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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-13
EXTENDS kelvin HIGH GRAVITY POOL
CUTBAHk HAS R
$500 BARREL
STEADY MART

With steady market for
$500 barrels OF oil per day in local
refineries, Cut Bank oil field is not
faring so badly as many people had
feared.
The refinery of British American
Oil company at Coutts Is closed
down, probably for the winter, and
Toronto Pipeline company is today
taking no oil from Cut Bank oil
field save the contract oil of R. c.
Tarrant and his subsidiary the
Indian Oil company. British Amer
lean is under contract to take this
production until January 1, 1888.
All other wells of companies
which formerly supplied Transit &
Storage UmperiaD and British
American are now shut down as
none of the carriers are accepting
oil for storage. Operators who
have their own storage are not OPP
Grating their wells, including Con-
solidated Gas company which has an
empty 8O,0O0Ibarrel tank on its
leases. This will mean no distress
oil when the market opens up again
in the spring.
The Texas company and Santa
Rita Oil company are each running
around 10000 barrels per month
while operators supplying Home Oil
& Refining Co. are running $4,000
barrels. Ten thousand barrels are
being run for AFRO Oil & Refining
Co. at Lewistown, per month, while
the Hole Brothers and Cut Bank
Refining Co. and other markets ac-
count for around 10000 barrels,
making a total permanent market
for 1850 barrels per month, or
$500 barrels per day.
Tho October runs in Cut Bank
were around 100000 barrels which
was a drop of $4,000 barrels from
September. The November runs
will show a drop of another $4,000 |
barrels as a result of Toronto Pipe
line stopping its purchases. The
market will then be down to the
stated level of $500 barrels per day.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-13

been able 10 sell a small part OF
their potential production.
In dealing with some of the rene
dies suggested TO solve this problem,
it seems to the writer that mach
has been said against proration by
the HAYES and perhaps very
little said in its favor by the
''IIAvEN'TS.
There Is undoubtedly a remedy
for our present problem of idle
leases and unemployed men. As a
patient our industry Is showing
symptoms Of becoming increasingly
worse while the doctors stand
around doing little or nothing. The
patients respiration Is still nearly
normal, but his price structure Their
mometer tells us that he has drop
ped from lbs to as low as .95 with
a good possibility Of getting much
lower before he Is laid on the pro-
verbal slab OF marble.
It appears to the writer that your
paper would be an excellent medium
through which some OF the opera
tors could express themselves. It
IS with this view in mind / submit
the following letter, which / hope
may bring some enhghtment on the
question Of proration.
The word proration Is not new
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-13
BULLETIN NO. a
BY Shelby Lions Club Committee on
"BUY GASOLINE MADE FROM MONTANA CRUDE

1t this committee that when the people Of the State
that
handling
substantial
GASOLINE CRUDE Among
gasoline
other gaones of like quality Third
materially
produced and made gasoline
and
made materially States
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-13
GASOLINE CHEAP, TAX HIGH

American Petroleum Institute,
meeting in Chicago, heard AxteIl j.
Byles, president, declare that 'gaso-
line is cheap, only the tax is
high. He said that gasoline prices
are about half what they were in
1920 "as a result of abundance,
ever increasing operating efficiency
and the keenest kind of competi-
ton" Taxes of S1.181, 600, 900 a
year are only slightly less than the
81, 100000 the industry pays
to labor.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-13
Well Mile South OF RimroCk
Producers Makes 200 Barrels
Initial After Acid Treatment

His second venture was the partnership
on the Thumm lease which was regarded as
pretty much of wildcat. 1t is located on
the FLATS" west of Kelvin. There is a school
of theorists on the West side who had con-
cluded that topography had something to do
with the accumulation of oil and had deter
mined that the "flats" are the place for water
wells and dry holes, while big oil wells may
be expected on the benches. The Thumm
producer pretty we'll extinguishes the bright
lights of that theory It is believed that the
high gravity pool will now be farther extend
ed from a half mile to a mile farther south
ward The pool is limited on the south only
by the Cassidy-Mary, near the center of the
NWH 5-34-3W, which is 150-barrel well,
making 80 gravity oil
East and west limits of the high gravity
pool are yet to be determined The present
indicated limits include about 1000 acres
from which~a negligible amount of oil has
been produced.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-13

The high gravity oil pool west of Kelvin.
known as the Rimrock pool, was extended
a mile southwark with the acidization this
week of the Montgomery-Far gher-Nepstad-
Perron-Thumm No ] we'll in NE SWH
NWA 33-35-3W.
1t made 800 barrels during the first "a
hours this including 100 barrels used in treat
ing 1t is still producing at the rate of over
200 barrels per day. 1t is 1874 Be. gravity
oil, with no sulphur content, similar to the
other oil in the high gravity pool On Mid
continent and Wyoming gravity basis, this
oil is worth premium Of from 10 to 20 cents
a barrel over the other oil in Kevin-Sunburst
field
Associated with Montgomery, Fargher
and Nepstad, veteran operators of this field,
is Butch" Perron, former Sunburst butcher
who has acquired the cognomen of Lucky
Butch" since he delved into the oil business,
ne having brought in 20O-barrel well on his
first trv
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-13

in this State we are producing here
with report covering gasoline
sales for the whole State OF Mon
tana for the year OF 1886.
Continued on Page Five,
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-13
PETROLEUM HAS
PRODUCER IN MIDWAY POOL
SIX MILES WEST Of kelvin

producer added midway pool OF high
gravity oil between Kelvin and Gut Bank field during the past
Davidson
producer, o Ekh g.
2O7S
TO and baes
Of wate In
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-13
Cut Bank Operator Says
PrOration Must Come If
Industry Is To Prosper

The columns of the Journal open to any Montana oil
operator who wishes to discuss the market situation The
Journal has steadfsy refused publish unsigned
cations but to publish any signed leterbarng cuss
words should rope choker his native tongue
Otherwise will exercise censorship
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-13

paper following
Definite
divided The HAYES the
operators Many for the first time their
their OIL
IN two months others only
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-13

Cut Bank, Montana. Nov. sth. 1887
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-13

Mr.. o. / Deschon,
Montana Oil Journal.
Great Falls, Montana.
Dear Mr.. DeSchon:
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-01-11
It's The State That Pays

Proving conclusively that cities are will
ing to have the state assume more Of the
burdens of town and municipal upkeep is
the decision of New Haven officials to
urge the Legislature to approve bill
allowing the State Highway Department
to exercise control and maintenance over
certain highways and bridges within the
/ city limits. This is among series OF
recommendations that New Haven is go
ing to present shortly as the lawmakers
get down to serious business. It's not
new form of civic activity and has been
attempted by many communities success
fully.
At the last session Of the General AS
sembly the Bridgeport legislators sue
ceeded in putting across a coup that
removed from the city the responsibility
for various sections of highway and
bridges and placed it in the hands of the
State Highway Department. Naturally
the city is not obliged to pay for upkeep
nor to take care Of the roads or bridges
in bad weather. A few years before that
Waterbury managed to put the section OF
Thomaston avenue from West Main
street to Waterville in the state highway
system.
Waterbury, however, did not reach its
: UDJCCLIVc WlCIlOuL d lOIlS anu IculOuS llbit'
It took several legislative sessions before
the matter could be concluded and this
city relieved of the burden of caring for
the roadway. The main point of objec-
ton from the highway department was
that when the road actually was in the
departments keeping the city asked the
right to maintain 1t and was given that
privilege However, we lived and learned
and only the tenacity of Senator Joseph
II. Lawlor won the day for the city by
getting bill through to return the road
to the state highway system.
Most Of the smaller towns of the state
exercise no maintenance over the main
roads and escape the heavy expense of
such work. That's why more and more
larger towns and cities are trying to put
various streets, constituting direct links
on important highways, into state hands.
We don't blame New Haven officials for
making plans well ahead to put through
legislation to this effect. When the pres
sure for these changes becomes too great,
perhaps the state will do something about
reimbursing cities for depreciation Of
hard-surfaced streets. We collect mil
lions for gasoline consumed in driving
automobiles just over our own streets, but
we are not allocated one cent for the wear
and tear on them.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-01-11

The converting of Congress has taken
public attention away from another inter-
esting legislative session. That is the
meeting of Nebraska's first one-chamber
Legislature. Formerly Nebraska had 1873
legislators, SO Of whom were senator's.
There are now only AZ in all, from as
many districts, chosen by non-partisan
election. Each member is supposed to be
the direct representative of his whole con-
stituency and no longer subject to local
or group pressures.
Nebraska's unicameral legislature is
based on the theory that state business
Is administrative rather than political,
that It's issues are mostly of method, in
which party interests and discipline have
no rightful place.
Whether this theory of state govern
ment will work we'll in Nebraska and
whether, II 1t does, 1t could be applied
with like satisfaction elsewhere, time and
experience will reveal. In states where
the population is greater and it's interests
more diverse, such simplification might
be difficult Nebraska, at least, Is making
an interesting experiment in it's search
for efficient government, which is bound
to attract attention.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-01-11

Imagine the Connecticut legislators
voting to establish unicameral Legis-
lature in place Of the present set-up. We
said just imagine 1t. For we can't quite
conceive of the idea getting beyond the
imaginative stage. It's even impossible
in this state to get good discussion to-
day of any changes in the existing double
house of the General Assembly, which
are far from representative We have a
State Senate composed of thirty-five
members representing thirty-five separ-
ate and distinct voting districts, sup-
posedly proportionate in. population
size. They are far from that and geo.
graphically good many Of them are
futuristic looking. We have 267 members
of the House, representing the 169 towns
of the state. To some towns two repre-
sentatives are allotted; to the others
lone legislator. This division has moth
ing to do with population size, as Union
with less than 200 souls has two repre-
sentatives as has Waterbury with los, 900.
Unicameral legislative bodies may be
unique, but we should look in the mirror
before saying so.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-01-11
State Exclusion

We have seen, since the war, the exclu-
sion Of immigrants on big scale by the
federal government. Lately we are also
seeing American citizens, attempting to
migrate from one state TO another,
excluded as undesirable immigrants. Thus
Florida, while expecting tourist boom"
this winter, is expecting to turn back at
her border many thousands Of Americans
who are not wanted because they lack
certain amount Of money or cannot prove
that they will not become public burdens
on the state.
This attitude can be understood, as can
be the similar procedure OF California and
Colorado in recent years, when threatened
with deluge of poverty-stricken strang-
ers. The states with pleasant winter eli
mate are especially liable to such seasonal
invasion. Many insist, though, that such
exclusion cannot be reconciled with Sec
tion 2, Article w, of the United States
Constitution, which says: 1.-THE citizens
Of each state shall be entitled to all the
privileges and immunities of citizens in
the several states" Here is another
problem the federal government will have
to face sooner or later.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-01-11
Ousted Liberalism

Karl Radek in Russia and Paul Schaffer
in Berlin have been known to newspaper
people all over the world as great Journal
lists. Each now seems out of government
favor. Radek has been imprisoned as
conspirator against the Russian govern
ment. Death before firing squad is
expected for him.
Scheffer, until lately editor-in-chief of
the Berliner Tageblatt, has been moved
to Washington to be it's correspondent
there. His policies as editor - showing
the last independent thought left in the
journalism of the Reich - have been
dropped. The new editor will be "the
voice of German interests, not colorless
weakling representative of certain hest
tators who do not know where they should
look. Germany will and must and can
help herself by her strangth."
The two nations concerned lost the
honest interpretations Of these men who
not only understood t.oir own people but
also understood the outside world Neither
news nor editorial opinion has much value
in. countries where neither Is honest and
free
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-01-11
Simplifed Golf

Caddies who can bear up one more
year will then have their burden light
ened by new rule Of the United States
Golf Association which has announced:
THE game OF golf shall be played with
not more than fourteen clubs beginning
January /, 1888" The Royal and Ancient
Golf Club OF st. Andrews, Scotland, Is
expected to make similar ruling
Persons not yet acquainted with golf
may not know how complicated the club
situation had become. Harry Vardon,
former famous champion and golf
authority, said seven clubs we're enough
for ony one. Some players have made
low scores on modern courses using only
a single club. But most golfers have been
going In for specialization, with differ
ent clubs for different shots and dis
tances, until complete outfits require rs
or 80 clubs.
Often they have totalled 80 pounds in
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-01-11
Press Comment
CONSIDER THE CRANBERRY
(New York Herald Tribune)

NANOW = tAA AASheAA AANAss~'
< The, cranberry. not unknown by
any means in Europe, where 1t
grows wild In boys Of temperate and
colder regions, is justly appropriated
to America, where 1t receives devo-
ton as a most delightful tart sauce
and as an important part--with It's
festive color and strong historical
associat ions--of holiday ritual.
A recent government publication
reminds us that OF all consumers in
American history the Englishmen
newly arrived In the Cape Cod re-
gion In the winter Of 1620-'2l. were
open to suggestions on diet: and that
turkey and cranberries. were well up
ON the menu handed them by the
Indians.
Until 1872 rhe wild swamp cram
berry was sole source OF supply.
Then In the country where It's edi-
bility was first tested by the Pill
grims, Massachusetts farmers be-
gan to beat Nature at her own game
and soon were furnishing the mar
ket with hundreds OF thousands Of
bushels OF cultivated cranberries. 1t
Is Cap eCod, where the industry be-
gan, that retains supremacy today
In cranberry growing.
The somber harvesting of the
crop makes o Millet every fall in
thousands OF acres OF cranberry bog
on the Cape, in South Jersey, on
Long Island. In Wisconsin and some
northwestern states. Combed out
of the autumpal swamps the cram
berries arrive few weeks later In
town. fcstal and tangy for the great
American home festivals: Thanks
giving, Christmas and New Years.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-01-11
In Today's Mail
Anonymous letters will not
be accepted unless accom-
panied with writer's name.
PUT UP OR SHUT UP" SAYS
LOCAL HEAD OF UNIT
SYSTEM

January 9.@1937.
Editor. Waterbury Democrat:
Only now has Taxpayers" letter
about the Merit System come to my
notice, although 1t was printed in
your paper on December 18th. I am
sorry for the delay because I am
sure the letter was written chiefly
for the hope Of an answer.
OF all the members OF their Wa
terbury committee on the merit sys-
tenn, O. total of about fifty people,
only two are holding jobs with the
state or any other governmental
body. II Taxpayer were writing Of
New Haven, now, he could point a
triumphant finger at yet another
such case, for Governor Cross has
been a member of Our state associa-
ton for many years. But II Tax
payer refer TO Waterbury, We'll
have to ask for little more detail
Out west. they used to call on the
too a8ertive commentator TO come
across with the evidence: Put, up
or shut up" was the way they ex-
pressed II.
While ne Is naming names, I sug-
geSt that he take q deep breath
and mention his own. He states
that he Is "all for" the merit sys-
tenn and I'd like TO get the proof
of that on one OF our membership
cards. Such sweeping approval
should not be kept pent up IN
anonymity, and he'd be happier u
he'd come In with the bunch and
fish or cut bait. h
In his approval he Us with the
majority. Judging by all Of those
with whom I have discussed the
matter. The merit system, both IN
Its means and In It's ends, is simply
the application to government jon
appointments Of the same COM
mon sense system which prevails
throughout the rest Of our business
and professional life. fancy Tax
payer himself holds what job he has
because he demonstrated his COM
petence for 1t and Is devoting that
same competence TO It's efdcient per-
Torrance. I doubt that the recent
election either strengthened OF
weakened his claim TO 1t.
Taxpayer evidently realizes that
this Is not too often the case with
political appointments, and In THU
he Is right enough. ! think. how
ever, that ne goes too far In his
conclusion that all public appoint.
fnents have been made regardless 81
merit or that all incumbents have
become so perverted in them that
they are incapable Of sincerity, pub
lie spirit or good intentions. even ifl
80 reckless an act as publicity CIV.
ing their names In advocacy OF THU
important movement to- put, com.
mon sense to work for the coinmoil
welfare. aa
Very truly yours,
JOHN M. BRODIH.
Pres. Waterbury Chapter
Il Conn. MART eystem AAs'u.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-01-11
Flood Control
No Substitute for Flood Reservoir Scheme in
Connecticut River Valley Appeals to
Army Engineers.
Army Engineers.
HARTFORD TIMES

a difference of only .43 OF a foot, ir
the 1885 food level at Hartford
while the cost would be $685., 200
with estimated annual charge,
thereafter Of nearly $4,000.
OF the two proposals the Troxel
plan appears TO offer the more by far
as the engineers estimate that II
would have reduced the 1886 food
level In Hartford 2.12 feet. The cost
would be nearly $14,000,O0O, or about
the sum as the estimates for build.
Ing ten food reservoirs in Vermont
and New Hampshire, with an annual
maintenance cost Of $714,00O.
The layman will require explana-
ton az to why a channel to be used
only In flood seasons should require
such q large amount for mainte.
nance.
Aside from that the engineers
non-committal attitude indicates
acceptance Of the Troxell pro-
posal.
1t may be that before all the diff
ficultieS In the way Of the up-river
reservoirs, due TO hostile sentiment
In Vermont, are solved, the Troxell
plan will gain In interest.
The engineers themselves give nc
indication that they are disturbed
by the Vermont objections. They
have recently filed report asking
for some three or four million dol
lars TO complete surveys, make soil
tests and CONSTRUCT one or two .oi
the proposed reservoirs.
1t IL quite certain that the Green
Mountain States representative In
Congress will make strenuous efforts
to see that Its valleys are not flooded
except with Its consent.
2 II becomes increasingly apparent
that the field where the effort Ia
most radically needed at the mo.
nent in order TO promote food con-
troll, Is not in engineering, but ir
the effort to arrive at an under
standing between the people Of
Vermont and the people Of Con.
necticut and Massachusetts which
VIII enable the adoption Of q pro-
gram generally acceptable.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-01-11

Here's good news to say the very least.
The opening of the Merritt Parkway is
now being set for late 1888. That's. over
year away and many motorists will
complain bitterly about the fact that
almost two more years are to be taken
up with making this not too long stretch
of highway available for use. However,
State Highway Commissioner John A.
Macdonald says, Eve are building the
parkway just as fast as it is humanity
possible to do so. We will start paving
the lower end from Greenwich to Nor
walk in the spring and that much will
be open for traffic by the coming fall. 90"
We accept his word.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-01-11
A Book a Day
Murder Mysteries
Provide Thrills
BY BRUCE CATION

Erie Stanley Gardner turns away
from the Perry Mason series In
'Thc d. A. Calls 1t Murder" (Mor-
row: So, to write q mystery novel
In which the emphasis Is on the
detection Of the guilty man rather
than the exoneration Of the tnno-
cent.
He gives US the bright young dis
trict attorney OF California city,
whose first case Is the poisoning Of
q clerical-looking gentleman In q
downtown hotel room. A biackmail
plot, a runaway minister, and row.
Ing moving picture actress are all
mixed UP In 1t, as is an unscrupu-
Ious newspaper which Is out to
"get" the district attorney.
It makes a good story, although
I'll be glad when Mr.. Gardner gets
back to Perry Mason again. And !
wish he'd leave newspaper people
out Of his next book; the ones IN
1.-THE D. A. Calls 1t Murder" are
Enthusiastically unreal.
Candidate for Murder" by Nor
timer Post (Crime Club: 81, Is an
ingenious yarn about q series, OF
murders In a university. -Four fac
ulty members - the head Of the
English department. the dean OF
the law school, q professor OF med
icine, and bio-chemist--join Fore
es TO run down the murderer. and
a good, plausible story Is the re-
suit.
- IL
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-01-11

The idea that widening the Con-
necticut river at the Middletown
Narrows would be helpful In lover
Ing flood levels at Hartford by pro-
viding greater runoh has had a per-
sistent interest, and attracted some
scoffing.
More recently has come the pro-
posal advanced by Professor Edward
L. Troxell, geologist. Of Trinity Col
lege, that utilizing the ancient bed
OF the river between Portland and
Paper Rock, so-called, for flood run
of would help materially in solving
the food problem.
United States army engineers
have now given their answer to both
proposals. They do not rate the
widening OF the Narrows highly and
apparently are not willing to accept
either proposal as a substitute for
the flood reservoir scheme.
According to their estimates Wild
ening the Narrows would have made