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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-06-27
SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY BILLION
FEET, GAS RESERVES Of HILLS
Proven by DriII-ActiOn Centers on
Bears Den and Reserve.

With of 10 known structures definitely
gas with three established producing horizons the Sweet
grass Hills this year finds development cenering Re
structure there eight commercial producers
Den structure where there two eommeca
gassers one drilling in and two starring
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-06-27

Northwest States Utilities COM
pany has connected the Hills area
onto it's Great Falls line with its
Border extension which taps the
Rogers-Imperisl gasser, q $1,000
O0OI foot well on the north slope
of the Hills.
The Maryland test on the north
slope Of Reserve structure is ex-
peeted to complete into the first
sand during the next few days,
with the completion OF a bad
fishing job.
Engineers estimate reserves OF
the Hills area at $50. 900, O0O.-
600 cubic feet. Three prolific hor-
icons Of sweet gas production
and a fourth, OF sulphur gas,
have been established by drill
ing in the Hills.
Northwest States Utilities is
preparing to build an extension
to Bears Den where It is starting
the first two Of five wells on
OF Liberty Gas com
pany.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-06-27
STA E has ENOUGH GAs 70 SUPPLY
VAST MARKET FOR NEXT 50 YEARS
C0untry's Best Engineers Estimate Reserves
AS in Excess of Two TriIIiOn Cubic
Feet.

With than tron cubic feet Of natural gas
the state Of Montana has enough for all its
needs for the so and likewise enough supply
the Dakoas and Minnesota the Idaho and western
Washington the west for similar period of time.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-06-27
ANOTHER GAS
DEVELOP MENT
PLAN STARTS

AfOOdy-seagraves Company
Is reported to have taken
over a 4O.OOO-acre block Of
leases "a tine wiIlamette
valley, with plans for DRILL
ing at the beginning Of next
year. The structure was
mapped by geological crews
headed by Dorsey Hager and
J. r. Powell. The Moody
seagTayes company is owned
entirely by the United Gas
Corporation, one Of the
giants OF the power industry.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-06-27
BORDER WELL
MAY FINISH
In DAYS

Two weeks viii apparently see
an important completion in the
Border-Red Coulee oil field. with
OIL DrilIers-FIarbo No. re-
ported drilling at past 1900 feet.
This well, If 1t finds produc-
tioan, will extend the field proven
area about a mile to the west.
Only one other well is drilling
in this field at the present time.
Askalta-Farbo No. /. This we'll.
in the proven area. is making
hole at 1900 feet
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-06-27
NOSE ZIMMERMAN

CONTINUED from Page Sevenl
ed negotiations for the plant at
a time when the outlook for OPP
Grafton Of a gold mine was any
thing but bright. Finally he
closed at an unnamed figure.
Two days later. so the story
goes, he moved in crew OF men
and began stripping the copper
wire from the poles OF the %
mile power line. The copper thus
obtained Is reported to have paid
him back the price Of the mine
with a small profit left over.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-06-27
SCHOOL MINES

IConEnue0 TFom FaEH 59FenI
with the Canadian Geological
Survey and two with the Ontario
Bureau Of Mines and Geology.
Andrew V. Cory. instructor In
geology at the Montana school
OF Mines, and a graduate OF Har-
ward and Oxford, will be in
charge Of a party investigating
certain gold deposits OF Beaver
head, Broadwater and Jefferson
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-06-27
RIVER
WILDCAT NOW
200 FEET

Fulton Petroleum Company's
wildcat on the Milk River anti
cline on the Blackgeet Indian res
ervation north Of Browning. is
drilling at 1900. with the hole
in good condition
This well Is now making about
100 feet weekly and seems to
have passed the formation in
which bad cavings and crooked
hole caused much trouble Com
pletion is expected at about 1900
feet.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-06-27

This IL the verdict q the
country's best engineers who have
estimated reserves Ia areas where
there has been enough develop
ment to give data for setting up
reserves.
Americas best engineers have
been working on surveys OF
structures where gas has been
found In commercial quantities
for the past two or three years.
Included among them are Bro
kaw, Dixon. Garner & Mckee OF
New York city. Huntley & Hunt
ley Of Pittsburgh, Ford. Bakin q
Davis OF New York city. Ford &
OF New York city,
Ralph Davis. Inc. OF New York
city, and number OF geolOgists
and gas engineers representing
gas and oil operators.
A compilation OF reserves set
up for various areas by these diff
Ierent engineering firms show
The following known reserves:
Gu. TT.
ArmelIs ..--....--..... 20 billion
Baker~Glendive ESQ billion
Big SANDY Area. so billion
Bowd0in Dome. 200 billion
Cut Bank Ares. ..1g6 billion
Havre-ChinooE .--.150 billion
HighwoOds Area. so billion
southeastern Mont. -825 billion
(OhiO on Co..
sweetgrass HIS z5O billion
Total ,.-.-..-.,.-.-.-2, 1870 billion
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-06-27
cCRUpE OH PRoDUcTToN

The American Petroleum Insti-
tute estimates that the daily
average gross crude oil produc-
ton in the United States for the
week ended June Is. 1881. was
2,463dOO barrels. as compared
with 2,474,s5O barrels for the
preceding week, a decrease OF
1850 barrels.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-06-27
YAST SUNS

lects. each serving only a few
towns, in which possibly s2,5OO.-
600 is or will be- invested upon
completion.
Recent development Of addi-
tional gas reserves in northern
Montana sufficient to assure an
adequate supply for even larger
systems Is expected to lead to
much greater investments with
in the next IL months.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-06-27

great engineering organization on
the North Montana reserves is
recognized as confirmatory Of the
Judgment OF those who have pi-
oneered gas development in this
state.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-06-27
Worlds Largest Gas
Distributing Concern
Enters Montana Field
Electric Bond And Share Controls Operations
Of Montana POwer-Has Unlimited
Financial Resources

The worlds largest distributor of natur-
al gas is a recent addition to the ranks of
those engaged in the development of Mon
tana's gas resources: The Electric Bond &
Share Company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-08

and 10 to act is threatening the
Daily Worker!
Ii is evident that most of the
districts have made no real efforts
10 save the Daily Worker; had It
not been for the New York district,
the Daily would have gone under.
Cards with the names Of subscribers
have been ser5 to each oIsuIct;
coupon books have been sent to the
units. But apparently nothing has
been done with them in most dis
tricts Daily Worker Clubs have not
been organized. The glowing plans
of action that we're sent in by many
Daily Worker agents have never gone
any further than the paper they
were written on
Let's have some action, comrades!
Get after those subscriberS-many
OF them will willingly help the Daily
if you appeal to them Distribute
the coupon books, see that money
is collected on them and sent in
to the Daily Worker Organize
broad, Hve-wire Daily Workers Clubs.
Let's see if next weeks figures can't
show that the Daily means some
thing to the American workers OUT
side Of New York
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-08
TOUGHS ATTACK
JOBLESS MEET
Downtown Council Now
Meets at 81 East
10th St.

NEW YORK.-Despite attacks by
a gang of fascist toughs, the Down
town Unemployed Council held a
meeting at Fourth ST. and Avenue B
Friday evening with a good sized
crowd listening to the speakers.
The gangsters, poolroom habitues
and part-time pugs, passed in a car
and attacked the workers around the
stand. Later they made another sor-
tie, but were repulsed this time, when
several of the toughs we're beaten.
Hold Another Meet Tonight.
The meeting continued two and a
half hours and the speakers exposed
conditions in the neighborhood and
called upon the workers and house
wives to organize a block committee
to take up the fight for immediate
relief.
Another meeting will be held to-
night at at 7;3O pm, at the same
corner.
The Downtown Unemployed Coun-
Gil now meets daily at 81 E. 10th st.,
second floor.
A noon hour meeting will be held
by the Council at Leonard and
Church SITS. at 1870 am.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-08
Green, DOak Agree
On Nation Wide
w age Slashes
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

out the country. Briefly some Of the
New York Times reports state:
ROCHESTER,. - Factory earnings
cut. Indirect wage cuts in clothing,
camera, office equipment and rail-
road supplies factories.
BUFFALO. - Direct wage cuts
ranging from 10 to 20 per cent have
been made during the last two
months in group of companies
manufacturing furniture, railroad
equipment, electrical equipment and
motor vehicles.
PITTSBURGH.-Direct wage cuts
during the last two months have &C.
Cured principally in the coal indus
try and among the smaller COM
panies manufacturing steel.
CLEVELAND.-A reduction of 10
per cent in wages among organized
pottery workers in the Eastern Ohio
field and reductions of from to 20
per cent in several Akron rubber
companies have been announced
since April l. Many wage cuts in
steel mills.
DETROIT-Indirect wage cuts
MADISON - Legislative committee
reports wage cuts of 10 to is per
cent in department stores
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind-Wage cuts
of from Is to 90 per cent in all basic
industries
CHICAGO-Wage cuts increasing
Payroll is at the index number of
66,6 d826=100) a drop Of over IS
points.
MINNEAPOLIS - Wage cuts in
smaller plants.
RICHMOND - Non-union wages
cut.
BIRMINGHAM cuts rang
ing from 10 to Is per cent.
Hundreds of other instances OF
wage cuttings are reported
Now we have the capitalist press
admit that Green, Doak and other
officials of the A. F. of L. are ac-
tually planning a nation wide wage
cut to add to those already given the
American workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-08
Failure of Districts 3, Z,
Is to Act ImberiIs Daily

The second week Of the campaign
TO raise S35 900 to save the Daily
Worker was remarkable for two
things: the splendid showing of Dis
trict . New York. ana the COM
plete flop Of The rest Of the districts
with one or two exceptions. Dis
t1ct 2, which during the first week
OF the drive contributed sl7lG.51,
responded in a wonderful way to our
emergency appeals and boosted its
totals TO S5,573.8j, q gain Of
s3,s5734.
Among the other districts, only
District G cleveland and District
s Chicago showed substantial
gains, though both districts are be-
hind schedule. District 8 raised its
totals from S9O59 a week ago to
s33724 on Thursday, June 3; while
District 8 boosted its figures from
1919 to sS3985.
OF the other districts, real gains
have been made only by the smallest
districts, i6 (South), II tBirming-
ham, Ia Butte and 10 DENVER.
The others seem TO have gone 70
sleep, The situation is particularly
disgraceful in Districts tPhiladel-
phia), z Detroit and IS (Caifor-
MAJ.
In the second week OF the CAM
psign District 3, instead of increaS-
ing its efforts, raised less than in
the first week. A week ago in it's
totals stood at S118; the second week
at sos So only 8 per cent OF its
$500 quota,
District 7, which has the third
largest quota CS3,5oOl is even worse
Though its activity during the Sec
ond week of the drive improved over
the first week, its totals rising from
s29 to s123,85, District has thus
far raised only per cent of its
quota.
And the situation in District IS is
worst of all A large district, with
q quota of $4,000 it has contributed
only s26, about l per cent of its
quota The failure of Districts 3,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-08
Yonkers Organizes
Daily Worker Club

YONKERS, N "a Daily Work
er Club was organized here Saturday
night by group of workers who met
at the Workers Center, 252 Warbur-
ton st.
Following a motion picture pro-
gram, Harry Raymond of the editor
ial staff of the Daily Worker, spoke
on the problems of the Daily Work
er and the organizational aspects
and future activities Of the club.
Many of the workers took the floor
in the discussion that followed and
offered many good suggestions for
improvement of the Daily Worker.
The club is arranging an enter
tainment and dance to be held at
the Yonkers Workers Center June IA
to raise funds for the Daily Worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-08
FURTHER DROP FRIDAY;
DISTRICTS 5, Is, Squirt

fell slightly below Thursdays
only issue appeared satur-
than half of this SSS6
contributions less than usual The
encouraging pErt by Districts Pittsburgh and Is
S District 15 SOSo District
that easily into second place
the kind of that situation
IS california; TO form
is dsgracefu total
while California forgot completely that
fighting alive Something will have to
be doneto wake up districts!
The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-08
Big Collective Farms Shown in
'5-Year Plan" at Central Theatre

farms on formerly unused tracts of
land
Scenes on the collective and state
farms are shown in the motion pic
ture THE Five Year Plan" now in
its second week at the Central The
atre. Tractors and combines are
shown cultivating the. vast Russian
fields and Transforming the century
old habits of the Russian peasants.
The scenes on the Giant Farm"
show the machinery at work and
scenes of the social life of the farm
workers, their travelling post-office,
newspapers. kitchens, and so on.
There are also vivid scenes of the
developments in the important Soviet
industries,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-08
What's On

MONDAY
Downtown Unemployed Council
Meets at 1870 p. m. every day at
81 T.. Tenth ST. All workers as
signed for cenvaseing. please report
Special Meeting of All Unit Young
Workers Agents
VIII be held Monday at 1880 p. m
al District Office. Presence urgent
Scottsboro United Front Conference
VIII be held at $3.50 p. M at 133
Third St, Boro Park, Brooklyn. All
organizations in Boro Park and
vicinity are urged to send delegates.
Workers Ex-Serviccmen's League
Branch No. 2 open-air meeting at
Fifth Ave. and 10th st. at s D. m.
All worker ex-servicemen are invited
and urged to come.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-08

Russia's re-entry into the world
wheat market is ascribed to the over
whelming success of the collective
and state farming movement in the
Soviet Union. Over half of the Rus
sian peasants are now members of
collective farms in which the peas
ants pool all their working imple-
mentS and livestock and operate the
tract as one big unit. These co1lec-
tive farms have the advantage in
that they use tractors, combines, and
other modern machinery and are I'M
der the supervision of trained agron-
omistS and engineers. Aside from
collective farms the Soviet Govern
ment has established huge state
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-08
Arrest Paterson Red
Builder for Activity

PATERSON. N. J.-Harold Wood,
Red Builder was arrested at Main
and Van Houten SITS, for selling the
Daily Worker, Thursday, June 4.
Wood is charged with selling radi-
cal literature and without a license.
He was released upon motion of the
international Labor Defense lawyer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-08
MINERS ANSWER EFFORTS OF
BOSSES AND UMWA TO SMASH STRIkE

at the UNIV mass meeting of Sc
men, including police and bosses and
truckload of touring UNIV. hired
for that purpose, and some 20 mem
bers of a committee Of the strikers
sent to investigate it. The UNIV.
offers, where it makes any offer at
all, to have the company put in a
"checkweighman." mot elected by
the miners> to have a check-off of
$3.50, and to pay IS cents ton. But
in practically every case, the wage
offer is not made, but is left to flu
ture arrangements with which the
men are to have nothing to do.
The UNIV. is touring the fields,
making this sort of proposition. 1t
has no strength, the miners remem-
Der its old treacheries and will Meth
er join it nor come to its meetings.
But with the government concili-
ators and the coal operators, it is
still trying to break the strike.
Another strike breaking effort is
that Of the Prick Coal Co. Chooked
up with the steel trust) which yes
terday closed down ten mines in
Fayette County; Ronso, Lacrone No.
1, 2 and 5; Edenhorn, Sandy Bottom
Standard, Maxwell and Lemont Fur
mace, throwing 5000 men out of
work. The intention is 10 try to
force strike breaking, but it will fail
The unemployed are being organized
there will be mass demonstrations
for relief, and a united front of the
strikers and unemployed,
The district scale committee Sat-
urday adopted a letter to the oper-
stors proposing direct negotiations
and settlement on the basis of the
demands which include SIS cents a
tons for machine coal and II cents
for pick coal.
The scale committee Saturday cal
led for immediate election of dele
gates from the mechanical mines, to
tell of conditions and wages there.
so that it can formulate demands for
mechanical and conveyor leaders,
according to the will of the rank and
file miners in such mines.
The committee then plunged into
the task of pushing through organi-
cation of the relief work. Local
committees have collected consider
able food. A tag day for next
Thursday is being held in New
Kensington. Relief collections on a
national scale are an immediate ne
cessity.
The committee established perma-
nent headquarters in Pittsburgh, and
sent out whole flock of organizers
with application cards to join the
National Miners Union, and charters
for locals newly formed. Seven
thousand miners have joined the
NMU, since the strike started, and
instructions went out for these new
members to hold their first local
meetings not later than Thursday,
and elect their officers There will
be 30 or 40 new locals.
The spirit of the strikers is i'm
mense. The Avella strike committee
meeting may be taken for an ex-
ample of disciplined enthusiasm.
Delegates who miss meetings are
promptly told: You have failed;
your place is filled" Those few who
even talk about going back to work
are brought to a Jury trial" in
which the prosecutor" states to the
jury of strikers: Nov if you believe
this man should be stoned out of
town, say so, and out he goes" The
scabS who promise to reform are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-08
EXPOSE NAACP
AID TO BOSSES
Boys Demand TIL ey
Cease Attacks
tooNTTNuED FROM PAGE oNp,


sued on Saturday. the N.A.A.C.P.
leadership showed that they had
Joined Judge J. A. Hawkins in iE-
noring the wishes OF the parents Of
the nine condemned boys. In the
face OF the fact that the parents
have repeatedly scored the attempts
of the N. A. A. G. P. leaders to ham
string the defense OF their boys and
have openly asked them to desist
from interfering in the case Arce
they refuse to support the united
front defense launched by the Inter
national Labor Defense, the N. A. A.
c. P. leaders boast that their agents
and spies have again visited the nine
children in Rilby Prison.
Pickens Joins Betrayers OF Boys.
In this visit william Pickens played
a major part, and the N. A. A. G. p.
leaders, who were at first enbar-
raised by Pickens' admission, In a
letter TO the Daily Worker, that his
organization was doing nothing in
the defense Of the boys, now boast
that Pickens called upon the boys ia
ignore the advice of their parents,
and their choice Of the I. L. D. for
the defense, telling the boys that
your poor parents" have been ''be-
wildered and amazed"
Pickens Turns SemersAulk.
Pickens, who in his letter to ths
Daily Worker, declared that '"rfas
only ultimate salvation for black ard
white workers is in their united de-
Tense. one or the other" Is now re-
ported as telling the boys that 'ths
Communists were only seeking to
use them for their own purposes"
Pickens, who in his letter to the
Daily Worker, declared, "If yoa dc
not prevent Alabama from commit
ting these horrible murders, you will
at least educate working people
white and black, to the danger o.
division and the need OF union. In
either event it will be a victory for
the workers"-this same Pickens is
now quoted as telling the boys that
the white and Negro workers uniting
for their defense ARE likely to make
you great sacrifice in Alabama"
In the meantime, the I. L. D. il
continuing its preparation Of aft.
davis, etc, for the continued hear
ing on June Is for the motions Toy
new trials for all nine of the boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-08

given written passes, which are good
only as long as the man places his
whole time entirely at the disposal of
the strike committee. otherwise he
is run out Of town.
A committee from several strike
committees is visiting the county
seat at Washington Saturday to
raise hell about the deputizing of
more mine guards, and about the
placing of hundreds of mo Tress-
passing" signs, not only on company
property but also on poles of the
West Penn Power Company.