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Evening star., 1936-01-04
FORUM At. CHURCH
TO HEAR Of G-MEN
Mount Pleasant Congrega.
tionaI Program Covers
Many Subjects.

The Midwinter program, of the
Adult Forum of the Mount Pleasant
Congregational Church. which begins
tomorrow morning, includes such sub
jects as the principles upon which the
G-men campaign against crime is
based, the legal status of the church
in Russia and a discussion of the
economic phase of the public utility
industry. The forum meets each
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock
DR.. David L. Seckinger, assistant
District health officer, will open the
series tomorrow with a discussion of
Health Conditions in Washington. "
Representative David j. Lewis of
Maryland is the speaker January IL.
His subject is "The Dole or Legal
Protection Of the Right to Work
Which?" DR.. Vladimir Gsovski, for
merly an officer in the Imperial Rus
sian Army, will discuss THE Legal
Status Of the Church in Russia" jan
uary 10. Hugh H. Clegg, assistant di-
rector of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation, will outline The New
Crusade Against Crime" January 26.
The program also includes discus
sion of the Economic Characteristics
of the Public Utility Industry" Febru-
ary 23, by DR.. H. G. Hendricks, an
investigator for the Black Committee
on Public Utilities of the Senate.
The installation Of officers of the
League for Service will be Tuesday
evening. The Womens Guild annual
meeting will be held Wednesday
morning, and Thursday evening men,
bers of the parish will discuss and
adopt the church budget for 1896.
Officers will be chosen January 16.
DR.. Russell j. Clinchy will begin a
series of brief sermons tomorrow
morning for church school and parish
young people, preceding the regular
sermon. In his sermon for adults to-
morrow DR.. Clinchy will speak on
Making Things New"
Evening star., 1936-01-04
B. Y. p. u. News

A meeting of the Executive Board
will meet at Central Union Mission
Tuesday.
The Service Commission, under the
leadership Of Stimmy Hart, will have
charge of the service at Petworth Bap-
tist tomorrow.
At First the Fellowship Commission,
under the leadership Of Kathryne Cow
den, will have charge Of the evening
service. The subject is "Friendliness.
Wednesday evening business meeting
will be held at the church.
The Devotional Life Commission,
under the leadership of Edgar Speiden,
jr., will have charge Of program at
the Home for Incurables tomorrow at
pm.
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Gorsuch Methodist.

Rev. E. A. Ross viii have for his
sermon topic tomorrow at II am.
Pressing Forward" At pm. he
will give the first of a series of SER
mons on st. Paul. His talk will be on
The Chief of Sinners" The Epworth
League at 7:45 will be led by Law
renee Beall and Frank Donaldson and
the discussion will be "Presbyterians. "
Ladies Aid will meet at the parsonage
Monday at 7:30 pm.
Evening star., 1936-01-04

Who will celebrate tomorrow the
thirteenth anniversary of his
pastorate at the West washington
Baptist Church. He will speak at
ii am. on The New Life for the
New Year" and at 8 pm. on Hopes
for the New Year"
Gayle Circle will meet with Mrs.
Ruth Hodges, 1923 Porter street,
Wednesday evening.
The Georgetown Protestant
churches are making plans to hold
a week of union prayer services,
beginning January 13. Services
will be held in the following
churches: Monday, Calvary M. E.
South; Tuesday, Congress Street
M. P; Wednesday. Dumbarton
M. F.; Thursday. Georgetown
Presbyterian; Friday. Peck Me-
mortal Chapel.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
ANNOUNCES SERMONS
DR.. Taylor to Preach Tomorrow at
Central Presbyterian Church.

At Central Presbyterian tomorrow
morning DR.. James H. Taylor will
preach on The Opportunity of the
New Year" and in the evening on
The Secret of Power"
The fireside hour for young people
will be held at 6 O'Clock and is open
to all the young people of the congre-
CATION. The Westminster League meets
at o'clock.
The Friday night class for young
people, under the direction of DR.. Tay-
lor, will resume the studies in the Old
Testament. The topic for study will
be The Conquest of Canaan Under
Joshua" The class is open to all
young people of the congregation.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
TO DEDICATE HYMNALS
Douglas Memorial Will Conduct
Ceremony Tomorrow.

CeTtuOHy 1UHUTIUW.
At Douglas Memorial M. E. Church
Rev Clarence H. Corkran, pastor, will
dedicate the new hymnals which have
been presented to the church by in
diHdual members of the congregation
at the evening service tomorrow. At
the morning service the pastor will
administer holy communion.
A special old-fashioned service will
be held Thursday at 8 pm.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
PRAYER SERIES PLANNED
Bloomingdale Churches Unite in
Observance.

Following the custom of many years,
the churches of the Bloomingdale sec
tion will observe the week Of prayer
by series of union meetings.
The following schedule will be fol-
lowed out:
Monday-United Brethren Church,
Rev M. P. German. Tuesday-Lin-
coin Road M. E. Church, Rev. Henry
B. Wooding Wednesday Rhode
Island Avenue M P. Church, Rev.
Robert Barnes. Thursday-Bethany
Baptist Church. Rev. S. M. Dougherty.
Fr ay - lexington Presbyterian
Church, Rev. Raymond w. White.
The services will commence at 8
o'clock. The public is invited.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07
TWIN CITIES
GAS PROPOSAL
is PRESENTED

A delegation representing north
western states is now in Washing
ton, d. c., to petition President
Roosevelt and congress to author
ize the building with federal funds
OF a natural gas line from Montana
to the Twin Cities.
e. B. Coolidge. chairman OF the
Northwest Independent Natural Gas
Producers association, In company
with John w. Schmidt, chief factor
in the project. is said to have left
Minneapolis Sunday for Washing
ton. Other members OF the delega-
ton were not known locally.
Organization OF a gas associa-
ton, a share selling proposition,
was recently announced in Mime
apOlls. Schmidt has issued a state
ment that the new promotion has no
connection with his association and
activities intended TO bring about
building OF the pipeline.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07

tated to by the major companies
recall that upon the insistence
of a certain major company, you
campaigned in their behalf request
ing all Of the Independents to CO.
operate and confine the drilling of
one well in the center OF each legal
subdivision in order to maintain an
orderly development program in the
Cut Bank field. We (the indepen-
dents) agreed that such a program
should be adhered to in order to
protect the major operators from
drilling an untold number of wells
and subsequently eliminate an I'M
necessary and and prohibitive ex-
pense. We likewise felt that such
cooperation would be the means of
establishing friendly feeling
among all operators. and at such
time as our market became demon
allied (as at presently. we would in
turn receive the same consideration
and cooperation from the major CO.
panies and the Conservation Board,
which at this writing has not been
forthcoming
Again referring to the monies
which you were frank to admit have
accumulated. II the monthly and
annual statement OF crude storage.
purchases, etc. is the only use to
which you can put the small ex-
penditure. then II is high time that
the next legislature remedy the stu
alton and repeal the act which Great
ed your board, thereby eliminating
the said three-eighths cent per bar
rel tax.
I, as an individual operator am
appealing to the good Governor of
this State to take some action and
endeavor to have justice and equal
ity restored TO the independent
operators.
We are in sympathy with the
ideas of a Conservation Board. but
only as originally designed and
when such Board has unbiased and |
representation.
Yours very truly.
ABC/FM
Holt A. B. COBB.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07
CONTRACTOR
IS KILLED BY
EXPLOSION

Explosion OF gas In a water
tank took the life OF Milton
Adams, so. widely known
young drilling contractor, In
Cut Bank field on Wednesday
afternoon.
Adams with his partner. Norman
Appley. was drilling the Gardner
Banker-Cole No. well in the ex-
IRENE southwest end OF the field.
When a water tank froze. Adams ig-
nited n gas hose in the tank to
thaw the fee. Some time later he
discovered that the gas fire had
gone out, doubtless due to exhaus-
tion of oxygen in the tank. He shut
off the gas and returned to the rig
to walt for the gas to escape from
the tank. After a time, he returned
and lighted a match to re-lgnite the
gas. A terrific explosion followed
and one of the tank plates struck
Adams on the side OF the head. He
died while en- route to the hospital
at Cut Bank.
Milton Adams was the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. B. r. Adams, the lat
ter a veteran drilling contractor
who has been active in Montana oil
development since the completion
OF the discovery well in Kevin-Sun-
burst field Young Adams grew mp
In the north oil fields and recently
he and Appley formed a partnership
and bought B. e. Adams tools. He
was married and had one small
,hild. a girl.
The funeral was held Friday az
.ernoon at Conrad and was largely
attended by people from Cut Bank.
Shelby. Kelvin, Sunburst and Con-
'ad. The services were conducted by
he Masonic lodges OF Shelby, Con-
'ad and Cut Bank. The body was
brought to Great Falls to the
accompanied by a long
sscort OF automobiles containing
Mourning friends.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07

the papers on both Stewart and
his wife else he failed to record
the proper returns. Time went on
and E. J. Lander company trans
ferred the land to its local agent,
III. c. Lander, in partial payment
of fees. Then came oil develop
ment and Tip ONeil leased the
Lander farm. Three attorneys ex-
amined the abstracts and 1t ap-
peared to be satisfactory title.
Completion of a well conserYa-
lively rated by O'Neil at 1000 bar
rels per day caused careful
scrutiny of the chain of title. Ger
aid Frary, attorney for the Santa
Rita, swiftly secured from the
Stewards confirmation Of the
existing lease. Thereafter it be-
came known that a flaw had been
found in the title. s. c. Ford of
Helena was retained by the Ste
warts to bring suit to get their
land back on the ground that the
foreclosure proceedings were not
legal.
Lander having shared the roy
atty on the tract with the mort
gage company, joined in compromls-
ing the matter. The sheriff who
made the entry and the deputy who
served the papers are both dead,
so there was little to do other
than settle. The price was II % |
Of landowners royalty. The COM
pany gave IA % and Lander gave
2H%. In return StewSlrt gave
Lander a quit claim deed to the
farm.
The 41ke6 of royalty is earning
500 per day. How
ever. Stewart gave his attorney |
/ n % royalty for legal fees and |
gave Sheriff j. w. Stewart of Cut
Bank, a brother, 10, leaving Ste
wart go royalty which is earning
aim $4,000 per day which is said
70 be the largest income he has
ever known.
CONTINUED on Page Eight
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07
Cut Bank Independents
Demand PROBATION Else
Run Wells Wide Open

- RITICISM of the Oil Conservation Board of Montana
for its failure to enforce uniform proraon in Montana
oil fields was being heralded in Shelby and Cut Bank
this week. with appeals to Governor Elmer Holt to do some
thing on behalf of independent operators
While proratng others, The Texas company has been
running its well wide Open building up storage in Cut
Bank which other operators aege likely to wreck the price
structure The Journal called A. R. Wilson, who was then
in charge of Teaco operations Denver one week ago to
get statement of his policy in view of multitude of com
plants Mr. Wilson announced through the Journal that the
Texas company would agree prorate all direct offset wells
leaving the proraton be fixed by the independents The
balance of the Texas wells he said would be produced 100
per cent.
Independent operators not swerved by this
but continued preparations operate their wells
capacity many cases. and build storage for that pur
pose A. b. Cobb put up 100OObarre storage tank Nadeau
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07
Bad Luck Is
EUener Upper
In Drill Race.

The element of luck entered
into an unique contest of skill
in the race between two ro-
tary drilling crews in Cut Bank
field this week.
With an advantage OF 1000
feet in depth, a crew working
for The Texas company lost a
drill pipe and has a fishing
job at 2453. Meantime, a crew
drilling for Santa Rita is grind
ing steadily away at 1440 feet.
without bad luck, they may
overtake the Texas crew.
These wells are closest loca-
tions to the Santa Rita-Lander
gusher. Texaco-Fee No. 5. CEN
ter west line of VIZ 1885
CIV. started up while the Their
mometer was below zero and
thus gained brief advantage
which Melted the 1,000-foot
lead.
These are the closest loca-
tions to the Lander gusher.
Earlier reports of a production
of 500 barrels are said to be
far too conservative. The well
is actually making between
1900 and 1900 barrels and is
capable of making 1000 bar
rels per day. It has shown no
tendency to stop flowing and
may establish itself as the
greatest high gravity oil well
in Montana oil history.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07
CUT BANK OPERATORS /
START FIVE NEW WELLS
AS WARM WINDS BLOW
DRILLING IS
RESUIIHIlG AS
SNOW HELTS

While March was coming
in like a lamb, Cut Bank oil
operators stole march on
Old Man Winter and spotted
five new oil well locations dur
ing the past week.
Warm breezes of a continued
chinook continued to denude
the prairies of snow and to
make bog holes out of oil
fields roads other than surfac-
ed highways. Cut Bank field is
accessible throughout save in
the extreme north portion
where going will be difficult
until spring sunshine dries up
the prairie roads.
The new locations were scattered
over two townships:
Lon Crumley spotted his No.
Tribal we'll on c SW u SEX 31-33-
5W, on what is known as Tract
%.
Montana Power Gas Co. spotted
two wells. It's Coburn No. 2 is in
center NwA NEA S-33-5w off
setting the Maltby No. 1 producer
to the West.
Montana POwer-Eisler No. 4 was
spotted 900 feet west of the east
line and 1880 feet north of the
south line or SEA NBA of Sec
ton 5-33-5W.
Par OH Co. spotted its Haines
No. @ we'll in NE SEA SWN 2-34-
CIV and spudded in Thursday.
r. c. Tarrant spotted his ReichOff
No. on lot 8, 1900 feet north of
the south line and $50 feet west of
the east line of Section S-34-6W.
The Reichoff No. was for a long
time one of the best wells in the
field.
Proving that everyone must have
downs" along with the ups, the
Montana Power Gas Company this
week completed it's second lean"
well-so lean this time that 1t was
and abandoned.
The well was Montana Power
SimerO No. 4, sen SEA 1904
5W. 1t had plenty of sand but no
gas and little oil. although near the
gas-oil line. The upper Cut Bank
was from 2720 to 2747, where it
had a show. The lower Cut Bank
from 2747 to 2757 had a small
show, making in all perhaps a s.
barrel we'll. However, it was plug
ged and abandoned, at total depth |
Of 2767.
This followed on the heels of |
Montana Power milestone No. 2,
Continued on Page Five)
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07
Flaw In Title 20 Lander
Farm Costs Owners Royalty
Settlement Worth $65, 600
Income Of S1OO Per Day Represented In 412co
Royalty Covering Big Well Given In Com
promise To Former Owners Of Land

title $50 of land in Cut Bank oil field last
week H. Lander and E. Lander company the equivalent
of $65OOO
percent their landowners royalty
price paid recty title avoid lawsuit The royalty
covering producing oil well that making from 900 to 1000
barrels oil per day estimated be worth $65OOO
When E. Lander company forced to foreclose its
mortgage belonging Stewart Backoot Indian
then living ON the reservation sheriff either erred in serving
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07

Mr.. e. B. Coolidge, Chairman,
Oil Conservation Board of the
State of Montana.
Great Falls, Montana.
Dear Sir:
Yours OF February 18th at hant
and contents duly noted Same would
have been answered sooner had
not been out OF the state.
am not surprised that you pub
iished your letter due to the fact
1t is my belief that you are the type
that will always endeavor to keep
yourself in. the spotlight at the ex-
pense of the much abused and dis
criminated-against independent pro-
Queer
It occurs to me that during the
course of our recent telephone dis
cussion, accused your board Of
being lax, doing nothing absolutely
and most OF all being very poorly
represented. Furthermore, as a tax
payer. / questioned you concerning
the disposal of the monies accumu-
lated from the three-eigbth cent per
DdITSl TAX WHICH YOU dS Nndii AiHu
Of the Board admit has accumulated
because you cease to function and
are dormant as far as the indepe-
pendent operators are concerned.
call particular attention to your
statements at both the Shelby and
Cut Bank meetings approximately
two years ago. which in subsistence
were, "This is a duly constituted
board appointed by the Governor
(Cooney). TO serve the people where
by the most good will be done for
the most people"
with your personal interests cen
tered On the Kevin-Sunburst field,
how can we (the balance of the
independently expect any impartial
or unbiased cooperation or decisions
from your board.
We need and must have an un-
biased, impartial Conservation Board
with a Chairman that Is not look
ing out for his selfish interest en-
tirely, and one that cannot be de-
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07

IA, Rg. Is East, M. P. NJ. that to
the MOSBY sand there was NO
water in either hole but that they
did see oil come from the hole
which was Of live nature and brown
in color and this depth was at or
near three hundred feet in depth,
P. ]. HOVEN.
ALICE n. STONER,
NJ Il. sTONER.
Continued on Page Ffvej
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07
Eight Swear They Saw Oil
Taken From MoSby Sand In
HObsOn Test, Judith Basin

An affidavit certifying that there oil taken from the
Mosy sandstone Hobson has been received by the Journal
from Hoven of the large landowners the struc-
ture This resulted from the negative reports OF scouts
who visited the we'll The actual amount of oil found IN
terms of barrels per day. is not given However the I'M
portance is the fact that oil has previously been found
in the Mosby sand in Judith Basin On the west edge OF
the basin on Oil Springs structure oil found in for
nation which may have been the Quadran but certainly
lower horizon than the Mosby sand which outcrop at Cat
Craa- oil fields
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07
STORAGE GAIN
IN JANUARY IN
LOCAL FIELDS

About one third of the OIL pro-
duced in Montana in January was
run TO storage, the monthly report
of the OIL Conservation Board
shows Storage gained about 1OS.-
600 barrels out OF a total produc-
ton OF 391,241 barrels.
While one-third OF the months
production was stored, another APP
proximate third was shipped to Ca
NADIA, shipments TO Canada totaling
105.023 barrels.
The balance was refined In Mon
tana refineries which used a total
OF $4,000 barrels-an average OF
5,679 barrels per day. out of a tot
al daily average Of 12,5SS barrels
OF production.
Production by fields was as fol-
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07

Brothers erected an S,0O0-barreI
tank. other operators were erecting
a total of $4,000 barrels OF storage
Jointly Cobb and the Nadeau pur-
chased a 5000, OOO-barrel storage
tank in Salt Creek field. 1t is now
being trucked to Cut Bank where
It will be erected at a point con-
venient to the loading racks.
Whereas Kelvin producers have
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07

Aronson. widely known oil fields
contractor, took Mrs. AronsOn to
her native home on the advice Of
doctors who believed that sea
voyage would benefit her health.
Mrs. Aronson contracted bronchitis
during the fall of 1885 and made
trip 20 Rochester shortly before
Christmas. The clinic advised the
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07

heretofore been the complainants
at failure OF the oil board to take
charge of proration, the Cut Bank
producers are today feeling the
pinch OF the shoe and are more
insistent in their demands for pro-
ration than were the Kelvin produe-
ers.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07

sea voyage so as soon as he could
get his affairs in shape, Hugo left
for Paris on a gay vacation trip.
They arrived in France but Mrs.
Aronson was unimproved in health,
so Hugo took her to physicians in
Paris. They were unable to do any
CcOntinued on Page Fivo)
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07
SOIL OF FRANCE RE-CLAIMS
WARBRIDE OF US. D0UCHB0Y
AS MRS. H. ARONSON PASSES

A Montana dongboy gvho brought home the PrOndest Of
u zOay trobbics zoar bride zogH shortly return to Mon
tasa from another giSt to France. bit z0thot his "
,acions ze By some strange of fate the soil of France
has reclaimed the earthly form of Mrs. J. Hugo AronSon
Heath suddenly enduo happy 0St the land of her birth
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07

Cut Bank storage Jumped from
173,726 barrels to 285,3O6 barrels.
while Kelvin storage gained from
536.272 to 541,6S7 barrels.
Wyoming oil imports we're S3.-
457 barrels, an average OF 1899
barrels per day.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07

BARNSDAIL GAINS
BarnsdalI corporation earned %
cents in 1885 against net loss OF
gl.029,447 in 1891.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07
Says the affidavit:
STATE OF MONTANA

COUNTY OF JUDITH BASIN
We, the undersigned, being sew
orally and duly sworn or affirmed
each for himself and herself says
that from a well now being drilled
or from the core hole that was drill
ed on the Stoner ranch, and present
we'll now being drilled on the SEA
OF the NEA of Section 80, TWP.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-07
A. B. COBB'S REPLY

Mr.. e. B. Coolidge, Chairman.
Oil Conservation Board OF the
State of Montana.
Great Falls, Montana.
Evening star., 1936-04-01
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Evening star., 1936-04-01
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