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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-04-24
KIRK WILDCAT
RESUMES TEST
NEAR PONDER

Drilling resumed this week t
the Kirk Petroleum wildcat north
west of Pondera oil field, in Sc
NWA NEK 31-2SN-4W. During the
winter, snow drtHted mast-high a
round the rig and the melting snow
filled the hole with water. AS a re-
suit it started TO cave below the
casing which had provided a dry
hole last fall. The hole below the
pipe has been cemented to stop the
caWing.
At the Gordon Campbell well on
Bull Head structure the tools have
been moved away but there is talk
that another string OF tools will
be brought in to make a further
test A flow of water was reported
ait the top OF the lime but it is
planned to test thu first break"
in the lime. It is understood, as
soon as leases are Strengthened
up.
There was no activity at the
Clinch Petroleum well on West
Waller structure, NV NwH NwA
12-2S-6W. 1t is understood that
some changes will be made in the
ownership before drilling proceeds.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-04-24
Pro- OTIONS ROB
REFINERY CHAMPS
OF Ball PLAYERS

Good bail players are frequently
efficient on the Job as we'll as on
the diamond and as a result the
hopes for another championship
baseball team at the International
Refinery at Sunburst are going
gHmmering as one by one It's star
ball players are promoted or moved
to new jobs.
The latest loss from the 1888
championship team is w. c. Pip
pin, stfllman. who Is being trans
ferred to the Bahrien Islands where
he will be stfIlman in a new refin-
cry built by Texas company and
Standard Of California. He is sail
ing on May for London and he
will travel by plane from London
to Uhe islands. Ptppin was second
baseman OF the championship
"nine.'
The team has lost ats star pitch
er, who is trying out with the Coast
league, also It's first baseman plus
its right fielder. and now Its sec
0nd baseman.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-04-24

Lack Of pictures to properly illustrate the Cooke City
mining district caused postponment of publication in this
weeks Journal of the special article The narrative written
for the Journal by A. Franch mining engineer takes the
reader interesting 4mle circuit of the active mines
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-04-24
use OF JEL.L
SUCCESSFUL
IN P0NDE:RA

The value of the newly developed
jelly seal of Dowell, Inc, in plug
ging off bottom water during acidi-
Zation has been established in Mon
bana through the treatment Of seven
wells, according to Ray Austin,
DoweH manager at Shelby.
This jell forms solid mass to
seal off water during acidization.
After the upper strata is treated
with acid the jell dissolves, due to
activity of bacteria in the jell.
The first demonstration OF it's
use was in a we'll belonging to Dix
on S. Kelly in Pondera field. This
well was making seven barrels
of oil and seven barrels Of water.
The water was removed from the
hole by circulating with oil, then
the bottom of the pay was sealed
off with jell. Treated with acid
the upper formation began making
40 barrels and two weeks later it
is still making 80 barrels, with no
increase in water. Before jell was
discovered, the action of the acid
frequently resulted in increasing
the water.
Jell was used also in the Ted
Hawley-State No. 1 we'll in Section
16-27-4W in Pondera. Here the
jell, after setting for "a hours, held
up under pressure of $50 pounds.
The we'll has four feet of pay.
1t was filled up three feet with jell
and the upper formation only was
aciddzed. Oil production was in
creased with no appreciable increase
in water.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-04-24
TRY BIG ACID
SHOTS IN DRY
VALLEY WELL

The first large shot of hydroch-
loric acid on a west side we'll in
Turner Valley last Friday failed to
make a commercial producer of R.
w. Browns New1o1d Royalties well
in LSD IL, Sec. 21-18-2W5. This
well had a showing of naptha in the
ime. 1t Is In the same section
as the West Side Royalties No /,
in LSD 8, which latter we'll is
making 210 barrels of crude per
day Local equipment was used
TO give a 7,000-gallon shot but
it failed to develop mmercial crude
production in the Newfold, which
is believed to be too high on struc-
ture to get oil. This we'll Is 1884
feet deep and cost nearly $500, 900,
Imperial is working on its Dali
housie No. 8, in LSD 6, Sec. 3O-19-
2W4, six miles north and west of
the oil pool, where showings of oil
and naptha were found in the lime.
Imperial will acidize this well which
otherwise would be abandoned as
dry.
Turner Valley production showed
a gain in March as a result of the
new crude well competitions, pro-
ducing 1926 barrels, an average
of 4297 barrels per day. Crude
production was $4,000 barrels, an
average of 1857 barrels per day;
naptha production totaled 53,016
barrels OF the crude production
deliveries to British American to-
tailed 51,199 barrels OF crude and
4, 1927 barrels of naptha. Imperial
Oil RefineIfes received 43,929 bbl.
Of discolored naptha, AGO Dbl. of
clear naptha and 9,001 Dbl OF crude
Imperial's crude runs came mostly
from it's Sterling Pacific No. 4,
which averaged 1.045 Dbl. per day
ioI' the week ending April s. It is
he largest producer in the field. |
TYR discovery well is making 800 |
barrels and B & B No. south OF I
t is averaging 700 barrels per day.
The only complexion expected this
month is Richland No. 8, LSD II,
Sec 28-18-2W5, which is drilling
Vt $3.50 feet, expecting to get the
ime at $500 feet. 1t had a good
how of oil at 1850. There are 10
'ther drilling wells in the field and
eEeral other rigs up.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-04-24

laboM Is miles southwest from the
BrOadview Dome Oil company Hal
briter No. 1.
Manning and Martin Co. has con-
traoted with the Indian Territory
Illuminating OIL Co. 20 deepen one
of it's wells in the Lake Basin area
and drill It down into the Madison
limestone This will make two
tests in the vicinity, that some be-
heve has always been drilled too
shallow for heavy production.
The other two wells will be drill
led In the Badger Basin field about
100 miles south of Billings, where
In a 200+harrea producer OF high
thas winter. It Is generally be-
sand at $500 feet is Dound In the
Dakota sandstone.
Seven Mile Structure
P. Ddckerson, writes from Butte,
in part: II have the complete struc-
ture leased up at Elxada, Montana,
known as the Seven Mile structure,
and own part of the hand In Zee
simple. l have plenty of land and
have the machinery bought and paid
for ready TO move on the ground
as well as camp equipment and
other valuable equipment.
Elzada is about 200 miles east
and south of Billings. According
to the U. s. Geological Map boz
Dobbin and Erdmann there seems
to be rather an interesting struc-
tural formation.
1t is the intent of MIR. DickerSon
DO start active proceedings in the
futnre.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-04-24
COMPETITIONS
IN CUT BANK
NUMBER FOUR

Two of four wells completed
in Cut Bank oil field this week
were producers and the third
is being shot with nitro gly-
cerin in an effort to make it
produce from the Sunburst
sand where satuTatiOn was re-
veaIed by a rotary core. The
fourth was dry and abandoned.
DR.. Peter Potter of Butte COM
pleted another good producer in the
Big Bend pool, on his Tribal NO.
1875 tract, No. location, NV
NEHNEA 12-32-6W He had oil
in the Cut Bank sand, from 1852
to 1890, drilling five feet into the
Ellis. Fluid rose 1900 feet and it
swabbed 100 barrels during the
first "a hours. His casing is ce-
mented at 1915 feet
VIM. Hanlon is drilling in his
No. 2 well on Allotted tract 1873,
SEX NWA 12-32-6W, with 1000
feet Of fluid in the hole. He shoH
the upper Cut Bank sand before
drilling in. 1t is difficult to deter
mine what kind Of a we'll he win
have. His No. /, a quarter mile
east, is an excellent producer.
santa Rita-Madison No. 4, north
east of Gut Bank, in NWA SWA
3O-34-5W, had no oil in the Cut
Bank sand but the rotary core
showed saturation in the Sunburst
sand from 2777 to 27S8 This IL
feet is being shot with nitro gly-
cerin, in an effort to make well.
Gut Bank Oil TrusO-Yunck No. 4,
Sc SEA SEA 23-34-6W, is drilling
at $50 feet.
Overwhelmingly Tribal 1873 No. 4,
C NWA NEA 15-34-6W, drilling
by lost bit at 1880.
Glacier PrOductiOn-COnnell No.
2, SWA SWA 19-34-5W, drilling
at 2675.
Glacier PrOduction-A Corrigeaux
No. 1, NV NWA NWA 21-3S-5W,
drilling, $685..
Glacier ProductiOn-FuIIer No. 2,
NWH SEA 17-S3-5W, drilling, I
222O.
Montana HeadIight-BrittOn No. 4,
NE SWA NEA 14-34-6W, drilling,
Texaco-stufft NO. i, was the dry
hole of the week. 1t is in the
extreme north end of the field, in
NWA NWA 1-S5-SW, offsetting
its Walker oil well on the east. The
CONTINUED on Page Four)
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-04-24
WONDER Why
SHELL WANTS
INDIAN LAND

Interest OF Shell Oil company in
the proposed sale Of Indian leases
in southwestern Cut Bank oil field
is the topic of greatest interest in
North Montana. II Is understood that
the Shell has been keeping closely in
touch with the Blacufeet Agency
office at Browning with regard 20
the proposed sale. Many operators
feel that II the She'll enters the sale
It will be able to oultbid the others
and will probably come out with q
lions share OF the $500 acres.
Since II is believed that the Shell
would not be interested in entering
oil production without refinery out
lets in Montana, Cut Bank people
believe that Shell is contemplating
construction OF a Montana refinery,
but not until such time as 1t has
it's own production. None believes
that the Shell would be content to
drill wells and depend on the un-
ceITainties of the Canadian market
as a possible source Of profit.
Meantime, efforts are being made
by some operators to block the pro-
posed sale on the ground that 1t
would cause a big drilling program
which in turn would flood the
market. The secretary Of the in
terror must decide whether a sale
shall be held. The attitude OF
some operators is set forth in an
article this week in the Oil & Gas
Journal Of Tulsa. Says the Journal:
THE secretary Of the interior
has before him for consideration a
petition from the Blackfeet Indian
council for an order authorizing
the sale at auction Of oil and gas
leases on approximately $500 acres
on the southwestern side of the Cut
Bank area. 1t is proposed TO offer
The leases in tracts of from 40 to
100 acres with a requirement for
one we'll to each tract this year
Some OF the operators have protest
ed the sale on the ground that It
will work a hardship on the pro-
ducers by further restricting a
market for the Cut Bank crude |
lContinusd on Page -Four,
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-04-24
VIII Drill To Reopen
Oil Pool Between Towns
OF Kelvin and Sunburst

Browning Sunburst 81 is the name of syndicate that
preparing drill well in the interesting district be-
Sunburst and Kelvin the flank of Kevn-Sun-
burst oil field Location of the we'll will be in Section
2136N3W in the midst of block of $500 of leases.
The is being drilled by Ed McDouga of Browning,
Fred Lewis of Shelby, w J. Smith and F. O. Phelps Of
Sunburst The we'll is financed by Browning capital.
This area has had three wells all of which showed
high gravity OIL similar to the oil found by Dr. Aronow and
Others north of Kelvin 1t is believed that with acidzaton
this pool may be developed northward All of the wells
drilled in early days said to have had greater initial pro-
ducton than wells in the main field which being
verified into 10Obare producers by the of hydrochoc
acid
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-04-24
N MIMI WELL IN
DRY CREEK RATED
Ar FORTY BARRELS

McMinn No. / well in Dry Creek
has been cleaned up and put ON
production and it will now take
around 40 barrels of oil per day,
reports c. H. McMinn, who with
his brother took over this well
about a year ago. They were un-
able to shut off bottom hole water
but it Is now in shape to make a
commercial producer. McAlinn has
several favorable locations on the
same tract, described at Lot 4. Sec.
7-7N-22E. and plans on handling
the next well so as to avoid water
invasion. The producer has 6-5/S-
inch casing set at 1913 feet. having
oil at 5515 In the Dakota sand.
McMinn was formerly located in
Cut Bank oil field.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-04-24
EAST kelvin
WELL FLOWS
AFTER "SHOT"

keyin-Sunburst field showed
the greatest early spring &C
tivity in many years this week
as an even dozen wells were
drilling. Three other wells are
due to start up, shortly.
The outstanding completion
OF the past week was the Crum-
ley-Fryberger No. 8 In GEL
NWA sen 24-35-3W which
after acidizatiOn, Is rated at
90 barrels. Ii will flow 40
barrels per day or pump 90
barrels.
Crumley-Shaw No. II, Sc NV 4
NEA 35-36-2W. will be a com.
pletion next week 1t Is drilling al
1900. 1t is a twin location to 9
good producer, lost after reaching
the pay" in the Sunburst sand
pool.
Agan-Krause No. 4, Sc SEX
SEX 9-S5-3W, north of the Camp
bell discovery well, Is drilling at
1885.
Sig west-DahIquist NO. 2, CIVIL
NV SEA 21-35-sW, Is spudding.
Gray-ArOnOw No. 2, SW NV Y
SWA 12-S5-3W, drilling, 1900.
Beardslee-Swears No. g, SW Sc u
NWA 9-S5-2W, rigging up.
Shaver-Shaver No. 2, will be the
next completion in the field. IT
Is today running 5-3/16 inch casing,
ready to drill in, at 1915 feet.
Prevod & Shea established a speed
record for the year in showing this
we'll down in about 10 days OF ac-
sual drilling time. They are anxious
70 move the rig to the west side
where they have contracted to drill
or RAmrock Oil Co., on the Schmidt
arm, No. 2 location, GEL SWA
WV 29-35-3W.
Continued on Page Four
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-04-24
TWO TESTS Due
I'M AREA SOUTH
TOWN OF HARDIN

HARDIN-Two tests are expected
to tell this year the oil possibilities
Of the area around this town. DAN
iels Petroleum Corporation, drilling
on the Albert May land, three
fourths mile from Hardin, is pre-
pairing to resume at a depth of
$500 feet, according to George
Daniels. president
Twenty miles south east Of Har-
din, Ed Dana is now drilling, ex-
pecting to get the Shannon sand at
around 1900 feet This operation
is located on the large Dana ranch
property adjoining the Grow In
dian reservation south Of Lodge
Grass.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-04-24
DEEP TEST IN BIG LAKE
REPORTED PLAN OF Ito.
BY E. A. BEELER. BILLINas

Fred Manning Of Manning and Martin Denver and
Tulsa, drilling contractors in Northern Wyoming the
past few days While your correspondent could
Mr.. Manning for interview it was learned upon re-
liable authority that Manning and Martin have closed
tracts for the drilling of three deep wells in the
immediate future.
The and perhaps most interesting to the Midland
Empire residents be drilled in the Lake Basin territory
about % miles and three miles north of Billings and
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-04-24
START DRILLING
80 GAS WELLS TO
SUPPLY FACTORY

A drilling program of so wells
to develop gas to supply the new
S1,5OO,OOO Holy Sugar Corporation
factory north Of Hardin was started
this week by c. Grant Ogden, gen
eral manager Of Big Horn OIL &
Gas Co. OF Des Moines, Iowa. The
gas project involves more than
100000.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-04-24

Steam shovel mining methods little less astonishing than the
legends regarding highgrade Persons desiring extra
copies of the Journal containing this article place their
orders before next Wednesday, The Cooke City article will
definitely be printed in the Journal of Saturday May l.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-04-24

OF the famous old mining camp 1t appears from this article
that instead of fabuousy rich hggrade Mines Cooke City
likely achieve fame from tremendous lowgrade
mines although the lavish in which Nature has piled
up millions of dollars worth Of precious metals ready for
Evening star., 1937-12-01
NAN BURNS HIS HANDS
TRYING TO SAVE DOG

John G. Sampson. So, Of 45s M
street S.W., nursed two burned hands
today, regretting only that he failed
to rescue his pet dog, Peewee, when
1t became trapped in . blazing shed
last night.
Peewee, . small brown and white
terrier, wasn't much Of q dog, as dog,
go, but he meant everything to Mr..
Sampson, who had raised him from q
pup.
The little terrier-which was 7
years old-chased rat into . shed a.
he had been taught to do. Somehow,
fire started and Peewee couldn't get
out. SIMPSONS hands were burned
when he beat down the door In an
attempt to save his canine pal.
Evening star., 1937-12-01

vidual match was won by George w.
Beynon Of tho Bridge World. who had
. score Of l6 boards out Of 2s, with
Frank B. Lord and H. M. Byrne Of
the Harrisburg, Pa, Telegraph. tied for
second place, each having IS boards
to his credit. The prize In this event
was Remington typewriter, offered
by the Remington Rand Co.
Evening star., 1937-12-01
MRS. JOHN c. CONVICTION,
OFFICERS WIFE, DIES
Was Daughter of Col. McCabe,
Assistant Chief Of Stan in Mill

Was Daughter Of Col. McCabe,
Assistant Chief Of Stan in Mill
tary Intelligence Section.
Mrs. Virginia Covington, %, wife
Of First 1t. John G. Covington,
stationed at Kelly Field, Tex, and
daughter of Col. e. r. w. McCabe,
assistant chief of staff Of the mill
tary intelligence section, War Depart
ment, general staf1 here, died yester-
day Of pneumonia at San Antonio,
Tex, it was learned Though the AS
sociated Press
Col. and Mrs. McCabe, who live
1T 3525 Edmunds street NV, left
here Sunday for San Antonio. Col
McCabe has had several tours OF
duty here, the present one since last
July. Mrs. Covington had many
friends here. She was the grand
daughter Of the late Col. and Mrs.
w. w. Forsyth Of New York.
Besides her husband and parents
Mrs. Covington leaves a brother, E. r
w. McCabe. jr.
Evening star., 1937-12-01

Vienna will use modern advertising
methods for its annual international
fair.
Evening star., 1937-12-01

ira strength and extra safety. When
you rub Omega in, you feel pain
and stiffness fade away. Yet it
can't burn or blister. Powerful and
effective-but safe for the tender
skin of children. Just try it for
rheumatic or muscular pain and
stiffness. 35e at all drug stores.
Evening star., 1937-12-01
~ a13lElEGl5l1'133
Ez2Z1(33|ii!3:|:l! HIM
Then he discovered Omeqo Oil!

WHAT q blessed relief this
w penetrating liniment is-when
you suffer from rheumatic aches
and pains. 1t goes right into the af-
fected area. Helps break up the
pain-congestion. Quiets those
throbbing nerves. Brings relief
comfort and does it quickl
Evening star., 1937-02-21
Decline of Potomac Fisheries
Due to Pollution, Study Sho,us
Diary of Washington Tells of Huge
Catches of Shad and Herring-Bu-
reau Forecasts improvement.

That pollution is mainly RESPONSE
ble for the decline in Potomac shad
and herring fisheries since the days
OF George Washington was the con-
clusion announced today by Charles
E. Jackson, deputy commissioner OF
fisheries, after recent research.
Although wastefulness has had
large part in depicting the supply
of commercial fish, domestic sewage
from Washington and towns along
the upper Potomac are the chief cause,
he said. Not only does it injure the
fish, but 1t keeps them from coming
up-riyer to Great Falls, the normal
head of their run. Shad are now
caught mainly below Mount Vernon.
Entries in WaShington's diary, such
as Caught 500 Shad today" and
Caught about $4,000 herrings at
draught this afternoon" show the
abundance of commercial fish here
in his day. In one instance he COM
plains of having caught only 10000
herring during a night.
Sheepshead Caught.
Besides this, Washington records
the taking of fish virtually unknown
in the river now, chief among them
sturgeon and sheepshead. No Sleeps
head have been reported from the
Potomac since 1880. records show,
while 1888 statistics record an annual
catch of 125 pounds of sturgeon, or
about three fish.
Extreme WastefulneSs Of methods
in the "old days" is shown in the re-
ports of the commissioner OF fish-
cries in 1873, 1874 and 1875. Men used
to walk knee-deep in great piles OF
herring. thrusting their arms into the
mass of fish to sort out the shad ana
allowing the herring to be carried
away at high tide.
The catch of shad in 1885. before
the depletion of the fishery began, was
100000 pounds, as compared TO
$4,000 in 1922. Herring amounted
to 75OOOO.O00 pounds, as compared
to 100000 in 1909. The figures OF
1922 and 1909 are the largest IN any
one year from 1878 through 1888.
Price of Herring.
IN 1885 the price of herring ranged
from Is cents to $3.50 per hundred
pounds, and that for shad from $3.50
to $4 per hundred pounds. In the
height of the season single 6 to 8
pound shad sold in the District for
6 cents. Herring were sometimes
given away or used for fertilizer.
Bureau records show that low
point was reached in 1878, and that
great improvement followed COM
mencement of artificial Matching of
shad. In 1878 the catch was only
1876 900 pounds Of shad, but after five
years of propagative work the catch
increased to $4,000 and maintained
this figure until recently. Herring
have Jared somewhat better.
At present the shad fishery is de-
Evening star., 1937-02-21

clining, statistics show, and this Is
believed due to the heavy pollution
of the river. Jackson believes, how
ever, that with adequate protection
the fishery of the Potomac can be
re-established to produce as bounti-
fully as it did in Washington's day.
The bureau now is preparing for
the Shad season at its hatchery Just
below Mount Vernon. For the last
few years the average hatch and
planting Of shad has numbered about
30,000,000. In addition, yellow perch
are produced at the hatchery prior to
the shad Matching. Last year one and
a half million perch were produced.
Evening star., 1937-02-21
ARMY DAY CELEBRATION
HERE BEING ARRANGED
Observance April Sponsored by
Military Order Of
World War.

Plans are being completed by the
Military Order OF the World War for
an Army day celebration here April g..
President Roosevelt's Endorsement Of
Army day was followed by statement
from Secretary of War Woodring
which said in part:
"The coming observance OF Army
day, under the patriotic sponsorship
of the Military Order of the World
War, finds all America united in the
advocacy of peace and security for
our beloved country. Our Army and
Navy is maintained solely for defense
never for aggression"
The Secretary said "the purpose OF
our defense establishment is recognized
by most of our people, who understand
that peace and security are insepar-
able. The general observance OF Army
day is aiding greatly in promoting
this understanding"