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The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-03-05
JOE BAKER SAYS
THAT REFINERY
WILL BE BUILT

Shelby, March O. Announce
ment is made by Joe B. Baker
that a 1000 barrel refinery is to
be built at Shelby by representa-
tives of the Big Four Refining CO.
mpany of Texas, and that mach
inery for the plant is ready to be
shipped from the Kay Iron works
at Kansas City Mo. j. d Wrath
er and L.G. Wrather will be heads
of the proposed plant, the men
who are heads of the Hurst ref
merry at Spokane. Mr.. Baker met
L. G. Wrather in Spokane and the
latter agreed to locate here if L.
900 barrels of oil per day were
guaranteed the plant; this was
guaranteed by j. A. Johnson, and
the Wrathers telegraphed that
the plant would go ahead.
The site of the plant is the 40
acre tract east of Shelby owned
by the Shelby Townsite company
and formerly optioned by Gordon
Campbell, Kevin operator, for
refinery plant he once announced
he would build. Lethridge will
be designated as the distributing
station Of the refinery's output.
Shelby hackers of the refinery
are Joe B. Baker, James A. John
son, ]. w. Johnson, Alex Mavity |
J. A. Kaufman and Con Walbur-
ger. Baker was the organizer Of |
the ''56y Petroleum company of |
Miles City, one of the successful
Independent operating syndicates
in the Cat Creek field, and also
Of the Miles City refinery.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-03-05
FIELD OPERATION
SINCE JANUARY
SHOWS INCREASE

Notwithstanding cold weather
and the slow sale of petroleum
products in January and Febru-
ary, development in the Kevin
oil field and carload business dur
ring the seven weeks since Jan
uary |, 1925, has shown a large
increase over business in the
same season of previous years, j.
S. Book, general agent of the
Great Northern railway at Great
Falls, said today.
A report compiled by Mr.. Book
lists 425 cars of petroleum pro-
ducts, including fuel oil, shipped
from the Kevin district in past
seven weeks. OF this number,
1872 carloads originated at Sun
burst and 80 carloads at Kevin.
Judging from the drilling op-
erations and other development
under way at the present time, a
gradual but steady increase in
the business Of the north fields
should be shown each month dur
ing the spring and summer" Mr..
Book declared.
Another indication of much de-
velopment and drilling projected
during the spring and summer is
the volume of shipping of oil sup
plies and equipment into the field.
Fifteen carloads of miscellaneous
drilling equipment has been ship
ped to these fields on the Great |
Northern since January 1.-Gt.
Leader,
Read Review Ads-It Paws
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-03-05
Keystone Plans South
West Side Operations

The Keystone Oil syndicate is
about to enter the Kevin field
and become one Of the active
operators. They having just clos
ed a contract with ]. B. Peterson,
oil operator in this field, f o r
the drilling of a we'll at e NV,
section 6, NV and g sw section
7-343w, or about midway be-
tween the Campbell discovery
well and the Miller gasser. The
contract closed with Peterson
calls for the drilling operations
to commence by April 1st.
The keystone ownes approx
mately a section of land west of
Kevin and this we'll will be drill
ed on a 240-acr tract owned by
Mrs. Hansen of Great Falls. The
Keystone also holds acreage on a
number of Montana structures
and two years ago drilled a well
on the Little Muddy near Vaughn.
It's other acreage is on the Big
Otter, Wayne and other struc-
lures in northern Montana.
Trustees of the keystone syn
dicate are Mr.. Sullivan, VIM.
Grills, Thomas Richardson, F. j.
Purke, Charles Gies, and DR.. c.
w. Bice.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-03-05
PEMACO OIL COMPANY
TO START DRILLING

F. S. Compton of the Pemacc
Oil company. Moose Jaw, was
here this week and in conversa-
ton with the Review reporter,
Mr.. Compton said, I'VE have en-
tered into a drilling agreement
with Crumbly and Mcknight to
go ahead at once on our holding
just northeast of Kevin. The
first we'll to be drilled will be To-
Gated just south of the Campbell
Stewart producer. nc seA Of the
neA 25-35-3 west.,,
Mr.. Compton made a deal for
this acreage some time ago, and
would have started drilling oper-
ations sooner had not the price
of crude been below the cost Of
production.
The Pemaco have a large pro-
gram ahead Of them and with
these we'll known contractors in
on the job it is safe to say that
they will keep up the pace with
other live concerns in the Kevin
field.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-03-05
Sardeson Says Kevin
Field Is Bonanza for
Small DriIler- Operator

One Of the encouraging reports
on Keyin field was that made By
Frederick w. Sardeson. geologist
engineer Of the Minnesota State
Securities commission, who after
a survey of Kevin field issued the
following statement:
THE theory advanced by GER
tain prominent geologists that
the Kevin is anticline field is un-
tenabIe and there is nothing to
sustain such theory. This field is
made up Of hundreds Of cone
domes" Of varying sizes and pro-
portions. Therefore the fault"
theory is an exploded one, not
only from the present perform
ance Of the field, but from logs of
wells, surface indications, glacial
drift, etc. The so-called Gordon
Campbell theory is relatively the
correct theory. We will see dry
holes continue to be drilled, but
their proportion will be insignif-
icant as compared with the pro-
ducers. With the ability to shall
low depths such as 400 to 1000
feet, at a cost as low in range as
81, 900 to $4,000, proves conclu-
sively that even small wells Of
ten barrel capacity will pay out
and prove of most profitable in
vestment.
When the Kevin field cover
ing a half dozen townships, is
compared with the Texas oil fields
of 5000 acres, one can wonder in
amazement at the worlds won
der field. 1t is the bonanza for
the small driller, it is too large to
be controlled by the so-called lar
ger companies. Its recources in
oil recovery are tremendous, its
life a long one, certainly SO years,
for full recovery. The field is
not mystery to the trained ex-
pert. The gas and water press
ure is terrific. The oil is being
forced from lower depths (De-
vonian) to the present shallow
depths.
Wells should be drilled to the
shallow levels to permit further
drilling to lower depths later.
Large and high pressure wells
will be brought in from the low
er depths and in abundance. The
so-called sulphur water theory"
is likewise an old exploded one.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-03-05
Big LAND DEAL is
MADE FOR DEEP TEST

A deep test Of Kevin field at 9
location within the contour of the
Baker-Howling group of produc-
ers will be drilled this year by
Kenneth Frazier and associates,
became known recently with the
closing Of several deals for acre
! age totaling 1000 acres in the
east end of the field.
Four companies are contribut-
ng acreage against the cost of
the deep test. They are Sunburst
Oil & Gas company, Potlatch Oil
& Refining company, Three-in-
One Oil company and Inland En-
pire Oil & Gas company.
The Frazier-Rice well, located
in Sc ne IA NV Ia, 17-34-1w, will
be completed through the Maids
on lime and at least 400 feet into
the Devonian, to test1the Devon
ian sand where the Potlatch deep
test had its flow Of gas. TIE hole
now stands at L, ,788 feet. 1t had
a good showing Of oil and gas in
the Sunburst sand and had one
foot on dry sand in the Ellis. The
hole is cased to 1 ,440 feet and it
is planned to carry an eight-inch
hole through the Madison lime,
running casing at the bottom of
the lime.
The Potlatch deep test in sect
ion 21-34-1w seven miles south of
the Rice well, had a flow of gas
at 8, ,O50 feet that blew the tools
part way out of the hole. 1t is be-
lieved that this horizon at points
lower on structure will carry oil,
as in the upper sands.
The Frazier interests found the
first oil in the Devonian in Mon
tana last summer at Bears Den
structure at a depth of 3085 feet.
This horizon will be found at a
lesser depth at the Rice location.
Mr.. Frazier thinks it possible
that oil may be found in soft
spots in the massive limestone
itself. in view of the generally
accepted theory that Kevin oil is
migrating up through cracks in
the lime from lower horizon pen
porous sands and shales
in its progress toward the surf
ace.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-03-05

The fact that sulphur water is
picked up at shallow depths is
not an indication that oil does not
lie in lower sands. We often find
fresh water under the sulphur
water, and then oil at further
depths. This field will again
prove out this theory.
1T is an economical waste to
freight Salt Creek oil through
Montana, through the Kevin field
to Canada. This will be correct
ed when the interests are ready
for it, but not sooner. Montana is
full of oil domes. Other and
great fields will be opened up
north Of Great Falls. The stage
is set for a long and aggressive
drilling campaign by independent
operators who have been success
ful in other fields"
DR.. Sardeson is one of the fam
GUS oil experts of the country,
and was summoned before the
senate committee for expert tes-
timony on the Teapot Dome.
March 8, his testsmony being ex-
haustive and quoted extensively
in the press dispatches of that
time. In the Great Falls public
library Who's Who in America"
DR.. Sardeson is rated as follows:
Frederick William Sardeson,
geologist, palaeontologist, Born
Oswego Mills, Wiota, Wis, Feb.
22, 1926. B. &. at University Of
Minnesota, 1891, M. S. 1892. Phi.
D. University Friburg, Bavaria,
Germany 1895. Instructor of Pa
laeontology 1924. 1898-1905.
Professor of Geology 19O5-1914.
University of Minnesota. Geol-
Ogist United States Geological
1911 to present time. Mem
Der international Geological Con-
logical Congress 1894. Fellow A.
A. A. S. Member Geological Sur
vey of North America. Writer
of numerous books and papers on
Geology. Palaeontol, Philos and
educational examiner for Mime
sofa State Securities Commission.
Minnesota State Secur-
sizes Commission.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-03-05
OIL OPERATORS
SEND CREWS TO
MEXICAN AREAS
Adoption of Policy Favorable
to American Capital ReVives
Work, Campbell Finds

With the adoption of policy
in Mexico that makes oil develop
ment in that country more attra-
ctive to American capital, a large
number of American operators
are obtaining interests south cf
the national boundary this winter
and sending many field crews in
to the Mexican interior to do pre-
Ii ninary work. Gordon Campbell
discoverer of Kelvin field, said
Thursday in Great Falls following
his return from California and
the southern republic.
when I was in California
dozen crews were equipping
there for work in Old Mexico, /"
said Mr.. Campbell, and in east
ern and central Mexico there was
much evidence that United States
capital is preparing to become
actively interested in Mexican oil
fields. Concessions are being CIV
en- that are attractive to many
American oil operators and much
more stability in the Mexican
government is evident than was
the case few years ago. Oper-
ions by American companies
apparently will be greatly incre-
ased in Mexico this year"
Mr.. Campbell Will not know un-
til he returns to Kelvin the ex-
tent to which the operations of
the Royal raAaaian Oh g nany
there have progressed. since he
left several weeks ago. At that
time preparations were being
made to place five rigs in opera
tion and plans were far advanced |
for the drilling of 40 or so wells
on acreage involved in the deal
under way between Mr.. Camp
bell and the Royal Canadian.
The Wheeler" investigation
under way at Washington, which
Mr.. Campbell regards as being !
wholly unjustified, has tended,
he stated to make more difficult
the procuring Of needed capital
for northern Montana oil devel
opment. The investigation, in
Mr.. CampbelPs opinion, is bound
to Greats suspicion among invest
ors who have not been in Mon
tana and formed opinions through
personal contacts with the result
that pending negotiations may be
retarded and perhaps indefinitely
delayed. ct. Falls Tribune.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-03-05
Thinks Showing of Oil
Was in Sunburst Sand

Fred Platt of the Northern Oil
Information Bureau has conclud-
ed that the showing of oil in the
Kevin Oil & Gas company we'll in
section Fl -36-3w, eight miles west
Of Sunburst and beyond the rec
ognized probable producing area
of Keyin field, came not from a
stray sand but from the Sunburst.
The oil is similar in quality to the
Sunburst oil and similar oil was
found in the Sweetgrass Arch
we'll on the northeast corner of
the field.
In discussing the finding of wa
ter in the Ellis sand at 2O80-2105
Platt says:
"They will plug this water off
and pull the pipe up enough so
that they can determine exactly
what the sand which the oil was
found in will make. 1t may be
that they will shoot this sand.
There is hardly any doubt now but
that the saturated sand was the
Sunburst sand as it is about the
right interval, and the oil resem-
bles the Sunburst sand OIL"
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-03-05

Jim MCGOWAN came over from
Great Falls Saturday to look after
business matters here for a few
days. He returned Monday.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-03-05

The Eagle Oil-Mary No. 1 in
sw ne section 5-35-3w, is drilling
below 900 feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-27

With the future
reats OF the race
course down round
N'AWleens. The run
ming horses are congre-
eating at the F air
Grounds track at New
Orleans for the Winter
racing. These stable
boys are training the
babies" at the barrier.
udcrwuud 4 Underwood
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-27

-evhen he started taking REM
Can you right away? My cars broken down."
That the message that the wire to Mr..
Avery Weber of 6434 E. 18th St., Kansas City, No. the
day before last Christmas. 1t nasty weather out
bitter cold day, of the coolest of the winter but
auto repair can't pick his weather.
Mr. Weber hoped into his and went speeding to the
aid of the trouble When he got back he had the
beginnings of mighty bad cough Listen to his story
of how speedily REM to his aid
"One of the coolest had call
it
night and day Then the lstopped
at Hules Drug Store couple of from and
Il started taking the morning and by that day
I
entirely left
:; !: @
relief it brings
This quick action largely due special ingre nM FAID
dient-ehective, found in ordinary wv
Cinging your throat it is VkX~
swallowed REM quickly begins its work of quoting 19
No in 20 MZ4WU
your druggist package kHes.IS
the round label If it doesn't help WAmn
have your back. Fair enough! $S&%MH
Introductory bottle only 6O
Economy 500
REM has Quoted many a cough -
Evening star., 1925-08-30

In a far-off swimmin' hole.
Wild elephants photographed by
Mrs. Lou Hunt in Borneo. The
photographer says the "ponderous
pachyderns" were having every
bit as good a time as youngsters
in the creek back home.
e p. A. Photos.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-01-14
new GOVERNOR
SEEKS CHANGE
INPAROLELAW
Kansas Legislature Ask
ed to Protect Chief
Executive; P ar d o n
Probe Started
(By The Associated Press }

TOPEKA, Kans., Jan. Governor
Ben S. Paulcn, republican, in his first
message 10 the Kansas legislature today
asked for a revision Of the state parole
statutes.
81 shall welcome legislation which
will retain the humane and beneficial
portions of the parole law and at the
same time so curtail the powers Of the
parole board that only those clearly en-
titled to clemency shall have ccnsidcra-
ton, said the new executive.
Cow rnor Paulen, who yesterday re-
inStated DR.. f. H. Lindlcy as chancel-
lOr of the University of Kansas re
commended the creation Of state board
Of education, divorced from politics. and
serving without pay as his prescription
for the states educational institutions
in accordance with his pledge "to tako
the schools out of politics.
DR. Lindley was oustcd under the
regime Of former Governor Jonathan NJ.
Davis, democrat
Governor Paulen urged submission ot
the federal child labor anne ndment to a
vote of the people OF the state.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-01-14
Man BELIEVED
FROZEN ON PEAK
Hunt on for Missing
Member of Rescue
Party and for Girl

ESTES PARK, Colo, Jan. n Three
searching parties set out today to scale
Longs Peak, two Of them to hun, for
the body Of Herbert Sortland, empIoye
of Longs Peak Inn, the other to relo-
cate and remove to the timber line zone
the frozen form Of Miss Agnes Vaille,
WHO persisted Monday.
All hopes Of finding Sortland a mem
Der Of he original rescue party that
went inl search of Miss Vaille, alive,
was surrendered last night. Searching
parties reported, a human being could
not live for "a hours in the sub zero
weather.
Pioneers in the mountains believed
that not until spring after he snow
has melted, would the body of Sortland
be found.
They also feared they might not be
able to descend with the body of Miss
Vailc if the weather did not moderate.
Miss Vaille was the daughter Of a
retired Denver millionaire, now in
Honolulu.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-01-14
Official Was Sailing
To Recover Health

MADISON Wis, Jan. 14.-Dr. w. r.
Lorenz who is held a prisoner at Pro-
greso. Yucatan, according to reports
here, substantiated By Associated Press
reports from Washington. left his home
here January to cruise southern waters
in hope Of regaining his failing health.
DR.. Lorenz is head of the Wisconsin
State Board Of Control and a nationally
known psychiatrist Until recently he
was head of the soldiers and sailors hos
pital here.
Unable TO obtain passage on larger
ship, DR.. Lorenz succeeded in obtaining
a small sailing boat and, in letter to
his wife here, expressed pleasure at be-
ing able to sail through the tropical
waters, touching ports seldom reached
by Travellers He persuaded the captain
Of the boat to permit him to sail as
mate, and since he is technically
member of the ships crew and lived as
such, it is believed here that the au-
thoriuies holding him will require proof
of his claim that he is government Of
ficial Of the state Of Wisconsin.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-01-14
THE WEATHER

Brownsville and vicinity: Partly
cloudy and warmer tonight and Thurs
day.
East Texas: Increasing cloudiness and
warmth tonight; Thursday partly cloudy
to cloudy and warmer. Light to- mod
crate easterly to southerIy winds on the
ccast.
Weather Conditions
Except for light scattered precipita-
ticn in the far western and northwest
ern states, the weather was generally
fair throughout the country during the
last "a hours. 1t was considerably cold
er this morning over the eastern one
third of the United States. and in the
Canadian Northwest, Montana. and
North Dakota and warmer frcm the
Plateau and southern Rocky Mountain
states eastward to the Mississippi Riv-
er. also in Texas. Light to heavy frost
occurred last night on the middle Gulf
coast, and freezing temperature south
ward nearly to the northern border Of
Florida.
The lowest temperature last night At
Texas stations ranged from % at ANA
rillo to 80 at Brownsville.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-01-14
STATEOFFICIAL
OF WISCONSIN
HELDIN MEXICO
Man Sailed for Health;
Ship Crew Held Wash
ington Informed; No
Reason Is Given
(By The Associated Press.l


WASHINGTON. ID. g., Jan. 1.-THE
captain me mbers of the crew OF the Am
crican sailing vessel Ruth" Of PEN
saccla, Fla. and man Claiming to be
DIR. W. F. Lorenz, chairman of the
Wisconsin state board Of control" have
been placed in Jail at Progreso, Mexico,
by order of the captain the port OF
that place.
The state department announced the
arrests today after receipts of report
from the consul at Progreso. Represen-
tations were made at once to tie Mex
ican government through the American
embassy in Mexico City and the con-
sui was instructed to make a thorough
investigation and report details of the
affair.
Aside from the report that the Ruth
had been shipwrecked details were lack
ing. No mention was contained in the
consul's report that the ship might
have been charged with filibustering.
The consuls despatch was interpreted
here as indicating that some doubt ex-
listed as to the identity of bLorenz."
"A well bred man claiming to be DR..
Lorenz" was rhe wording o. the des-
patch.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-01-14
SATTERWH|TE GETS SPEAkERSHIP
VALLEY WILL COMPLETE
* X *
HARBOR,' MAJOR SCHLEY
X X X
DECLARES IN GALVESTON

GALVESTON, Texas Jan. a.
Brownsville and Rio Grandc inter
ests show such a determined interest
to complete the Point Isabel water
way proicct that feel convinced
that additional funds totaling $4,000
will be raised within very short
time" Major j. l.. SchIey, United
States army engineer in charge Of
the Galveston district. declared yes
terday following his return from
Brownsville, where he conferred with
committees in connection with the
port project.
"With such men as s. e. Tucker,
John G-egg and others behind the
movement, The Valley will have its
port within a very few months. | am
highly gratified at the outcome of the
meeting which was held in Browns
vile Monday, and the sooner the
Valley raises the $4,000 necessary to
complete the port, the better for all
parties concerned" the army engineer
stated.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-01-14
Effort to Be Made to
Gust Banking Officer

TOPEKA, Kans, Jan. 14-Attorney
General G. b. Griffith and his assist
ants today began an investigation Of
pardons and paroles granted during the
final days of the administration Of
former Governor Jonathan NJ Davis,
and moved forward with plans for filing
an custer suit against Carl j. Peterson,
state bank commissioners
One of Mr.. Griffiths' assistants was
working on a petition to be filed in the
state supreme court asking the custer
of Peterson from office in connection
with charges by A. l.. Oswald, Hutchin-
son attorney, that Peterson solicited
money for pardon for Walter Grundy,
convicted bank wrecker
Mr.. Peterson declared il would be
shown in due season" that whatever
was demanded Of Grundy was in resti-
tuition of money he owed the bank with
which he was Connected, including the
expense in sending detective to Mexico
where he fled following the closing Of
he bank.
It was also announced by attorney
general Griffith that this department
was investigating the law with a view
to voiding any pardons or paroles found
to have been obtained through fraud
Governor Ben S. Paulen ycster lay
refused TO accept the offer Of Fred W.
Pollman, convicted forger Of La Cygnc,
Kansas, who attempted to place in Paul
ems hands the pardon he obtained upon
the payment Of $3.50 to Russell G..
Davis, son of the former Governor
Davis.
The former governor who with his
son is charged with accepting bribe
in connection with the pollman pardon
transaction, left Topeka yesterday for
his farm in Bourbon county. He indicat-
ed he would not return here until Janu-
AIRY %, he date set for his preliminary
hearing.