The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1926-04-29
EDITOR SPEAKS HIGHLY
OF kelvin OIL FIELD

A recent visit through the wonder
full Kevin oil field, editor Cooney 0
! the Great Falls Leader, cites the fol
lowing paragraphs
cat least one thing the Eagles
special train trip to Sunburst proved
to the most doubling that is of thos!
who visited the field Sunday, making
the 6O-mile trip in the thick of the
Kevin-Sunbu1st field, and that is the
astounding magnitude of it all!
Not one person in each 500 of ct
Falls population has any idea of the
greatness of the so-called Kevin-Sun
burst oil field which lies to the north
within four hours drive of Great
Falls.
At the doorway to the greatest oil
field in extent in the United States,
and the greatest potential field in
sight anywhere, Great Falls people
smile cheerfully when the north field
is mention, and go on cutting kindl-
ing for the kitchen stove they are
THAT far back.
The real feature of the excursion
to Sunburst in company with the
Eagle actors for acting purposes, was
the trip over the field. 1t is some
trip and the man who hasn't been on
| the field for year is lost in the maze
of high sticks. The people of Sun
burst, Kevin and the field, rallied
with automobiles Sunday morning,
and the man or woman who did not
have ample opportunity to see an oil
field, not in the making but made
had only himself or herself, to blame.
The size of the field is astonishing
and the amount of work more so,
when it is considered that the field
has been virtually shut down since
last fall through wet fall weather,
lack of storage facilities, and inabil
ity to handle the output
Where TIN years ago was only
a few skeleton-looking derricks upon
which one looked with wonder and
before that only prairie dogs crep
less farms and drouth, is now for
est of derricks, standing UP like a
covering of lodge pole pines-and
funny little pump things which are
worked by long rods, in the breaks Of
the tall timber.
Camps scattered about the land
scape, but not the kind of camps"
as generally understood by the
world. for the oil men of the big
places are anything but camping
out Neat little houses in rows and
street, gas burners and lights, NOV
les, radios, amusement halls, and
quite up to date in every appoint
ment is the modern oil field camp
Of the big companies OF course,
there are other camps" hundreds Of
Of them, that are only resting places
IN the "bull wheel" if you know
what that is, and if you don't it shows
you are one of the ones who have
slept while the lamp of Alladin was
,eing rubbed
when l came here two years {
lgo,' remarked Pat Sweeney, one OF
he old-time settlers of Cascade
"and located my 80 on the
Iaughn tract right adjoining Tom
Anderson's place, there was nothing
Iere but gophers and faw enter
rising coyotes. And now lcoH at it, A
nd it's only starting!"
And "look at it, is right!
Tom Anderson few years ago
ras dry land farmer on 800 acres
f barren looking land, who shod
orses and acted as the country
blacksmith to keep the home fires
urning-and they were pretty near
mbers all the time Today Tom
nderson, a tall, quiet appearing
ian with a clipped sandy moustache
af Sweeney, "and he'll be just the
loeing horses. Last year his roy
tiles were $4,000 from the % wells
hich went down without a dry
ne, and next year his income viii
3 twice that and the next year
1uble again, like the old one-cent-
computation of the vii
ye blacksmith doubled every time!
He'll be millionaire" remarked
weeney. "and he'll be just the
me old Tom Anderson no matter
wv many millions he gets
And the Anderson farm is not
zen all leased to go yet, and has
lily few holes on it.
Pat Sweeney. once mining man of
eihart, deputy sheriff of Cascade,
i'd going from here to Idaho, IS
w in the game and treading care
lly. He has four wells pumping
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