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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23

Huber Montana company, one of the new
entrants into the Montana oil industry, scored
in North Cut Bank this week, bringing in
flowing we'll in the shallow Mouton sand
which made IL barrels per hour in drill
stem test The we'll is known as Huber Mon
tana-Crowley No 3, center NWH NWH
24-37N-5W
Observers believe that this we'll will make
800 barrels or more per day on production.
1t is 81 gravity oil and is coming from
four-foot sand declared to be the most per-
feet oil sand ever cored in Cut Bank area
1t is completely saturated and very soft, con-
tanning no cenenting material, as revealed by
the rotary core
On the first drill stem test it made 10 bar
rels per hour The packer was reset with the
idea of making a 24-hour test but at the
end of five hours the packer broke loose.
During the five-hour test the well made 90
barrels, gaining in pressure and flow.
The outstanding mechanical feature of
this well is the fact that it was drilled to
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
TO SAY
IF FALLS line
IS GAS UTILITY

Judge Charles N. Pray of the
U. s. district court has taken un-
der advisement the question wheth-
er Montana-Dakota Utilities Co.,
supplying two customers at the end
OF its Shelby gas fieId-Great Falls
line. should be classed as a public
utility subject to regulations Of the
Montana public service commits
sion.
Hearing on injunction proceed
ings brought by the company a.
gainst the commission was held in
Great Falls federal court this week.
The commission has called a hear
ing to determine the reasonable
ness OF the company's rates for
transportation of the gas through
its 10 miles OF mains and 113 miles
of gathering lines in the Shelby
gas field. The company sells its
gas to Great Falls Gas Co, and
Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at
the city gates of Great Falls and
contends, accordingly, that 1t is
not public utility or common
carrier.
A temporary restraining order
against the state commission was
for Is days in which
both parties viii file reply briefs.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
BUGGY HILL"
At Cut BANK
DUEFOR TEST

Buggy Hill" topographic
high spot southeast OF Cut Bank
in the southeast trend OF the field
is due for an early test. Glacier
Production company having this
week rugged up on its No Stott.
In center SEH NWh 3433-5W.
The land belongs to Glacier coun-
ty, having been decided to the
county by a former inmate of the
county poor farm before his de-
mise. The hill gets its name from
the fact that the former owner
collected a number OF buggies in
the horse and buggy days" so
fervently recalled by present-d day
politicians.
rhe Stott was one Of two new
wells started in Cut Bank field
this week and there were two com
pletions.
Tcxaco- Hardwick No. 4, c NWA
SCI 17-32-5W, in South Cut
Bank. swabbed 50 barrels in Is
hours. getting production in the
lower Cut Bank sand The Moul-
ton sand at 2S95 to 1855 was dry.
Sunburst sand from 2915 to 1882
was dry. Upper Cut Bank at 1880
to 3005 had showing of oil at
the base. Lower Cut Bank sand
from zoos to 3O16 carried the
pay" and the fluid level was 600
feet 1t is now cleaning out after
shooting with five. 10 and 20
quart shots of nitro glycerin.
Texas company's Section o Unit
No. z, c SWA SWA 9-32-5W.
,wabbed 80 barrels per day from
he Cut Bank sand. 1t had dry
sand from 2S4O to $3.50.
;unburst sand was in two sections,
rom $3.50 to 2SS2 and zoos to
1892 and has a small show OF oil;
rom 2917 to 1882. Upper Cut
(continued on. Page FOUR
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
DISCOUNT On
CURRENCY IS
NOT POPULAR

The fluctuations of the English
pound sterling brought new head
aches to trade relations between
Alberta and Montana during the
mast week, serving to embarrass
Canadian operators operating in
Montana and also those Montanans
doing business with Canadians.
Both Montanans and Albertans
can see no good reason why there
should be a discount on Canadian
money. because Canadian money
has always been welcomed in the
oil fields towns. One Montana
operator who sells oil in Canada
agreed to accept Canadian money
at full value, thereby asserting his
staunch disapproval Of the 1917
discount imposed But the less
romantic Canadian customs officials
learned of the fact and promptly
a 1917 duty on the oil,
under the dumping law. and here
after this operator will discount
Canadian funds 1917.
Canadian drilling costs have been
greatly increased by the discount.
as much of the drilling equipment
is imported from the United States
Confined on Page Eight
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23

Testing operations this week saw
the plant up to $500 barrels per
day on Tuesday Thereafter the
plant was shut down for read
justments but was again charging
crude on Friday. The plant. with
rated capacity OF $500 barrels
per day. Is found to be so flexible
that some observers estimate that
II will handle a throughput of
500 barrels per day.
The 1900 barrel unit OF Glacier
Production company has been In
full operation for several weeks and
is marketing it's products through
cony-Vacuum. The latter firm will
hereafter be supplying Montana
and North Dakota filling stations
with products from its own unit
which is a Dubbs cracker with the
Socony Vacuum's own refinements
required for the manufacture OF
Mobilgas.
Socony-Vacuum is assured OF a
crude supply by producer members
of Producers Refining Co, OF Shell
by and Cut Bank, who have thus
far stored approximately $4,000
barrels of crude at the Cut Bank
plant. Kelvin production is being
trucked while Cut Bank production
is being run through the two field
lines. Producers Refining Co. is
pledged TO provide from 1000 TO
1000 barrels OF crude per day. 1t
will be batch operation. dividing
the time of operation between Gla-
cier Production and Socony- Vac
uum requirements. The plant is at
the moment the finest OF its kind
in the United States, embracing all
modern improvements including
polymerization So rapid is the
progress of refinery technique
that each new unit is a refinement
over all previous plants of fits
kind This plant It outstanding in
It's great flexibility. experts declare
II is being operated by Max Par
kins OF the Glacier Production
staff
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
COBB-TExACO
STARTING On
new WILDCAT

Another test of The Texas com
pany's extensive North Cut Bank
acreage blocks under a farm-out
was announced this week by A. B
Cobb, independent producer, who
will drill south of the Darling pool
on the Bilsted farm.
Location of the new test, two
miles from any other well, is in
center NWA SEA 4-365W Cobb's
new rotary rig will be moved to
location this coming week.
Closest well is Glacier Produc-
tion company's McNamer unit gas
ser. producing 100000 cubic
feet of gas from the Moulton sand.
Nearest oil well is Yukon-Lund-
gren No. 1, four miles northeast.
in the Darling pool.
Cobb this week completed Cobb
Texaco-Vasbo Consolidated No. 1,
SW NEA SWA 27-37-5W. as a
gasser and will use gas from this
well to drill the Bilsted. The Var
go had a showing of oil and gas in
the Sunburst sand but developed
water in the Cut Bank sand so
was plugged back to 2676. The
next we'll win be one of a four
we'll program by which Cobb seeks
to test out his vast North Cut Bank
holdings. He has considerable ac-
reage in the vicinity of the spot
where Huber-Montana company this
week brought in a flowing well, in
the north end of the Darling pool.
but is now turning his attention to
the south end of his leases. Trying
to deevlop a gas supply to Justify
pipeline to Spokane, Cobb has TAX
en- over certain blocks of Texaco
leases, in addition to his own TO-
O00-acre holdings.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23

decided that the acid had not
reached the oil formation. The
hole was bridged back to the gas
horizon. Twenty sacks of cement
were then forced back into the
formation. After the cement hard
ened, the bridge was drilled out,
leaving a cement face on the gas
horizon which seemed to hold per
fectly as there was no gas COM
ing into the hole after the cement
was drilled out. 1t was allowed
to stand for an additional "a
hours so that the cement will be
absolutely hardened before acidiz-
ing. When the gas is needed, the
cement will be removed by shoot
ing with nitro glyeerin.
Big West Oil cOmpany's Dahl
quist No. IL, north of the Fulton
group, in NV NWA NEA 1888
West, is making 40 barrels per
day on the pump, following aci-
dization. 1t is in the midst of
some smaller producers.
Big West-Dahlquist No. IS, CNL
Continued on Page Five)
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
PONDERA WELL
FINDS OIL-GAS

The first producer in Pom
dera oil field. OF the present
year was drilled into lime con-
tact by Pondera oil Syndicate
Haber No. 4, In NE NWA
SEX 17-27-4W. Oil was found
mt 2O25 feet, below a flow OF
gas at 2O2O. The gas, which
has not been measured, has
sufficient volume to spray oil
all over the prairie, making a
sensational appearance, but
the amount Of oil could not be
ascertained. The well will be
acidized to increase the flow.
The hole bottoms at 2O34 feet,
nine feet in the Madison lime.
This well is in the same Sec
ton as the discovery well,
drilled I'm 1928. Litigation held
mp development of this tract
until this year.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
ItaIO Drills
At 2225 Feet

The only other we'll drilling in
the North Cut Bank area this week
is Italo Petroleum Cornett No. 1,
c SWA NWA 3O-37-3W, which ce-
mented Sinch casing at 1860 feet
and is now drilling at 1925 1t
picked up a little water below the
pipe but is having no difficulty.
The well is checking 100 feet or
more higher, structurally, than the
Cobb-State No. gasser which
is rated at 100000 cubic
feet per day in the Moulton sand
1t is considerably higher than the
Griffiths Cornett we'll, a mile east,
which was drilled in 1923 by a
group of movie actors including
Griffiths, the producer, and Bert
Lytell.
CONTINUED on Page Four
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
Squeeze Job" To Halt
Acid In Gas Formation Is
Kelvin Field Experiment

Something in combination of cement squeeze job and
Rmrock pool An
Obeang
otherwise
This experiment being
well OWL NEASwA 2S-35-SW which 5OOO,OOOfoo flow Of
below Acdizatn failed improve production
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
CHICAGO men
WILL FINANCE
R. G. PARRENT

Resumption of drilling of the
wildcat we'll west of Sunburst is
announced by r. c. Tarrant who
as succeeded in enlisting Chica-
go capital in the interesting test
south east Of the Border oil field.
and on the same structural "nose. "
P. A. Brock and Chicago inter-
ests have provided finances to Sc
cure a string Of pipe for the we'll,
located in SWA NEA 2-363W,
about four miles west of Sunburst,
which well has stood shut down
at 1870 feet for several weeks. 1t
CONTINUED on Page FOUR
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
Canadian Tax Dodger
Paid Duty On Gasoline
He Did Not Import

How Canadian gasoline trucker Of
Ions OF gasoline which he did
In Great Falls this William
Canadian trucker making
Alta to Shelby hauling gasoline
Cous One customs
the truck empty then
refund Of gallon export
He was delivering the gasoline to filling stations between
ana the border and then crossing the border with
making about gallon
The trucker reported the Canadian authorities
aed the traffic by falling both the driver of
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23

mand a 20 per cent wage increase
with a IS daily minimum; mine
grievance committees and an eight
hour collar to collar" day, from
the time they enter the shaft until
they emerge at the end of the day.
Others have accepted an increase
OF rs cents per day pay increase
based on the present 12-cent price
OF copper. Salaries of monthly en-
pIoyes were also increased &18.75
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
WILDCAT AT
P0NDERA NOT
COM NJ E:RcIAL

A production of six barrels OF oil
per day was reported from the
wildcat we'll on West Pondera, Te-
ton county this week and the we'll
is now shut down pending decision
of the owners. r. c. Tarrant and
V. NJ. Kirk, whether to drill deeper
or to complete it as a commercial
gas we'll.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23

per month by the company's new
scale.
The miners union. CLIO af-
filiate, has not notified the ACM
of the result OF the strike vote.
apparently waiting for the meeting
today Saturday. which will be
attended by Reid Robinson, inter-
national president, who win fly to
Butte from Salt Lake for the meet
ing.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
Strike Threat Holds Pail
Over Prosperity For Butte

Whether Montana shelters, be ude n
labor trouble at the one time the decade when fucrew operations
will be determined
Saturday when future action will following
October unless the Anaconda Copper Mining
smeltermen of and
the by
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
Socony-Vacuum Unit
At Cut Bank Charging
$500 Barrels Per Day

Before the the coming Glacier Production
unit refinery southeast
Cut Bank will be full throughput
maey 1000 barrels per
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-09-23
EDITORIAL COMMENT

There Is oil in the DeYOnian
below West POndera. The show
ing found at the top of the lime
Is the proof. But little oil has
escaped upward through the
"big line''-just enough to
prove its presence below. The
oil found is definitely migratory
oil. Solid lime is not the parent
OF petroleum.
This well. located in c NEH
SEA 34-27-5W, was treated with
CONTINUED on Page Four
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-11-30
PROTECTION FOR THE POOR

Those who make practice of attacking the life in
surance industry often center on industrial
This form of insurance usually sold in small
sums and collected in weekly biweekly nstallmens
Without industrial Insurance. which can be paid for
at the rate of twenty-five fifty cents week millions
OF low income families would be unable to obtain any
tecon whatsoever The death of the wageearner would
leaVe dependents completely destitute More often than
not there would be insufficient money on hand to even
pay modest funeral expenses
industrial insurance is naturally somewhat higher in
due to increased collection and bookkeeping
but is OF immense service and it is the onv proven
established means of giving of very small income
some measure of financial sefprotection against the
future
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-11-30
THE TOWNS BIGGEST ROOSTER

In recent address, c. w. Kellogg president of the
oSon Electric Institute. said Whe the cost of electric
Is out p per cent of the cost Of everything the
community buys, yet the electric company is USUALLY the
largest or of the largest enterprises in the conn
ms Is partly because all of the service is coscentrated in
one concern and party because the electric business re
qures more investment per dollar of annual gross earn
gs tnan any other enterprise in town. Furthermore the
investment IS all IN fixed property that cannot be moved
M present standing and hope for the future are mex
tcaoly interviewer with the prosperity of the town or
city 1t is only enlightened self interest for the utility
to be the biggest booster the town or city has,
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-11-30
Pontiac Advises
Careful Driving

The difference between an ac-
cident and a near-accident is -
inch or u second.
Steep down grades should be
taken with clutch engaged, gears
in mesh and spark and gas re-
tarded.
One good leg is worth a whole
woodpile of crutches.
Don't expect Of the other driver
what you wouldn't do yourself. If
the other fellow wants the whole
road-give it him-his day of
reckoning is then nearer than
yours.
When children are near drive as
if the unexpected is going to hap
pen. Have your car under perfect
control.
A short cut is often a dangerous
cut.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-11-30

Don't try to blow pedestrian
of the street with your horn. Use
your brakes.
One thoughtless moment NAV
cause lifetime of regret.
Drive carefully! You may. meet
a fool.
The wife of a careless driver is
almost widow.
If in doubt about the right of
way let the other fellow have it.
Be careful today and you stand
better chance of being happy to-
morrow.
A wise man doesn't need to have
"close shave to learn the value
of safety.
The right of way isn't safe if the
other fellow disputes it. Take no
chances.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-11-30
FIRST THANKSGIVING MEAL SERVED

Grandma Pilgrim whipped up great meal that first
Thanksgiving Day in long ago Plymouth.
Grandma had about everything except the bicarbo-
nate of soda.
The Pilgrims left no bill of fare but the basis of
bit Documentary evidence historians agree that the
victuas which buged the colonial belts in 1921
royal repast with turkey and trimmings.
A mountaineering letter written by Edward Win
Slow a Plymouth colonist, December IL, 1921, and
findings of Dr. W. B. Love-. r 18th century authority
Pilgrim habits indicate that these vands must have
tickled the Pilgrim palates:
Roast turkey-oysters and lobsters-mussels and
clams-eels by the hogshead and fish galoreroas young
ducklng-roast wild goose-veniSon cracking the spit
partridge broiled spit.
Barley loaf and Indian meal cakes-perhaps some
sallet herbs for green dsh-beans and peas-turnips
and squah and cabbage-boiled onions and coleworts
Buns with the sweet seed of skrets-pumpkn pie
strawberries, gooseberres and raspber
ries dried by sum-
sun-three kinds of dried plums, black, white and
red-the wine of the wild grape described Every
sweete and strong"
Columbia Unversy's files tell of kettles sklets and
sps being overworked while the Pilgrims beat with their
knives and spoons to make music their pewter plates
One hundred and forty diners licked chops over the
festive board, including 90 Mampanoag Indians whom
Chief Massaso brought along Gov. William Bradford
inistence.
The feast lasted nearly week. with Massasoits
attending three days until surfeit drove them back
into the woods.
Dr. Love said the Pilgrim spread at the first golden
autumn of Plymouth worthy their Indian guests
and altogether creditable to their posterty"
Edward Winslow penned the following account a few
days after Papa Pilgrim Mamma Pilgrim and all the little
Pilgrims went trudging home from grandma's house.
heavy but happy:
Our harvest being gotten in our governor sent four
men on fowling, that might after special manner
rejoice together after had gathered the fruit of
labors'
They four in day killed as much fowl as with
little help beside, served the company almost week
The Indians killed five deer (which they brought TO
The plantation, and bestowed on our governor and m
on the captain and Others"
by the goodness of God we are so far from want
hat we often wish partakers of our plenty Winsow
wrote his English friend
Inc colonlst described abundance of fish so manv
tat they fertzed their plantation with herring and
snad he told of bay full of lobster and of taking
hogshead of eelS in night" and how OYSTERS s-..ye
nave none near-were brought by the Indians "Our Tn
oian eorn, he said, 'even the coarsest maketb o. lo
ant meat rice % F
Dr. Love said there no record of turkey &c tho
principal dSh but because the bird was the earycrowned
queen OF Pilgrim bounty historians believe it was the niece
de resistance ~ pO
The Fishery Council of New York said t studies in
ocated that Grandma Pilgrim stuffed her turkey with
oyster dressing ~
mere Is no evidence of cranberry jelly and there
oe1lnltey was no beef, butter no whipped creano
cows came to Plymouth three years later
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-11-30

The friends of Russia who have shelter here and
who persstenty seek to undermine the American system
While secure in the refuge of liberal laws should have
'ha security Joted in some They dupes or they
are scoucres and an almost imperative necessity suggests
that hereafter they should be treated as SUCH" The
Oregonan.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-11-30

Bjones-My dear, l have left in
structions in my will that I am to
be cremated.
Mrs. Bjenes-Just like you to go
and leave ashes all over the place.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-09
. Dornford Yates

ed upon her from first to last. When
after a frightful convulsion got a
foot on to the lever, to hang, bent
double, half in and half out of the
flood: when the water chung to my
body, as though reluctant to let 60
its. lawful prey; when ! made my
last desperate effort to heave myself
clear of its clutches and, keeping
my foot on the lever, to straighten
my knee; when was up and was
standing against the wall of the well,
and all the handhold / had was the
lever a bare two inches above my
knee; when / dared to let go of
this and, bracing my thigh against
it, put up my hands above me, to
search the wall At these times,
that poor cord saved me-and moth
ing else. And yet it must have bro
ken, if once it had taken my weight.
Trembling, / Strengthened my
back and put up my hands &. and
met the last rung Of the ladder
shoulder-high.
Reaching up as far as could, I
could actually grip the last but two
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-09
SERIAL FICTION
She Painted Her Face
A stony q soux and Intrigue \. Sy DoRNFoRD YATES

discarded the role which she had
been ordered to play, and had Sc
lected a better and safer part.
To be short, "Monna Lisa" had
fied-taking with her the best of all
that Elizabeth had.
Her disappearance suited us very
well, for we had our secrets to keep,
and such a wolf in sleeps clothing
was far better out of our way: and
though the things she had taken
were worth a good deal, their loss
but served to remind us of what we
had saved that night.
made the most of the bathroom
before / did anything else; but, Of
course, had no dry clothes and,
though begged for my shirt, Eliza
beth would not allow me to put it
on. Instead, when reappeared, she
put flask into my hand and babe
me do as she told me or else 60
off to my bed. Since some things
remained to be settled I let her have
her way, but could not help think
ing of the structures which would
have been passed, if the Duchess
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-09

Of Whelp had suddenly entered the
room.
I suppose that one treasures for
ever the gift Of forbidden fruit: but
! know that as long as / live ! shall
never forget the short, most inti-
mate scene which brought to an end
the drama in which we had played
that night. Less than an hour be-
fore, had been fighting for life in
Palfrey's terrible well: and now I
was in Elizabeth's exquisite bed
room, sitting, with a flask in my
hand, on the foot of Elizabeth's bed,
while Elizabeth stood to her pier
glass, putting her hair to rights.
I met her eyes in the glass and
the two of us smiled, and saw my
self beyond her, looking like any
miner, about to begin his toll.
"High time was gone" said /.
and got to my feet.
Elizabeth spoke over her Shout
der.
Gas a matter of fact, I love to see
you, there. When we're married, you
must always sit there when I'm
brushing my hair"
Old Harry's words rang in my
ears, and turned away.
I must request your assurance upon
one point. That ID that you are aware
that you cannot possibly marry the
Countess Of Brief.
I put the flask to my lips and when
I drained it dry / put it back in the
cupboard from which she had taken
it down.
''What about tomorrow" ! said.
81 mean, if we can, we'd better keep
out of the wet. Not that care. Il
the police knew I'd bumped him of,
they'd put their arms round my
neck. But can't bear anyone