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Montana oil and mining journal., 1936-10-10
TAxATroN OF GOLD MINES

Taxation of gold different from other industries
are able to pass the the ultimate consumer since tne
federal government the price the gold producer snail receive
for his gold of tax gold mining Is IKE Taxing
the income from interest government bonds: :, =,
This fact fOrcefully pointed out by CLAUDE M
editor and publisher Mining Industrial News at the Northern
California Mining congress He forth these differences between
gold mining and other industries, follows
The price gold is fixed whereas the prices OF other
commodities can be increased costs increase
The cold miner has only customer the United States
Government The customer fixes his price which ne rarely
changes On hand the manufacturers OF oher COM
odes have range from which to choose their customers
g. The gold sell his product to the Government
Immediately the gold produced Manufacturers OF other products
NAV hold their products long they wish In rising Market
such as the present this ability hold the product and to s
when and where peases often nets the manufacturer h
some speculative profit inventory and some instances on the
finished product as well m
Taxes are large part of the cost Of production The manu-
fcrer adds his tax his of production increases ms
rces if necessary this collects the money from the
buver to paw his tax BILL Under this SYSTEM the gold miner
helms nav fine taxes umberman the manufacturer the re-
aier etc. passed along him in the price he pays Tor the
e he buys In addition the gold miner must pay his own
tax bin and as obtains fixed price FIR hs god ne mas no
way of passing this anyone else
The net result is that the gold miner pays taxes wice The
first time when he buys lumber Steel chemicals equipment anc
machinery etc. the time when he his own tax DILL
This is an unjust penicious form Of double taxation
from which the gold far be unable to OBTAIN
ny relief and for the mining ndusrys loud cry
against taxation in general
Montana oil and mining journal., 1936-10-10

Customer (in drug store)' II
want to buy q plow."
Clerk. ''I'm sorry, sir, but we
don't carry pIows."
Customer: This q hell Of drug
store"
When a girl and her beau kiss
and make up, she gets the kiss
and he gets the makeup.
~ss sss
Then there was the man who
gave up drinking for the sake OF
his wife and kidneys.
see aSs
Bilious Bill says it was powder
on his coat sleeve that caused the
explosion at his house the other
night.
did you hear about Mae West
fainting in the Grand Central Sta
tion the other Night?"
mo, what happened?"
''It took six men to carry her
out"
SIKH"
Eyes, three-a4breast."
Montana oil and mining journal., 1936-10-10

A business genius Is q man who
knows the difference between be-
in let in on a deal and taken in
one one.
The pharmacy blush so often seen
On the girl who has danced tiil
dawn
Is the same as painting the bare
ground green
And saying you have a lawn.
Life is one fool thing after an
other; love is two fool things af-
ter each other.
The night is still and all around the
block,
The chickens hover in the nearby
shed;
The alarm resounds from yon in
fernal clock
And awakes the tolie from his
lowly bed.
Then doth he feast upon midnight
lunch.
Cold Java whets his appetite;
Some cold potatoes he doth wild
ly crunch,
Then hies him forth into the still
ly night.
Here is the rig in which he drills
the earth,
Here doth his troubles to himself
disgonge;
Yet in his heart there is no sign
of mirth,
For there's another bit upon the
forge Bridgeport Driller
Montana oil and mining journal., 1936-10-10

Kevin-sunburst and Pondera and Soap
Greek comes from the MADISON LIME.
Acidiza&iOn has taught us that the OIL
does not come from the Ellis. The lime
''sand" belongs 20 the Madison Lime.
The greatest wells i'm Montana have como
from horizons IN the lime-belOw the
contact.
So a well abandoned at the top OF the
lime Is NO TEST.
This is . statement we can make with
out equivocaEiOn. We glance at the hs-
tory OF Texas and the MfdcOntinent and
we find that the oil fields that had .
LITTLE oil at the TOP OF the Iime have
been the greatest GUSHER FIELDS when
drilled through the Missiissippian lines
and into the Devonian and OrdOvician
formations.
When Mother Nature laid down these
formations, she had no idea that there
would ever be a state of Texas nor
state of Montana. The limestone floor
OF the Atlantic ocean win some day be
divided into political subdivisions, but the
elements that are depositing that lime are
not prejudiced by the possibility Of a
Democratic South versus Republican
North eighty triIion years hence-Or
whatever time that finds the continent
of AatIitic sea lev again.
The point is: oil field history repeats
i'm field after field
AS the BEidcontinent and Texas finds
it's greatest production BELOW the lime,
so will Montana, Wyoming, Alberta and
Colorado. Most advantageous win be the
areas where the lime is to be found at
shaIIOwest depths. Here in Montana we
know nothing about geophysics-reIativel
although this is the accepted modern
method of definitely mapping structural
features. Likewise we know nothing
about modern drilling methods. Colonel
Drake could move into Kevin-Sunburst
and Cat Creek and make good as a con-
tractor, using the same methods he used
in the discovery OF oil In America.
We do not HAVE to use modern methods.
The OH & Gas Journal comments:
"a Gulf Coast wen flowing 189
barrels of oil daily at 0,063 feet
is merely news now. Twenty
years ago it would have been a
mircIe.S
A few years hence we Montanans will
be able to share the calm viewpoint. of
the Journal, for deep drilling is at hand.
That brings MS to the principal point we
wish to make:
There is commercial OH in the DEVON
IAN I'm Montana. That is a statement
that brings no surprise to members OF
this Organization. We have believed that
the DevOnian was the source of the oil I'm
the Sweetgrass arch for the last IS
years. Our first investment was predi-
Gated ON the theory that this oil comes
from the Devonian. We do not have to
make the trip TO the Athabaska tar sands
in northern Canada TO convince ourselves
of this fact. We know that those tar
sands are in the DevOnian--at a point
where all the upper formations have
been erOded away, leaving the formations
exposed. Only the end of a drill can
Montana oil and mining journal., 1936-10-10

"see' this Devoniau formation In Kelvin
field for the DcvOnian is from 5000 to
A,SOO feet deep I'm this vast field. But
every well drilled TO the Devonian In the
Sweetgrass Arch has found some oh.
Tt remained for driIlers i'm Baker
GIendive structure, im the far eastern
END Of Montana, TO establish the presence
OF oil in tine Devonian In commercial
quantities. This called for the deepest
well In Montana. At took more intestinal
fOrtftude to find that Dev0ndan oil at
Baker than Is possessed by operators In
Northern Montana who SIRE content 60
get 20 the lime and likewise possessed
by Central Montana operators who are
contemt TO quit in the Koofenai.
But the fact remains that the Devonian
has been definitely established as an oil
producing horizon by the Baker well.
nc follows that no well i'm the State
of Montana is a completion until 1t has
drilled at least through the Devonian.
Below that is the Ordovician, which
Is the Wilcox sand of the Midcontinent,
but we will not worry about that hOrt-
zon for here I'm western Montana it in-
wolves 5000 TO 0,OOO-fO0t drilling. That
is too much to ask, for the present.
VIII Kevin opera ors now rush to
carry a well or wells to the DevOnian?
VIII wiIdcatters in the sweetgrass Arch
20 ON down though the ling, with the
full knowledge that there Is oil In the
Deyonian as shown not only by the Baker
well but the Dry Forks well north of
Conrad, in the bottom of a syncline?
The ancwer is NO.
Not Immediately win they follow up this
advantage.
OH o,,arators esneciaIIv orr own family.
are quite inclined to be ruled by custom.
If one leader goes ahead, the others will
follow. The leaders we know either
haven't the money or don't want to lead.
Someone is likely to come In from the
outside and, knowing no leadership, bring
I'm DevOmian production at shalR0Wer
depths that at Baker-and then the big
paFade,' win start.
Meantime, the man who can see this
picture win profit by it. Buying royalties
is buying OIL in underground storage,
for sO-much-per-barrel. To buy Devon
Ian oil is TO buy oil in places where there
is likely enough oil on TOP of the lime
pay q prOfit--getting the DevOnian oil
thrown in FREE.
The royalty investor who waits until
Devonian gushers are roaring before buy-
ing viii likely 'smiss th boat" He viii
look back on this year as the one time
when he had chance TO become REALLY
rich,' from q small investment.
We appreciate that all this preaching
Is waste energy. We realize that we are
as the s'voice in the wild rDess'. Our
hope is that we, unlike John the Baptist,
viii not lose our heads when the great
day of deep-sand production comes.
We are this week issuing an interest
Montana oil and mining journal., 1936-10-10
JOHN THE BAPTIST AGAIN

<<xWT HY don't you bring geophysical
VA crew into Montana to locate
new oil structures p We asked
OF a big company geOlogist who was In
our office last week.
''ChiefIy, because we do NOT need ge-
OphysicaI instruments TO find untested
structures I'm Montana, he replied. ad-
ding that there Is no problem Of finding
oil in Montana It's just g question of
NOT finding IL until refining capacity
Is developed.
There is so much food for thought
I'm that statement that we pAss it on TO
the members of our organixats0m who are
Of necessity THINKERS and who there
fore can profit by it,. Royalty investors
are about the only people who can DO
ANYTHING about such situation.
Just stop to think:
What is the need of a geOphysical in-
strument in Kevin-Sunburst field?
Nine out of 10 wells drilled in that
field since the coming of ACID have been
PRODUCERS. They have been better av-
erage producers than were the wells drill
ed in the early heyday of this field.
Let someone build refinery, asking
for 5000 barrels OF production per day.
Kevin-Sunburst drilIers could have that
much ADDITIONAL production ready by
For every drilled location in Kevin-
Sunburst field in the limited area des-
ignated by the U. S. G. S. as proven,
there are SEVEN undrilled locations
HALF of the drilled locations can be
REDRTIILED and with acid can be made
into good commercial producers.
It is needless to point to parallel facts
at Cut Bank. IL this field had $1,000
producers, as has East Texas, Ont Bank
would be producing from 100000 to
100000 barrels per day. The only reas-
on that this field is not producing bOO,-
600 barrels per day is the fact that there
isn't a market demand to cause opera
tors to drill wells.
So far as finding new fields is con-
cerned, there is no need for new fields.
There are more than ONE HUNDRED
known structures i'm Montana under which
ar known oiI-bearing strata. Practically
NONE of them have been tested. Many
have been drilled to the ''red beds Of
the KoOtenaf. In the light of commercial
oil production we know that a well 10
the red beds is as useful undrtlled
location Many others have been drilled
to the Cat Greek sands. Only IN highly
fauIted districts has any oil ever been
found In the Cat Creek sand. That sand
is fresh water formation; normally
it should contain no oil.
A great majority of the wells drilled
in Northern Montana have been taken
to the white lime. Drilling to the
''white Iime'' and then abandoning is
about as falacious as drilling to the
fred beds'' only for the fact that consider
able oil has been found between the
sred" and the s'white'. The idea that
the Ellis is the principal producing hori-
zon is entirely in error. The OH of
Montana oil and mining journal., 1936-10-10
CUT BANK SAND

Cut Bank sand frdom 2475 to 24s0.
II was dry but the fact that It
was present and Is feet thick lends
hone for oil production in this
horizon between Ethridge and Cut
Bank oil field where the sand was
believed to have lensed out. IL
disappears entirely a few miles
farther east, toward Shelby.
The Sunburst sand from 242O to
24eO had a trace of oil. The bit
entered the Ellis at 2490 and drill
ing continues at 2525, with the
contact due at around 1925 feet
Montana oil and mining journal., 1936-10-10

Passenger Ito lady sitting on his
hatl excuse me, miss, do you know
what you are sitting ONT"
Lady: Il ought to. I've been sit
ting on it for twenty-five years.
AIRY ,Awkins (just over) "Ow
is it the sky is so much clearer in
Chicago than hit is in Lunnon?"
Night Hawk: 'sOh, we have sky
scrapers in Chicago"
Montana oil and mining journal., 1936-10-10

RAIHIsTER rs VISITOR
Harry C. McAiIiste, OF Spokane
and Wallace, Idaho, well known
mining broker, recently spent a
week in western Montana inspecting
mining properties.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1936-10-10

Driller: "That girl you've started
going with is a smart little gold
digger.
Toolie: "Then all I've got to say
is, she's a darn poor geologist."
LITTLE AUDREY
One day little Audrey locked the
bath room door and threw away
the key and then laughed and
laughed because she knew her IA
ther was going to have beer party
that night.
In reminiscent mood Credulous
Tillie opines that coffee isn't the
only thing that's fresh when dated.
Otsgar came to the city and got a
job as janitor in a girls boarding
school and was given a pass key
to every room in the building. The
following week the dean ran across
him. why didn't you come around
Friday to get your pay, otsgar 2"
she asked.
"vot!" gasped otsgar. do I get
wages toO?"
Home is the place that you can
scratch any place that itches.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1936-10-10

We are this week issuing an interest
ing publication ON Cut Bank.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1936-10-10

xxwWT HY don't you bring geOphysical
W crew into Montana to locate
new OH structureeg We asked
OF big company geOlogist who was In
our office last week.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
OUR HOUSING SHORTAGE

El Centre can be no more interested
IN any other recent development than
IN the present housing shortage. AS res
idents trek back to the home town they
are finding that few homes are avail
able for rental.
This should mean that building of
residences will take a pronounced up
turn.
After all is said and done. supply and
demand dictates economic changes. Gov
ernment can hold out inducements and
give assistance but the demand for a
commodity, in the long run, dictates how
much of the commodity will be pro-
duced
AS this eternal law swings into action
Ell Centre should be the deserving recip-
lent after the ills of dormant construc-
ton.
Holding as we do that there would
be considerably more home owning were
workers to feel that their jobs We're Sc
cure, we believe the trend toward owner
ship would be materially boosted by the
assurance from employers that employees
need not fear for future security. In this
way Ell Centre can materially aid in the
start of real home construction from
which the entire community will benefit.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11

not be accomplished by exhorbitant de-
mands or mass compulsion of labor
groups.
No one can yet say what best ways will
be evolved. The cooperative method is
being investigated and tried. We see no
reason why it shouldn't be considered,
although we believe it lacks the funda-
mentals to make it satisfactory and op-
erative Nor do we believe that employee
ownership will work out satisfactorily.
Most interesting plan which has yet
come to our attention, is the experiment
put into effect several months ago by
the Proctor and Gamble soap company.
The Cincinnati firm bases employees
wages on the company earnings. If bus
mess thrives, up goes the individual pay
check; if business slumps, the employees
income drops proportionately.
Will the worker prove willing to share
in the risks? Or will he prefer to go
back to the old system of a set income
for established sincere effort. Only
time can answer that.
1t will be interesting to all employers
and employees, to watch the develop
ments of the Cincinnati experiment, as
we'll as such methods as will be worked
out by other firms and employers.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL,
Plaintiff, VS.
JENNIE DELL CHAM N !,
SOUTHERN SIERRAS POWER
COMPANY, a corporation, JOHN
DOE, RICHARD ROE, JAMES
DOE. WILLIAM ROE, SUSAN
KEEP. JANE ROE, SUSAN DOE,
and JOHN DOE COMPANY, a
corporation, Defendants.
THE People of the State of Cali
fornia Send Greetings To:
Jennie Dell Champion, Southern
Sierras Power Company. a corpor-
alton, John Doe, Richard Roe,
James Doe, William Roe, Susan
Keep, Jane Roe, Susan Doe, and
John Doe Company a corporation,
defendants.
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
TO APPEAR and answer the COM
plant in an action entitled as above,
brought against you in the Superior
Court of the County of Imperial
State of California, within ten days
after the service on you OF this
Summons if served within this
County; or within thirty days II
served elsewhere.
YOU ARE HEREBY FURTHER
NOTIFIED that the said action is
brought for the purpose of taking
by condemnation a certain right
of-way, generally described as fol-
lows, to-wit:
The North Forty (4O feet of
the West Eighty 800 acres OF
Tract Fifty-Six (5O Township
Fifteen 05) South, Ranges
Thirteen C13) and Fourteen
(l4) East, S.B.B. & M.
AND YOU ARE FURTHER
NOTIFIED THAT said right of way
is particularly described in the
complaint herein, to which refer
ence is hereby made; that the pur-
pose for which it is sought to take
said right, of-way is for the con-
struction of a public highway across
and upon the same; that you ap-
pear within the time, or times here
inbefore mentioned, and show cause,
if any you have, why the property
herein described and referred to
should not be condemned as prayed
for in said complaint; and that
unless you appear and answer and
show cause as above required, the
said plaintiff will apply to the
Court for the relief demanded in
said complaint.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cal
ifornia, this End day of October,
1888.
EDWARD H. LAW,
Clerk.
BY G.. o. KENYON,
Deputy Clerk.
"a 14-21-28 4-11-18-25 O2-9
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
NOW IS THE TINE TO
AVERT THE NEXT DEPRESSION

Underlying the political and economic
thought of the day. is the realization
that during the oncoming years of nor
NAL conditions, we SO arrange our econ
omic system as to avert another dpereS-
sion as the one from which we have just
emerged.
The greatest lesson given us by the
past five years is that only through pay
ment of good wages to employees may
employers expect continued good busi-
ness. For the first time practically
everyone, workman, employer, profess
sional or businessman, recognizes that
the keystone of prosperity and the well
fare of all is the purchasing power of
the men and women who form the rank
and file of our system.
A few economists always knew it.
Others believed it, but were too busy to
do anything about it. There have al
ways been some in influential places to
deny it. The maj ority were indifferent.
During recent years it has been borne
in upon us again and again that with
out good wages in the hands of those
who work. there can be neither pros
perity nor security. The American mar
ket is the greatest in the world. 1t is
good to have all the foreign markets we
can get, but the real buyers are right
here at home.
The problem is first to determine
what are fairer wages, second through
slow adaptation, to put them into effect.
This cannot be done over night. 1t can
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
Worlds Greatest
Bridge Will Open
On November IL

The greatest bridge in the world
will be opened formally at 10
O'Clock on the morning of November
IL, when the official party breaks
the barrier on the Oakland side OF
the bay. The party will cross the
bridge for the ceremonies on the
San Francisco side at II a. m. With
the mighty battle fleet in the bay,
aeroplanes overhead, the opening OF
the San Francisco-Oakland bay
bridge will signal the greatest event
in the history of the bay region.
A full schedule of jubilant cele-
bration has been arranged by San
Francisco and Oakland. Oakland
will celebrate on Armistice day, the
day prior to the bridge opening,
with a parade in the morning, a
military officers luncheon at the
Hotel Oakland at noon, and a mill
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
TOLERANCE

Again we take the liberty of referring
to Gov. Landon's Labor Day speech,
this time with reference to his state
ments urging that this country forget
racial hatreds. ut ought not to be neces-
sary to stress tolerance in America. We
have great tradition of tolerance grow
ing out of the fundamentals of our past.
Our forebears came of different stocks,
different religions. Men of every ma
tion, every cline, united in building this
country. Protestants, Catholics, Jews,
worked here side by side, good neighbors,
good citizens =. But of late there has
been disquieting evidence of attempts
to stir up racial antagonism . This
fomenting of racial feeling is not serious
as yet 1t would be tragic if it should
become serious"
We wonder if this isn't Landon's way
of squelching one of the worst whisper
ing campaigns" which have been launch
ed against the New Deal If so, it would
mean that Landon doesn't approve of
such methods, which makes of him a
sporting politician.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
New York Day by Day
BY Q. Q. Mcintyre

To those who enjoy ferreting out
quaint eateries, ] commend La Pa
lima on Navy street in Brooklyn, a
discovery of Abel Green's. 1t is a
whiZz for chicken vesuve and an
expertly garliced spaghetti vermi-
cilli. And family affair. A fubsy
aunt does the cooking and two fresh
nepheWs, whose hearts are at the
Rosemont ballroom or with Major
BoWes. do the serving. They give
YOU back talk with the food and
know all the answers. The place,
as so many Italian places are Or
iginally, was for the poor but they
are. as usual, being muscled out by
the tourists. Eventually it will ex-
pand, become lump gilty, mirrory
and perhaps lose its pristine charm.
90
Jim Tully was bemoaning that
Hollywood had not yet filmed great
hobo story Which recalls Wilson
MINERS crack at a similar remark
in the Brown Derby. Maybe not"
he said, but they've certainly made
a lot OF BUM pictures"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
ened the purse strings.

ened the purse strings.
90
New York's sprightliest feminine
octogenarian is the mother of Mess
more Kendall, the capitalist. Near
ing the COS, she is an arden bridge
player, likes a daily round Of golf
and does not often miss cocktail
party But instead of cocktails, she
prefers a nip Of rye neat. She is a
graceful dancer, a lively converSa-
tionalist and never loses her cheer
fulneSS save when some gallant at
temptS to make concessions to her
years. Another lively octogenarian
lady is the mother of Bob Hague,
oil tanker tycoon. She was aboard
the Hindenberg on its first flight.
90
Two forms of business enterprises
in New York have perked my cur
iosity. Namely: Those magnifi-
cent japanese import shops on the
avenue and those brilliantly lit, ex-
pansive clothing stores that remain
open on deserted lower Broadway
until midnight. In years of watch
ing them, have never seen GUS
toner In the Jap salons, the sales
men and Jap overload are in ruled
trousers, frock coats, with lapel
flowers and the atmosphere is of
super grandeur. In the clothing
stores, aisle after aisle are racked
with clothes but the entire sales
force is always out front in curb
chairs enjoying shirt-sleeved
ease.
The air-cooled restaurants plus
the sidewalk cafes played hob with
New York's roof gardens this sum-
mer. Also the road houses. So
much so, many believe next season
will see roof gardens shucked to a
handful in the metropolitan area.
Outside a weekend puff of bust
ness, road houses were practically
deserted.