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Smyrna times., 1932-04-13
BUDGET CUT MAY
DELAY DOVER p. @.
Reduction of 10 Per Cent in
Treasury Supply Bill May
Postpone Work
DOVER WOULD BE HIT

Reduction Of 10 per cent in ap-
preparations carried in the treas
ury supply bill, which the Senate
has instructed its committee to
make, will mean indefinite post
ponement of Delaware public
building projects involving total
of $114, 900, according to Secretary
Mills, in letter to the Senate FL
nance Committee. One project
listed for postponement in the
communication of Secretary Mills
is the postoffice building at Dover,
for which the authorized expendi-
ture is 100000, and the other is
construction at Reedy Island quar-
antine station estimated at $14,-
900. 1T is safe to assume" wrote
the Secretary of the Treasury,
that between $50 and 275 of the
projects enumerated on the enclos-
ed statement would have to be in
definitely deferred in the event of
a reduction of S25,000,000 in the
lump sum for public buildings
(equal to 10 per cent?" The Sec
retary mentioned II specific pro-
iects that would be contracted for
regardless of the proposed cut, but
neither Delaware project is includ-
ed in this limited preferential list.
How materially even a reduction of
10 per cent affects the government
program is illustrated in the effect
it will have in the matter of public
buildings. 1t tends to substantiate
the contention of Senator Daniel
o. Hastings Of Delaware in reply
ing to a resolution Of the Will
mington Chamber of Commerce
that only a small part of the Fed
eral treasury deficit can be made
up by limiting appropriations.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-13
Taciturn Aristocrat

The character of Henry Cav
endish has baffled many inquiries.
says an article in Nature Magazine.
His habits were more those of re
cluse than Of a scion of a noble
house. All his life he was shy, re-
served and taciturn, Brougham say
ing that "he probably uttered fewer
words in the course Of his life than
any man who ever lived to fourscore
years, not at all excepting the
monks of La Trappe."
Feeling his end was near, he said
to his servant:
"Mind what I say-I am going to
die. When / am dead. but not till
then. go to Lord George Cavendish
and tell him-go!' ~
Smyrna times., 1932-04-13
WOMEN OF STATE
CONFER ON LAWS
WOmen's Joint Legislative
Committee Talk Over Mat
ters for Next Legislature
DISCUSS MANY SUBJECTS

Women from all parts of the
State attended two important
meetings which were held at Do
yer Thursday. The first was the
meeting of the Women's Joint Leg
islative Committee which will urge
various legislation at the next ses-
sion of the Legislature. The prin-
cipal speaker was Mrs. Helen ID.
Hoffman, of Washington, who
spoke on Better Homes in Della
ware" She told the advantages
coming from well built and proper
ly designed homes. She referred
to the progress made in highways
and schools in Delaware and ex-
pressed hope that homes would be
the next subject taken up and ad-
vanced Following the address
there was a discussion Of subjects
which may be brought before the
next legislature. Following the
meeting of the Legislative Com
mittee there was meeting of
women under the direction of the
State Conservation Commission on
Wild Flowers and Trees. Mrs.
James H. Hughes presided and Mrs
John p. Nields, and Mrs. Macmil-
Ian Hopes spoke briefly on gar
den work. DR.. H. V. Holloway,
State Superintendent of Public In
struction, spoke briefly, dwelling
upon the advantage of persons get
ting out of doors for recreation.
Mrs. John P. Nields introduced
Mrs. Louis Franck, of Long Island,
who spoke on gardens and of the
necessity of schools and others
teaching conservation Of flowers
and trees and the planting of gard
ems. w. S. Taber, State Forester,
and willard Springer, Jr., mem
Der of the State Forestry Com
mission, also spoke on conservation
of forests.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-13
SUGGEST BYPASS
STATE HIGHWAY
ID. S. Dwight Says DUPONT
Road Extension Would Re-
lieve Congestion of City
BRIDGE is REQUESTED

Construction of a span across
the Christiana River and the ex-
tension and paving of South du-
Pont Road as far as the dupont
Boulevard is seen as one of the
most important future highway
developments in the northern part
of Delaware by New Castle Levy
Court Commissioner Delaware S.
Wright, providing the Delaware
New Jersey bridge across the Del
aware becomes reality. Mr..
Wright, in discussing the matter
informally last week, pointed out
that such a highway project would
be of untold benefit in relieving
traffic congestion in the city of
Wilmington. At the present time,
DUPONT Road is concrete paved be-
tween the Lancaster Pike, passing
through Elsmere and extending to
Maryland Avenue, in Richardson
Park. BY paving and extending
the road south across the Chris
tiana River, it would provide a per
feet bypass around the city, en-
abling motorists from the north
and west to reach the DUPONT
Boulevard without the necessity of
passing through Wilmington Even
without the construction of the
Delaware-New Jersey bridge, he
continued, the DUPONT Road link
would be of great value for those
motorists driving to points in low
er Delaware. At the present time,
DUPONT Road extends from Mary
land Avenue to marlborough
Road. 1t is unpaved south of
Maryland Avenue. Mr. Wright, in
his discussion, suggested that it be
continued between the properties
of Robert Clough and A. H. Lewis,
and then continue, by means of an
overhead bridge or an underpass
past the Pennsylvania Railroad
mainline, to the Christiana, and
from there straight across to the
DUPONT Boulevard.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-13
Basilicas

Originally, at Athens. basilica
was portico on the agora In
which the archon basileus dis
pensed justice. Later, in Rome, 1t
was rectangular hall divided into
nave and aisles by ranges of col
umns, and with a raised platform,
called the tribune. Mt one end. 1t
was used as a hall of justice and
adopted as the type for the earliest
buildings of Christian worship. The
word is now applied TO church
of this time or to one to which the
pope has given the title.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-13
MRS. s. M. WRIGHT RITES
Funeral Services Held Wednesday
at Hurlock. MARYLAND

Funeral services were held Wed
nesday in the Methodist Protest
ant Church for Mrs. Susan Mill
Wright, a former resident, who
died Monday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. c. w. Cooper, at
Baltimore, by the Rev. F. A. Hol-
land, local pastor, assisted by the
Rev. John A. Wright, of Delmar.
Mrs. Wright, who was ninety-four,
leaves the following children: w.
Colubus Wright, Samuel Wright
and Mrs. John A. Harper, of Hur-
lock; Raymond Wright, of Cam
bridge; ]. O.Wright, Harry Wright
and Mrs. Cooper, Of Baltimore, and
Mrs. Katie Brohawn, of Mardella,
Md. Burial was in Washington
cemetery, Hurlock.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-13
HIGHWAY CHIEF
AT SAFETY MEET
Chief Engineer w. w. Mack
Gives Depression AS Cause
of Many Accidents
ACCIDENTS ON INCREASE

w. w. Mack, chief engineer of
the State Highway Department,
was the principal speaker at the
dinner meeting of the Fleet Repre-
sentatives Section of the Delaware
Safety Council Wednesday night.
The meeting was held in the y. M.
c. a., Clarence Fraim, chairman,
presiding. Mr.. Mack, in his ad-
dress, placed the blame for the in
crease in accidents to pedestrians
upon the industrial depression and
declared the increase in such acci-
dents was the only stain upon the
safety record of the state. One
fifth Of the accidents to pedestri-
ans, hitch mixers and others, he
said. occurred between Wilmington
and State road. Few if any stat
.es," he said, "have so accurate
record of motor vehicle accidents
as Delaware. This is due partly
to the smallness of the State and
largely to the efficiency of the
State Police. Statistics gathered
in this manner show that it is six
to nine times safer to drive an
automobile than it is to be pas
Senger, as that is the proportion
between the number of fatalities
affecting the driver and the pas
senger" He declared that during
the past yeor there has been 100
per cent increase in the number OF
accidents caused by driving off the
highway and a 124 per cent in
crease in accidents due to the op-
orators following the car in front
of them too closely. Another &C
cident case was declared to be the
failure of the driver to see his
tenders. AS a remedy for this Mr..
Mack suggested that all cars be
equipped with the small red re-
fiexes now noticed on the tenders
of many automobiles. The person
who drives at a moderate speed IS
the safest, he declared, as there is
absolutely no place in Delaware for
speeders. The slow driver is just
as serious a menace, however, as
the speeder, he said. He warned
the fleet representatives that they
must see that their commercial We
hicle operators work regular hours
and avoid overtime, as too long
hours reduce altertness and care
fulness Of the drivers. He said that
if the companies do not enforce
this rule, it is possible that the
next Legislature will pass a law
forcing them to do it. He con-
graduated the commercial vehicle
operators on the excellent safety
record they had established last
year and urged them to aggres-
sively pursue the safety campaign
to reduce traffic accidents, and at
the same time to set an example
for other operators to follow. Fol
lowing his address there was a
general discussion period, in which
R. p. Russell, general superintend-
ent of the Maryland Division Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Q.
c. Reynolds, superintendent of the
State Police, joined. I. B. Fink
elstein, president Of the Delaware
Safety Council, made short talk,
in which he expressed the appreci-
alton of the board of directors for
the fine work of the fleet represen-
tatives' section and urged they
continue their work. There is no
more important subject in the
country than the conservation Of
life, he declared.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-13
1000 Birds Like His
Home; Refuse to Leave

Norwalk, Conn.-Anyone knowing
a good way to discourage the atten-
tions Of birds should get In touch
with Grover Muller. Muller has tried
eyerything-thar Is, everything he
has heard Of so far-including ro-
man candles, to get some 5000 birds
70 leave the caves Of his house and
-reetops around it.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-13
RaRSEI1P1y TR4aERNSTIPy S1a>|
Cheney Burt, JAM, ;, !
Of Easton, Nd, :, |. Y |
Duffy Of wasbiaa I ! !
NABBED n

the bandits VIA Is9 e.. ala
oed the bank at 1T,a T,..q \
Saturday April ! TYP t. 4
at Easton, Nd. aDs a's "
to have made 4 fnn I'M a's i !
plicating the otbsr - $, !
years old; Ian. Nael'g
both 2ola of "a stoa. Ma ~
Duffy "A, of wsss..@ Y
Duffy is said to ts- 5a,' Ee
that they are the tbr.s Fr,s \
0'NN u Sl92S. n. :.
employed Al the Walt.. h, = !
pltal in Wasbiugtos, !,
% nave left there w.
sion On Sunday II ~ ~
mobile Accor9ing
sion said to hava h.. ! y y
police the three ~. ~
at Trappe and at r. j.
volvers forced Cyrus ! 81
cashier and Norman ! u
sistant cashier, d 5oI4
hands and face tbe W. !. !
the men then opened j
compelled the bank .m1
enter the cellar. The, Il
the money and escspd n
chine. They said taeg Il
to Wilmington Del i:
delphia. and then rs.u,,
timore Burt was cap.rs |
timore Wednesday srt i
Easton Where he was ids.]
Malionee and Leonard. d
and Duffy were arrests 4
lngton Thursday and vsr i
turned 70 Easton, WHERE Il
ldentlfled as the bandits \
cashier and his assjst.,, /
Smyrna times., 1932-04-13
Doctor Urges Music
as Remedy for Sick

Chicago.-Music instead Of
pills for the ailing was sug-
gested by DIR. A. $. Hershfield.
former state alienist.
His suggested remedies in
clude:
Grieg's songs to relieve
nervous exhaustion.
Bach for an alcoholic hang
over.
Chopin, Beethoven and
Dvorak for grief.
'Tannhaeuser" for furious
mania.
wagner's Ride OF the
valkyries" for melancholia.
The physician said music
already had been used bene-
flclally for many maladies.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-13
Ancient Footprints in Park

South EIadley. Mass.-Land sur
rounding a ledge in Smiths Ferry
on which are imprinted footprints
believed to have been made by a
prehistoric dinosaur is TO be made
a public park.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-13
Buckson-ElIisOn We'd

Miss Elizabeth B. Ellisu,
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. I. Gda.
son, and Mr.. Newlin r. b
son of the late Harry '. 4
and Mrs. Buckson, Of st. 4
were quietly married at Y
of the brides parents |
Georges, Wednesday naE1
7.3O o'clock. The cerenz1
performed by Rev. ". Va
pastor Of St. Georges Pts1
Church. Immediately 4
ceremony Mr.. and Mrs.
left for an extended nj
and on returning will II
home in Rehoboth and s
Smyrna times., 1932-04-13

Little Charles was at the neigh
bors where they gave him a dish Of
ice cream. He said:
AT our house, when we have ice
cream, we make it ourselves"
~How do you make ice creamg
one of his friends asked.
''Put 1t in a bucket and wind IT,"
answered Charles.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-13
ARBOR DAY At sION
Delaware Colony viii Bul
gram on SATURDAY. 4 wI

WIN na3
gram on Saturday, AmI
Arbor Day exercises vi,
at Delaware Colony, Sto:E;I
urday, April 18th, at III
The program will bed
play by the children IN N
torium. The planting vi !
until completed. ANY ore |
to contribute any foTes
or trees may either tA
along with them or foEla
in advance to the supsnI
Howard E. Ennis. Bib
Lockwood will be chairna
activities and the public i
to attend.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1932-07-16


this week, Kelvin Sunburst
was the gIooniest spot in the
world. The big company men
headed the gloom parade and
draped their words with black
crepe. Oddly enough, these
gloomy ones were so sympa-
thetic with the por unfor-
tunate, Independents, that
they provided them with
a little cash and took
over much of their acreage.
One of the writer's associates
remembered Cat Creek and
the Decker Collins, well. He
refused to hear any of the
gloom, but grinned as he re-
cognized the dealing that was
going on. He saw in the &C
QUESTION of the Baker lease
from the Inland Empire com
pany-one of the seeming
down-and cutters something
significant. His Judgment
seemingly uncanny, was worth
something for it was on this
lease that the Ohio completed
one Of the three greatest wells
in the field, many months
later.
There is a parallel for this
story in EVERY oil field.
Pondera had its period Of
gloom, just like Cat Creek and
Keyin-Sunburst. And so has
every other field and so will
every other field n the future.
Whitlash viii not escape.
This field IS pretty well con-
trolled BY Independents and
there seems no reason for
gloom inanipulations, yet the
gloom will come. But that
is beside the point.
There is a parallel in the
oil history of each oil produc-
ing State. All oil states go
through similar history. An
have to 60 through the same
sort of evolution, in the for
of its laws, its taxes,
its place in economies, must
build markets, rail rate struc-
lures and the like. The
best time to start the oil in
dustry in a state would be
when everything else in BUSH
ness was in low ebb. Then
the banks, merchants, the
chambers Of commerce and
everyone else would turn their
toward helping the
new industry. But that sell
dom happens. The industry
has to battle its way
alone while the other indus
tries look upon it as an in
terloper until such times as its
own strength is asserted
politically or otherwise.
Likewise, oil fields methods
evolve. Every oil state has
its start with the discovery of
oil in shallow sands. That is
natural, Prospectors do not
want to risk the cost Of a deep
veil. Furthermore, all oil
;tate history has been written
turing a time when there were
.ertain mechanical limitations,
n addition to the limitations
by so-called science.
Every state has had its "red
lag" formation: a point at
which drilling MUST cease.
The scientist has always been
N hand to prove that it is
mere folly to drill any deeper.
)ddIv eno11oh the red beds
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were the barrier at the bottom
of holes drilled in Montana in
early days. If we recall cor
rectly, one u. S. G. S. publ
cation recommended prospect
ing only to the base of the
Colorado. For that reason,
hundreds of needless dry
holes" were drilled in Mon
tana. There is no question
about it, now that It is defin-
itely established that there is
NO production of consequence
in any formation ABOVE
the red beds in the Northern
part of the State.
Discovery of oil below the
red beds was quickly followed
by the establishment Of a new
barrier. WHITE LIME of
the Madison became the bar
rier. The seasoned driller
and the geologist who visited
a well and saw white lime in
the stump chorused: you're
all through" Just as red
beds Of the Kootenai were a
barrier, so the white lime be-
came a barrier. Then some-
one found oil in tremendous
quantities at a point down IN
the lime known as the "first
break" So then a new bar
rier had to be fixed. So
SULPHUR WATER became
the barrier. Now a well goes
into the lime until It hits
sulphur water. Then it is
definitely a dry hole.
If the red bed theory had
been a law, there wouldn't be
a producing oil well in Kelvin
Sunburst today.
If the white lime theory
had been a law, Kevin-Sun-
burst would be without its
greatest producers.
If the sulphur water theory
were a law, it wouldn't make
much difference for the pres
ent, because the wells that
have been drilled below sui
phur water at the top of the
lime, in Kelvin Sunburst, could
be named over from memory
out of 1850 wells drilled.
Yet everyone who knows
anything about the history of
other oil states knows that
operators for years have been
casing off sulphur water and
bringing in tremendous oil
wells, from lower horizons.
But not in Montana. A few
miles across the Montana Dor
der, in Wyoming, in similar
geological conditions, big oil
wells have been found IN the
Madison lime and below the
sulphur water. North of
Montana, in Turner Valley,
oil is being produced from
horizons anywhere from 100
to 900 feet IN the Madison
lime.
But Montana has to go
through its evolution, just as
did the other states where
millions upon millions of dol
lars were wasted in drilling
to some mythical barrier.
With the discovery of oil in
the Devonian in Kevin-Sun-
burst field, virtually EVERY
LOCATION will have to be
re-drilled. The "dry holes"
will have to be drilled a second
time. Then, for a time, the
Devonian, which is below the
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1932-07-16

The interesting parallels of
oil fields history make a roy
atty buyer quite like lawyer
RETROSPECTIVE.
The seasoned royalty inves-
tor finds himself constantly
looking back to measure the
present by similar circumstanc-
es of the past. Every oil
field has its own history.
Yet the history of each field
is. for the most part, so SINH
lar to that of every other field
that the man who would sue
coed VIII measure all emotions
attendant to new field BY the
result of similar circumstances
in other fields.
This came forcefuIly to
mind during the past week in
a discussion with the editor
of The Montana Oil Journal.
We suggested to him that he
start a column in his paper
under the heading: Ten
Years Ago." and recall what
was happening in oil in Mno-
tana 10 years ago. He was
relating that 10 years ago
this week, the evin-Sunburst
field was the most dismal spot
in the world, if not in the
universe. The Gordon Camp
bell-Kevin discovery well had
been practically ruined and
then, on June S, 10 years ago
the Sunburst brought in its
first producer, some eight
miles away from the Camp
bell well. The Sunburst well
was commercial, so that re-
vived the field. The oil field
scouts who had prepared to
quit the country were spurred
back into feverish activity.
Ohio Oil Company quickly
dealt with the Sunburst for
part Of its acreage, paying a
quarter of a million dollars to
the erstwhile struggling indie
pendent, for working agree
ments on acreage around the
discovery well. The Ohio inn
mediately drilled its Reibe
well, across the road from the
discovery well. The Reibe
well drilled into the Sunburst
horizon and to the disnay of
everyone had virtually a dry
hole. There was enough oil
on the stump to fill a five-gal-
lon can. That was about all.
The writer was present.
Two days before that well
was completed, everyone was
talking in terms of millions.
I landowners were walking
around on clouds. Operators
scowled and growled at one
in lease controversies
hike wolves fighting over
bones.
Two days after the Reibe
well was cornpIeted-it was an
absolute dry hole in the Ellis
sand-the whole blankety
blank field wasn't worth
twenty cents, as revealed by a
canvass of all those present.
The writer was down in the
mouth because he had been
foolish" enough to induce
some Of his friends to share
with him the cost of some roy
alties. He was afraid to 60
back home and face them for
he gloomy news spread over
he land, and gloomy news
always spreads faster than
good news.
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Retrospection Is An Asset

massive Madison lime, will be
the barrier. But there is still
another chapter in Montana
oil history after that. We
need only look to the history
of Texas which has gone
through all of these stages,
starting with 600 foot drilling
and reaching, now, 5000 to
$500 feet. Texas is today
looking to lines of ORDOVI-
CLAN age from which pro-
duce the worlds deepest wells,
in Reagan county. And now
the larger operators in Texas
are utilizing their acreage
into large blocks and jointly
financing deep tests to a
depth of 5000 feet or more.
Eight thousand foot drilling
belongs to the rotary age"
Of Texas, Oklahoma and Cali
fornia. The rotary age"
has not arrived in Montana, or
perhaps it is just arriving.
Rotaries are drilling 5000
feet on Dry Creek, in South
ern Montana, with greater
speed and economy than cable
tools. A rotary is now drill
ing on Milk River, where a
5500-foot test is to be follow
ed by a projected 8,000-foot
test, to reach the Turner
Valley horizon. The first
well is to go to the convention
al top-of-lime horizon.
The Importance Of the ar
rival Of this rotary rig on
Milk River anticline cannot be
over-emphasized to a person
who knows oil fields history
and in turn oil states history.
With the establishment of the
rotary, the Ordovician is with
in the reach of the drill on
every important structure in
Montana with the possible
exception of fields in the East
ern and Northeastern parts.
The speed and efficiency of
the rotary in prospecting is
not the only important factor
involved at Milk River. 1t
win usher in the development
of sharp-dip structures. Oil
men of Montana have been
years looking for an
other Kevin-Sunburst. They
have come upon Pondera and
Bannatyne and a few others
bat their hearts are set on
finding another vast, flat
structure. They have COM
pletelV overlooked sharp-dip
fields which may furnish
sensational world oil history:
none knows their possibilities.
The first location on Milk
River may fail but the success
IF the rotary on that operation
will mean further drilling and
.hereis none who knows the
history of California oil
fields who does not believe
hat the CaIifornia-type struc-
.ure will produce in Montana
md that a "sharp-dip epoch"
S to form one of the later
.hapters of our oil history.
We are issuing a plat this
week on Flat Coulee structure,
where a well is now drilling,
IN a field where the presence
# oil and gas is proven. Any
me desiring this publication
hould send in the attached
oupon.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1932-07-16
THn SAVING CLAUSE


Burglar Bill: "Ano after yea
got away from the cop. where
did yea hidef"
Burglar Jakss soh, / just
ducked into de city hall. flOpped
down in = chair and put me feet
on 9 desk.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1932-07-16

WHEN BUssINEss rs POOR
A woman walked into .
certain store and asked for
. package o. IAmburx cheese.
she was mot satisfied 20
buy sight unseen 30 the
grocer unwrapped It for her
70 sniff. re doesn't smell
as strong as the kind /
used to get," she COM
.plaaned.
sswelI, ma'am." drawied
the proprietor, ''it's hard
60 distinguish the odOr
nOwadays with business 90
rokeni"