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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-10-06
CHAPTER TWELVE

JOSIE BARELY waited for me
to say 1 was her friend before she
began:
"It's a long story and I'll have
to go back years ago so that you
will understand. Do you mind =
mot at all. I'm interested"
Twenty years ago Captain New
comb owned this house. 1t had been
in the Newcomb family for over
hundred years, and Captain Bill,
his son, Young Captain Bill as he
was called, and his two daughters,
mother and Miss Ivy, lived here.
Captain Bill owned the land next
door where Miss Ivy's cottage is,
and several other lots on top of this
hill. He made no secret of what he
intended to do with his property.
This house was to go to young
Captain Bill, who ran a freighter
to South American ports Mother
and Miss Ivy each were to receive
a large plot of land and money
enough to build them each house,
for Captain Bills favorite saying
was that no one house was big
enough to hold two women with
equal authority unless there was a
man to rule them.
His plans didn't go through. A
letter came from Young Captain
Bill that he had married Dolores
Estes, a Brazilian. And before
Captain Bill had time to become
%o hof 1nffnT
from Young Captain Bills widow
that he had died very suddenly Of
fever. Mother has told me that
Captain Bill never smiled after the
news of his sons death was re-
ceived. He didn't live very long
after that and when his will was
read this house was left to mother
while the lot next door was left to
Miss Ivy. A sun. of money to build
a house exactly like this one had
already been paid to builder, and
Miss Ivy was to move from this
house to the cottage as soon as it
was completed.
'"That is what started all the
trouble. Miss Ivy was furious that
her father should have left this
house to her sister, even if she
was older, instead of to her. She
based her claim on the fact that
she looked like all the Newcombs,
tall and thin, while mother, short
and fat, was an exact duplicate of
their own mother. But there wasn't
anything she could do about it, so
move she did.
Mother told me she even con-
sidered Offering to swap houses,
but the executor told her that was
prohibited by the terms of the will.
Things dragged along until my IA
ther brought Neal and me here one
summer. Dad met mother, fell in
love with her and she with him.
when Miss Ivy learned they
were going to be married, she
would have nothing more to do
with mother. Miss Ivy has always
been real old maid, and that her
sister should get married almost
drove her crazy
well, mother and dad got mar
ried and in less than year he died
He had lost almost all his money
We think that was what really
killed him. Mother was a perfect
brick. She loved us and wasn't
willing for us to go to crabby old
uncle, the only relative we had. She
took every cent she owed, re-
modelled this house into what it is
now, and started taking summer
boarders.
That's when Miss Ivy built the
spite fence. If possible, she was
more furious when mother started
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-10-06

Jesus Begins Preaching.
Soon after this John the Baptist
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-10-06
Gains Feature
Cotton rade

New York. Oct. 6.-(AP)- Cotton
futures opened two to six points
higher. Prices around the end Of the
first hour ruled seven TO 10 points
higher, with October UP II at 922,
and January ahead l3 at 8.77.
During the second hour, the fast
trade demand absorbed scattered Of
ferings. and The list held tive TO nine
points higher, except JanuH!y, which
was Inactive anG Is higher at SIT.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-10-06
BY NEWMAN CAMPBELL

BY NEWMAN CAMFBEIL
(The International Uniform Les
son on the above topic for Oct 8
is Matthew 3, the Golden Text being
Matthew 3:3. prepare We the way
of the Lord, make His paths
straight.")
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-10-06

1t is estimated taht more than a
half-billion dollars has been spent in
laying out the golf courses now ex-
listing in the United States. However,
some of the players who appear on
them still look like 80 cents.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-10-06
Reaction Is Cold
Rebuff to Overture

(Continued From Page One)
comment in Washington indicated
Ritler's speech won no support
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-10-06

Senator Nye, Republican, North
Dakota, a leader Of the opposition
to the administration neutrality
bill, told reporters that Hitler, "lille
presidents, kings and premiers, talks
for his folks back home
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-10-06

The American gambling game,
"Bingo," is very popular at Monte
Carlo. But there they call it Lotto
Monegasque." One cannot, it seems,
cry "Bongo!" in the necessary, we'll
centennial accent.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-07
Fulton Commonwealth
Producer Flowing Over
100 Barrels Per Day

w. NJ Fulton. pioneer oil man and maker of fortunes,
scored again during the past week bringing in another flow
ing we'll in the Rmrock high gravity oil pool OF Kelvin.
His Fulton-C commonwealth Thompson No. well struck
the Madison lime at 695 and drilled 1903 and then aczcd
with 1000 gallons OF hydrochoric acid under pressure 1t
took the acid rapidly and put the pump at 80 Tues
day night 1t began flowing and all of the oil used
ing the well recovered by a Wednesday morning
which time still flowing between seven and eight barrels
per hour with water 1t is rated l00barrcl well
and is better producer than the first flowing well which it
offsets the south The Fulton Thompson No has been
flowing for nearly year still capable OF producing around
90 barrels per day flowing through three chokc> These
wells make SO gravity Sweet oil
Futon-C Commonwealth company controlled by Fulton
is said have the financial backing OF wealthy members OF
the Great Falls clinic hc company has producing well
in Cut Bank field and has 200 Of the Thompson farm
N Section % and 3d. Twp 35N. Re. 3W. The one Of the
ucd
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-07
RUSSELL TO
BUILD PLANT
PONDERA

Construction Of a 200-barrel top
ping plant to be located in Pom
dera oil field was announced this
week by T. f. Russell OF Havre.
Contracts for construction have been
let and Russell and associates ex-
pect to have the plant completed
and finished products ready for the
market in the early spring.
Pondera oil field is virtually
without a market. following loss
of the Canadian market. and many
leases are shut in Home Oil Of
Great Falls IS taking the produc-
ton of the Rice properties but
otherwise there is no outlet for this
oil Standolind is producing the
Chessher properties but is storing
the oil
The Russell plant will take the
production of Warren Oil company
of which he is president, and ad-
jacent Independent properties.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-07
HOMESTAKE
CORPORATION
IS DISS0L we'd

Dissolution of the corporation was
voted by stockholders of Homestake
Oil company at a meeting last week
and the corporation went out OF
business on January 1. This sue
cessful Cat Creek independent paid
S1,OOO,OOO to its stockholders or
slightly Tess than $3.50 per share
on 81 stock Of which 100000
shares were issued. The Homestake
was organized in 1920 by ]. C.
Peters. E. B Coolidge and LaRue
Smith.
The company sold its Cat Creek
properties to Continental Oil Co,
for 100000 of which $4,000
was paid in cash and the remaining
$4,000 will be paid out Of produc-
ton. This will be distributed thru
a trust agreement entered into with
the Great Falls National bank. The
trust will distribute all production
payments to stockholders and will
serve as trust, also, IN the matter of
6A per cent royalty covering any
production found in deeper forma-
Continued on PAGE Fivel
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$44.7O2,9S1.93
OPTION on TAX METHODS

Those interested in keeping in
the income tax regulations the pres
ent option by which they can ex-
Dense or capitalize intangible devel-
oment costs have an opportunity to
inform the Internal Revenue Blu
reau Of their position. The Bureau
Is now considering abolishing this
option and requiring that all devel-
opment costs should be capitalized.
Any who wish to present informa-
ton giving definite factual data on
this subject should do 50 at once.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-07
west WELL
FURNISHES
SURPRISES

The ever-surprising Midway pool,
between Kelvin and Cut Bank fields,
furnished a new surprise during the
past week as the Cassady-Phoenix
No. well in NV 4 NWA 2S-35-4W
suddenly pumped off and stopped
producing, after having started off
with a production of 65 barrels per
day It was producing Alb grav-
ity, sweet" crude from depth
of 231S feet, at the first break"
in the top of the Madison lime. fol-
lowing acidization
w. NJ Cassidy and A. Beardslee.
owners of the we'll. expect to put
tools back in the hole and drill
deeper, although they were report
ed preparing to swab for a while
before so doing.
Kevin-Sunburst field resumed ac-
tivity following the Christmas holt
days and had eight active drilling
wells during the past week. Four
were shut down.
Kluth-Gunderson No. =, SWSWH I
SWA 1S-35-2W, is drilling at. 1885
feet
MOrtOn-OsthOm No. I, SW SWl4 I
Sc 4 1-35-3W, is fishing for S-inch
bit at 700 feet
Neptune-SeabrOok No. :, NV
NWl4 SW4 19-35-2W, is testing
today after having treated with
1000 gallons OF acid from 1910 to
1850 where it had the customary
small showing of oil
-BelI-Goycrnmcnt No. 1 well
south Of the famous Queen City
pool, in NV SWh NEA 9-34-2W.
is drilling at 1870 feet
Prcvol & Shea-Governmcnt No. I,
CSL NW4 SWl4 11-35-3W. is drill
ling at $50 feet
Superior Petroleum Goeddcrtz
No. 4, Gel SEA SWA 12-35-3W
is on production, making around
10 barrels per day from a depth
If 1893 feet, in the Sunburst sand.
Big West-Englc No. ;, Gel
SW14 SWA 1-35-3W, has been
plugged and abandoned, failing to
make a producer from a showing
If oil in the Sunburst sand. Rig is
)eing moved to No. location.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-07

FIRST WELL
HONORS GO
TO CUT BANK

HonOrs for the first compilations
of oil and gas wells. respectively,
in the State of Montana in the year
1899 went to Cut Bank field and
were divided between Castle & Par
dee and Glacier Production Co.,
respectively, during the past week.
Castle & Pardce completed Tribal
f70 No. 3, CNL NE 4 SEA 1882
6W, in the Big Bend pool, at a
depth of 1855 feet as a small pro-
Queer. 1t had upper Cut Bank
sand from 1912 to 2946 and lower
Cut Bank from 2946 to 1850 and
drilled the Ellis from 1850 to 29S5.
It's oil came below 2946, and rose
500 feet 1t swabbed 25 barrels
and it, was then shot with five
quarts of nitro glycerin 1t is now
being cleaned out and will be shot
again until it is developed into
commercial production.
Glacier Production completed a
f,900,0OO-foot gas we'll in the CUT
Bank horizon in its GilIard No. /,
location CNL NW14 29-34-5W, in a
district where oil might have been
found. Casing was set al 1876 and !
the main gas flow came from 26S5 |
TO 2705. Hole bottoms at 27OS. |
Upper Cut Bank sand was present |
at 1868 to 1855.
One new location was announced |
this week. 1t is.
Glacier Production O'Brien No. 8,
c SW4 SWA 32-34-5W, in the gas
oil district. not far from the Simero 7
producer which was this companys
first oil we'll
Glacier PrOducti0n-State No. 4,
C S1aNWA 16-33-5W, is drilling
at 2S40, after having had a show
ing of oil in the Sunburst sand at
ESQ
Glacier Production-Ncil No. 3,
Sc SEA NEH 2O-33-5W, is drilling
1t 2420.
Santa Rita-Iandcr No. 3, CIVIL
SEA SEH 16-35-6W has rig up
preparing to drill
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-07

The log OF the Kotops we'll. re-
cord 4 by the Canadian geological
survey. shows that the KOtops well
doubtless found it's production in
the Moulton sand although 1t was
called "Vanalta sand All the time.
from the top sand in the Border
oil field Because these sands were
"strays" until after the develop
ment OF Cut Bank oil field. there
was no way OF correlating them
and even in recent years, petroleum
biologists have disagreed about the
Moulton and Sunburst sands
Where the sands are in place. the
Moulton sand is the first encounter
ed, below the red beds of the
Kootenai formation Of the Creta-
ceous series Below the Moulton
separated by a thin shale streak
is the Cut Bank which is distin-
guished by flecks OF brown sand;
and below that is the Cut Bank
sand, distinguished by black ebert
in the basal member The MouItOn
sand is known to have two and
sometimes three members, in some
parts of the field. with thickness
up to 80 feet In other places it
is entirely absent 1t is repored
only on the north and northwest
flanks of the field.
The Kotops we'll started at sur
face elevation Of 364O feet. found
the top of the Colorado shale at 440 .
and encountered the sand which
correlates with the Moulton at 1854,
to 2599. Oil was found
at 1856 feet. It was 1916 gravity
paraffin base crude, containing no
sulphur. This is the identical oil
found in the Moulton sand at the
Yukon-Lungren flowing we'll This
oil is OF higher gravity than Cut
Bank sand crude, and is easily
by its appearance.
The records show that this Ko-
Ups well had a production OF from
eight to 10 barrels per day, which
vas not commercial Mechanical
developed and the hole
was abandoned by the promoters.
There was considerable mystery
about the well, oil men recall, and
Gcontinned on Page FIvei
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-07
SELL TRACT
IN CUT BANK
FOR $4,000

Sale of an S0-acre lease In the
Big Bend pool OF Cut Bank oil
field with two producing wells,
was announced this week by John
Marshall and Manning & Martin
at cut Bank. The property was
purchased by A b Cobb and c.
" Jeffrey. co-partners under the
firm name Of 4. b Cobb a Co.
The sale price was reported to
be $500 Of which $4,000 was
paid % Marshall and $1,000 TO Man
ming and the balance out OF one
fourth OF the production. such an
nual payments to be not less than
s 700 TO each.
The property is described as Lot
D Section s and Lots : and s in
Section +, TWP 32N, re-. 5W. The
TWO producing wells are making
around 65 barrels per day and have
been in production for more than
two years Cobb is now selling
his production TO Home Oil Refining
Co. OF Great Falls and states that
while he has no immediate need
for additional oil he expects de-
velopment of market for all the
he can secure
Marshall ana the firm of Man
ming & Martin. rotary contractors,
developed this tribal lease on a joint
operating agreement, each owning
50 per cent They have produced
about $4,000 worth OF oil from the
ract which with the sale price OF
$50, 900 viii give large net profit
in their investment Marshall has
additional producing property in
section 1-32-GW. in the same pool,
With three producing wells on AL
Gifted tract 119. purchased from
he Blackfeet Indians
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-07
LEGISLATURE
PUTS OIL men
ON UNEASY SEAT

The Montana state legislature
convened his week aud the oil and
mining industries VIII spend a ner-
vous TWO months while the lawmak-
rrs are sorting over the thousands
of legislative IDEAS hat viii be
proposed
one Of The first measures in the
house was notice of a Bill by Rep
resentatiyes Brown and Mccarthy.
requiring coal mine operators and
oil we'll drillars 10 post security
Tor wages of employees unless they
own the property being worked.
This bin is believed 10 be similar
10 one introduced In the last legis-
la'urc and IT'S purpose is to put
all mall inda pendents out OF bust
ness. since most wells are financed
as drilling progresses. Request for
the measure did not come from oil
well drillers, according to adyices
from Helena
The oil industry is wen repre-
scented from the oil producing coun-
lies Of the state and the industry IS
no lobby G. c. Steven
son OF the Petroleum Industries
committee is spending part OF his
time in Helena TO advise legislators
on any question involving the oil
industry.
There is talk among the propon-
ants Of proration. defeated in the
hearing before the oil Conserva-
ton Board one year ago. of in
Producing bill to abolish that
board. A vindictive fight among
operators has long been threatened
~ some who still seek to have pro-
luction prorated and development
by a state governing
BOARD one plan is to put this pow
IT in the hands of the railroad COM
mission. rather than a board COM
posed OF persons engaged in the
oil industry.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-07

uUl lAun 'bCiDi e INV
The only statement forthcom
ing was: 1--WE expect to have {
completion in a day or two"
Visitors to the well Friday morn
ing reported no gas and no OF
showing in the bailings. nor was
there evidence of any sandstone in
the drill cuttings. This gave rise
to the rumor that the Moulton sand
may have been missing in this well,
as it was in the Yukon-Jacobson
discovery well. The discovery well
drilled on down to the Cut Bank
sand and found production of both
gas an oil which flowed over the
top. Drilled too deep, it encounter
ed water, but was plugged back
and has been in production for five
years past.
The second well drilled in the
pool, the Yukon-Lungren No L,
Unexpectedly encountered oil pro-
duction in the Moulton sand and
it is now flowing at the rate of
20 barrels per day. The Moulton
sand is known to be very lenticular
in the north Cut Bank area
but in it have been found the
largest gas wells in the field. The
Cobb-State No. l gasser, with an in
itial of 4O.00O,OOO cubic feet per
day. is the largest gasser in the
State of Montana.
Nadeau Brothers raced against
time in a vain attempt TO bring in
production before the expiration of
the Crowley permit on December
81 The well had reached depth
of more than 1000 feet, it is un-
derstood, on that date and there
is likelihood that the government
will recognize the valuation of the
permit even if production is devel- /
Continued on Page Five
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-07
Nadeaus Still Drilling
Darling Pool Well And
Depth Remains Mystery

With secrecy still surrounding drilling operations the
Nadeau Crowley No. we'll in the Darling pool of North Cut
definitely what formations have been penetrated by the drill
1t known only that this well is checking o. feet lower
structrrally than the Lungren producer.
Nadeau Brothers, drilling location in the synclne
between the Yukon producers and the gasser have
drill considerably deeper than the other wells in the dis
rict bat expected that they would reach the Mouon
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-07
ALL GASOLINE
TAX GOES TO
BUILD R0AnS

While other states have divert
ed gasoline tax money from the
roads TO build parks and to pay
pensions, as well as pay salaries Of
politicians, the state of Montana
points proudly to a record of the
collection OF more than $4,000, 600
without the diversion of one PEN
NY Furthermore. the new law re-
garding the extension Of the scent
gasoline tax has specific provision
that none of the gasoline tax mon
ey can be diverted to any other
purpose than 9or the building and
maintenance Of roads. Thus Mon
tana motorists can feel that every
nickel of tax money is an invest
ment in cheaper transportation thru
better roads.
Following is the record of gas
oline tax collections by years
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-07
Four New Wells In BOWdOin

Montana Dakota Utilities wells Bowdon
field the million
million cu0c feet from shallow This supplies
and cities in northeastern
Following OF compilations:
Evening star., 1939-10-22
81 Vessels Now Sunk;
Tonnage Loss 366, ,083
ey the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The war on the seas, after two
day lull, was renewed suddenly and
furiously yesterday as four ships
were reported sunk by torpedoes,
mines and unexplained explosions.
The sinkings sent the known loss
of ships of all nations to 81 and
the gross tonnage to 366, ,O83.
Besides the German coast guard
vessel Este, which was sunk by Ger
man mines near the Island of Moen,
Denmark, and the Swedish steamer
Gustaf Adolf, sunk by German
submarine, the Rumanian tanker
Oltenia sank near Gibraltar and the
Norwegian oil tanker Deodata was
revealed to have been sunk by an
explosion"
The unexplained sinking of the
6,394-ton Oltenia as she was carry
ing Rumanian oil to England was
Rumania's first loss. The fate of
her crew was undetermined. The
Rumanian report indicated that a
German U-boat was to blame.
Destruction of the Deodata, 1926
gross tons, also struck at the Eng
lish-Rumanian oil trade. Her sink
ing was revealed when % crew men,
bers arrived in England on British
steamer 1t was neutral Norway's
eighth loss in the war.
The known toll of other nations:
Britain, 38: Germany, 10; France, g..
Evening star., 1939-10-22
Reich's S New Poland Is Expected
To Include Jewish Reservation
State Will Be SoddIed With Huge
Financial Burden, Soy Nozis

from the necessity of reimbursing all
Poles crowded out of their former
habitats in the parts annexed by
Germany.
Officialdom declares that every
thing relating to Poland is still in
a state of f1ux, yet Adolf Hitlers
decree published on october 10, con-
firming annexation of parts Of for
mer Poland, as we'll as private talks
with men definitely in the know, re-
veal the picture as given above.
Hitler's decree annexed Pomorze,
Posen and Polish Upper Silesia,
which were German territory before
the Versailles settlement.
Poles will be pushed from all sec
tions annexed by the Reich. Gau-
letter Forster. Nazi chief in Danzig
is the authority for the statement
that this will be done 'ruthlessly"
In their places will settle Germans
(See POLAND. Page A-9D
Evening star., 1939-10-22
Swedish Lifeboots
lowed 4 Hours by Sub

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 81 lR.-The
captain of the Swedish steamer Gus
taf Adolf reported to her managers
today that a German submarine
sank his ship after allowing the
crew 20 minutes to leave it. Then
the U-boat towed lifeboats four
hours until.it met the Norwegian
vessel Bisca, the captain said.
All 19 members of the crew were
rescued by the Norwegian boat.
The report of the sinking to her
managers said the Gustaf Adolf
sank north of the Shetland Islands.
She left her home port, Gothen-
burg, for England last Tuesday.
Lloyd's Register lists the Gustaf
Adolf as a ship of 925 tons. op-
Grated by A. Bratt & Co. The Bisca
is a 6,089-ton steamer, whose home
port Is Bergen.
Evening star., 1939-10-22
Chain Store Tax
Blocked by Court

AUGUSTA, Ca, Oct. 81 R.-
Superior Judge R. N. Hardeman
today enjoined permanently collec-
ton Of the City of Augusta chain
store tax scaling up to $1,000 per
store.
He ruled the occupational license
levy was unreasonable, excessive
and confiscatory."
The City Of Augusta may appeal
the decision to the Georgia Supreme
Court.