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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30
All Branches Are
Represented Here
At Code Meeting
Producers, Refiners And Marketers Each
Organizing To Agree On Interpre-
tatiOn OF Code

The various branches of the Montana oil industry
are meeting in Great Falls today to subscribe to the
federal oil code promulgated by President Franklin
D. Roosevelt
A state organization is to be formed in conformity
with provisions of the code to coordinate with the
gional committee and to deal with special problems of
the Montana industry.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30
LOWER PRICE
FOR GASOLINE
is

Declaring that the price OF
gasoline in Montana should be
30 cents per gallon. including
state and federal taxes Of eM
cents, Governor Frank H. Cooney
has addressed letter to all gaso-
line marketers In this state de-
manding immediate price redac-
tions with the alternative that
II this is not complied with. the
state will engage in the refining
and marketing business. as pro
vided b. the last legislature.
The governor has 500, 900
available with which to carry
out his threat. Up to Friday
the governor said he had received
no reply from any Of the Is
companies to which his letter
was addressed.
This is the way the governor
figures.
roday's retail price on gaso-
line is zeH cents in most places
in Montana. including the state
and federal tax Of e5k cents a
gallon. leaving the net price at
the filling station 20 cents. De-
duct from this the ~ cents q
gallon freight and this leaves a
net price Of tn cents At the
retineriss while the price IN
Oklahoma Il sM cents q sallon."
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30

The meeting Is q voluntary
one. called BY a committee COM
posed OF LaRue Smith or the
Texas Pacific Coal & Oil com
pany. o. NJ. Webb of the Texaco-
International refinery and J. W.
Johnson OF the Northwest
stellarine. representatives OF
all branches are in attendance.
both Standard and Independent
companies.
1t is expected that following
a general meeting at which the
general terms OF the code will
be discussed. the various branches
will hold group meetings. The
producers win organize a COM
mittee which will deal with
matters including the
ALLEGATION OF quotas TO various
fields. The refiners will organ
ice TO determine uniform prac-
tices in the state OF Montana
in conformity with the national
code and the marketers will re-
organize under the federal code
The marketers have been OPP
Grating under q code OF fair
practice approved by the federal
trade commission. It Is expected
that the old organization will
merely be moved over under
the blue eagle banner and con-
tinue to function. Whereas the
old code was merely a matter
OF a gentlemen's agreement, the
new code will be binding upon
ali marketers. with the federal
government to enforce It's pro-
visions.
A preliminary meeting OF pro-
ducers OF Cut Bank district was
held Thursday night at Cut
Bank. Among those in attend
ance today are L. B. oNeil. ].
E. Stewart, and G. s. Frary
of the Santa Rita. Roy TarrAnr.
and representatives. of the Mon
tana Power Gas Co. Montana
Headlight and others.
J. NJ. Land OF the legal de-
partment OF The Texas company
is here from Denver.
In response to a special call
from B. G. Stevenson. Montana
manager Of socony-vacuum,
White Eagle dealers are in at
tendance from all parts Of the
state as are Continental, Texaco.
Shell and Standolind dealers.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30
GETREADY
FOR WINTER
OPERATIONS

The well on the Flat coulee
in northern Liberty county.
sweetgrass Hills. Is reported shut
down to complete rigging up and
to haul materials TO location in
anticipation Of the first fail
snowstorm. due within the next
few weeks.
J. H. Hamilton, manager OF
the REORGANIZATION plan, Is now
at the well. He purchased A
4500-fOot one-inch drilling line
Tuesday and a new bull rope
with other necessary small
equipment and with the excep-
ton OF a small amount Of six
Inch casing the crew will have
everything with which TO drill
the well 70 completion. Barring
unusually severe fall weather,
the crew expects to complete be-
fore winter.
The greatest problem is that
OF obtaining water and this may
be solved BY water At 200 feet.
found in the other two wells.
II this water is found In the
new location. NEH sw X fO-
37-5E. the crew win spud a
water well beside the derrick
and thereafter will have no more
worry. for there Is adequate fuel
OH on the ground.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30

troIeum products as enumerated
In Rule 2 Of Article v Of this
Code to the public), including
clerical, but excluding executives.
supervisors and their immediate
Stats, and outside statesmen shall
work not more than 40 hours
per week.
ARTICLE II, Section 3, Is A.
mended 70 read as follows:
SECTION Q. No filling or SER
vice station employee, nor any
employee Of any garage or
other Institution selling petroleum
products, as enumerated in Rule
tcontinued on Page Three)
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30
ARTICLE 1

ARTICLE l
To Article l add a new section
as follows:
SECTION ca. The Presi-
dent may impose such conditions
(fncluding requirements for the
making OF reports and the keep
Ing OF aecounts) for the pro-
lection Of consumers, competi-
tors, employees and others. and
in furtherance Of the public In
terest. and may provide such
exceptions from the provisions Of
This Code as the President in his
discretion deems necessary TO
effectuate the policy Of the Ma
tionai Industrial Recovery Act:
provided that all such matters
shan be considered and recon-
mendations made in regard
thereto BY the Planning and Co
ordination Committee.
ARTICLE II
ARTICLE II. Section /. is
amended TO read as follows:
EEETON /. In drilling. prOduc-
ton. refinery and pipeline opera
tons. the maximum hours for
clerical employees shall not ex-
ceed As hours IN any one week
nor more than 80 hours IN any
two weeks and the rate Of pay
for each geographic division shall
not ~ less than the minimuna
asnfad n Section 2. All other
employees and their immediate
and bumpers on "strippsr"
efE8 sad employees on iaoEeted
pfDsTkes, shall work not mere
AaH 4e houFs IN any one s&eA
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30
Three New Wells
Are Starting In
Cut Bank Field
Second Rotary Rig Moving Into Field And
Third Coming Montana Power Gas
Spots Four Wells

One small producer completed. well is dri'Iina
in today started and six locations
announced in Cut Bank during the past week
olive company's Hagund No. 1 we'll in sW NW4 sW54
sand, getting small productions
which shooting may improve Inability the shot bottom
forced of nitro gyeern two times
at reports been exploded Consider
able mud in the hole Authenticated the
fact that the pine was set at 1851
with IL Of the Darling sand
This is jack" wen in the field-a group o.
Ferdig drers having DakOtaontana conn
pany's F4agund lease
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30

nor more than ~ hours In any
two weeks nor more than 1e
hours In any two days. Defini-
ton Of ''stripper wells" shall
be made in various fields and
areas by the Regional Commit
tees, subject to the revision
and approval OF the Planning
and Coordination Committee.
ARTICLE II. Section 2, is
amended 70 read as follows:
SECTION 2. In market OPP
eFations all employees lother
than those employed in filling
or service stations. garages or
other institutions which sell pc
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30
Is
Cmtailed By
$4,000 Barrels

Erroneous reports OF an In
creased production allowable for
abe Rocky Mountain region
caused a premature celebration
among Montana oil men Friday.
Late reports from Washington
are that the Rocky Mountain
allowable was left unchanged
and the Montana allowable Of
500 barrels viii be unchanged.
The maximum is $500 barrels
slthoUgh the region has been
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30

running around $4,000 barrels
OF which Montana contributed
500 barrels OF over production.
New maximums have been au-
nounced to further restrict pro-
duction zoo barrels.
The new maximums become
effective at a. m. Oct. 8.
The old and new ALLEGATIONS
by districts:
scOntinued on Page Twol
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30
new BOARD
NAMED FOR
RANGE OIL

The most sensational overturn-
ing OF apple carts in the recent
oil history Of Alberta came from
the recent meeting OF share
holders OF Range Oil & Gas
company, in Calgary, according
to news received in Montana.
The old regime OF the COM
IContlnued on Page Twol
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30
TexacO starts offset to Cobb

Fisk No / in NWA NEA 14-S5-6W Is standing
idle with control head on producer bat
production the pipe left in the
moved to Texaconkle No location
offsetting the baberge The Cobb vel
now reported making having trouble wits
pumping equipment which has reduced production
Hnkle be the second we'll drilled in tbe uald
rotary spuddsd week and rapid
expected this well than the Fisk the first we'll
drilled and than cable tools
This is the only active we
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30
Santa-RitaCardwen DrilIing In

Rita Oil Is drilling In its CaTdWen NO. 4
NEA SEA 15-ss-ew, having drilled out ee
the Of the Stewart sand This well =
a short distance southeast Of the tribal wells.
South Santa Rita Observation-Disclosures No n
NE NEA swA drilling 1900 feet making good
progress.
rugged up sDud his wnkier No sWHI
swH 2s-S5sw northernmOs well mile and half south
OF the cardweil
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30

DF04 1H1A4D NAAAtxAS14 -
the Of aomtana.
Nc ia was given six places
in efining department on a
CON lee Of - The committee
inc "a two recent arrivals IN
n na, Ray Phoebus and Ciar-
E Mazey. Macy was formerly
oil and gas inspector but
has been out Of the state for
several years. He recently re-
turned to Billings in the employ
Of Phoebus who moved to Bill
lings from Wyoming. The other
members are veterans in the in
dustry including E. B. Coolidge.
L. B. o'Neil. r. P. Jackson and
W. n. Fulton.
Efforts OF Montana producers
to determine who had named the
committee were in vain. Writ
Franklin, chairman Of the nation
al producers committee, said that
the regional directors, w. H.
Ferguson Of Denver named the
committee. Ferguson denied
thsi. saying that the COMMITTEES.
was named in Washington.
On the marketers committee
was one whose participation In
the Montana oil industry could
not be ascertained. The name
is r. L. Stevenson of the She'll
company. at Missoula. He is no
known to the Montana industry.
Some think that the intent was
to appoint ANDY" Anderson,
manager Of the Shell in Montana.
else B. G. Stevenson, manager
OF the socony-vacuum. who have
been active in marketers' code
work.
Following are the COMMITTEES
chairman OF Regional district
No. 5 in which Montana is
located:
w. H. Ferguson. Denver. Con-
tinental OH Co.. general chair
man.
c. B. Richardson. Casper. Con-
soliaated Royalty OIL Corp.
T. A. Dimes, Salt Lake City.
Utah OH Refining Co.. refining
F. C. cramer, Denver. Denver
Co., marketing.
John McFadyen. Casper, Ohio
on Co., transportation.
Production Committee
Montana: E. B. Coolidge. Hard
rock OH Co. w. M. Fulton.
Rice & Fulton; L. B. oNeil. /
santa Rita Oil !; r. P. Jack
son, Suntana Oil Co.: Ray
Phoebus, no company; Clarence
no company.
Wyoming: C. d. Buffet, stan
dolind. Casper; w. NJ. Holland.
Ohio OIL Co., Casper; S. H.
Keoghan. Midway Oil Co., Cas-
per; Charles E. Orchard. Or
chard Oil Co.. Cody; F. j. Sui
Ivan. Williams Oil Co.. Casper;
e. C. Waggoner. Producers &
Refg. Corp. Parco.
Colorado: John T. Barnett,
(cOntlnued Oh Page Threel
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30
Montana Power Gas spots four

Montana company preparing enter actively
development indicated by notices
locations seeba farm filed with
first WE'LL NEH NwA will offset the CObbwbllb
producer
No. q SIC sen NV; No sw swA Nw1h nd No
T. NV NV NWH 2s4-ew viii be noted ali
Johnson one offset
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30
Notifications Of Oil Code

Copies of notifications of the petroleum
Great Falls this week Following the changes pertaining
Montana made by President Roosevelt September 13
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30

Another crude price In
crease started over the country
Thursday when Texas company
increased AEAdcOntinent crude
. 10 II cents barrel eesec-
tive Sept. 20. This pufs MIDI
conttnent crude above 81 per
barrel.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30
Gomez lOcatiOn QiYes offsets

The A. r. Con-baatson No gives two locations
Cut group which a ] Mex SEX
offset Santa Rita Oil the Yunck sw
sWH 14-35-6w.
Ty" Cobb. Wyoming operator. Thursday
trip preparing
ger lease n SEX s6-s5-sw
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30
Nadeau taking some oil leases

It reported that Eadeau
IN the oil engage
the OF It that he taking
NH sWA 11-s4-ew part Land and
50 the vandemark Y NY 3S-s6-eW
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30

Montana Power Gas 8 dFillnN cas- wells ne
MINER NO L. section sss-sw drilling zooe feet and s
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30

second rotary IS rigging uD GA a. p Oonlaason No s
NWH sw 14-s4-sw. Hinke this we'll
shedonBurden rotary contractors
rig during the week. It is
M
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30
Three wells starting out west

action in the far west end Of the field
brighter week three locations
Commonwealth corporation announced location in
NVA NwA 15846W Onefourh mile from the Hagerty
No. producer which making IS barrels
OIL corporation Of Canada announced loca
ton N NEA 15-S4-6w drilling contract been
drilling This
Meningitis first well in the field.
is understood the Fulton well have
requirements drilling
Section generally believed
ducng miles from
the Fulton producer Alarming reports Of water the Fulton
possible little trading we'll
making clean pipeline oil water than other
Darling which sweat" small quantity water
between horizons the Darling
company going ahead with north offset the
Fulton well. the VIM Haggery in Sc SEX SEX s-S4
-auu
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-09-30
Tarrant drilling two others

Roy Tarrant sim fishing for lost bale his M
well in SEX MEX 1z-s4-sw. / in NwHNwA
isS45w drilling out surface
up killer No. in swN MEX s4-s4-sw. having moved
from the Hopa
Evening star., 1933-03-26
BY PAUL SCOTT MONRER.

- ENEVA, SYSTEMATICALLY re-
I vision is today the dominant
issue in Europe. Germany,
. Hungary, Bulgaria, Austria
and Italy have all been raising
Evening star., 1933-03-26
Moscow Cats and Dogs
Are in Demand as Furs

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R-Evil days
have fallen upon the cats and dogs
of Moscow with the announcement that
the government fur trust will pay the
handsome sum of roubles 80 kopecks
for each dog and 3 roubles for each
cat delivered to its Offices. In order
to prevent an excess of kidnapings of
other peoples pets it Is stated that
any one presenting an animal must
prove his ownership, but the provision
that dead as well as alive animals
will be accepted makes it only too easy
for unscrupulous comrades to evade that
ruling. Numerous pets have already
disappeared mysteriously, and Moscow
housewives are anything but enthusi-
astic over the business.
Then again Moscow Is in the midst
Of big rat hunt, it having been dis
covered by the crafty Soviet fur merch-
ants that rat skins may be made into
very presentable limitations of mole and
seal skin. Any one who is bothered
by the nightly visitations Of rats has
only to call upon central bureau az
report the fact, whereupon a profess
sional Pied Piper appears with a great
array OF traps and arranges them in
strategic spots about the kitchen.
Copyright. 1933)
Evening star., 1933-03-26

i, fleets Of barges on the upper and lower
Mississippi and on the Warrior River
in Alabama, reports a trafic increase
in 1881 which tripled its 1880 income,
and for 1882 this Federal barge service
reports further gain Of so per cent
over 1891 figures.
Since 1929 it has placed in service
on the Mississippi three modern steel
towboats, Diesel driven, which are the
most powerful river boats in the world,
and the corporation has increased its
fleet of barges by l6 per cent.
Pipe lines continue to grow with the
fabulous petroleum industry. The main
lines of these underground carriers Of
crude have increased from 85,796 miles
in 1929 to $4,000 miles in 1888 More
than three-fourths Of last years oil
crop of 781 100000 barrels travelled
from the wells to the refineries by pipe
line-and now the pipes are beginning
to care for the transport OF additional
tonnages Of gasoline. In 1929 there
were less than 500 miles Of gasoline
pipe lines-today there are more than
400 miles, with three additional lines
now under construction. The petroleum
industry's big feat in 1881 was the COM
pletion Of one line of pipes for dis
tance of 1,400 miles, to flow gasoline
from Oklahoma refineries to Chicago.
Airway history seems unaware of de-
preston. Twenty operating companies
with a total of 536 flying machines
constituted the American air transport
industry at the beginning Of 1888. Every
year they have added more planes,
travelled more miles, carried more traf-
fic. Last year their miles flown in
creased by more than IL per cent,
passengers by more than 10 per cent,
express by more than 49 per cent. The
only decline was in mail traffio-a loss
per cent. attributed to the rise in
postal rates. Planes now under con-
struction for one Of the transconti-
er six hours of the schedule and will
make the trip from Los Angeles to
New York in 16 hours. Passenger
traffic by air has more than trebled
since 1929, whereas that by bus has
Just about held its own and that by
rail has decreased As per cent.
The drastic declines in the rail sta
tistics have caused anxiety on the part
of holders of rail securities. At the
behest of group of these, including
insurance companies, savings banks and
universities whose endowment includes
large investments in rail bonds, the
National Transportation Committee was
formed last year, under the chairman
ship Of Calvin Coolidge, to inquire into
the railway situation and suggest
measures to right it.
Regional consultations looking toward
eventual unificationS of the trunk lines
into a single continental system are
recommended by the report of this Ma
tional Transportation Committee, made
public in February. It estimates that
Evening star., 1933-03-26

$500, 900 year could be saved by the
elimination of superfluous trackage and
obsolete equipment. Conferences look
ing toward certain limited consolida-
tions are already under consideration
though railway men are inclined to
doubt the practicability Of nationaliZa-
ton as involving too huge unit for
single control. Also recommended by
the committees findings are: The use
by the railroads of cheaper alterna-
tive equipment, such as busses and
trucks (already in use by some Of the
more progressive systems), and the
opening of waterways and other COM
peting services to railway operation
a privilege now denied the carriers by
Federal law.
United States also has lately investi-
Of the financial difficulties of the rails
got into the headlines in connection
with reports of the Interstate Com
merce Commission and the borrowings
by the railroads of S340 000, 900 from
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton.
Senator Couzens Of Michigan, chair
man Of the Senate Committee on In
terstate Commerce, has predicted that
the competition of other forms of trans
portation may make it necessary in the
future to scrap $4,000, 100000 in rail-
way property as superfluous.
Samuel Untermeyer, urging that the
present low quotations on rail securi-
ties make this strategic time for the
Government to buy the railroads and
embark upon gigantic scheme OF ma
tionalization, doubts if the railroads
ever will revert to anything like their
past normal years of prosperity"
But the trouble with the railroads
is fundamentally the same trouble that
is affecting all industry" said Gen. W.
w. Atterbury, president of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, when I asked him
for analysis Of the transportation tangle
from the railway point Of view. 1T Is
the devastating shrinkage of industrial
activity that has caused this acute
shrinkage of traffic.
General business has been operating
lately on a basis not far above so per
cent of what it was few years ago.
It is not strange, therefore, that rail-
way traffic should be down in about
the same proportion. Transportation
is tool of industry, and the thing that
will bring normal business back to in
dustry will bring traffic and prosperity
back to the railroads"
But are not the competing forms OF
transport factor?
People have developed these other
means of transport, they are using
them, they are going to use them more
and it is right that they should
answered Gen. Atterbury. "All exist
ing agencies of transportation which
are justified economically have a legiti-
mate function in our industrial scheme