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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-09
DO Your Friends Urge You To Do
The Things Which Make Fortunes?

OTHER neighbOr, which story we pick
ed up from the Wall Street journal:
A New York knitwear man relates that
when he first came to this country he
used To take care of the garden behind
his place of residence. The owner of
the adjoining house who also worked in
his garden evenings finally spoke to him,
said he seemed earnest and Industrious,
found out how much he had saved, and
asked him to invest all or part of it in
a new business he was just starting
the oil business
The new arrival gave the matter
thought, sought others advise, and lin
ally told his neighbOr: THANK you very
much for the opportunity, MIR. Rockefeller
but 1 could not think OF risking the saw
ings for which / worked so hard In such
an uncertain business"
The Wall Street Journal added this
comment: NOW he knows the meaning
OF the sentence above the board in a
certain brokerage office: HE who looks
back in this game will die of remorse'."
Because the going was hard, John ID.
Rockefeller had to have financial help.
The very factors which made the wise
ones" shy away from his business were
just the factors which made for a ire
mendOus profit. That Is always true. II
the going had been easy, then these
gentlemen would have had no opportunity
10 participate in John ID. RockefelIer's
successes. 1t Is the time of stress that
make opportunity. The man who buys
his way into a going concern has to
pay from the nose' and he frequently
takes far greater risk than the man who
goes is on a purely speculative enter
prise at its beginning.
The best example of that is the stock
market. The quoted value of stocks on
the New York stock exchange in Septem-
Der, 1896, was 50 billion dollars. That
is seven times as much as there is none
tary gold Is the world with which to
pay. That is six times the annual pro-
ductiOn of new wealth in the world.
Stocks which would not earn one per
cent on the investment were among the
favored ones among the traders-rather
among gamblers, for it was merely a
game of buying for one price and selling
at higher price, irrespective of the
background of the stock. Accordingly
when the crash came, these same stocks
dropped in worth in 1882 to under Ia
billions. Now 1t is back up around so
billions. Incidentally, the quoted value
at the beginning of 1929 was 81 billion
dollars: showing how close we are COM
ing TO another stock "bOom" with per
hGps more disastrous results
To get back to our own situation, we
find Kcvin-Sunburst field selling about
half its production, with relatively little
drilling activity, no acidization-littlc TO
encourage the gambler. The gambler
wants the field selling 100 per cent of
the oil, wants hundreds of wells drilling
and resultant gushers bathing the prair-
les. At THAT time there are few who
Will advise against an investment. But
IL Is difficult to find announcement for
an investment in this field of inactivity.
It doesn't take the PERCEPTION of a
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-09
Wolf POINT MAN
NAMED BY AYERS

New hopes for harmony and
efficiency in the important
Montana railroad and public
service commission were express
sed this week with the appoint
ment of Edward f. Krebsbach
of Wolf Point as a member OF
the board to succeed jerry j.
O'COnneII, who has become a
congressman.
Krebsbach was appointed by GOV
ernor Roy e. Ayers, as one OF ms
first official acts. Krebsbach OPP
crates a ratio station at Wolf Point
and is in charge of the bulk plant
there of the Westland Oil company.
Before Krebsbach arrived the newly
elected member, Horace F. Casey of
Butte, met with Tom Carey and re-
elected Carey, the only hold-over
member, as chairman.
Andrew Mackey. Emmett Fogarty
ind Albert A. Kaufman were APP
pointed field men for the commits
ion, replacing Peter O'Connor, H.
\. Sampson and John A. McGillis.
Louis Guidoni was named gaso-
inc license Inspector to succeed AL
,ert NJ. Mehren, and Marjorie Le-
nire was elected stenographer to
ucceed Alice ColSon.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-09

No man ever made an important sue
cessfuI venture that was not opposed by
his family, friends and other advisors.
Hard work will ENABLE a man TO get
ahead but IL takes the PROCEEDS of
hard work to make a FORTUNE. But
the average person is content with the
routine of day-by-day living. The aver
age person does not make personal for
tunes. So the average person tries to
discourage his friends from stepping out
of the rut of day-by-day living
The late Henry M. Flagler had little
grain business which made money but
it was not his grain business which made
him one of the cOuntry's richest men.
At the age of 10 he went to work in a
candy store at five dollars a week. AT
the age of 20 he had saved enough money
to buy a horse and wagon and go into
the grain business. He had a hard
struggle but he kept the business going
and he managed to save some money out
of the meager profits. He might have
invested that money in expanding his
business but he did not. He saw fortune
making possibilities in a radically new
business called the "OiI business"
Despite the warnings Of friends and
the opposition of his wife, he went into
partnership with a young man named
John ID. Rockefeller. One narrator says
that Mrs. FIagler opposed the idea be-
clothes nor the manner which she thought
went with success. Also his principal
business was making kerosene oil which,
he understood, had no future because it
would surely be driven out by gas and
that nev-fangIed electric light which a
man named Edison was trying to intro
duce. In her opinion John ID. was not
a solid substantial person and IL would
be much wiser for her husband to stick
to his little grain business.
Flagler not only put all of his savings
into the new enterprise but he sold his
business and borrowed all he could get
and risking the loss of everything he
plunged into a business which was truly
speculative. There was no established
market. Kerosene had to compete with
natural gas and it truly did seem that
electric lights would leave the oil bust
ness without an outlet for its most
valuable prOduct-kerOsene. Further
more, the refining process yielded
highly explosive fluid called gasoline.
Rockefeller and Flagler were accused of
pouring this dangerous product into the
kerosene, to get rid of it. Their profits
were augmented i'm ratio TO the proportion
Z gasoline they were able to sell In the
nrOsene. However, gasoline was drug
on the market"
In all industrinaI history, n drug on
the market" is the most highly prOmts-
ing of all commodities, and IL need not
be pointed out that with the coming
of internal combustion motors, and be-
fore kerosene became the drug" as ms
wife had warned, gasoline came into
such great demand that Fiagier's in
terest in the Rockefeller business became
worth millions upon millions of dollars:
more mOneythan he could have made
in four Iifetimes in the grain business.
We have often quoted the story OF the
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-09
kelvin REPORT
IS ISSUED TOOL
OPERATORS

Oil producers of Montana this
week received from the oil con-
servation Board of Montana copies
of the newly issued report on Kelvin
Sunburst and Border oil fields.
This is the first competent report
on oil production that has ever been
issued in the State of Montana. 1t
will be followed by similar reports
on Cut Bank, Pondera and Cat
Greek fields.
These reports will give refiners
and others competent data in which
to base estimates of resources to JUS
tify future investments in Montana
oil The compilations are expected
to be of inestimable value to the
industry. providing operators with
statistical data that the average
Independent could never compile.
It involved digging out records of
the State Board of Equalization, of
pipeline companies, company records
and other sources. to get production
history before the date of the Gre
alton of the board: records not
available except to an official agency
such as the Oil Conservation Board.
The report contains acreage
classification and producing status,
with well history. oil and gas pro-
duction marketing history and other
data on Kevin-Sunburst field, Gas
ridge gas field. Shelby gas field
and Border Red Coulee field; also
similar wells on outside acreas such
as Berthelote. all in Toole county.
Geological data was provided by
DR.. Eugene S. Perry of the Mon
tana State Bureau of Mines and
Included are maps
the boundaries of the pro-
ven area as designated by the Unit
I'd State Geological Survey, a dis
,ussion of drilling costs, acidiza
ion and other factors
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-09

A young man whose first job was
that of reporter on a newspaper was
having a lot of trouble writing his
stories. All his efforts seemed 10
find their way into the trash basket.
Finally one day the City Editor
called him and said: "LOok-you
don't quite know what the public
is interested in, what news really
is. For example, If a dog bites a
man, that isn't news. But If a man
bites a dog, that's news
The young man thought about
that and several days later the
paper came out with the following
headline:
FIRE PLUG BREAKS-WETs
DOG.
The business man had died and
gone tO-weE, not to Heaven. But
hardly had he settled down for
nice long smoke when a haarty
hand slapped him on the back. and
into his ear doomed the voice of a
persistent salesman who had poster
ed him much on earth.
well, Mr.. Smith," chortled the
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-09

John ID. ROckefeller-yghO probably didn't
fOresee the possible significance of the
automObile-Or of Henry NJ. FIagIer to
know that Kevin-Smburst field will in
the not distant future be marketing every
barrel OF oil it can produce. 1t goes
without saying that there will be a mar
ket for every barrel of oil this field can
produce for the next so years-Or as
long as the field continues to produce.
Everyone is convinced, now, that acidi-
cation will increase production in these
Kelvin wells. We know that wells will
respond to at least SEVEN refreshments
possibly more. Every time a we'll is
treated, it shows an increase, so it goes
without saying that every well in the
field might be treated or re-treated and
double or treble the production. Also it
is apparent that an operator can by
methods of acidizatiOn recover his oil
much more rapidly than ever before Also
he will get MORE oil per well and per
acre than was possible without acidiza-
ton, by virtue of the fact that acid opens
up flow channels otherwise inaccessible
to a 0-inch bore hole in the limestone.
These facts are generally known. Yet
there is no rush of operators to get
leases in this field. They can be had
virtually for the asking today. Back in
the heyday of the boom, before the de-
preston, they were obtaining only under
these same leases staggering bonus and
royalty requirements. The day is coming
when this Will again be true: when the
general uptrend in business reaches the
Montana oil industry.
Even the owners of royalties i'm this
field are for the most part unaware of
the situation. They will sell their roy
alties today for less than royalties
brought in the days when Kevin-Sunburst
was a raw wildcat. These are the days
for the modern FIaglers. 1t is not adj
viSable that any should sell his business
and mortgage his future to plunge into
this great opportunity. A man should
invest his savings with caution. He need
take little or chance of loss, il he
viii SPREAD his investment I'm this re
markable field, which has already pro-
duced $38,OOO,OOO worth of oil from a
fraction of its proven area.
We now know the law of averages.
We have a rule to go by. Following the
rule, we are pretty safe in our invest
the AVERAGE acre of Oil land in this
field. Those who made fortunes in the
early development of Kevin-Sunburst did
so by blind guessing. Today we are away
from guesses on the AVERAGE results
obtainable. Should we not be more sue
cessful in this year 1887 than those of
1927 and the earlier pre-boOm years?
We think so. Certainly this organization
Is better equipped with it's years of ex-
perience and resultant knowledge TO give
guidance to it's members.
Those who wish to participate in our
program of royalty purchases between
now and spring should write to us. We
Will furnish complete details regarding
our organization and the subject OF roy
alties, together with submission OF cur
rent purchases.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-09

Why, don't You rememDert" the
salesman went on. Every time /
came into your office you told me
you'd see me here
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-09
SAFETY HIGH IN OIL INDUSTRY

A man engaged in drilling oil
wells can work 91z years before
meeting with an accident causing
him to lose time, according to the
safety records of the American
Petroleum Institute for 1885.
In the operating departments OF
oil companies there was only one
lost-tfme accident every % years;
in the natural gasoline departments
one lost-tfme accident every 33
years, and in pipe line divisions
only one lost-time accident every 3S
years.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-09

salesman. I'm here Tor the aD.
lpOintment?"
What appointment?
why, don't you remember" the
salesman went on. Every time
came into your office you told me
you'd see me here"
@@ss ssw
Teacher: IF Minnie in Indian
means water what does Minnesota
mean?"
Johnnie: soda water"
The newlyweds were on their
honeymoon. They had the drawing
roOman d the groom gave the porter
a dollar not to tell anybody on the
train th-y were just married. When
the happy couple went in for break
fast next morning all the passengers
snickered.
The groom called the porter and
demanded: Did you tell anybody
on the train we were just mar
ried?"
mo. sir" said the porter. 81
told EN- all you all was just good
friends"
- -
When I get a cold I buy a bottle
Of whiskey for it, and within a few
hours it's gone.
MY. that's a short time to get
lid of a cold"
rid of the cold. hell. It's the
whiskey that goes"
Twas six below zero
And all through the house
Not a creature was warm,
Not even a mouse.
you say you were once cast away
IN a desert island, entirely without |
'ood. How did you live?"
"Oh, happened to have an in |
surance policy in my pocket and
'ound enough provisions on it to
Seep me alive till 1 was rescued"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-09

CALL FOR BIDS ON STATE OIL AND
GAS LEASE. JANUARY rs, 1887.
Notice is hereby given that the STATE
Board OF Land Commissioners Of the
State OF Montana will receive bids at
open competitive bidding at the State
Land office in the State Capitol at goo
o'clock, +. NJ, Wednesday, January H.
1887, for oil and gas lease on the
following described lad:
Subdivision Sec. Twp. Rye. Acres
M, EaSW4 SEA 10 SON 17B $50
The Board reserves the right to reject
any and all bids.
For further information apply to:
/ NJ BRANDJORD, Secretary.
State Board Of Land Commits
siOners, Helena, Montana
Date Of first publication, Dec. g. 1885,
3x
SEND A CONTRIBUTION TO
THE SUNBURST BADGER
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-09

The worlds average retail price
OF gasoline Is only zoe a galloon,
but the consumer must pay an
average of 1860 per gallon in
taxes and tariffs, making the to-
tai average cost 1850, according
to a survey made by the U. s.
Department of the Interior
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-09
CI1T RANK Gas RATES

New gas rates with 3U-cent
maximum and 13-cent minimum have
been provided the people Of Cut
Bank by Cut Bank Utilities. The
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-09

Have you heard about the kids
who made a snowman on side
street and put shovel in his hands?
Well. a couple of days later a WPA
foreman came along and gave him a
check.
ssss sss
ooh, darling" ne murmured,
Il love you so. Please say you'll
be mine. I'm not rich like Percival
Brown. / haven't a car, or a fine
house, or a well-stocked cellar, but,
darling. 1 love you, and I cannot
live without you!"
Two soft arms stole around his
neck, and two ruby lips whispered
in his ear: And l love you, too,
darling: but where is this man
Brown"
sssss
Teacher (sternly): This essay on
Our Dog is word for word the
same as your brothers.
Small Boy: Yes, sir; it's the same
dog.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-09

SEND A CONTRIBUTION To
THE SUNBURST BADGER
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-09

Teacher: IF Minnie in Indian
means water what does Minnesota
mean?"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-05-06

lnpor+o.. [ 8 and
worl instance is the chemical
prn+ H tnat has been done in the
sur.,. .ee'oh Of new agents for
pstiar VISITED hospital lately as a
Of bo''. you are probably unaware
bean NV many improvements have
zen Ge made in this field. . 'i"''
than s a b15e, in the beginning, less
aneq+bo. hundred years ago, when
had fiet for surgical operations
and S suao been established, patients
thirp n geons were glad to get any
sciC},a, "hlch would numb the con-
pain '9'I Fs; from the sensations Of
great LONer seemed then to be the
S Ssed'est possible boon. # is still tin
disadrq5ulte wildly but has manv
rnoTt n "lleages. One is that for
corn nf People it is an extremely un-
der" 1t t%oie sensation to go un-
ror 1 the after-effects in the form Of
Tho l6 are quite uncomfortable.
chlcrof Sagand agent to be used was
comfo oro1ni' Which was a more
'aole drug for the patient
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-05-06
improvements TN Field
Of Surgical Anesthesi0

but carried a distinctly higher haz-
ard of danger. The third was
nitrous oxide, or laughing gas,
which can only be used for short
operations, and does not give suttl-
cient muscular relaxation.
Search for Satisfactory Agent
You can see, as we recite these
different steps, how men were try
ing to find an agent which would
combine the elements Of safety,
comfort for the patient, and mus
cular relaxation which is neces-
sary, especially for an abdominal
operation.
The latest agent to be used is a
substance called "cyclopropane".
It is a colorless gas with hardly
anv odor. Patients who have
taken it tell me that there is none
of the frightening sensation that
accompanies going under with
ether. The patient suddenly goes
out like a light. : He wakes up
almost Immediately after the anes-
thetic has been stopped, and in al
most no instances is there any
nausea or vomiting. One patient
whom I saw recently asked for a
cup of coffee within five minutes
after awakening. It is also ex-
tremely safe. It can be used IN
practically all operations except
those in which extreme muscular
relaxation must be maintained.
Other new anesthetics are
divinyl ether and evipan sodium.
The professional anesthetist Is
TODAY an extremely important con-
sultant for the surgeon. He can
select practically any form OF
anesthesia; can use those which
are breathed in or given hypoder-
mically or by numbing the spinal
cord with direct Introduction INTO
the spinal canal Whatever anes-
thetic is used in your next oper-
alton, YOU may be sure that 1t Will
have been carefully selected before-
hand.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-05-06
FATRUMP rs LED

WHEN A DEFENDER leads a
trump it should tell the declarer
something about the rest of his
hand. One inference to be made is
that he probably has not a worth
less doubleton or trebleton in some
other suit. If he did he probably
would try to hold on to his few
trumps. with the hope Of getting
a ruff. Such a deduction can be
the key to the proper play Of the
h9rd
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-05-06

M o S t of the
work is done
q u i e t ly b y
t e C h n i c a |
workers, a n d
while it does
not receive the
ballyhoo that
some SO-called
discoveries of
n e w methods
of treatment
a re accorded
in the maya
z i n e S q n d
newspapers, it
is really more
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-05-06

by LOGAN CLENDENING, Nj. d.
MOST OF the improvements in
medlclne in late years have con-
sISled in perfection Of methods Of
treatment already wen established.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-05-06

Dealer: South. North South vul-
nerable)
Ihis deal came up in a team-of-
four match and was played at the
same contract at both tables-5-
sladeS South's opening bid was
l-Spade, North bid 2-Spades, South
: diamonds, North 4-Spades and
Soata tried for slam with a bid
U 0-Spades, but North rightfully
passed.
:, Al both tables the spade 9 was
Ae opening lead, won with the
Nlaoe and a club led, which was
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-05-06
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
WRITTEN FOR CENTRAL PRESS
BY Shepard Barclay
1.-THE Authority on Authorities"
"The Authority on Authorities"

won by East. A second club was
returned, on which West played the
] and South winning. South now
played the diamond Ace and ~uffed
a diamond.
At this point one declarer played
the club 9 and when East did not
cover, tossed the heart 10. West
won this with the club 10, holding
the contract to five.
C. e. Van Week, Jr., Of the
Whist Club Of New York, who sat
South at the other table, did not
count on West for a doubleton
holding in clubs, so ruffed this trick
and was able to make six. His
theory was that West would not
have led trump with a doubleton
holding, but would have preferred
to keep his trumps with the hope
of ruff later.
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dealer: South. Neither side vul-
nerable.)
How should play for 3-No
Trumps after the lead Of the
spade 2?
Evening star., 1937-09-15
Higher Incomes? q?

An American insurance company an
nounces that -four out of five middle
class families have increased their
annual income on an average of four
hundred and thirty-seven dollars since
the depression
But the prosperity theoretically repre-
sented in this finding should be examined
with care. The verdict was reached after
study of policy holding families in forty
three States. 1t did not take into account
the altogether too-numerous families in
which no member is insured Rather, it
reflects conditions only in families aver
aging life insurance holdings approx
mating seventy-four hundred dollars-a
degree of economic health not common
enough to constitute general rule.
Also, it should be remembered that
increase in dollars earned does not
necessarily signify good fortune. Much
Evening star., 1937-09-15

depends upon the character of those
dollars. If they have an authentic value
of fifty-three cents each, they are not
worth standard hundred cents The
insurance company fails to explain the
difference.
Unhappily, moreover, there is nothing
said about the rising cost of living. Yet
1t Is incontrovertibly true that prices have
moved skyward since 1888. Unlimited
Government spending and the militant
practices of aggressive labor unions
have added heavily to the burdens of
the middle class.
1t likewise should be mentioned that
ordinary business is handicapped by the
Federal competition of endowed made
work" projects as we'll as by such recent
legislation as the social security law
and by interference from the Department
of Labor and the National Labor Rela-
tions Board. Normal progress toward
natural prosperity is retarded by the fact
that trade and commerce have had no
breathing spell" under the New Deal
Hope, of course is returning. Millions
of people are struggling to re-establish
themselves in honorable self respect.
But heaven has not been attained. Even
a real gain of four hundred and thirty
seven dollars year since the depression
would not spell paradise.