The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1929-03-07

G. w. Smith, chief engineer an
w. L. Hayes, new business manage
of the Minnesota Northern Powe
company ah1liated with the Montan'
Dakota Co.. arrived here on train No
one this afternoon and went int
conference with Frank Mccarthy O
the Havre Natural Gas company. Th'
men are from Minneapolis.
The two ofhcials will be here for the
next two or three days and announced
that there would be no change in the
management of the local Office of the
firm
1--WE are interested in any develop
ment that is possible" Mr. Smith
stated but refused to commit himself
on the possibility of pipe line to
Minneapolis although he said that
'.the company has been interested in
that type of a proposition for several
years
The Montana Dakota Gas Co.,
subsidiary of the Montana Dakota
Power Co. has purchased the con-
troll Of the Havre Natural Gas COM
pany and the Chinook Gas Company
this week, the deal being closed last
Monday between the Montana-Da-
kota interests and the Featherstone
interests of Wallace, Idaho, who con-
trolled both the Havre and Chinook
companies, Judge Featherstone and
associates of Idaho installed the
Chinook gas system in the fall Of
1927, and the plant is under the
management of John Featherstone
The Hawe Natural os.S ca rvag
originally formed by group Of local
people and was supplied with gas
from wells drilled near Havre. After
the installation OF the Chinook system
the Featherstone interests bought a
controlling interest in the Havre Sys-
tenn. This winter the remainder Of
the local stock was taken over by the
Idaho group Both systems are
supplied from the Bowes field eight |
miles straight south Of Chinook,
where the Handbook Oil Co. has three
gas wells. The gas is carried by a
subsidiary company to the town limits
OF Chinook where it is sold to the
Chinook Gas Co. On beyond Chinook
the pipeline goes to the Utah Idaho
sugar factory where the gas is sold by
the pipeline company direct to the
factory. Another line branches off
from the first line before reaching
Chinook and comes across country to
Havre where the gas is sold to the
Havre Natural Gas Co.
The purchase of the FeatherStone
interests is a step in big develop
ment in this section by the Montana
Dakota people. They have already
announced plans for pipeline from
Chester to Glasgow this year, to be
supplied by the Jones Oil Co., with gas
from wells to be drilled on several
structures along the line, starting
at Kremlin and including Browns
Coulee, Bowdoin and Bowes
The company has already applied
for franchise in the several towns
along the Great Northern from
Chester to Glasgow The Montana
Dakota people have already started /
development of the Baker Gas field E
IN the southern part of the state and
Of the Cabin Greek field in the eastern Il
part. A gas line was built to the s
Black Hills last year and one is to be
ouilt from the Cabin Creek field to
Bismark, N. D., this year. e
After the completion Of the pipe e.
inc along the Great Northern with
he development of the adjacent gas B
structures it is stated, though no
,ficial announcement is made, that
he line will be carried on east thru
Montana and Dakota to Grand Forks K
rhe line from southern Montana IL
ields will connect up somewhere in F.
Dakota with the Northern Montana N
inc and lie supply win be carried on o
0 the Twin Cities and to the Iron h:
sange in Minnesota. ev
The Montana Dakota Co. has been pr
electric power and gas to 70
in western North Dakota St
nd eastern Montana and has de-
eloped rapidly since its organization
few years ago. r. H. Heskett Of of