the endorse
ment Of the Sixteen Standard Rail
way Labor Organizations, altho they
lent much support to them in their two
last senatorial campaigns, which pro-
duced two splendid senators from the
state of Minnesota"
Later in the same editorial they
again state, III William G. McAdoo
should receive the democratic nomina-
ton 1t would, in our opinion, be folly
not to support him, rather than to en-
gage in a third party venture"
Workers for New Party.
This editorial. as well as the nu-
merous other statements given out by
the c. p. p. A. leaders, plainly shows
that they have learned nothing from
the economic struggles Of the workers
and farmers during the past few years,
when In each case the employers have
used their political control to force the
workers to accept lower wages, longer
hours, and scab shops. The leaders
cannot break away from the corrupt
political machines OF the financial in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-29

terests. BY the method of voting that
will prevail in the Cleveland these
leaders will cost more votes than all
other groups combined.
The workers and farmers of the
Northwest, including the railroad
workers have learned their lesson. In
dications are that the rank and file of
the workers thruout the country have
also learned that a new party must
be formed which will fight their
battles. They have hoped that the
leaders of the international unions
were ready to show the way; but the
backwardness Of these leaders will not
prevent the rank and file from launch
ing successful movement at st. Paul
on June 18th.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-29
Mayors sIuaa.r Costs $4,000.

SAN FRANCISCO.-The Rolph
Navigation Company of which Mayor
Rolph of San Francisco is chief own.
er, must pay s14,500 damages to four
seamen injured by Frederick Hansen,
mate Of one Of the Rolph steamers,
and now serving time for beating an
other sailor to death. : OF this $1,000
will go to Demetrius Kohilas, who
has become totally blind as a result
Of the mates beating; $500 will go
to John Kapstein, mad $500 each to
Alfred Seppinen and Arne Arnesen.
The men shipped from New South
Wales after the boats original crew,
recruited at Vancouver. had deserted
because OF the mates brutality.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-29
NEW YORK CITY
Party Activities

Section 4, Williamsburg Saturday
May 81, D. M, at Grand st. Exten-
sion. Speakers, Rebecca Grecht, Sam
Nessin, Ben Levy.
Section 5, MISUNDERSTANDING
May 81, s p. m, at Stone and Pitkin
AYES. Speakers, II. M. wicks, M. Ro.
senberger, Lena Chernenko.
West New York, N. J.-Thursday,
May 20, D. m. at IA ST. and Bergen.
line Ave. Speaker, Rose Pastor
Stokes.
A very important meeting Of the
New York @. C. G. will be held Fri
day June 6, 8 D. m, at 2Os East 18th
st., Room 2.
The city executive committee pro-
poses plan for the reorganization
OF the G. c. c. All delegates must
be present at the meeting so that the
may be thoroly dis
cussed and plan Of future activity
adopted.