The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1928-03-01
$4,000 PAID FOR / PERCENT
ROYALTY ON BAKER OIL WELL
Group Of Physicians at Murray Hospital Clinic, Butte
Invest in Kevin-Sunburst Oil FieId Were
Here Looking Proposition Over

a one p6i c6ut TDyd1ty lHl6I6St VI
sw 9-34~1w, The quarter section oi
which the Baker Barnhill- Corey -Befs
er we'll is located, was sold Saturday
to doctors of the Murray hospital Gin
ic at Butte for cash consideration
or $4,000.
The transaction was closed By
Charles E. Croclrer OF ShcIlbgL M
Crocker DR.. Rodes and L. d. ven
son Of Great Fails made an blans
trip to the well Saturday wiz Ear
Vance and the deal was close after
their return to Great Falls.
DR.. Rodes is one of several physi
clans affiliated with the Murray hos
Eital clinic, which is one Of the wide
~ known institutions Of the kind ia
the northwest.
The doctors were interested in ths
Baker royalty by Mr. Crocler, whs
has been in Butte during the past
several weeks. The physicians pul
chase is a material addition to capi-
tai invested in the ISumburst
by Butte men, some of whom held ex
tensive interest in the field.
Land Near Baker Brings Good Price
Fifty Thousand dollars, 1925 ar
acre, was paid Wednesday for an 50
acre tract adjoining the BakerlBarn-
hilllCorey gusner in section 9-s4-l ".
The sale was made to G. Fl Withers,
b. C. Riblet, William Norman and
others who have been associated in
the Co-operative-Ad Oil company,
by Charles BFazier and J H. Brass
Of Helena, wh6 have held the acreage
as trustee Norman, Riblet and 9th
ers interested IN the purchase Will ar
rive here from Spokane within 4
short time to start the drilling Of
two wells on the tract.
An enormous amount of oil was lost
Tuesday at the Baker-Barnhill Corey
Barger we'll while the crew was re-.
placing the control head with a heav
ier one. Four Thousand barrels Of oil
which escaped into coulees was say
Cd by trucks, which pumped the oil
into tanks that had been moved toI
that location, and beyond the Baker
lease trucks lined the eouIees and
procured loads, the days work nett
ing the truckers about $500 each
For four hours the we'll ran wild
while the new control head was be
ing installed, throwing six-inch
stream of oil into the air 150 feet. The
entire day was spent in placing the
head. but a portion Of the time the
well was partially under control. II
was estimated that as much as $4,000
barrels of oil may have been turned
loose on the prairie while the control
head was being changed.
Three tWo-inch flow lines are now
connected with the well and the oil is
being carried into battery CT tanks
A second battery was being installed
Wednesday. The we'll. according to
competent oil authorities Will make |
at least $4,000 barrels a dag, but is
pindhed down to 1000 barrels while
additional tanlzage is being placed.
The owners of the gusher are spud-
ding in new well, located on the
northeast corner of the same section.
The weal was to have been spudded
but the boiler was needed TO
pump the heavy fIow of oil from the
gusher into the pipe lie.
Joe Baker, one of the principal own
ers, was at Beaumont, Tex, when the
famous Spindle Top we'll ran wild for
10 days and he said Wednesday thaz
he estimated theflow from his gusher
here was fully as large as that of the
Texas well.