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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18
FOUR WELLS
TO BE DRILLED
IN WEST POOL

Another well started this week
in the midway area between Kew
in and Cut Bank oil fields, making
four wells that will be drilled in
this district as soon as weather per-
mits.
The new location Is the Parent
Anderson No. /, center SWA SEA
26-35-4W, north and east of the
Enneberg discovery we'll.
Fffty-six Petroleum had about a
fOur-barrel well on its north offset
to the Enneberg, on the Davidson
farm, but will probably abandon
and drill an east offset to the Enne-
berg In the spring.
West Kelvin Communicated
No. /, ,NEA NWA 3-34-4W, Is
drilling at $50 feet.
Charles Grant-Anderson No. 1,
Sc NEA NEA 26-35-4W, has shut
down. probably for the winter, af-
ter spudding.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18
Big West
Buys Out
Mcknight

There we're reports OF several
deals on producing oil prop
critics in Kevin-Sunburst field
during the past week, as buy
ers sought to take advantage
of the present "low'' in the
crude market, before the up
ward trend OF the new year
gets under way.
Chief OF the reported deals
was known to be the sale of
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. lease
in E15 NV n, Section 1885
2W, to Big West Refining COM
pany of Kelvin and Spokane.
This lease is so acres including
three producing oil wells. The
No. we'll, recently completed
as an offset to the sensational
Rice-Larson No. / producer, Is
making $50 barrels. and the
others are rated around 40 bar
rels each
rated around 40 barrels each.
The amount OF the consider
alton was not given. Mcknight
recently sold his control inter-
est in the adjoining Seabrook
permit to the Butte group
which formerly held third in
terest. Mcknight still retains
his interest in the Mcknight G.
Stock State lease in NWA
16-35-2W.
Barmac Oil company Is re-
ported to have sold its 40-ac-
re lease on the Anderson
farm in NWH SW 2S-35-1W,,
known as the Red Deer tract,
which was developed by Charles
Eline. 1t has seven produc-
ing wells. Big West is reported
to have bought this property,
also. A third deal was report
ed on the Huso Brothers-Dav-
is permit properties in Section
14-35-3W, in the Rocky Ridge
pool.
The Journal has wired for
confirmation of reports OF these
deals.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18

Equitable adjustment of rail rates
will be the function Of the Traffic
association.
A. e. d.on) Cr1u1aey was named
temporary chairman of the Organi-
cation at the meeting Thursday
night. A big meeting of all pro-
ducers from Conrad, Kevin-Sunburst,
Cut Bank and the Border field has
been called for next Wednesday
night at p. M, when the organi-
cation will be perfected.
Traffic Expert Present
Present at the meeting was i. G.
Jones, rate expert of the Great Falls
Chamber of Commerce traffic COM
mittee. who was called in to advise
the oil men regarding the possibility
of securing rail rate adjustments. He
said that the present rate structure
out OF Montana oil fields Is not
based on volume and pointed out
several rate examples that promise
possible adjustments once the Great
Northern is assured of steady ton
mage.
The rate to Kalispell is is cents
per hundred yet the rate to Spo-
kane is 81 cents a hundred. Since
Continued on Page Five)
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18
BROADuIEM
Is c0RIHG N
QUADRANTS

BILLINGS-Cl attention on
Broadview Dome well reveals hard
drilling in sandy lime with hard
streaks intermingled. Opinions
based on practical experience by
oil men would indicate the lower
Quadrants where Broadview is now
coring at 1884 feet. The last core
broke thru the hard formations into
"a sandy formation for the last two
feet, showing a change or break
that has possibilities OF topping
some thing interesting. However,
it is possible to still encounter
hundred feet OF lower Tensleep
and Amsden before topping the
Madison limestone that is estimated
to be around one thousand feet
thick under Broadview dome 10
cation. While 1875 feet of forma-
ton just passed through shows
som oil in limey sand correlating
to some extent with Garland, Wyo-
ming, Field, would indicate the big
oil pay can be expected after pene-
trating the Madison line. Oil and
gas showing have been prevalent
from time to time in the past / 900
feet. but the operators have stead
lastly determined to see the Madi-
son before attempting to bring in
a well Of smaller production.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18
new WELL
ANNOUNCED
IN CUT BANK

Cut Bank oil field saw the start
OF one new we'll during the past
week, in the Big Bend pool where
tribal requirements call for another
we'll on the Marshall allotted No.
III tract, NO. 2 location, near the
center of the NEA SWA 1-32-6W.
It Is 2285 feet east of the west
line and 2O13 feet south of the
north line. (The description in the
Development Information column Is
incorrect.)
Hole Brothers have not swabbed
their Allotted 124 No. 3, C sWA
SEA 1-32-6W, but 1t looks like an
we'll for the district. It
had Cut Bank production from 3O15
TO 1925 and drilled into the Ellis
1925 to 3O57. The top OF the Cut
Bank sand was at 3O05. oil rose
1900 feet in the hole and it will
Continued on Page FiveJ
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18
Yale Oil Will Build 1900
Barrel Plant At Kalispel
Will Use Cut Bank Oil

Formal announcement Of completed clans build
500barrel refinery Kaispel made the Journal
this week by Phil Forth of the Yale Oil Refining Co., at
Billings.
The new plant will use Cut Bank crude which has been
signed up veyear contract based the Mdcontnent
price of crude.
Rumors of the plant printed in the Journal last
week but the of the refiner and location omitted be-
the purchase of the site had been contaminated
Ground has been broken and construction at
work and completion is expected by Mr. Forth by March
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18
IDAHO men
HIT AGAIN IN
NORTH FIELD

A showing of oil, with no water,
that gives promise of another 100
barrel producer was struck this
week by the lucky Occur d'Alene
syndicate on the Stewart farm in the
northeast part of Kevin-Sunburst
field.
The first well drilled by this syn
dictate, known as Rice-Anderson No.
1, was said to have been spoiled
by either too deep drilling or by
acidization for it developed a large
amount of water after an indicated
production of 100 barrels OF better.
This second well is a quarter of
a mile southwest of the Anderson
No. 1, located in NE SWA SWA
S-35-1W, HOO feet north of the
south line and 100 feet east of the
west line. 1t struck the top of the
lime at 1855 and drilled two feet
into the formation when oil began
coming into the hole, with no sign
of water. 1t will be treated with a
5OO-gallon shot of acid, and where
as they allowed the acid to stand
in the Anderson well for II hours,
1t is planned to take the acid off
this well Immediately to prevent
development of water.
In the central field, Big West Oil
company is treating for the fourth
time its Mcdonald No. Z we'll, NV
NEANEA 19-S5-2W. Starting with
nothing, this well has been worked
up to a production of four barrels
per day and it is believed that the |
next acid shot will make it COM
mercial.
On the west side of the field an
other well was about to drill in,
with commercial production in sight.
1t is New Era-Goeddertz No. 3, c
Sc u SW5k 12-35-3W, which struck
oil in the Sunburst sand at 1920.
Seven-inch casing is being run be-
fore drilling in. 1t looks like nice
producer OF high gravity oil.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18
FOURTH WELL Due
AT BADGER BASIN

Casing has been cemented below
$500 feet, ready to drill in on
the No. well OF ResoIute Oil
company on Badger Basin struc-
ture in northern Wyoming, accord
Ing to J. C. Peters OF Great Falls.
who returned from the field Wed
nesday. The third well was recent
1y shot with two nitro-glycerine
charges totaling 500 quarts to OPP
en- up the wall of the producing
sand. The well was drilled in with
rotary tools and the tremendous
weight OF the column Of drilling
mud penetrated the sand. 1t is
now cleaned out and is flowing by
heads. The No. should be drilled
in next week.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18
TURNER VALLEY Will LIKELY
DEVELOP POTENTIAL Of SO, 900
BARRELS OF CRUDE Per DAY
Journal Checks Up On Erroneous Report Of
Rapidly Diminishing Gas Pressure-MOn-
tana Crude Definitely "Out"

Valley oil field will be able to for the Canadian
market for to comecertany for five
and probably for To all intents and purposes
Montana of the Canadian market for all time
This the of opinion of leading petroleum
others whom the Journal has interviewed in recent
weeks During past week the Journal received report
that the pressure in Turner Valley dropping off rapidly
true to the extent that alarm
be felt over failure of Turner Valley wells to flow.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18

II is conceded that when the
gas "head" is off and It becomes
necessary to pump these 6,0OO-foot
wells the lifting cost OF Turner
valley oil will be 80 high that this
oil must command a much higher
price than at present. But there
is no immediate prospect Of having
to pump these wells.
There are at the present time 80
producing oil wells in the west side
pool Of Turner Valley, with the
outside limits underlined.
There are 80 drilling wells most
OF which are likely to get produc-
ton Of 500 barrels per day or more.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18

The present potential Of the field
is between 10000 and $4,000 bar
rels per day.
The field is now running 5000
barrels per day under 35 per cent
proration.
PROBATION Is in the hands OF q
Producers association. Recently this
association asked the government
to conduct a potential test to de-
termine the true potential as basis
for ratable taking. The govern
ment engineers are now making s.
day tests as to volume and bottom
CONTINUED on Page F7v@1
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18

bachelor may feel lonely Christmas time bss he at
least knoa 0eH he receives present that he sU0 haze
to pay for 1t later
So e0eH though fathers POcketbook may meUer look the
same again. it is still Merry Christmas It takes faith as
1CR forfitHde to get happiness life and that is especially
true IN this country today The outlook for Montana OIL and
mining Operators and other Investors IN Mother Mat.we as
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18
CONRAD SIGNING
PLEDGES TO USE
LOCAL GASOLINE
BY ,. r.. KUAIPF
Chairman, Conrad Lions Club
ff~wmwvrz3f<e~.

The city of Conrad lost no time
in going about the campaign to foster
development of markets for Pondera
and other Montana oil field crudes
this week. The Lions club commit
tee of Conrad has gone the Shelby
committee one better. People of
Conrad are being asked to sign
pledges to use only Montana-made
gasoline. The cards are barely off
he press and several hundred have
been signed already. The entire
population will he canyased and vir-
tually 100 per cent pledges are ex-
Continued on Page F1ve)
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18
SSSsER
On All a11r l11talr A aarrry GhrtSfntaa

Tuesday tie shortest day Of The year-Ee long DARK
day lind then comes the dam of Christmas and better
things. 1t is late to do your Christmas limiting early
ho1Oever it has been limited that if father is Independent
oil producer ucleadcobber miner it is the height of
irony to giUe him biHfoEd for this Christmas
Gf0e the average couple of loud ties and its
Christmas. But not for the rest of the fGnnly Father
ksOS that get along at Christmas time asGtOsf
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18

meger promising None knows Just zVhGt Santa zUsH
bring bit it IS safe guess that zH get present
from the president IN the form of reezUa of the 77cent price
for SIoer 1t is good guess that North Montana oil
going to haze couple yetneyies in the Christmas sock
Though Tuesday, the shortest day 9UH be dark, knoOU
that longer SUMNER days hand and it is Nth the
oil and mining industries zVlck emerging better
times So i truly IS MERRY CHRISTMAS
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18
Will Call Upon C. N. To
Come To Aid Of Industry
With Revised Rail Rates

The future of the North Montana oil industry in
the lap of the Gods but in the lap Of the Great Northern
railway"
So quoth northern Montana oil producers meeting
held Thursday evening Shelby for the purpose of forming
a North Montana Producers Traffic Association.
Producers have found that is possible to get markets
for their crude provided they get railroad rates which will
make possible to ship the crude renerie Present rates
make market expansion impossible reners declare nasmuch
existing rates based occasional shipments rather
than volume traffic
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18

5WeaIneT peTMlLLInB. FaTJ OF lH5
winnett plant is to be removed to
Kalispell and this with new equip
ment will give q plant that can
be easily doubled in capacity, when
the market affords expansion. An
Ethyl blending plant will be erect
ed. together with a reforming unit
(continued on Page Five)
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18
BULLETIN NO. g
By Shelby Lions Club Committee on
BUY GASOLINE MADE FROM MONTANA CRUDE
BY L. r. HANNAH, Secretary.

Our campaign GASOLINE MADE
MONTANA CRUDE"
inquiry How
OF them claim handling
brands -
mad
all dealers that show handling
CRUDE, big red metal
certifying that ne gasoline sold there
Tne committee addressing letters
them to get in touch with the committee stating
gasoline refined
OF the publicity and the
embems
We also asked for list of the reners
gasoline the
with an up to date report and number importing companies
Hrom Montana crude giving
imported the of
follows:
IMPORTERS GASOLINE INTO MONTANA
1887
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-12-18
IMPORTERS OF GASOLINE INTO MONTANA
FIRST 10 MONTHS OF YEAR 1887.

Associated Oil iii 1913
California Co., Salt Lake 800
Consumers o. & Castle
Chicago, B. @ Lincoln 1920
H. Cack
Cogswen Station Falls
Continental Oil
Consolidated Freight Portland
Oil N.
N.
Union Oil Wiliston,
Refinery Sheridan,
Sheridan Refinery Sheridan
Gilman OH Co, Beach,
General Petroleum Corp Seattle, 62O9S
D. Gibson, Thermopois,
emmot Rapid s
Sheridan,
Grenora,
Northern Pacific Railway, Paul, 117SOO
Billings.
Puritan OIL Belle Fourche, 4O729
7esolute Oil Falls. 374553
aichfied oil Corp Seattle, 42767
or
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-20
BAD WEATHER
AGAIN DELAYS
FLIER SEARCH

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 20
QJP)-The search for Sigismund
Levanevsky and his five compan-
ions who were lost a week ago on
a Moscow-to- America flight, was
delayed again today by bad wea-
ther.
Jimmy Mattern, American pilot
who came here in a plane equip
ped for Arctic flights. was grounded
by rain and clouds. A Soviet plane
was grounded at Wellen, Siberia.
Matterns refueling plane, enroute
here from California, was down
at Whitehorse, Yukon territory
The pilot, Garland Lincoln, hoped
to continue to Fairbanks today il
the weather cleared He moved
from Vanderhoof, near Hazelton,
B. c., to Whitehorse yesterday be-
fore he was forced to land Mat
terms plane can not leave the
short Fairbanks runway with a full
load of gasoline and has to be re-
fueled in the air.
The Russian fliers last reported
by radio last Friday morning, two
hours after they crossed the North
Pole in a storm.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-20
COUNSELLOR TO FORMER KING
ORDERED DEPORTED IN FRANCE

last remnants of Loyalist Gen. Ga
miz Uribarria's forces rushing into
retreat west of the city near Tor
relavega.
Nationalist dispatches to the
frontier said 90 battalions of Loya-
lists are trapped south of Escudo
Pass. 81 miles south of Santander,
and that Franco had surrounded
them with 10000 fresh troops.
Basque officials fled to France
and admitted that Santander was
doomed, although it will fall figh-
ting, like Bilbao"
Santander was the scene of Wild
est confusion as thousands of re-
fugees streaked along the coast for
Asturia, reports indicated.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-20
UNysNU Yaks1

gest mass murders in this country"
He claimed that Mrs. Hahn-"Ma-
dame Bluebeard" the police call
her-received between $4,000 and
$4,000 from persons who died af-
ter she had helped make them
comfy"
Outcalt said that Investigations
showed Mrs Hahn had purchased
enough poison to kill half the
town.. He said authorities have
discovered that she twice tried to
obtain $4,000 policies on the life
of her husband Philip, a telegraph
operator. Police said he once suf-
fered symptoms of poisoning.
Mrs, Hahn has pleaded not guilty
to murder charges in connection
with the deaths of Jacob Wagner
78. and George Gsellman, 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-20
CHORUS GIRL
\ KILLS SELF,
LEAVES NOTE

NEW YORK, Aug. 20. NU.H -
Adelaide Hughes, pretty 20 year
old chorus girl of Glendora, Calf,
was found dead cary today in
the gas filled kitchen of her apart
ment in the fashionable East River
section of New York. Police said
she was suicide.
She left a note addressed to a
boy friend, whose name police did
not reveal.
It said, Consider this an acci-
dent"
She also asked that her parents
In California be notified.
Miss Hughes was a member OF
the chorus of a road production Of
musical show produced under
the name of ziegfeld Follies about
six weeks ago. She also had been
an entertainer at the Paradise night
club.
She occupied the apartment with
two other girls. Last night she and
her roommates had dinner en-
gagement but at the last moment
she told them to go on without her
She said she was no feeling well
and didn't wish to spoil their
evening.
Early this morning, neighbors
for several floors above and below
the apartment smelled gas. Build
ing attendants were called and
found Miss Hughes body on the
kitchen floor.
Police questioned Miss Hughes
friends. They said she had been
embarrassed financially and wor-
ried about not having had any reg
ular work since the musical show
closed.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-20
POLICE PLAN AUTOPSY UPON
AGED WOMAN, BELIEVED TO BE
FEMALE BLUEBEARD VICTIM

CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 20 Up--
Police planned an autopsy today
On the body of what they believe
to be the 18th victim of poison ad-
ministered by female "bluebeard"
Mrs. Ollie Luella Koehler, 10
was the latest to die in what police
think was a plot to steal the savings
of elderly persons.
Mrs. KOSHER died yesterday, a
month after police said she had
eaten ice cream given her by Mrs
Anna Marie Hahn, 81 year Ole
blonde charged with the poison
murders of two elderly men.
Prosecutor Dudley M. Outcalt
termed the deaths lone of the big
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-20
HERB NORRIS
ABLE TO QUIT
:. A. HOSPITAL

Herb Norris. former manager OF
the United Artists theatre in FL
Centre, recently was able to leave
a Los Angeles hospital where he
has been i'll for several weeks.
His condition will not permit him
to return to work as yet. When he
RECEIVERS sufficiently. he is sched-
uled for managership in some
coast city, as his health will make
return to Imperial Valley impos.
sible.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-20
Prisoner Slashed
In Pen Taylor Shop

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Aug. 20.
U.P)-Sal Sitting, Los Angeles rob-
Der, was in solitary confinement
today after he had slashed Andy
Orlando, Santa Clara county gum
man, with a pair of scissors. Off
cials said the scissor had been
smuggled from the prison tailor
shop. Orlando was cut wnen he
and Sitting met in the main prison
yard.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-20

q Dixie Bibb Graves, to Blacks s.
ffese seat until his successor is
ed.
;. lack will take another oath OF
ilse iisse before the supreme court in
Rerber.
ms epointment of Mrs. Graves, a
II r,er and soft spoken southerner,
ieot ght to the senate a rich back
nd of political and social activ-
,os1s. Graves, known throughout
A,,a,sa as Miss Dixie, will be
rs to the rostrum this after
2, to take the oath, by Sen John
,ankhead. D., Ala. Then she
.OS1 take her seat several desks
-anc from the senate's other woman
waIber Mrs. Hattie w. Caraway,
WiArk.
-e induction ceremony will give
Graves a quick start on what
be more active political
n than that attempted by the
Cc three women who have serv-
~ 4 the senate.
lends from the south, pointing
er active interest in political
Social work, predicted that Mrs.
Eaes might be candidate in the
ys#ng primary election to elect
W senator, although a statement
- ser husband tended to discount
-. a plan. Her family has been
ainent in political affairs for
rations. Her great-great-great
dfather was Alabamas first
rnor.
e will hold office until April
=. 1888, when special election
: be held to fill Blacks senate
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-20
100000 Needed in
Navy Air Base Deal

ALAMEDA, Calf, Aug. 20. W.H
Alameda needed 100000 today to
overcome the obstacle to closing
the deal for the proposed $4,000
600 naval air base here.
The Curtiss- Wright company in
formed the city 1t would grant
clear title to land to which it holds
lease for that amount Naval Of
ficials approved a proposal that
the air concern be allowed to re-
tain title to buildings it erected
on the site of the new base.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-20
CONTRACTS FOR
VIADUCT

SACRAMENTO, Cal. Aug. &c.
UPo-Contract for constructing the
San Franciso viaduct of the Oak
Iand-Ssn Francisco Bay Bridge
Railway terminal has been awarded
Eaton and Smith, San Francisco
contractors, Earl Lee Kelly. direct
Or of Public Works, announced to-
day. The award was made on &
low bid of S605, $50.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-20
Hearing on River
Improvement Set

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. U.R)-
The board of army engineers for
rivers and harbors today tentative
ly set August "a, for hearing on
the proposed improvement of the
Sacramento river between Chico
Landing and Red Bluff, Calf.
The division engineer reported
unfavorably on the project, hold
ing that the benefits would not
Justify the necessary work.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-20
Widow Falls Out
Of Window to Deatf

NEW YORK, Aug. 20. UP)-Mrs.
Ruth Helen Archibald, So, widow
of DR.. Charles Harvey, of Los
Angeles, fell to her death today
from a seventh floor window of a
midtown hotel. The medical exam
iner's office said her death was
accidental. Mrs. Archibald was
registered from Deal, N. j., where
she had been spending the sum-
mar.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-20
SIx-DAY WEEK
FOR TAXI DANCE

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. 20
UP)-A six-day week for taxi dance
hall girls here became effective
today with adoption by the city
council of an ordinance governing
such establishments.
The new law requires all tan
dance halls to remain closed Sun
day nights.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-20
Hiding Permits
y FF7RG0 Over $4,000

FgILDING permits issued in El
loSro passed the $4,000 mark
bay when Central Union high
EAiNpl authorities Obtained a per-
Ex to make $4,000 repairs to the
EOl structure.
N le repairs include reinforcement
II yalls and miscellaneous impro-
f7g, snts.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-20

PARIS, Aug. 20. UP)-Count De
Los Andes, counsellor to former
King Alfonso XIII and considered
one of the leaders in the movement
for restoration of the Spanish mon
archy, was ordered deported today
Officials served deportation pa
pers on Andes, ordering him to
leave France within Is days "for
actions exceeding the admitted
limits" in behalf of Generalissimo
Francisco Franco on French terri
tory
At the same time nine young
Spaniards were ordered deported
because they allegedly received
money from the count.
Andes moved month ago to a
secret villa in southern France
where, according to officials, he
maintained clandestine radio
transmitter.