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Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09
Quiet But Powerful

RR has seen many executives
in years of newspapering, but few
of them equal R. B. Williams,
construction engineer of the All
American canal, Tor quiet effec-
tiveness. Agreeable, low-voiced, un-
ostentatious, Williams says yes
or no to mountainous questions
as if he were buying certain brand
of cigarettes at a drug store-and
his staff has learned that his one
syllable words mean just that.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09
HOW 1T FEELS
TO FACE MOB
IN MEXICAL|!
Newspapermen in Dutch
Photographing Strike
ThrOng

EDITORS NOTE: Paul Jen-
kins, Post-Press publisher, went
to Mexican Friday to cover" the
strike. He tells here what it feels
like to face a mob.)
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09
Profound Youth

Overhead at the fights, from the
lips of a child of less than 10:
He wins-and then What?"
RR has felt just like that at
some Of these fisticuff affairs.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09

Too Good To Keep
II isn't often this column passes
on the trade jokes that every pro-
feSSion knows, for fear of boring
its readers, but now and then along
comes happening that's beyond
keeping. A newspaper, you know,
sells its advertising by the inch.
An aged Negro brought an lin
memorium" notice of considerable
length to the business office of the
Columbia oSCD State, He was re-
ferred TO the advertising depart
ment where he asked, Boss. how
much will it cost TO put in some
thing about dead manP"
The response was, 'Tt will cost
you dollar and rs cents an inch" ="
The Negro studied for moment,
and then said.
Good Lord, white folks, dat mig
ger was more than six foot tall.'
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09
Bitten by The Bug

RR would like to pass on a
friendly warning to Evalyn Boman
Westerfield, before it's too late,
Seen on the Barbara Worth golf
course the other day, Evalyn was
busily engaged III learning the diff
ference between a niblick and a
putter-and that's dangerous
business, because once you learn
it, there's no telling how many
ways you'll try to learn how to get
rid of mat slice. And then it's a
hook. And then. But ask anyone
who's tried it.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09

Butter: Los Angeles 32c; but
terfat. Imcerial Valley. I. o. b
ranch, Grade A 40c; manufac-
turing milk 3512; route gathered
cream 3119c.
L. A. Hay: q. S. No. $1,000
1000; U. S. No. 2 leafy $500;
4. s. No. 2 S17.00-1S.OO Min
neapolis flax S2.1S% -2.23%.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09
BANK DEBTS

Thursday v
$555,589.96
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09

rhrongs of men and women sympathzers, joining in
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09

BUILDING PERMITS
To Date This Year
$69,7ti
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-06
BULLETIN NO. 3
BY Shelby Lions Club Committee on
BUY GASOLINE MADE FROM MONTANA CRUDE,

The production and refining of confined to mere
handful OF counties within the State
reason comparatively few people realize that one
OF the most valuable industries in this industry depor-
OF ITS principal crude oil market in Canada
AS the result of this oil market in Canada oil storage
tanks the leases filled pumps stopped and poduc
ing leases shut down. lease thrown
out OF employment and only small percentage being
produced and sold Some operators unable of
OIL whe many others cannot sell enough pay the
ating the leases.
1t that if many of these oil operators are
to survive and their business total loss much
larger market for crude OIL gasoline refined products
must be found within the State of Montana.
1t the purpose of these Bulletins therefore to enighten the
people OF Montana that they recognize advantages to
be gained by buying gasoline made and to
why such gasoline should be given preference gasoline
imported from other States.
Approximately half the gasoline sold Montana last year was
shipped IN from other States This foreign gasoline no way
superior gasoline made from Montana renr
are new and uodae and their gasoline other products
the finest that can be manufactured anywhere.
Why should MOntanans buy distress gasoline shipped in
from other states when Montana oil industry
distress itself for lack of market gasonef
Shutting down of Montana oil the loss of hous
ands OF dollars IN taxes paid into the State every of
TINS revenue means that others outside the industry will to
pay taxes to offset this loss Buying foregnmade gasoline
pves the Montana oil operator of the opportunity
more oil and relieves him of the obligation pay heavy
the State his production.
Oil field workers Montana daily being thrown out of en-
pment They forced seek work elsewhere this
loss OF trade merchants professional every
own and city within the oil territory Truly this
alton. You can help to remedy it.
BUY GASOLINE MADE FROM MONTANA CRUDE"
MONTANA GASOLINE FOR MONTANA PEOPLE"
SHELBY LIONS CLUB COMMITTEE. !
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-06
Deep TESTS
DRILLING
Inn. DAKOTA

A well Of momentous Importance
to Montana as we'll as 70 North
Dakota was spudded in this week
on Nesson anticline in Williams
county, North Dakota. Location is
center NV 4 NEM 3-154N-96W. on
the Kamp farm. 1t was spudded
in amid impressive ceremonies by
the California company, Rocky
Mountain subsidiary of the Stan
dard OF California.
Governor LANCER OF North Da-
kota was the principal speaker at
the ceremonies arranged by the
Commercial club OF Ray, N. d. The
governor stressed the importance
of oil development In this arid
area where a long drouth has i'm
poverished the farming and stock
raising industries Several thou
sand people were present when the
we'll spudded with rotary tools on
November 2.
Location OF this we'll was deter
mined by geophysical survey.
Seismic readings confirmed the
geology of the U. s. G. S. and Others
whose surface readings led to the
location of the old Viking we'll at q
point about 900 feet distant from
the Kamp well.
Rotary tools are being used. with
preparations for a test of the De-
vonian. with a depth OF 5000 feet
or more, If necessary. Contractors
are Manning & Martin of Cut Bank
who shipped in heavy duty rotary
equipment, using 145-f0ot steel der
rick, and they are prepared to win
ter drill, using three crews In eight
hour shifts.
Importance of this test is in the
Devonian possibilities. Should this
we'll find Devonian oil, there will be
every reason to expect Bowdoin
dome and other large structures in
Montana to produce.
The structures in Eastern Montana
are among the most perfectly defin-
ed In the United States and Bowdoin
dome Is known as the largest fully
enclosed dome on the continent. It
produces gas from shallow horizons
but no Devnian test has ever been
attempted. Production In the Devon
Ian at Nesson structure win mean
the immediate testing of Bowdoin TO
that horizon, which will be found at
shailower depth.
Standard of California has 200,-
600 acres under lease In North pa-
kota and Is continuing Its geophy-
steal survey in Mckenzie county
This prospecting was inspired by the
finding Of oil in the Devonian in q
well drilled by Montana-Dakota Utis
lities company on the nearby Baker
Glendive anticline in Montana. No
adequate test has been drilled on
the Dakota side, where there are
wells defined folds. The oil Viking
we'll was abandoned at 1900 feet
when the promoters ran out OF
funds.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-06
New Sunburst Sand Pool
Opened Two Miles North Of
Kelvin Amid Lime Producers

A 75-barrel well in the Sunburst sand has
been completed on the Goeddertz farm in
Kelvin unburst field, north of Kelvin, open
ing new high gravity pool in the midst of
an old lime producing district known as the
Colonel-Kevin group.
The new well is New Era (Stanley Cray
Goeddertz No 2, in CIVIL SE54SWH 1855
3W, near a newly completed 150-barrel well
drilled by A & G Oil company on an 8O-acre
Goeddertz lease The New Era well offsets
on the south an 18-barrel lime producer,
completed in 1880 which had 100000 cubic
feet of gas in the Sunburst sand.
The new producer had Sunburst sand from
1919 to 1888 and when put on production it
started making 31z barrels per hour. The
A & G offset producer found its oil at the
lime and made $50 barrels per day without
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-06

acidization-the largest initial production of
any well in the field completed this year
While the Goeddertz well furnished a sur
prise, no lesser surprise was the failure of the
Rice-LdrSoH No. 2 we'll in SWH SEHSEN
18-35-2W, quarter mile west of the big No.
l producer The No. 2 looked quite like the
No. l when drilled in, with showing of oil
and some water 1t was acidized with 500
gallons of hydrochloric acid and when opened
up showed nothing, SO was plugged and
abandoned.
Big West Oil company, confident that the
No. would be a producer, had already
started a well on the Mcdonald permit in
NV NEANEH 19-35-2W, and is now drill
ling at 96O
CONTINUED Page Fivel
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-06
OF
WEST SLOPE
EUNSOL we'd

The enigma of the west flank of
Cut Bank field remains to be solved
by future drilling, with the failure
of Dan Drumheller's Bird attempt to
get either oil or water in the Cut
Bank sand west of present produc-
ton in Township 34-6W. His
DrumhelIer-Trust-F No. well
in NEH SWA 17-34-6W was this
week completed as dry hole, after
having had full section of Cut
Bank sand. checking 100 feet high
er than the lowest producing we'll
in the field, yet it showed no oil,
gas or water There was possibly
a slight show of water at the base
OF the sand but not enough to indi-
cate the proximity of the western
water table.
The sand was not porous enough
to carry oil, containing coarse con-
glomerate and black ebert, the
coarse particles being Embedded in
silt. The sand extended from Bis
to 3172. Drilling continued on into
the Ellis to $3.50. The well checks
500 feet above sea level, In struc-
tural elevation. The Patterson
Chatterton well in Section 22-32-5W
checks 461 feet above sea level,
on the top of the Ellis. Faulting
or some other unusual condition is
believed responsible for the dry
spot in this district.
Glacier Production company this
week shot its Coburm No. 3. NE
NE Il NWA 8-33-5W, with nitro
glycerin and is now cleaning out.
1t looks like a small oil well.
The Texas company completed its
Tribal 122 No. q. well, GEL
SW ASEA 6-32-5W, this week, and
it is small producer. 1t had Cut
Bank sand from 1900 to 1929 and
drilled the Ellis to 2939 and oil
rose 375 feet. 1t swabbed 35 barrels
in "a hours SO was shot with two
charges of 10 and 20 quarts and is
now cleaning out.
Hole Brothers, Allotted 124 No. 8,
C SWA SEX 1-32-5W, are drilling
at $500 feet.
On the East Nose OF North Cut
Bank field, the Cobb-State No. 4,
we'll, ME u NEA 3O-37-4W, is
running 7-inch cave string OF cas-
ing at 1880, after having had the
water at the base of the
Colorado at 21O5. A flow of gas
vas also encountered.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-06
FIFTY-SIx HAS
well DUEIN
On VEST SIDE

All eyes are turned this week TO
the Fifty-Six RECOMMENDATION
No. / we'll in the new pool midway
between Kelvin and Cut Bank gas
field, where Pfalbe & Engleking re-
Gently brought in a hundred-bar-
rel well making 1914 gravity crude
at the top OF the Madison lime at
1000.
The Fifty-Six we'll offsets the
producer on the north. Location is
Sc NV u SWA 26-35-4W. 1t is
drilling at 1925. 1t is not check
ing with the producer, although
only 44O feet away, with 10 feet
of difference in structural elevation.
1t did not find a gas-bearing Sun
burst sand as did the Ennerberg pro-
Queer. However, the Sunburst
sand is lenticular wherever found.
The Fifty-Six we'll should reach the
Madison lime within the next few
days.
Completion of another big well is
all that is needed to start a minea-
ture boom in this area. It is re-
ported that several operators are
negotiating for leases. Charles
Grant, Cut Bank operator, Is said
to be starting a well a half mile
north and east of the Fifty-Six well.
Another group has taken a lease
east of the Enneberg and will move
the Tomlinson rig from the Rim
rock pool as soon as the Tomlinson
well on the Davidson farm Is COM
pleted.
When Glacier Production com
pany moved a rig onto the old
Schiller well in Section 2-33-4W
this week it was reported that Mon
tana Power intended to clean out
and acidize this hole which was said
to have had a considerable showing
of oil at the lime. K. j. Hupp,
manager of Glacier Production, stat
ed that the operation is for the
purpose OF plugging the well which
1t is feared win flood the Sunburst
gas sand. The hole was filled with
iron above the Sunburst horizon,
the drillers found, and they are
having difficulty establishing the
rue status of the old hole. Glacier
Production has the lease along with
! number of other leases in this
.ownship and in township 34-4W,
aiken last year. Should the high
'ravity oil pool develop southwark,
IS now indicated, Glacier Produc-
ion will be one of the largest lease
'wners in the district.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-06
Cut Bank Price War Goes
Merrily On AS Toronto
Posts New Price OF $1.1O

Toronto Pipeline oil
field effective OF
price BARREL
Of
subsidiary
Rita production.
International Refining company has not a post
doubtless the
81 gravity.
Home Oil Refining
understood
nshng @ crude price per so
Home accordingly
month Toronto Pipeline
CONTINUED
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-06
Elk BASIN well is
DRILLING, 425 FEET

BLLLINGS-Sha-wa Petroleum Co.
SW SWA NEA Sec. 35-9S-23E,
Elk Basin field, is drilling ahead at
425 feet with a Standard rig. Elk
Basin field Is 20 miles south Of
Billings.
Henderson Petroleum is still
standing at 1920 feet, according
to Geo. Witherup. driller in charge
of field operations.
Henderson Petroleum closed down
some weeks since to determine for
nations. According to Mr.. Witherup
good oil showing was manifest
when they shut down. The operators
thought they we're in the second
Frontier at the time.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-06
CURTAIL.MENT
IN SEPTEMBER
WAS NOMINAL

Despite curtailment OF crude
runs, owing to loss of the Canadian
market, the month of September saw
no gain in storage oil in Montana,
according to the monthly report OF
the OIL Conservation Board
Production during September av-
eraged 1897 barrels per day a
gainst 1910 barrels per day In
August.
Following Is the comparative pro-
duction of North Montana fields:
August Sept.
Border .....--.158,243 1878
Cut Bank ............324, 563 241,03S
Pondera ........-. ....37,938 36,112
Runs to stills OF Montana refin-
cries dropped off about $4,000 bar
rels as against August-Iess than
1000 barrels per day. Totals for
August were 32S.664 barrels and
for September, 300,S89 barrels.
Canadian exports in August were
5000 barrels a day against 6,646
barrels a day during September,
showing a eurtailment Of about one
third. Against exports of 1875. 1895
barrels to Canada the crude inn
ports to Montana were 17O.914
barrels, compared with August Inn
ports OF 225,6 barrels, which
went to Billings refineries. which
cannot be supplied from the north
Montana fields where over pro-
duction exists.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-06
RIG is MOVING
FOR TST WELL,
COULMORE DOME

Hugo Aronson, the "galloping
Swede" of Oflmont and points east
and west and south, on Friday had
eight truckloads of materials en-
route to Coulmoore structure at
Hogan, southeast of Augusta, Lew
is & Clark county.
This is material for standard
rig with which Bill Hanlon will
drill the first of three wells spot
ted TO test a 3O,0O0-acre structure
mapped by DR.. c. G. Coulter of
Denver and leased up by his part
ner, r. J. Moore Of Helena
Location Is near Hogan postof-
flee and beside the highway, in
NV VIVA SWN 11-18N-5W. II
win be drilled with cable tools.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-06

CASPER Oien called the meeting
to order as temporary chairman.
He announced that before proceed
ing with the formation Of a Kelvin
organization the meeting would go
into the matter of proration, which
many did not understand. Hugh
Stewart of The Texas company was
called upon and he expressed the
WILLINGNESS of The Texas company to
share its market with other produc-
ers providing a uniform plan OF
proration could be worked out. He
said that were proration adopted,
there would be no suffering among
producers. since all would be az
forded a market for at least SO per
cent of their oil, and this could
continue until such time as new
markets are opened up.
w. M. Fulton, speaking for a
group which had agreed to oppose
proration, declared that the adop-
ton of proration means only post
ponement of the eventful day OF
reckoning in making the Montana
oil industry permanent. He insist
ed that operators should buckle
their belts up little tighter and
prepare to live on short rations
until such time as Montana crude
can be marketed in Montana in the
form of refined products. He in
ferred that proration means the
OF Montana production
so that Wyoming and Midcontinent
gasoline might be shipped into Mon
tana. Whenever Montana people
buy Montana-made products in suf-
ficient volume to dispIace imported
gasoline, they will pay out less to
the railroads and the saving will be
divided between the consumers and
the producers, he said. Meantime,
he asserted, if it is necessary for
producers to get less for their
crude, in order to make 1t possible
for Montana refiners to wrest local
away from importers, then
they should make that sacrifice at
this time.
A. e. (Lon) Crumley, supported
Fulton's stand, expressing the fear
that state-supervised pror'ation
Continued on Page Five)
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-06
Kelvin Operators Again
Meet And Fail To Take
Any Definite Action

Another far meeting held in Shelby Monday evening
of this effort get operators together sort of
program solution of the market problems of northern
Montana Like the previous meeting OmOnt resulted in
accomplishment
divided between groups the haves
the havens The qater group wants market The
the what they have Mean
price cumbng making the limited market
less profitable for the 'haves.'
The meeting Monday night have been Kevin pro-
wshers Pondera and Cut Bank
Joined some verbose individuals who have investment
in production in result felt
tn Get down to business according meeting
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-06

Permit for construction of a brick
and tile service station at 218 1st
Ave. NJ, to cost approximately
5000, was issued in Great Falls
to the Home OIL & Refining Co.
Completion Is scheduled within the
next so days. This lot, at the rear
Of Hotel Rainbow, was formerly I'M
der lease to Texaco Home bought
the lot for $4,000 and ordered Tex
AGO to move off. Texaco owns the
corner lot adjoining. Home has a
fifiing station on the diagonal
corner.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-11-06
Standard on Cute Gasoline Fsr,ce

Standard OF Outs Gasoline Price
CHTCAGO-Standard OIL Co. Of
Indiana on Nov 8 reduced normal
wholesale prices of all grades az mo-
tor gasoline to dealers and tank
wagon prices to consumers Sc a
gallon in Michigan, Indiana. THf-
nois, Minnesota. iowa. Mfsgours
Kansas the Dakotas and Wisconsin
There win be no change where ores
ent posted prices are subnormaI hv
an amount greater than the project
ca reduction Officials said the rassur.
ION vas designed TO meet compee1-
tive conditions.
The Washington times., 1937-11-23
NeUs Tips!

Federal Dorkers finding
(CAP) after their names or
"pen names" In this column
are inUited to call at thtS
desk for tho passes to Locus
Capitol The1ter. noW shouting
Robert Young in "NGUy Blue
and Gold" 1Dith warnings
PennSylvGniGns. Those tabled
(PAL) are entitled to a pair
of ducGtS to the Palace, ShoiO-
ing GretG Carlo and Charles
Boyer in Conquest" and
those tDith (COL) may call
for tho Columbia tickets to
see Ronald ColmG1 in "The
Prisoner of ZendG." Tickets
are awarded for best "ne,cs
tips" about Government con.
ditionS tDhich may be mailed
or phoned and should carry
a nom de plume" or "pe1l
name" If they are of the
"touchy DGriety" Irritating
to officials. General news
about "tolks in the office"
may also min, and sometimes
the tickets are awarded Just
as a goodwill gesture from
The Times.
The Washington times., 1937-11-23
NFFE Calendar

NFFE meetings this week: To
day, AGO Local, headquarters, 8;
Wednesday, Navy Yard Local,
Southeast Library, Seventh and
D SITS. S. E., 8; Friday, executive
council Of Local 2, headquarters,
5; educational forum, D. c. Fed
Grafton of Federal Employees, head
quarters, 8. Headquarters, TO
Fourteenth st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1937-11-23
Commission Trying

Civil Service Commission hence
forth will ask applicants to EMU
merate personal achievements in
former jobs in an effort to i'm
prove rating procedures by giving
emphasis to quality of experience
boasted by applicants. Edward
Foley, PWA general counsel, quits
to become assistant general coun-
sci at Treasury. Farm Security
gave out Unemployment Census
blanks and then recalled them as
mot pertaining to Government
employees"
The Washington times., 1937-11-23
Formal Stuff Out

"Plenty of entertainment and
good food and the devil with for
NAL speeches" was the word
around Labor Department, as
Lodge 228 Of AFGE yesterday held
its second annual dinner at Cling
ham Club (over Child's Restau-
rant), Pennsylvania Avenue at
Fifteenth. Here's part of the So
cial committee:
Children'S Bureau, Elizabeth c.
Tandy, Kathryne Ramsey, Spen-
Ger Moon, Alice M. LeTourneau
and Sophronia M. Elmer (COL;
Women's Bureau, Mary Turner
and LORNA M. Wendt; Secretary's
Office, Gail T. Judd, Martha Sho-
walter, Nora c. Lane, George R.
Hersey, May S. Simpson, Lawrence
A. Brown and Orden j. Simpson;
Cancellation Service, Alice T.
SmotherS (CAP); Public Con-
tracts, Albert L. MaSerick; Employ
unent Service, Willard S. Haynie,
Alice K. Darrow and Roger r.
Dawson.
The Washington times., 1937-11-23
Rescued From Deluge
Census Gets 100

Census Bureau yesterday re-
ported "well over 100" sworn in for
60-90-day unemployment tabula-
ton, Packard Building Many
appointments being held up by
Civil Services frantic efforts to
keep up with the barrage Of re.
quests for certification-which
shows just another reason for in
crease Of the Commissions fiscal
cash.
The Washington times., 1937-11-23
Subterfuges

Favorite subterfuges at Coal
Commission, for use on inquirers
after positions: The gentleman
Cor LADY, is told his or her refer
ences gave bad report when con-
tacted =. Then, when references
deny this, the jobSeeker is told
there must have been some mis-
take" Another: An expert on
one phase Of Government activity
is informed that he hasn't been
called because Coal Commission
thought he was an expert on some
thingA else And of course, all
jobs have been filled in the line
for which he really is skilled . .
This happened to one of the best
men ever hired by NRA during
its paliny days, a real expert.
The Washington times., 1937-11-23

ACL InOSe
backing it, how.
ever, point out
that J u S tice
must prosecute
any frauds re-
Sulting under
the Act and
therefore has a
right to de-
mand prints as
well as sigma
lures to insure
y n lie Sam
against q fraudu-
lent SubStitu-
ton . . At
The Washington times., 1937-11-23
Ouch!
Oppose PUG

D. c. Federation of Federal EN-.
ployee Unions at its last meeting
went on record as opposing the
recent order of the Public Utilities
Commission authorizing sale of
tokens at six for fifty cents, instead
Of three for twenty-five cents.
They also favored a Congressional
investigation of the service rem
dered by the Capital Transit Co.
and in the recent increase in fares.
The Washington times., 1937-11-23

Party planned
by General Ac-
counting men,
berS of the NF
FE. s. h e. s a
student at the
Loretto Murphy
Studio in Chevy
Chase, and is
the daughter Of
Eva M. Lieber-
m a n, section
chief in the Di-
vision Of Inmi-
gra tion and
N a turalization
at Labor Her