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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-04-30
RAILROADS BOOST MONTANA BUSINESS

Montana benefited substantially from the expenditures Of the
railroads 1897 materials supplies fuel equipment and
payro is revealed special study which has just been
completed by the Bureau Railway Economies the Association
of American Railroads.
Railway purchases Montana last year toaed 81 1925 the
report this $7383 spent materials,
supplies and fuel while $42 for equipment ncud
ing that built in company shops) These purchases made
located the
Wages paid railway employees in Montana during 1887
amounted to $17556,793.
The review that for the nation whole the rail
roads last year paid $3336 68 for the than 10000 diff
ferent items which they Materials supplies and fuel
expenditures for all equipment Except
constructed railway shops totaled $166978468 More than
located in 2638 Of the 302 counties of the
United States benefits from this large volume railroad
buying
country rail carriers also distributed 81 $685. $780,
485 in wages to their employees, the report says
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-04-30

and Montana raw materials as far
as possible.
If it were true that Montana
could not produce sufficient crude
oil, out of which gasoline could be
made, to supply our demands, a
different picture would present it.
self. but it is now definitely proved
that Montana can produce an album
dance of crude to meet every de-
mand Of our own people. and also
to supply our neighboring nom
producing oil states with gas for
their use.
Gasoline as a motor power has
become a necessity of our civiliza-
ton. 1t is necessary in agriculture,
transportation and industry. 1t has
already supplanted the horse power
and in many instances steam. It is
in demand everywhere, and this
demand is increasing every day. 1t
has become an economic necessity
of our civilization and Montana
should no longer delay in the estab-
lishment of markets for this much
sought for commodity. 1t should
seek a market of it's own for this
commodity and cease paying trib-
ute to the producers outside of the
State.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-04-30

URING the past week we issued a
bulletin containing the most inn
- portant news in the modern his
tory of this organization. It is a rather
long bulletin, containing an explanation
of our reasons for arriving at the above
conclusion. The simple fact is that a
well is to be drilled, but the surrounding
circumstances are such as to make the
publication of so great Importance.
This publication is being sent to those
members whom we know to respect
confidence and to all who receive it may
we say that we trust that each one Will
read it carefully and then file ii away
for future reference. Many of the facts
given in this publication will be borne
out by future developments. Further
more, we are preparing series of articles
dealing in greater detail with the three
main topics of the publication, and we
ask those who expect to follow these
articles to have the bulletin, No. 4736,
handy for guidance.
There is nothing more essential in the
success of an investor than INFORMA-
TION. To be GOOD information it must
have two further essentials: "a 1t must
be timely and (2) it must be reliable.
over a period of 15 years we have had
a policy of providing members with
ALL the information could get. III
ii is a mere rumOr we STATE that it is
a rumOr and submit il for what it is
worth. II it is information of a conf
Dental nature, which we have reasons
to believe to be correct. we give the i'm
formation without giving the source, ask
ing in this instance that our members
rely upon our Judgment as TO the stabili-
ty of the source. If il is definite infOr-
nation, wherein a source can be quoted,
then il is submitted in such manner
that the member can determine from his
own understanding the weight and worth
of the information.
But without information, it is not pos
sible for a man to make intelligent
investment, be it in the stock market or
I'm real estate. in mining, i'm royalties or
amy other line of investment. Most of
the losses in the stock markets result
from the fact that investors work ON a
Tip rather than on cold facts. They
are, of course, gamblers who put their
money into on investment merely in the
hope that the stock will increase I'm
quoted price. So when they buy an in-
dustrial stock, they do not look up the
company. All they think they need is
a tip that this certain stock is going
TO advance ten points. In the 0lden days,
those tips were frequently correct But
In this day Of regulated exchange, the
tips are not so good. However, that is
the lazy mans kind of investment: where
he can escape mental effort.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-04-30
BULLETIN NO. 26
tContiued from Page one)

It would furnish employment to
thousands of men now idle, and
would stimulate business Of every
kind and materially reduce our re-
lief rolls. a consumation devoutedly
to be wished.
This ORGANIZED movement spon-
sored by the Lions Club of Shelby,
is to be most heartily commended
for the vigorous campaign which
they have inaugurated to help the
oil situation in Montana. and should
have the hearty cooperation of the
people and the public in general.
In this campaign, to have every
gasoline user demand Montana gas
made from Montana crude, it is
rendering a very definite and in
calculable service to the State. The
people of Montana are intensely
loyal to their State and are ready
and anxious at all times to serve
its welfare, and / am very sure
that all that is necessary to Sc
cure their cooperation in this cam
paign is to call their attention to
the vital importance of buying and
using Montana-made and Montana
grown products.
do not believe that a wall
should be built around our State
Isolation would be fatal to the de-
velopment of our resources and the
prosperity of our people. We need
capital from the outside to develop
our latent wealth; to build factor
les. refineries and open up new
enterprises; to construct irrigation
projects, and to build homes. and
to make Montana better place in
which to live, but we insist that
this building and this development
must be made with Montana labor
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-04-30

oil in this well, in view OF it's
structural position, brought great
encouragement to the operators in
the West Kelvin pool. Two new
wells we're started this week, one
west and one south OF the discoV-
cry wen.
The west we'll is Cassidy Phoenix
Mutual No. 4, in center north line
NV 4 NWA 28-35-4W, two and a
quarter miles west and a mile north
of the discovery we'll. Materials
are being moved in today and the
well will start drilling NEXT week.
The south we'll is Neil Spencer
Cook NO. I in center NV 4 SEH
26-33-4W. five miles due south
OF the discovery we'll.
Meantime. Fifty-Six Petroleum
KeywOOd No. 4. in NV NWH SWN
13-S4-4W. is drilling at $50 feet.
This well is on the high" as
mapped by Fred X. Houston, whose
theory on the structural location of
the West Kelvin well in Section 3
seems to be confirmed by this
week Is Developments.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-04-30
WEST kelvin ADDS

The Sunburst sand and the yellow
shales below them we're entirely
missing. The drill passed from the
red beds directly into the Black
lime OF the Ellis at 1885. Figur-
ing the present depth, 200, as the
top OF the lime, the we'll checks
an elevation of 1448 feet above sea
level as against the Enneberg dis
covery we'll elevation of 1925 feet
above sea level-76 feet higher.
The West Kelvin Community COM
pany is a Seattle organization which
owns some 1900 acres in the high
gravity pool. The owners plan on
shutting off the water and drilling
deeper, until the Madison lime is
definitely shown. They are some
what enthusiastic, hoping that they
will encounter large production in
frequently found in faulted areas
in Kevin-Sunburst
AS soon as the fluid rose on the
shales below the casing, the hole
began caving badly and on Friday
morning there were 200 feet of
cavings in the bottom of the we'll.
1t will be necessary to run casing
before anything more can be done.
Whether the present showing of oil
can be conserved, by setting pipe
near the base of the lime, is yet
to be determined Casing will
probably be cemented on bottom
and drilling will proceed to the
true breaks" in the Madison
lime.
The presence of any high gravity
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-04-30

~V OF so with royalties. To succeed
in royalty investments, an investor
must have more than simple Of
fering sheet. He must know something
of the basic facts of the oil industry,
starting back with the intensely inter-
esting theories Of origin and accumuIa-
tiOn of oil. He must know the history
of other oil fields and something Of the
geology of the various fields. He must
know something of drilling practice. He
must be able to talk the language or
at least understand the language of the
oil industry.
Furthermore, he must keep up with
modern sciences of the oil industry. He
must know something of geOphysics.
That is the last word in geological work.
The day is at hand when every well in
wildcat territory will be spotted with
the assistance of geOphysicaI methods as
well as surface geology. The royalty
investor must know something of this
science. Tit man who doesn't know the
meaning of the term "geOpIsysicaI'' will
certainly be at a loss in years to come.
At the same time he must know some
thing of the development of drilling
methods. He must understand the diff
ference between rotary rigs and cable
tool rigs He must be able to understand
why a few years ago wells could be
drilled no deeper than 5000 feet, vet
today producing wells are being brought
in at $4,000 feet. There has been
change and Improvement in drilling
methods. The man who is going into
ans phase of the oil industry must UNDER
stand what is going on: he must be able
to appreciate the meaning of these deVeI-
Opments and changes and capitalize them.
1t is very apparent that if an investor
kOws nothing about improved drilling
methods, then deep test possibilities mean
nothing to him. We can all remember
the days here i'm Montana when the red
beds Of the KOOtenai wrote ''finis'' to any
well drilled for oil. Now we know that
there is no commercial amount of oil
found in any formation ABOVE the red
beds. We are living today in the COM
mon belief that wherever the bit shows
the white lime of the top of the Madison
that the well is ''alI through Yet up
in Turner Valley they had no OH In
commercial amounts when they drilled
merely to the top of the lime. The
Canadians now drill 400 to 800 feet
into the massive white lime and bring in
wells that make from 500 to 5000 bar
reIs per day. The wells that have been
drilled into the lime In north Montana
can be numbered ON the fingers of the
hands.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-04-30

year excepting that the bottle
has more body and not quite 50
much neck.
Flossie: YouIl never catch me
going out to dinner With an editor
again.
Gin Friend: whyg Was he
broke?
Flossie: / don't know whether he
was broke or not, but he put a blue
pencil thru about half my order.
Wife: That brazen Miss vamp
boasts that she has been kissed by
every man in town except one!''
Husband: II wonder who he can
be-"
Mae West had to have an opera
ton for appendicitis. But the
doctors found only a silver. When
they told Mae she said Darn that
Charlie Mccarthy"
Mr. Brown stopped in at the Jones
Drug Store to get can of Kill'em
& Burn 'em insect powder.
Sorry Mr.. Brown, we are out of
thot but have a new deal here
called the w. P. A. faint producer.
Brown-"I never heard of that
before. how does it work?''
well it don't kill them, but it
makes it possible for you to kill
them. You Just sprinkle a little
of the powder around in the leaves,
where they are liable to be stirring
around and they seem to get a 'er
sort Of spring fever, and lean up
2 gainst a weed "Then all you gotta
do is to step on 'em. -
There was once a supply sales
man whose wife was so ugly that he
carried her with him, rather than
kiss her goodbye.
The following motto hangs be-
hind the desk of California dairy
man: "All that have I owe to
ldders.''
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-04-30
MOST IMPORTANT PUBLICATION
IN HISTORY OF ORGANIZATION

- HE student Of the oil industry looks
into the MidcOntinent and Texas
and finds that the greatest produc-
tiOn is coming from BELOW THE BIG
LIME. He knows that similar fOrma-
tiOns are present i'm Montana BELOW
THE BIG LIME. He knows that drilling
methods, in the past, have NOT been
adequate to go through the big lime
here in Montana, so the lower horizons
are INFESTED, except i'm scattered spots.
He knows, also, that oil has been found
i'm the DevOnian and in the OrdOvician
(the horizon of the famous Wilcox sand)
in various parts of the state.
He knows that modern drilling equip
ment will drill not only to the OrdOvician
but TO the granite hearthstones of the
earth in nearly all the well defined struc-
lures of eastern Montana. BY the time
drillers are going $4,000 feet deep in
Montana, California drillers will doubtless
be drilling no 10000 or $4,000 feet.
That is true because Montana, is always
behind in adopting these sciences. The
development of Montana oil fields has
been for the most part in the hands of
Independent operators without adequate
finances to employ geOphysical crews
to discard cable tools and buy modern
rotary drilling equipment and can't afford
go drill tests through the 600 to 500
AFCA III 1MdutSOM even
were a possibility of production every
foot of the way.
Ii follows that the INFORMED investor
of Montana can take chapter out of
the HISTORY of Texas and the Mid
continent and read a prophecy on the
FUTURE of Montana In other words
geOphysical prospecting is coming to
Montana as certainly as IL has proven
successful i'm other states; more econ
omicaI and efficient methods of drilling
are coming to Montana as certainly as
they are proving successful elsewhere;
and deep drilling is coming in Montana
certainly as the rises and sets.
The INFORMED investor know enough
about such things that he is able TO
CAPITALIZE the facts, once they are
in his possession.
In the current bulletin we are furnish
ing a treatise of great valne to a student
of royalties. To the person who does
not READ, it is worthless. To the per-
who would rather gamble on tip
than to arrive at a careful basis of
INVESTMENT, this publication is like
wise of little value.
Through this column we hope in the
next few week to provide detailed i'm
formation regarding the principal SUBJ
jects of our publication and urge all of
our members to plan on reading them
carefully.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-04-30

She: Would you kiss me, even
If / told you not to?
He: / sure would
She: Oh goody! Then l can mind
mama.
Definition of a pregnant penguin:
"With Byrd in the Anartic.''
1T says in the paper that baby
fed on elephants milk gained 20
pounds in two weeks
az don't believe It. Whose baby
was it?"
THE ELEPHANTS
do you mean to say that Aleck
is famous for his after dinner speak
ing?"
"Ill say He always manages to
be speaking on the telephone when
the waiter brings the check
She-Say it's past midnight.
Do you think you can stay here
all night?
He-Gosh. I'll have to telephone
Mother first.
Fishermen who are planning a
trip in the near future will be glad
10 know that there is no special
change in the style of tackle this
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-04-30
new WEST SIDE WELL

A new location has been made in
the Rocky Ridge Pool of Kelvin
Sunburst field: v. F. Dahl.-Kimb bal
No. 1, SW E11SEA Sec. 1 Twp.
35 n r. w. Tool and labor CON
tract has been let and early com
mencement of the well is expected
Location is half a mile from the
Osthoff producer and slightly over
that distance from the Superior
Petroleum-Gove we'll recently
comnleted
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-04-30

GASOLINE RECORD IN JANUARY
National survey shows only four
states consumed less gasoline in
January than during same month
last year. Total gain for the en-
tire country was more than 6 per
cent. establishing new record for
that month.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-04-30

year excepting that the bottle
has more body and not quite so
much neck.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-28
Jackson Feed To Put
Some On The Spot
Continued from Page One0

be preserved, said Chairman LarkinJ.
"By this, we plan to have the tables
in the dining hall running at right
angles from the speakers dais. Each
department head will be seated on a
dais fronting the employees Of his. edi-
division and also the main speaker
and other distinguished Democrats at
the main table. This, we think, will
do away with the trouble at previous
dinners whereby the first to arrive
get the best Seats
The chairman did not say how that
would take care of those prominent
Democrats who are not members of
some State department, but perhaps
that was because he anticipates that
only those holding State or other gov
ornamental jobs will pay $25 to eat
No announcement of the principal
speaker has yet been made, but the
chairman has said that he will be one
who twill make the kind of a speech
that will let every one know there is
Democratic administration in Wash
ington as well as one in raleigh" +
All Democratic county chairmen
every member Of the 1899 General AS
sembly. leading Democrats from every
county; State and Federal employee:
| have been invited" to pay $25 anc
come eat at the dinner, which is de-
signed to pay off the deficit incurred
bv the National Democratic Commit
tee in the 1898 campaign.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-28
UPPER HALF OF NATION
FEELS BITE OF WINTER
DIV The Associated

(By The Associated PreSS.)
The Arctic chill Of the seasons most
intense cold wave was felt today from
the Rockies to the Atlantic North
west winds carried an icy sting to the
seaboard and the mid-South today.
Weather observers predicted a slow
rise in temperatures. for tomorrow, as
northwest winds abate, but there was
no promise of appreciate relief. At
least IS deaths were attributed to ex-
posture and traffic accidents caused
by the weather. Wyoming, Colorado,
Montana, Iowa, Minnesota, Wiscon-
sin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and
the aDakotas were the principal cold
spots on the weather map. Sub-zero
temperatures were general in Min
nesota and the Dakotas. Scores OIL
Christmas holiday visitors were still
marooned in northern Michigan
where county officials prohibited
travel on snow-blocked or Recovered
highways.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-28
Clay County
Votes Most:
In The State
Daily DisDatcb nurcau.
In the Sir Waller no,.;

Raleigh, Dee. 2S-If all the countie.
Of North Carolina had voted in thu
to9S general election for senator !,
tre same ratio as the people did ir
Clay county, ihC-e would have moo,
mn less than 1.699S04 votes cast in.
stead Of the 496,176 which were 90.
tralIv dropped into the boxes-or sen
IN rs absertees.
on the other hand, if the sam.
auathv had existed in the other conn.
ties as was manifested in Person
there would have been only 1852,
votes for Robert r. Reynolds and
Charles A. Jonas combined.
CLAY voted no less than 53.6 PEI cent
Of its 1880 population, while in Per
son only 2.76 per cent of the people
took the trouble to go to the polls.
scattered In between these two ex-
tremes were the other % counties.
with those of the west leaving their
eastern brethren far behind in the
nerccntage of votes cast in propor-
ton to population. This despite the
fact that under the classification rs
ed Person as we'll as Clay was put
in he vest.
other county which cast a vote equal
10 half its 1880 census rating. That
was Graham, where 2,94S persons vot-
ed either at the polls or by absentee
AGAINST a 1880 population of 5,S41.
There were other counties which an
proximated the so per cent mark.
however. and all of them were western
units. Alexander, Ashe, Cherokee,
Pennsylvania and Watauga voted al
most, but not quite, half their 1880
populations.
The only eastern county to vote as
many as one-third its population was
Carttret where just about that per-
centage was found. the figures being
1916 out of 5000.
Here's how the 100 counties voted
in proportion to population:
One in every IS: Clay.
One in every 10: Graham.
One in two: Alexander, Ashe, Chero-
kee. Pennsylvania Watauga.
One in 1-2: Burke Mitchell, Polk,
Swain. Yanecy, Wilkes.
One in three: Davidson, Davie, AL
lehany Avery, Catawba Henderson.
Jackson, Mcdowell. Macon, Madison.
Randolph, Rutherford, Stanly, Yad-
kin, Carteret.
One in four: Alamance, Buncombe.
Caldwell Lincoln, Montgomery.
Stokes Brunswick, Sampson, John
s.on (redell, Surry.
One in five: Cabarrus, Rocking
ham, Rowan, Tyrrell, Chatham, Dare,
Harnett.
One in six: Currituck, Moore.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-28

Orange. Ve'sio' Gastoh
O One in ten: Duplin, Lee.
Nreol' e ~ IL; Anson Forsyth, Guilford,
Mecklenburg, Richmond
One in II: Washington.
one in 10: Union
One IN Il: Columbus.
one IN IS: Beaufort, Pamlico.
one one IN Is; Hoke, Scotland, Wake.
one in II: Bladen, Camden.
one IN 10: Durham, Wayne.
one in 10: Craven. FRANKLIN
'olies' hyde, Martin, New Hanover
one IN 20: BERTHE, Greene, Onslow.
FENDER, 2oDeson. ''o"'
one in %: Vance, Warren.
one in %: Northampton
one in "a: Cumberland Pasouotanlx
one in 26: Granville.
Pitt. humans
One in 20: Nash.
Lenior, Wilson. f'eoo On
One in 81 HEREFORD.
One in So: Person.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-28
Demand Grows;
For Seedlings
OF The State
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Dec 28-The 5000, 600
seedlings grown by the States for
estry division, Department of Con-
servation and Development, this year
were insufficient to supply the de-
mand, Assistant State Forester F H.
Claridge, in charge of the forest man
agement division, said today.
It was necessary for North Caro-
DINA landowners to. buy something
like a million seedlings from South
Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, he
said.
Increase in the demand for seed
lings has followed the rapid develop
ment of 'pine farming" in North
Carolina to a point where it is now
far more profitable to grow pine trees
for pulpwood than to plant and raise
cotton, Mr.. Claridge declared.
There are 100000 acres in the
state particularly well-adapted to re-
forestation through use of pine seed
lings, r. w. Graeber, Extension For
ester at State College, recently esti-
mated, as well as 14,5OO,OOO acres of
pine growing in the state.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-28
Ecuador Has Mild
Revolt For MIR. Hull
Continued from Pare One0

Continued from Pare One.)
ing I don't know the exact denou-
ment. But it is pretty good. Several
army units revolted. Business was
suspended in Quito, the capital. Presi-
dent Narvaez declared a strict censor
ship. There was street fighting. Oh,
it's all been very realistic and classy,
To be sure, it wasn't on the Peruvian
side of the border, for Secretary Hull
actually to observe. However, per-
haps that was just as well. These dis
turbances are a trifle noisy and UNI
pleasant in ones immediate vicinity.
Ecuador is next door to Peru, anyway.
Secretary Hull probably could hear
the shooting by listening at his hote!
window. That's near enough.
Peru itself, Chile, Argentina, Brazil,
Paraguay and Bolivia have had re-
volutions or attempted revolutions re-
Gently. They generally don't amount
to much. but approximately are equi-
valent to our elections. It's surprising
what seemingly trifling developments
will start a Latin-American revOlu
lion.
A Personal Experience.
Let me cite an experience of my
own.
AZ the time of the World War there
wac 1and is yet, for all | Know a
considerable settlement of Mennomites
in Saskatchewan, Canada. These folks
were land are) pacifists. The war be-
ing ended, they were tired of being