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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
TOME COUNTY
AssTGNMENTB OF ROYALTY

AAS1GNM&NTH OF ROYALTY
Maurice Keliaher 20 d G Seekins 8et
NWlsEa s2-37-s West
Grace Denzer % g f GalloGly SIS o.
~ on WANEa sE3NEa 10 SW3NWa
E Rleckhoff TO Aura orr IL Of
l% o. s swt 3 Ew1 i9 eSS..Nn =, on
SW3NWa 10 SW3SW3 1853 West
ASSIGNMENT or OIL 3 GAS LEASE
New Era Fuel Corporation 20 Superior
Petroleum Co, EiSwt swasEa 12-SS-S
Elmer L I4inwoOd and c W Hanowen
TO Elmer l. LinwOOd 2S-i-3et OF $3.50
lnc on ElSW4 1853 West
Charles Bronson to & c Hoyt SE3NEl
Il n Kiush to A Yost w4sEl .
AssIGSaENT OF OIL . GAS PERMIT
wood & W Halloweil EiSWa 1-;5-3w
Llnsley II Osthoff % & y Wrighter
Lots : & ) SwlNE4 SlNW3 wlSEa
ASSIGNMENT or AGREEMENTS
stanley G Gray 10 Superior Petroleum
GO NElNW4 SW4NWi EASW4 wtSE3
S SEEissE sxl II EsNNww3, 2tN is wssi Wv w
Elisha NV t.sEi wssWi y wiswi Il
SbNEi Il NglNEl &}-1,s West NaSw4
Z SE3NW3 1882 West; NlNE3 SCI
on AND GAS LEASE
OLAF Toto to & . ROhn NEi 0-;3-4W
RELEASE OF ATTACHMENT
Coleman IS Murias River Syn
dicate 4 G. p Nash Trustee NASW3
33 SWiSWa 2O-.5-l West
QUITCTATM DEED
The following Deeds l3 In number)
issued by Tooie County. 10 Glacier Pro
duction 60 covering the following
BILL OF SALE
New Fra Fuel Corp Ia Superior PEI
roleum Co All oil wells. casing. rods.
tubing and accessories within the wells
oil and gas fines, storage equipment and
all other personal property all In and
on the E4SW3 SW3SEi 12.35-3 West
WARRANTY DEED
- g Spekius to Maurice Kelleher NJ
MA n NlNWl NaNEl SwlNEl NWi
SEi 32-27-3 West
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
PROPOSES TEST
WELL I'M VICINITY
COLUMBIA FALLS

FlALIsPELL-W. b. Hoeer, Cut
Bank oil man, today announced he
held q lease on 15,000 acres in the
Columbia Falls district and Intended
to determine within 10 days drill
ing whether II is underIaid with
gas or oil. He will begin drilling
on the williams d. Shereff property
six miles southwest of Columbia
Falls, he said. He said his associ-
ates were Jensen and A. e. Kelsey
of Poplar.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
BRETsCFFNEIDRR rs VISITOR

II. c. Bretchneder, Independent
oil operator OF Denver. with H. A.
Aurand. geologist have spent the
last two weeks in northern Montana,
inspecting properties in which Mr..
Bretschneider is interested. Both
he and Mt Aurand were formerly
identified with Midwest Refining
Co, until Il was absorbed by Stan
dolind This was Mr. Aurand's first
visit TO northern Montana, however.
Mr.. Aurand was very much inter
ested in the introduction OF geo.
physical methods of prospecting. in
Montana. II Is an interesting fact
that Midwest Refining Co leased
up 100000 acres in New Mexico.
Texas, Colorado. Kansas and New
Mexico, before the merger, ali lease
blocks being taken on magnetic
highs Eleven of the blocks have
been tested by Standollnd. Ten OF
them have producing oil fields and
the eleventh has four producing
pools.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
Seek Capital
To Finance
MinOt Refinery

w. M. FULTON and George and
Wilfred Nadeau are reported at
work on the major problem of fl
nancing the Minot plant which
would furnish an outlet for crude
from Cut Bank, Kelvin, and Pom
dera. A satisfactory market for
all the products of this plant,
through established outlets, is as
sured. according to the survey just
completed, and an ample supply of
crude is available, according to
sponsors.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
CUT BANK ASKS BETTER
LIGHTS, LOWER RATES

HELENA-The Great Northern
Utilities Co was charged with offer
ing inadequate electric energy and
charging unjust and excessive rates
in a complaint filed here with the
state railroad and public service
commission by Cut Bank.
Informal complaints charging the
utility's rates are unjust, unfair,
excessive, unreasonable and dis
orimanatory" were placed in the
hands OF Commission Counsel John
w. Bonner by Browning, Oflmont,
Sunburst, Glacier Park and Sweet
Grass.
All asked the commission to in
vestigate and enter an order.
Bonner said the commission will
set a hearing date.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
REFINERIES

throughput up to 1000 barrels per
day The company has added a
chain of AZ filling stations in north
ern Idaho and has ample outlet for
all the refined products the plant
can produce.
Cut Bank oil has been moving
to the Pocatello plant but slowly
as a result of the delays but it is
believed that crude will be shipped
in steady volume for the balance
of the season. Castle & Pardee.
Crumley & Frary and Al Wilkinson
of Butte have contracted to supply
the Pocatello plant.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
FALLON COUNTY
BY FalIOR County Abstract Co.
BAKER. MONTANA
NIEMORANDUM

MEMORANDUM
Montana DakOaa Utilities 60 10 Mon
tnna Petroleum 90 Dated June r. 1898
Montana Dakota Utilities Co To Cedar
Creek oil & Gas 60. Dated June IL 1898
Montana Dakota Utilities co to Fred
A Kuenzi ct TX Dated June 10. 1893
Montana Dakota Unlities Go to John
NJ Melahs ct ux Dated June 3, 1873
Montana Dakota Utilities 60 t. John
q Findlater and Margaret Rogers Dated
June II. 1teBS
AIOnana Dakota Utdlitles Co to Mon
tana Dakota Utilities Go Dated June
Q 1888
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
HAVE FTsHTNG Joe

Indian Territory Illuminating Oil
Co., deepening Hepp No. well in
Big Lake field as a deep test, is re-
ported to have a fishing job at a.
round 500 feet. Showings of oil
were reported in the Sundance at
around 400 and in the Emear at
$500 The Ansden, at the top of
the Madison lime is expected at
around $500.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
PRODUCES $4,000 3D.,

During the past week Turner
Valley oil field in Canada passed
the SO. COO barrels-per-day mark for
the first time. The potential at
the beginning OF the month was
4S,75O barrels. The field is now
producing half enough crude to
supply the markets OF Canada.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
MILL Is SATISFACTORY

Good results are reported from
the 5O-ton mill built last winter 10y
Patented Mines Co. at the Golden
Crown mine in the Scrstchgravel
district north of Helena, M. H. Reed
is manager and J. l.. Howard IS
superintendent.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
BULLETIN NO. 50

appears IN the Oil & Gas Journal Q
Tulsa, issue Of July IA, 1888. Tn
Casper refinery is being curtailed {
so per cent of capacity on Septem
Der /. This company is shipping II
oil from wyoming to its refiner
near Chicago, through the Sinclat
pipeline, and curtafling its Caspe
production. says the account. q
part:
ssPersistent Campaign
With the construction 0f
plants near the seaboard to
take care OF its exports, foreign
shipments from Casper ceased.
Continental then built its re-
finery at Denver. In the mean
time. Texas Co. and White
Eagle (Socony-V acuum) has
built refineries at Casper and
Standard has another refin-
cry at GreybuIl. Standard,
through the acquisition of Mid
west. also acquired Utah Oil Re-
filming Co. at Salt Lake City.
The Greybull refinery is Just
south of the Montana bound
airy, but Montana has a persist
emit campaign for use of Mon
tana products from Montana
crude and only 80 per cent of
total sales in that state are OF
imported gasoline. On the south,
Standard has plant at Chey-
enne operated by the Bay Pc
troleum Co., and between Cas-
per and Cheyenne, Continental
has a refinery at Glenroek
Before Continental built its
plant at Denver, Standard was
said to have plans for a refin-
cry there, but shifted to Lara
mic This plant since has been
dismantled. Should the COM
pany decide to build a plant
at Denver it would have to
construct only 16 miles of pipe
line to tap its trunk line of
Missouri.
The committee is now preparing
10 finance a campaign to famil-
arize the people of Montana with
the names Of gasoline which are
Montana made from Montana crude.
This is a new departure and a novel
method has been devised that will
be announced in conjunction with
he coming annual Montana-made
Gasoline week proclaimed each year
~ the governor.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23

CALL FOR BIDS ON STATE OH. AND
GAS LEASES. AUGUST 10, 1883
Notie Is hereby given that the state
Board Of Land Commissioners Of the
State OF Montana Will receive bids az
open competitive bidding at the State
Land Office in the State Capitol A. 2
o'clock. =. NJ. Wednesday. August 10.
1898. for oil and gas leases ON the fol-
towing described lands:
Tract Subdi-
No vision Sec. Twp Rye Acres
N3SF3
SE3SE3 10 lin 57E 100
All 10 i'm 2sE go
2 SlSE4 B 35N 3W 50
This hoard reserves THE right TO reject
any and all bids
For further information apply to:
NANETA b. SHERLOCK.
Secretary. State Board Of Land
Commissioners Helena, Montana
Date Of first publication July q, 1893
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23

SExD a CONTRIBUTION
no THE sUNBURST BADGER
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PONDERA COUNTY
by Poadera County Abstract %.
CONRAD. MONTANA

RELEASE OIL AND GAS LEASE
The Ohio Oil Company 10 Grace Brown
ct con lease covering Lots ,. W3NE3
page 165
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LIBERTY COUNTY
By Liberty County Abstract Co.
CHESTER. MONTANA


ASSIGNMENT OF ROYALTY
otto + 4 Marie V Larsen TO DR.
stephen Adaskavich EAWl l5-31-5
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
BUYS EAST TEXAS PROPERTIES

BUYS EAST TEXAS PROPERTIES
r. 6. Trippett OF Shreveport, La,
has purchased East Texas producing
properties from the NJ. j. Grogan
interests. The sale comprised six
leases Of 152 acres in the Rusk
County section. including 80 prOduc-
ing wells. Consideration is estimat-
ed at $500, 900. This purchase fol-
lows a similar one this past month
when he acquired 80 wells in the
Lake Division area Of GREGG County.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-10-01
SEASONS FISH PLANTING
IN GLACIER PARK ENDS

Fish planting in Glacier national
park was terminated for the season
with the stocking of Lakes Swiftcurrent
and Josephine.
Seventeen thousand brook trout fin
gerlings from the bureau of fisheries
hatchery in Bozeman were freed in the
two lakes under the direction of John
Alton, assistant chief ranger in charge
of forestry and wildlife. Park lakes
and streams have been stocked with
more than 2,250,0OO fry since early
summer.
Hardest job in fish planting, other
than transportation, is acclimating the
trout to their new environment. Be
cause water in the fish containers usu-
ally is colder than lake water, care
must be taken in gradually raising the
temperature so the delicate fingerlings
viii not be exposed to killing quick
temperature fluctuations.
With the recent paintings, Cleon
Thomas, hatchery employee, finished
five years service transporting fish
from Glacier Park station over remote
park roads and trails to Isolated lakes
and streams. Thomas has travelled an
estimated $4,000 miles planting nearly
10 million fish and has yet to have q
nat tire on a park highway or back
woods road.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-10-01
PENSION PLAN INSTALLED
BY CONTINENTAL OIL CO.

The Continental Oil Co. has an
nounced the establishment of a retire
ment and pension fund for all of its
employees who reach the age of SIS in
the case of men and so In the case Of
women.
The plan, according to Dan Moran,
president Of the company, will be CO.
operative in character, employees max
ing regular monthly contributions
which will be supplemented by a con-
tribution on the companys part. It
will provide a minimum benefit Of $50
a month, and in the average case the
total retirement income including the
federal pension will amount to figure
somewhere between one-third and one
half of the employees salary. For the
older employees the company is provid-
ing a benefit in recognition of service
already rendered.
1.-THE new retirement and pension
plan" said Mr. Moran, was adopted
by the directors of the company after
authorization by the stockholders at
the last annual meeting, and it is their
opinion that it will benefit both the
company and the employees"
The plan affects approximately 5000
employees. 1t will be administered by
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
Read the Classified Advertisements
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-10-01

Spear grass the most recent
enemy to come into prominence on
MOntana's sheep ranges, is the sub
ject of an emphatic warning issued
to all sheepmen by the United
States forestry department.
Communications from the Chicago
stockyards explained that reports of
sheep which had been pin cushioned
by the corkscrew-like. grass blades have
caused nid-western buyers to refrain
from purchasing sheep from Treasure
state ranges.
The grass when ripe bears q long
seed which resembles a grain of inn
mature barley upon which Is long
beard. The seed. however, is. far more
highly specialized than a barley beard,
having a sharp point, definite barbs
and a corkscrew mechanism to turning
"a provision created by nature to en-
able the seed to burrow into the earth.
When the seeds become imbedded in
the wool of the sheep, however, there is
enough moisture in the wool of the
animals to send the Sharp-pointed.
elongated seed burrowing into the skin.
Infection Is frequently caused and OBJ
lection of the eastern packers has Of
late been manifested.
The first notice Of objection on the
part of the Chicago yards came through
communication addressed 70 the Helena
forestry offices from Merton g. VIII
kins, sheep commission company at the
Union stockyards there.
Reports of spear grass lambs are
numerous this year." the letter read.
MANY packers who would under nor
NAL conditions buy Montana lambs on
contract have refrained because Of
their fear Of getting lambs affected
with spear grass. Feed lots adjacent
to this market are preparing to offer
facilities for shearing such lambs and
later dipping. Sheartng and dipping
twice or three times will straighten out
those with the exception Of the most
extreme cases."
In direct REPUTATION Of the pessimis-
tic warning, however, came a letter
stating that three carloads of IT
pound Snyder Sheep Co. lambs from
Billings were sold at the Chicago
stockyards for $8.75 per hundredweight,
or IS cents above the average world
price.
The sheep were In excellent condi-
ton, 1t was said, and compared favor
ably with the Colorado west slope
lambs which have established nation
wide reputation.
Feeder market activity IN the east
was reported sluggish. however, with
most feeder lamb operators desiring
to handle the sheep themselves.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-10-01

StiIl another trouble with the aver
age man who rides q hobby Ia that he
wants to take up the whole road with
IL.
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are practically certain that their plant
ings next year viii be disease-free,
Hoiker says. AS a further precaution.
they are inspected by the Montana P0-
tato Growers association. II the fields
pass two inspections they are certified
and the crop Is allowed to bear the tag
Of the association.
Very few OF the club members fields
have been turned down, which indie
Gates the thoroughness with which the
boys are improving their stock and tax
ing care Of them, Holker says.
Holker pays tribute In his report to
the local leaders who help the boys
carry on their certified seed potato
work. Each serves voluntarily.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-10-01
Dawson County Al Clubs
Set Record Growing Spuds

the achievements made by the So boys.
The recognition is in the form of rib
bons two blue and three red, one for
each of five exhibits entered in the
International show held at Chicago
last winter
Within the county the club members
have dominated the potato winnings.
They also have built up market in
Yellowstone, Hill, Blaine, McCone, Wi
baux and Richland counties. The high
yielding fields Of blue ribbon potatoes
also have induced Dawson growers to
turn to certified seed stock and a few
are becoming interested in becoming
certified seed growers.
In 1885 about so percent of the POI
tato prizes at the Dawson county fair
went TO the club members, Holker re-
ports. The boys have raised a crop
every year in spite Of drouth and q
large portion of seed used within the
county traces to their stock. The boys
have also proved they are learning
business principles as their product
completes successfully with stock pro-
duced by veteran certified producers Of
the state.
Are Certified Growers
Don Gibson of Union, leader Of the
Clear Greek Potato club, and his part
AACA - ~ &AAOAADoOA4s ctAC 11AAc NCkAA bAAC
first commercial certified potato grow
ers in Dawson county because Of the
All boys. Gibson says the boys have
shown the crop can be grown profit
ably. The demand is always greater
than the supply, he adds.
The certified Bliss Triumph seed the
partners planted this spring on a three
and one-fourth acre plot was obtained
from Victor and Orville Thompson,
All club growers.
When the boys took up the project
they understood the tedious work de-
manded to be successful, Holker says.
Each boy uses the tuber unit method
cuts each seed potato into four parts,
plants in four successive hills, leaving
a space between each group Of four
plants.
The boys do this because disease can
be spotted quickly because of the four
successive hills from the same potato.
The boys also inspect their fields care
fully and as soon as they see anything |
wrong with hill, they pull up all four
hills planted from the same potato.
The boys also watch for particularly
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-10-01
EARLY MONTANANS
MEET TELEPHONE
OLD PLANTERS HOUSE INTRODUCE
TON RECALLED BY LATE
CAPTAIN BAKER
Big Club Fell on Head of Those Using
Instrument for First Time and
Drinks for House Were Then on the
Victim.
By EDNA LaMOORE WALDO

BY EDNA LaMOORE WALDO
Soon after the telephone was in
vented and exhibited at the Cen
tennial exposition in Philadelphia
in 1876, Billy BOfinger, younger
brother of Capt. John BOfinger of
Mississippi steamboat fame, OBJ
tanned the patent rights for st.
Louis, New Orleans and the state
of Louisiana. One Of the new in
strumentS was installed at the old
Planters House, at Fourth and
Pine, in st. Louis, for demOnstra-
ton purposes, recalled the late
Capt. /. p. Baker.
To this hosiery came regularly the
Montana buyers from Fort Benton,
Helena, Deer Lodge and other points,
not only to lay in stocks of goods but
to entertain each other and have 8
thoroughly good time before returning
to the wilderness. Ben Stickney, a for
mer Montanan, was the hotel manager,
and merchants who gathered there in
cluded John T. Murphy, who had once
worked in Cody and Bakers store at
Weston, Mo-; T. G. Power and w. B.
Jordan, partner and brother-in-law
of Joseph Leighton in the firm of
Jordan & Leighton, post traders at
Fort Buford, Fort Keogh, and some
other points. The latter also operated
a boat named the F. Y. Bachelor for
Leighton's father-in-la Of Pittsburgh.
Leighton himself was in charge of the
business at Miles City. Baker recalled.
AS soon as a new buyer reached the
hotel, he was led to the new telephone,
around which all his friends and
cronies were gathered. One would APP
preach the newcomer, introduce him
TO the telephone, and carefully explain
It's use.
"Your friend, Mr.. So and So, is in
town." the eager assistant would say.
You take down the receiver, tell him
you are here, and ask him to come
On down. The boys are waiting"
Whereupon a big club hanging over
the telephone would strike the new
conner on the head at the words, come
town." Needless to say, the crowd
would howl and the drinks would be
On the luckless gentleman.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-10-01
WARN SHEEPMEN
OF SPEAR GRASS
CHICAGO MARKET COMPLAINS
"PINCUSHTONED" ANIMALS
CAUSE SLOW BUYING

Eastern Feed Lots Preparing to Offer
Shearing and Dipping Facilities for
Lambs Suffering Infection From
COrkscrew Blades That Pierce Hides.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-10-01

desirable hills. These are marked for
seed and when dug are packaged sep
arately and numbered. Potatoes Of poor
type from these hills are thrown away.
One potato from each of these pack
ages Is sent to the Montana agricultural
experiment station for growing during
the winter season. If the station plant
ings show disease, the boys are in
formed. AS they know from which
package the diseased potato came, the
entire package is thrown away.
Free From Disease
BY this procedure the club members
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-10-01

Read the Classified Advertisements
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-10-01

Spear grass, the most recent
enemy to come into prominence on
M0ntana's sheep ranges, is the sub
ject of an emphatic warning issued
to all sheepmen by the United
States forestry denartment.