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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-03-24
Government Crew
Makes Reports Of
Rich Discoveries
Gold Bearing Rock That With Increased
Values Of Gold Can Be Made Profitable
To Miners Has Been Located

Montana promises establish beyond any question
controversy title the Treasure State according
% the report Of the geodec survey which
has Just made one Of the astounding report Of gold
discoveries for years.
says:
"a large area Of gold bearing rocks has been discovered
eastern and central Montana which Of great economic
Importance While little gold has actually produced
from this field the proper method Of exploration
has been perfected it viii provide living for thousands Of
men and give sale value many dry land farms con
sdered almost worthless
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-03-24
new DEAL" BOOM HTS kelvin SUNBURST
ROTARY rigs
GOING AGA
ATcT

Drilling contracts OF 9hel
dom Burden company rotary
contractors, have been saHxsa
over by Manning q Terry
newly arrived Kansas rotary
contractors, In Out Bank oil
fiead, according to announce
msnka this week by FRED
Manning
Two rotary rigs on wells OF
The Texas company which we're
shut down last wenk were run-
ming again Thursday and during
the week casing was run on the
Al. p. Con-Kissei No. 3 we'll.
which is ready to drill in with
cable tools.
Sheldon-Burden company, pion-
GERS OF rotary drilling in North
ern Montana. are in receivership.
not owing to Montana operations
but Canadian and other opera
tions. They are said to have
unpaid obligations totaling a.
round $1,000 in Montana and
Continental Supply company, the
principal creditor. took charge
Manning a Terry brought in
several crews OF rotary drillers
from Kansas but they are re-
employing some OF the Texans
formerly employed by Sheldon
Burden.
Rotaries have little more than
demonstrated that they are prac-
teal in this type OF drilling in
northern Montana. Four wells
have been completed but there
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canadians
VIII Drill On
So. Cut Bank

Commonwealth Petroleum COM
pany group Of Canada Is reported
b have purchased so acres Of
the 1e0-acre Bonnet farm IA
SEX Sec. 1O-32-5W. in South
cat Bank, and win drill a we'll
lmmediately.
This lease was held BY Nadeau
Bfethers, contractor-operators OF
Gus Bank. who had moved some
~ iala 20 sWA SEX Sec.
TO- Following the shutdown
occaaioned by q recent storm,
nothing more has been done and
the reason Is said to be the
pending deal with the Canadians
who win probably drill the first
well on the Bennett farm.
Commonwealth Petroleum has
a producer on the Getty farm
in 16-s4-sw. and the same
group is interested in the Fui-
tom commonwealth-EIagerty No. /.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-03-24

Santa Rita Is drilling its
MILESTONE Ne. z, SEX SCI
22-s5-6W. at $50 feet, after hav.
ing cemented ~ u inch casing
Santa Ritarzardy No. i. NV u
NEA 27-75-6W. offsetting the
MILESTONE, Is drilling at $50
feet
Santa Rtla~CardweGI No. 8,
ME- NWA 27-s5-6W, Is due for
completion but has been shut
down this week less than 100
feet off the sand. Hole bottoms
below z87b.
The yefKraes-( Clark No. i. pro
Queer. SWA NWN a-s4-gW, is
being put on production. 1t has
1890 fest Of oil standing ii the
hole and Il looks like q 40 or
bersbarrel we'll Il had Sc feet
Of sand. most Of the oil coming
from the base Of the Cut Bank
sand.
TIE resf % ghe fleld Il r0mtine.
r. e. TaFrmmt Ia eannenssne 81
Inch easing IN @Rz&anm Ne. 8.
8WM NMN 14~sa@sW and isI
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-03-24
Many Operators In
Market 10 Purchase
Producing Properties
Many Preparing To Drill New Wells AS
Bargain Days End-FieId Jumps 200
Barrels With No Drilling.

new deal" boom, motiva&ed by che oonvtCtion
that there money 70 be made by the production Of o.
and NOS out o. promotion has struck Kelvin unbuEat a
Jew monkha $50 this nsAa visa = : sean0asaA
Producing properties could BE- bad Ter tAm asking.
Today thars producing properties Tor sale ~ any
reasonable price Everyone who h wiling 20 sell has
sold cut Bargain days. are ended Few operators axe
coming in attracted by reports Of highly profitable
operations.
In the previous booma there promOt0rx who
expected to make their money out Of the prOmOGiOn stock
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-03-24
Lost Bailer
Delays Well

Producers Development syndi.
cate. drilling on South Cut
Bank. In NwA Sec. ss-S2-4w,
is stili fishing for lost bail
er The bailer was picked up
with 8 center spear and Jared
up several feet in the hole when
the spear parted. Now fishing is
impeded by the broken tool In
the hola Ths i0b is made more
diffieult by a soft water sand
which pours into the hole so rap
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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-03-24
of being among the few 'goats" renlaining.

We have never promoted our friends nor left
favor unrepaid We have never essayed as a Great
Saviour but have been content in trying to keep our nose
clean We struggled through two bank failures and the
Hoover administration which have kept broke" yet
we have ended up the thirteenth year with the largest
circulation of any oil trade publication in the Rocky
Mountain region and enjoying the most rapidly growing
circulation Of any oil trade publication IN the United
States; thanks to our husky new child Cut Bank
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-03-24

several hundred samples Of those
rocks and bad 3 number Of
essays made"
Roll0wln8 a eho report giv6a
namssm n vams B@
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-03-24

Lrlmlley, Biz Fulton. Bob Or. P.) Jackson, Pred
Munger, Bin Mcknight, Bruce Radigan (the Fad
cothier), and few others who have ridden the scenic
railway Of life since the Cat Creek BOOM who can boast
of thirteen years in the Montana oil industry but the
feet BY comparison.
Thirteen years is time enough to separate the
sheep from the goats in ANY Industry There never has
been controversy in these years when the Journal
hasn't been the goat SO we have the further distinction
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-03-24

Owing confusion the mmmbesing Of wells ON ths
Out Bank provided Journal suscbesw the following
st Of wells reprinted with numbers toRethew
with this weeks additional wells;
20 CObb-Walbergcr No. @ NWN SEA SESSION..
"a @effrAes-Clark No. @ BWM NV S-s4-8W.
y Montana Power-Seeba No. Sc SEA- NwM 2-94~OW.
20 SAINTS Rita MILESTONE No. @ NEM SEA 27-8B-0W.
"a TexacOAntzam No. I gBK SEX &z-8B-0W.
20 Iexaco-Ftmdy No. NEN SwM g5-8B-0w.
7e Texaco-Yunck No. O sWA sWK 14-sB-ow.
~ 1exaco-Fee No. NEM SEA 1B-8A-@w.
90 Texnco-LOng No. w SNW gWM eo-SB-8w
- Santa Rita WhetstOme q SEN HEM 2&@N-0W
80 santa Rita-CardwclI No SEX NnM 1B-sB-Gw.
~ Saa9a RitaHardy No. 4 NWM NEM &g-SB-0W.
- Montana POweE~Neiu No. Q NEM 90-8s-Bw
50 N@deam Bros.-Bonnet& No. @ sWM SEA- 1O-&2-Bw
- Nadenu BEes--Vandemark q O SEA NWM
SB-8BeW
So TaErant-Fee 4 SEX 4-s%ew
80 Nyhagem-Andesson NO NWM swM 2e~aB0W
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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-03-24

Wherever EHeV HAYS De8n
sampled and aasayed, the sand
stones end ahaiaa o. the Tertiary
age Ia aantern and central Aaom-
smna carry gold a. prlmaFy
eomaalsaank hevs eellaeted
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-03-24

The Monana on Mining Journal today celebrates
is f teenth birthday, starting Volume IA No l. with
this e In the thirteen years past the Journal has
Wit "a the production Of SIXTY FIVE MILLION
DC lars worth Of oil and natural gassince the life
Of Journal spans the life Of commercial production in
M sna.
thirteen years IS not long to live yet feel old and
@niskered when we look around us and enumerate the
timers surviving from the days Of Devils Basin
Cat Greek There are present Tip" ONeil, Lou
@olntag, George Lacomer, Handbook Coolidge, Lon
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-03-24
Millions In NelU Gold
Spring Storm Slows Work at
Cut Bank West Extension
Looks Like 5O-Barrel Well

Delays caused BY very unspraglAe mechanical
troubles prevented completion oil
pass week and only wen Nysaagen-
Hel- Anderson No p In EWN sWM 2eSB6w offsestn9
Wfeasf0ne fmxn which Rite
duceE Z L bait mile Andera0 l. 4ObaErel ven
The Washington times., 1934-08-30
PROBERS
SEEK GUARD
PROTECTION

BATON ROUGE, La, Aug. 80
UN.sJ. Senator Huey Longs
invasion of the hostile city OF
New Orleans was held in abey-
ance temporarily today while the
plea of his nine legislative in
quisitors for executive protec-
ton" in their probe Of the NUM-
cipal government was pondered
by Gov. oscar K. Allen.
The committee, in a lengthy
appeal for protection, told the
governor:
"The staggering sums Of
money collected from vice and
corruption shared by officials Of
the city and by judges Of the
courts in cOnsOrt with racket
GERS collecting the same If the
charges be true) may encOur-
age extreme measures to save
such businesses.
'Tf the charges brought to the
attention of the legislature,
which it thought sufficient to
order an inquiry into, be true,
there is corruption, favOritism
and misconduct prevailing
among the officials and in the
courts in the city Of New Or
leans and being practiced on
and off the bench by some Su-
preme courts"
SHIELDING CHARGED
1.-THE public press carried the
report that efforts will be made
to shield such courts and judges
from any investigation by the
legislature.
"The legislature of this State,
acting through this committee,
concludes that its process, mem
bers and all officers, attaches
and witnesses, will require as
siStance, services and protection
of the executive department Of
this State to the end that it may
carry out its work and enforce
its process and secure necessary
data upon which base its re-
ports"
The Legislature, the committee
declared, Operates and must ope'
rate entirely independent of the
judiciary"
The Washington times., 1934-08-30
Teacher Vanishes
In Glacier Park

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 80
UN.sO-Fears for the safety OF
DR.. Frederick H. Lumley, associate
professor at Ohio State University,
were expressed today by FRIENDS
and relatives here who disclosed
that he is overdue to return to
the university and has not been
heard from since he started on a
l7.mile hike in the Glacier Ma
tional Park, Mont.
DR.. Lumley was to have re-
turned to Columbus last week. Ac-
cording to word received here, Dr..
Lumley's unclaimed baggage has
been located at Many Glacier
Hotel,
The Washington times., 1934-08-30
Dramatic Group
Pick Director

Selection Of a new director for
the Woodside Dramatic Club, to d.
rect the productions to be given
next winter, will feature a meeting
of the general committee tonight
at the home of Mrs. Roy Collins,
in Silver Spring.
The person chosen for this posi-
ton will replace Mrs. Charles Grit
filth, who has been the clubs direc-
tor during the past two years.
The Washington times., 1934-08-30

The first suit filed by the
United States Government to COM
pei a local corporation to abide
by an MIRA code was filed today
in District Supreme Court against
w. F. Roberts Company, Inc,
commercial printers of the 800
block Seventeenth st. N. w.
Although the company had not
signed the graphic arts industries
code approved by President RooSe-
welt last February, the Govern
ment proceeds on the theory that
The Washington times., 1934-08-30
BEELER PLAN ATTACKED

George Washington University
Hospital might have to be aban-
doned in part, at least. If street
car tracks are laid on H Street
Northwest, between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth, in accordance
with one Of the Beeler plans to
speed up downtown traffic. This
statement was made to the Public
Utilities Commission by President
Cloyd H. Marvin, Of G. w. u, in
a letter Of protest, in which he
said:
The Washington times., 1934-08-30

"Should the line Of the rail-
road be projected along the
front Of the hospital and i'm
mediately under its windows.
the effect would be to make the
hospital untenable."
President Marvin said that H
Street is congested now between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets
Northwest, and that in his opinion
street car traffic would make it
worse.
The Washington times., 1934-08-30
|NRA SUIT IS FILED HERE

it had notice Of the codes ex-
istence and was subject to its
provisions.
Justice Joseph W. Cox issued
an order giving the company un-
til September IA to contest the
issuance of a temporary restrain.
ing order. The suit was filed
through United States Attorney
Leslie C. Garrett and his as
sistants, David A. Pine, Harry L.
Underwood and John ]. Wilson.
Evening star., 1934-12-30
CHICAGO

The corner saloon has been restored
In Chicago, along with the evils OF
preprohibition days. And bootlegging
and other prerepeal evils have not
disappeared
There are 1895 retail liquor markets
licensed by the city, as against 7,100
when prohibition became effective, but
there are 14,710 retailers Govern
ment flgures) paying the S25 annual
tax to the Federal Bureau of Internal
Revenue. The extra 6,8l5 paying the
Federal tax use various means of
evading the local mi-annual tax
OF $780,
But this isn't all. Spokesman of the
Retail Liquor Dealers Association as
sert there are fully as many not pay
ing any tax as are paying the Federal
tax. This would make approximately
$4,000 saloons, tavernS, blind pigs and
bootleg joints operating illegally in
Chicago.
In addition to illegal selling, there
Is illegal liquor-the sale of spirits
and beer on which no tax is paid to
any one except to protectors. The
number OF arrests for operating auto
mobiles while intoxicated was 618 for
the first repeal year and 745 for the
last year of prohibition
While Chicago's annual beer bill is
Ruthoritatively given as $4,000 900,
milk consumption fell noticeably
after the return Of beer, in eating
places and homes throughout the city,
according to the milk producers. On
the basis of food consumption esti-
mates by Federal dairy experts. Chi
cago's milk consumption is 100000, 900
under normal,
Evening star., 1934-12-30
DETROIT

From official records and from in
terviews with public officials and with
wet and dry leaders, the following
general observations on the results of
a year of repeal in Michigan seem
justified:
The illegal beer business is dead.
The bootlegger, the blind-pigger and
the moonshiner are still operating, but
they are on the run.
The beer garden. especially as II
affects minors and women. present the
most difficult problem of the repeal
era.
The proportion OF convictions in
liquor cases in court is rising, indicat-
ing a changing attitude on the part
of jurieS. which in turn reflects a
similar change in the general public.
On the face of the arrest records
there has been a small increase in
drunkenness and a sharp increase in
driving while drunk.
Incomplete reports show that
Government agencies already have
realized more than $22,000,000 in
revenues from repeal in Michigan,
and the final figure for the year
probably will be close to $25,00000O.
Sales to minors and the closing
hour law are causing us the most
trouble said Police Commissioner
Pickert, "but I believe the situation
is being Strengthened out and things
will run much more smoothly in an
other year. The blind pig, which was
a menace to law and order because it
bred crime is through. There are a
few left, but they are dying"
Evening star., 1934-12-30
NEW ORLEANS

New Orleans is having fewer arrests
and more prosperity without pro-
hibition.
Fewer arrests of simple drunks, /"
says Supt. of Police Reyer. There
we're plenty of arrests of drunks, simple
and complex, under prohibition. be-
cause liquor never stopped flowing in
New Orleans. Now that any one can
drop into a saloon and buy an occa-
sional drink casually, fewer people are
buying plenty of drinks close together
There are fewer crimes complicated
by drinking. What they are drink
ing now doesn't seem to affect them
the way bootleg liquor did," the super
intendent says.
Again. hi-jacking has almost dis
appeared from the New Orleans roster
of crimes. Conveniently close to Gulf
and Caribbean ports, the city was an
important liquor gateway throughout
the dry spell you could have filled
cemetery with the victims of hi
says Supt. Reyer. Honest liquor traf-
fic stopped that"
New Orleans is not a distilling CEN
ter, but it had breweries and wineries
before prohibition, and it has them
again, with substantial pay rolls. One
important New Orleans industry not
directly connected with the production
of liquor has been galvanized by its
return-the hotel industry. All the
important New Orleans hotels have
opened bars. All of them advertise
special cocktail hours, usually with
music. They get the crowds.
Evening star., 1934-12-30
BOSTON

Increase in drunkenness in Boston
Is estimated roughly at 80 per cent
since repeal. Boston's drunkenness
cases increased 6,884 over the 1888
figure. The total number of court
terminal" cases in which liquor was
involved dropped from 81, 1873 to 35, TAB.
Most surprising features of Boston S
record since repeal is a Statewide
record of the number of revocations OF
automobile licenses for drunken drlv-
ing and an alarming increase in the
number killed and injured as result
OF drunken driving. The registry OF
motor vehicles revoked 4.271 licenses
for drunken driving for the year ended
December 6, 1888. and revoked 5,l77
licenses for the same cause for the
year ended December l. 1884, an in
crease in drunken driving of 1877
per cent.
During 1888, 769 persons were killed
in Massachusetts, as result of drunk
en- driving. During 1884 there were
DIS deaths traceable to the same cause,
an increase of 10 per cent.
Saloons have not returned to Boston
because the present law forbidS them,
nor are any of the evils of the old
fashioned saloon apparent. Taverns
are authorized to sell liquor in Mas
sachusetts. There were 1900 licenses
to sell liquor granted since repeal.
The highest number granted in this
city before prohibition was 984. New
licenses cost S700, as against 81 200
In preprohibition days.
Evening star., 1934-12-30
ATLANTA

Inasmuch as Georgia has not re-
pealed its bone dry law, repeal has
had little effect on the liquor situation
in Atlanta, except to start an agitation
for eradication of the State law.
Mayor James L. Key startled the
city few weeks ago with proposal
for establishment Of city liquor
store, operated in defiance of the State
Law, to refill the city's depleted treas
ury. The council refused to approve
the plan.
Before national prohibition was re-
pealed bootleggers in Atlanta ran
whisky into the city from Savannah
and other port cities, most of it coming
from abroad. The price varied from
s48 to sos a case. When national
repeal went into effect, the bootleggers
took out Federal Government licenses
and began running legal whisky down
to Georgia from Louisville, Cincinnati
and other Northern cities The tax
boosted the price to from $55 to S75
case and the bootleggers' customers
are complaining they are paying more
money for poorer whisky. The corn
liquor traffic continues to thrive. Corn
is good and bad and the price is what
have you.
Evening star., 1934-12-30
CLEVELAND

In general. conditions in Cleveland
have improved under repeal.
Gang warfare appears to have dis
appeared, for the time being, at least
In the first year of repeal there was
not one bootleg killing, and the only
gang murder was that of a man en-
gagged in the slot machine racket.
Most of the big-time bootleggers
have gone into the sale of legal liquor
via the night club route, although
many still run in hooch for mixed
drinks. The small bootlegger is on his
way out entirely. State enforcement
officials and bootleggers alike esti-
mate that about 40 per cent of the
liquor consumed in Cleveland today is
bootleg, and that the amount is stead
fly diminishing.
Intoxication, as revealed in police
arrests, has increased slightly, by an
average of one arrest day. Drunken
driving has increased very little.
In some sections of the city, the
liquor dispensaries are little better
than the old-time saloons, but, to a
great extent, the liquor and beer places
have taken on the character of Ger
man beer parlors, where whole fam
galies come In and sip beer during the
evening.
Evening star., 1934-12-30
LIARS TO SELECT
1884 CHAMPION
5000 Tall Tales Entered in
Burlington Club by Hope
fuIS of All States.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BURLINGTON, Wis, December 90.
While their conScience-Stricken
brethren were considering turning
over a new leaf, the worlds greatest
liars today looked forward to the coro-
nation of the champion Annanias of
1895.
If the also-rans in the Burlington
Liars Clubs annual contest take any
pledge as the bells ring in the New
Year and the new champion, it prob
ably will be to try harder for the title
next time. Even a liar, if you can
believe him, has ambition.
The champion will be named New
Year eve. The clubs judges will pass
on the 5000 tall tales entered by hope
fuls in each of the 48 States, the Ca
madam provinces, Alaska, Panama
and Australia. The winner will be
announced over the national network
of broadcasting company.
Foreigners Compete.
Foreigners were permitted to COM
pete this year for the first time. o. C..
Hulett, president of the club, said
many of their yarns were so good
Yankee prevaricators would have to
be at their best to keep the champion
ship at home. The judges, indirectly,
will determine whether Mr. Hulett was
just entering into the spirit of the
thing when he made that remark.
The old rubber medal, carrying the
inscription Champion Liar, U. S."
is being discarded for one more
suitable to the worldwide contest.
The new medal Is an oval gold pin
engraved with World Champion
Liar" suspended from the pin by
two chains is gold Tyre which, the
club officers declare, is set with two
carat diamond.
The winner will keep the medal for
one year. It will become the property
of any one who can win it three years
in succession.
Samples of the 1884 crop Of lies
follow:
Mrs. Bernard Frye. Wilton. Me-
my husband has just submitted q
story to your club. Don't you believe
him. He's a liar!"
w. H. Stuart, Marine City, Mich
"In 1898 a cyclone hit the farm where
we lived in Kansas. 1t blew our iron
kettle two miles away and tanned 1t
inside out and never even cracked It,"