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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-04-18
MARCH OUTPUT Of
VALLEY LESS IMAM
PRECEDING MONTE

Turner Valley production in
March was slightly under the
figure for February, reports
show. March output was 12s.s75
barrels as against 1S2.267 bar
rels for the preceding month.
Practically al Of the production
was casinghead gasoline
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-04-18
ALTA RESUMES
PLACE as PAYER
OF BIG IDS

Okalata No. 1. which came in
originally as 400-barrel pro-
duea has blown back in again
following repairs to the casing,
which was damaged shortly after
fhe well was brought in. Reports
Indicate that the wells output
Il new nearly equal to Its orig
lmal flow.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-04-18

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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-04-18
co EALH
WILDCAT SETS
DEPTH RECORD

Cutting alternate bands OF
hard and soft lime. wildcat Of
the Commonwealth company IN
southern Alberta, a few miles
north Of the Kevin-sunburst field
in Montana, Is reported steadily
making hole at 4s60. the deepest
wen ever drilled IN this region
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-04-18

Produced $l40000O0 worth Of oil IA 1890 with
only si60o0000 invested capital The Net earning
was il the neghborhood Of 40@ 90 the invested
capital
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-04-18

Commonwealth on con-
pamy's prodneer In the TYR
mer Valley field hns an
creased it's peoanceion ama Is
nsw making as harrols 81
naphtlAa aafly. 40 agminst
$50 barrels when the wen
was first drilled IN.
The increased flow was noted
this week when the crsw went
Ia with the tools and drilled out
"a tee bridge 600 feet off bot
iom.
This well originally came into
Production following q shot and
vas not cleaned alter the nitro.
lott.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-04-18
RlC EARS
PAY HORIZONS I'M
UPPER LIN

with production momentarily
expected, Richfield No. ! IL Tar
ner Valley is drilling 50 feet be-
low the top Of the lime. The weIf
topped the lime at 4727 and
should tap the two most probable
pay zones inside Of the next $50
feet.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-04-18
FABUlOUSLY RICH RAD|UM
ORE DEPOSIT DISCOVERED
IN GREAT BEAR LAKE AREA
Richest in World, Scientists Say Values il
Samples Run As High AS
$4,000 per Ton.

The richest deposit of radium in the world
Lies at Great Bear Lake, 1000 miles north Of
Edmonton in the Northwest Territories. This
was disclosed Tuesday, when DR.. j. A. Allan,
head of the department Of geology at the
University Of Alberta revealed results of an
alyses just completed by provincial and uni
versity officials of pitchblende ore samples
kofa from 4IAn4 nnacn
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-04-18

OIL is the blood OF the earth flowing through
~ fortunes field only 10 enrich the courageous.
II sometimes rewards even the n0n-t1fnklng cnSi-
ness Stacker, but il never ms the Dnraen IrO s
the back of business coward. rs Plus nla s
of Success generally 20 to those who combine
some degree Of thought with action
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-03-20
FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1881.
THE PROGRESSIVE CONFERENCE

Insurgent republicans and progressive demo-
Gratis met in two-day session in Washington fol-
lowing the adjournment of the list session of
congress- belched about the "greedy rich" and the
Interests" and wound up the talkfest with moth
ing to their credit except more wind.
Even the more radical of them only limited that
= Third Party might be organized unless the dem
Ocrats picked a progressive as their standard
bearer in the next presidential elections The ia
vorte of the insurgent- progressive bloc seemed to
be Franklin D. Roosevelt, governor of New York
state, as demagogic politician as this country
has known since the demise of Woodrow Wilson.
Only Senator Wheeler indicated that he favored
a third party and only if the Democrats failed to
nominate Roosevelt This threat is intended a
club over the heads of the deocratic sachems. 1t
appears that Al Smith is the choice of JOHN Ras-
kob the CuPont dynamite rlagnate. 1t cOnced-
- that Hoover will get the republican nomination
unless by 1892 our army Of the unemployed IS still
~taEding at ease.
The conference failed to take sta ri on any of
.Shs major problems confronting he American
vnasses today. 1t lodged the question of Soviet
recc gn:iion. 1t decided 20 continue the study of
the farm crisis. Aping Hoover it appointed a
commission 10 make survey of unemployment.
1t was as vague on the prohibition question as
understands sham commission. 1t Grated against
The Power Trust and similar progressive Ogres.
In view of the political bankruptcy of the so
called progressives 1t is not surprising that think
ing workers and farmers beginning to think
more and more that Communists have the only
luton to the economic problems that confront
Ehem and that it is waste of time and energy
TO fiddle around longer with political Organiza-
tons that would try to achieve the impossible
that is, reform the capitalist system SO that it
might cough up a greater part of The loot taken
from the producers. This is hopeless effort.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-03-20

up by the secretary but are mimeographed by
people in the court house, and you would naturally
expect that these figures would be correct; that
they would be figures .one could depend and
swear by If swearing false is going to bother
your conscience in any shape or FORM take my
advice and don't swear by those figures.
The mimeographed sheet mailed out is sup
posed to be copy of the big chart which covered
part of one wall in the court room the day of the
Taxpayers Association meeting there-the one
Frank French took so much time explaining. This
chart, with all its figures, was ordered made up
by Frank French for the purpose of withdrawing
the present administration and keep the taxpay-
ers' minds off the state examiners report.
In looking over the chart at the court room l
noticed that some of the figures charged up to the
surveyors office were wrng and 1 called some
bodys attention TO the fact. In the sheet they
low sending out they give a brand new set of
figures for the surveyors office. There is no
reason why anybody should believe these last fig
ures are any more correct than the first ones And
if you find that set of figures are wrong, what
assurance have you that any of the figures given
out are correct?
Here is sample of the figures given out by
the people in the court house. The figures are
supposed to give you the correct cost of running
the surveyors office each year. The first set of
figures appeared on the chart at the court house;
the last set, the sheet mailed out
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-03-20

For goodness sake don't give us any more fig
ures-solving what we have here is way beyond
our mental capacity. Which row Of figures would
you rather swear by? No wonder the state exam
liner throwed up his hands in dispair and gave up
Sheridan county as a hopeless case!
The county administration is getting nervous.
The grand jury in Roosevelt county is getting
close to home. The prospect of being separated
from the county payroll and maybe put in jail is
rot very appealing and is enough to make anybody
do a lot of figuring.
Taxpayers are doing a lot of figuring TOO. Tax
es are high and no money to pay them with Land
and homes are slipping away-taken over by the
county and mortgage companies. And all the
while the banks borrowing county money at
ONE per cent interest, and soon we will be voting
for Six Million Dollar state loan and a TEN
CENT gasoline tax, in order TO create prosperity
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-03-20
THE WASHINGTON SCENE
By LAURENCE TODD. Federated Press

the republican nor the democratic
national committee, jubilant that
the progressive senators were off
the stage of power for nine months
would bring up that topic.
PrOgressives Could Have Forced
Special Session
But Prof. John Dewey and Ben
iamin C. Mansh, of the tireless
Peoples Lobby, remembered that
if LaF'Ollette, Wheeler and Cutting
had cared enough about a special
session, they could have conducted
a filibuster during the final weeks
of the recent session, and could
have held up one or more appro-
priation bills, thereby forcing Mr.
Hoover to bring the new congress
into session before the middle OF
June. They have made this cir.
cumstance painfully apparent. AnC
when the conference opened, MarcF
II they were ready with demand
that the conference agree to q
in a body to the White House
when it had framed its legislativ,
program and demand that Howe
call congress not later than Apri
6 to start work.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-03-20
Architects Prepare Plans
For Roosevelt Obelisk
On Trail at Marias Pas,

Missoula, March 16.-Arcbitects
are preparing plans for an obelisI
on the Roosevelt highway at Mar
las pass, on the summit of the Rel.
bon-Glacier Park section of tho
rout, F. E. Theme. chief engineer
of the forest service, announced
Last year a congressional annro.
priation of $4,000 was made fo,
a Roosevelt memorial arch or 9th.
er monument at that point.
This money was not sufficient 70
carry on the work as planned and
construct a suitable arch. So tbe
last session of congress amended
the act. A monument other than
an arch may be erected at the site
under the amendment. The funds
will be available for this work un-
til July 1, 1881.
1t is planned to build an obeIisk
instead of an arch as a Roosevelt
memorial on this highway, known
as the Roosevelt trail. The obA.
lisk, possibly 60 feet high, will he
set in the middle of the road at
the summit, so that the highway
passes on either side of it.
The road over the summit was
first opened for traffic last sum
mer. for the first time. and will be
further improved this season with
the surfacing Of some of the sec
] tons.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-03-20
Second Load of Serum Is 9
Delivered by Airplane to
Sufferers in Arctic Region

Point Barrow, Alaska, March ID
Bringing 100000 units of anti
toxin to battle a diphtheria cpl
demic in this little arctic settle
ment, Pilot Joe Crosson arrived
here at noon today from Point Lay.
Four new cases of diphtheria had
developed, bringing the total to 81.
Crosson, with Pilot S. E. Rob
bins in another airplane, left Fair
banks yesterday. Covering 900
miles, they reached Point Hope,
where the expedition disembarked,
Crosson continuing on to Point
Lay on the Arctic coast.
1t was expected he would stop
here only a short while and then
start back, spending the night at
Wiseman. His return route is the
shortest but more hazardous be-
cause of the Brooks range OF
mountains.
Crosson spent a night at Point
Lay while returning to Fairbanks
after delivering his first shipment
of 100000 units of antitoxin OF
Saturday.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-03-20
SEES A DARK
FUTURE FOR
The FARMERS

Washington FTP Gross in
come from agricultural production
in the United States in 1880 was
apparently 2O@6 less than in 1929
and the future of the farming in
dustry appears dark indeed, the
department of agriculture discloses
in it's report on ''The Agricultural
Outlook for 1881" prepared by its
staff with the help of the feder-
al farm board and the state agri-
cultural colleges and extension
services.
While conditions are worst in
the two great cash crop regions
the wheat belt and the cotton belt
due to world oversupply of both
commodities, the condition of no
other part of the farming industry
is secure.
Farm wages are the lowest in
10 years. Incidentally, the report
says that industrial production in
1880 was 1870 below that for 1929,
SO that the town worker and the
farmer suffered in about equal
proportions by the collapse of the
economic structure.
, This report suggests a possibil-
, ity that prices for farm crops will
: improve next fall, but this asser-
2 ton is not made in any really as
sured tone, in view of the world
depression.
"At the present time," it declar-
es, conditions seem to indicate
r that the demand for the agricul
i tural products of the United States
T in foreign countries during the
n next five or tie nyears is not like
S ly to be as great as in the pas
ten years.
Improvements in agriculture
u technique will contribute to ex
: pansion of production in Russi;
and the newer agricultural coun
tries as they are contributing to
: ward such expansion in the cen
d trail and western sections of tn,
n United Etates.
c GA declining rate of population
o growth may have a tendency t.
+ check the upward trend in the de
o mand for agricultural products.
W rapid decline in the birth rate ha
-e been in progress since 1921. Dur
( ing the next 20 years, however
le there will be a moderate increas
: of population.
= Conditions during 1880 hav
. been such as to tend to reduce tn
number of buyers seeking farms
= Latest available estimates (Marc
y 1930) indicated that farm real e:
I tate values for the United State
- averaged 1870 above pre-war {
~ approximately 1920 below the pea
of 1920. Measured in dollars {
the purchasing power of 1901
values were approximately 1870 b
low the pre-war level.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-03-20
TOBACCO COMPANY'S
EARNINGS INCREASE
TO ENORMOUS SUM

Net earnings of the American
Tobacco Company for 1880, after
providing for all expenses of man.
agement, depreciation and taxes,
amounted TO $43, $40, according
to the annual report mailed to the
stockholders recently. Taxes paid
to the federal government alone
totaled more than one hundred fiji
ty million dollars.
The earnings the largest in the
companys history, represent an in
crease of AZ per cent over the net
earnings of 1929 and amounted to
1886 a share in 1880 as against
$5.76 a share in 1929.
The increase in net earnings was
$13, JIG, 165, or more than twice
the combined increase in earnings
of the company's three principal
competitors.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-03-20
CHINA STARTS AIR
WARFARE ON REDS

HankOw, China, March 10
Aerial warfare against commnn
istic bandits in the Peiping and
Han0ow territories was adontoS
on large scale by Hankow nil; Mill
tary authorities today as the 70
suit of recent serious threats ~
civil and government institutions
A large force Of war planes was
modified from Human brownies
Six of the planes flew over 49,
communist stronghold at Ehrlon mo-
fan, dropping bombs and dispers
ing them.
The authorities said a commnr
list menace to the railway svstan,
was growing and that trains had
stopped running.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-03-20
JUST A CONFERENCE FOR
Sound LEGISLATION"

1t was, in fact, to be what the
sponsors promised-a conference
to be devoted to the exchange of
ideas looking solely to the formu-
lation of a sound legislative pro-
gram to be advanced at the next
session of congress-" 1t was not
to be a meeting of protest against
the neglect of the unemployed ana
the drouth victims by the Hoover
administration. 1t was guaranteed
against any proposal to start a
new political party. If it served
as a convenient diversion Of the
attention of the unemployed and
the radicals from the puzzle as to
why the progressives failed to
force the calling of a special ses-
sion of the new congress to deal
with unemployment relief, that
fact was not emphasized. Neither
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-03-20
10 COUNTS MADE.
PUBLIC AGAINST
IN. YORK MAYOR
Misfeasance in Office Is Basis
Gross incompetence in Con-
duct of Office is Alleged.

Albany, N. Y, Mar. 18.-Charg-
es preferred against the admins
tration of Mayor James J. Walk
er of New York, by the city af-
fairs committee, made public by
Gov. Roosevelt today, allege mis-
feasance in office in ten specific
cases.
The charges said that the mayor
mad managed his office in the
government of the city Gin a vast
full and incompetent fashion"
The charges were contained in a
letter to which was attached a
memorandum containing allega-
lions of failure to act in instances
involving the board of standards
and appeals, the department of Ii
censeS, condemnation proceedings,
health department, director of the
budget, department of hospitals,
the dock department and the sink
ing fund commission, recalcitrant
officials and the grand jury, mag
istrates' courts and the police de-
partment.
"He failed property to admin
lister the government of the city
of New York in the interests of
the people," the charges said OF
Mayor Walker. "He has ignored
conditions of inefficiency and cor.
ruptiOn, and if under public pres.
sure he has initiated investigation.
he has allowed such investigations
to lapse without report or result
He has appointed unworthy me1
to public office and kept IN offic,
unworthy men subject by law t.
his removal"
"His conduct of the office o.
MAYOR since he took office on Jan
1, 1880, has been incompetent, in
efficient and futile with the resul
that the local machinery of gov
eminent has failed to function
properly and the administration o
the city has been brought into dis
repute."
The charges also allege that tn
mayor "has brought the admins
tration of the city into disreput
by daily neglect of the affairs q
!, his office, by careless standards O
!. public life and by complete indi1
ference to the inefficiency and dis
honesty of appointed subord
Mates"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-03-20
HOOVER'S DEFERRED PLANS

Besides the official scoundrels III the city of
Washington, capitol of the United States. there
exists what is known as the "Kiplinger Washing
ton Agency"
From the National Press Building it sends out
to those who pay for it-a washington Letter"
which, it declares, is Circulated Privately to a
limited Number OF Business Executives" 1t ia
designed to keep the aforesaid Business Execu-
tives" informed on "nside stuff" of the relations
between capitalist business and capitalist govern
ment
In this outfits Washington Letter of Feb. %,
one paragraph opens up like this:
-''NOw that congress is about over, the ad-
rministratiOn has number of deferred plans
for executive action which will be eOnstrue-
lively helpful to business recovery"
And what are some of these deferred plans"
(Which President Hoover awaited the time when
rot even a capitalist congress would be around to
bother? One is given as:
~SOme unofficial pressure from the White
House to expedite eastern railroad cOnsOlida-
ton on the 4-party plan is contemplated"
And what does this mean to the working class,
especially to railway workers? Unemployment
Everybody should know that. The Unemployment
of tens of thousands of railroad workers by rail-
way merger is one of the chief inducements for
tEhat merger By that means, by throwing huge
armies of workers onto the streets jobless-and
with no Unemployment Insurance-the railway
barons hope to keep up the past high dividends on
'Sthe enormous amount of watered stock.
This, then, is one of the deferred plans" Of
Hoover (which will be constructivey helpful 30
business recovery" That it means misery and
starvation to great army of railway workers and
their families is a matter of Importance TO Mr..
Hoover-to any capitalist.
But already there have been murmurs from these
workers The rank and file have been kicking,
forcing the reactonary bureaucrats of the disunit
sixteen crafts 10 raise the question here and
there, to make a show, pretense of doing some
thing.
The confidential washington Letter" of the
Kiplinger Agency tells the Business Executive:
who subscribe to it, that all this has been taker
care of. Also as part of the Hoover 'plans," VIZ
read
"0fficals have already taken steps secret
1y to get railroad labor off the track with the
assurance that consolidation will not mean
the dismissal of employees. We expect news
on this situation to trickle out around the
middle of April"
So, railway workers. secretly" some Officials
are taking steps to see that you are lied to! Tha
YOU are 10 be told that the merger OF the railroa
companies will not mean unemployment for yor
Take this tip that anyone who tells you So
helping Hoover and the railway barons to "ge
railroad labor off the trackl"
The Railroad Brotherhood officials have alread
nm conference with Hoover on December fETAC
dse6 TO give their cooperation to the companies
The handling of their problems" during the &c,
rOmic crisis.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-03-20

Kalispell, Montana,
March 10, 1880.
Producers News,
Plentywood, Montana.
Chas. E. Taylor, Editor.
My Dear Senator:
After 1 arrived home 1 re-read a
copy of your paper which you were
kind enough to send me. Imagine
my surprise when 1 found out that
1 had been barred from the floor of
the house for lobbying. Fact is, 1
introduced the resolution instructing
the sergeant-at-arms to see that all
lobbyists were kept from lobbying
on the floor of the chamber.
The reporters did not report what
happened at Helena during the ses-
sion except on the Pollyanna bills.
This is all that the public got. The
reporter Of the United I'ress came
20 me early in the session and want
ed to know all about the income tax
measure / was introducing. He made
story of it, but never again! He
got his orders and never came near
me again, but to see such an item
as the enclosed in your paper makes
me say: Et tn Brutel
Kindest regards,
w. S. McCAItMACK
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-03-20
CONFERENCE OF PRO-
GRESSIVES NOT so RADICAL.

Washington -FP- When the
mild manered call for a conference
of progressives who are interested
in the technical job of drafting
legislative program tcf the new
congress went out over the sigma
lures of Norris, Costigan, LaFOl-
lette, Cutting and Wheeler on Mar.
2, it created as much dismay in
the offices of the republican ma
tional committeeman in the Of
fees of the democratic national
committee too, for that matter
as though it had been a summons
to radicals. Indeed the reaction
ary politicians of both old parties
looked upon it as a thinly DISCUS
ed attempt to revive the LaFOllette
movement of 1924, and if they did
not Immediately denOunce it as a
Bolshevist plot they were at least
prepared to remind the country
that LaFollette, Cutting and B. K.
Wheeler had been to Moscow.
Invitation List Reassuring
J When, a week later, LaFollette
made public a partial list of the
persons who had accepted invita-
lions, and it was seen that these
included a group of prominent
chiefs of labor organizations, in.
Guiding VIM. Green, D. B. Robert
son and A. o. Wharton, and eX
perts in social work such as Mrs
Florence Kelley, Lillian Valid anC
Paul U. Kellogg, and a few mel
known as radicals in pre-war days
such as Lincoln Steffens, Prof. E
A. Ross and Frank P. Walsh, will
a generous admixture of person
ages such as former Sen. iona
than Bourne, Huston Thompson
and Rudolph Spreckels, it was rec
ognized that this gathering woulc
be far less radical than many tina
have come and gone in American
politics.