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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-01-28

Marshall, Henry Frye, Marshall Cass,
Herbert Fitzpatrick, DR.. A. P. Russell,
Jry Daniel Council, Isaac Bonner,
George Gordon, Joseph S. Mitchell,
John Londen, Munroe Mason, Norris
King and Clarence L. Baker.
Visitors are welcome at any regular
meeting of the club.
Evening star., 1939-12-08

You an Margot Is only sub -see-
toots, John, but you had ought to
know at least a packard from for
ard pass.
Evening star., 1939-12-08

lose a purse, lose our heads, lose an
opportunity, lose q friend, but we
turn a dog loose, cut loose from a
bad habit, fasten a loose board,
write In a; loose style, etc.
Send q return envelope for the
leaflet "Was and Were"
Evening star., 1939-12-08

feels sleepy, and whenever he doesn't
feel sleepy he travels up and down
the Laughing Brook.
In these little journeys back and
forth, nothing escapes Billy's bright
eyes and sharp ears and keen nose.
Being such a slim fellow he slips
In and out of holes and hiding places
whikh no one save his cousin,
Shadow Weasel, could get into.
Now it happened that one day
Billy curled up in hollow log under
q pile Of brush close to the Laughing
Brook. In .jiny he was asleep.
Right IA the very middle Of the
Evening star., 1939-12-08
By Edgor Bergen
By WiIIord
By Edqor Rice Burroughs
By Mormon Morsh
By Bud Fisher

that man. The man certainly did
seem to be looking for something.
He would examine every half sunken
log in the Laughing Brook. He
searched carefully every little hole.
It didn't take Billy long to discover
that this man seemed to be espe-
cially interested in those places
where Billy almost always went
when travelling up and down the
Laughing Brook.
Billy stopped and rubbed his nose
thoughtfully. He was growing sus-
picious. IT wonder" thought Billy,
III he 10 looking for me-"
Evening star., 1939-12-08

it isn't Farmer Brown. He seems to
be looking for something. I wonder
what he is about. think IN watch
him."
So as silently as shadow Billy
Mink followed the man down the
Laughing Brook, and the man didn't
once suspect 1t. You see, Billy can
always find . hiding place If it be
no more than q heap Of brown leaves.
He just slipped from one hiding
place to another, always keeping
the man in sight.
Billy became more and more inter-
ested and inquiAtive % he watched
Evening star., 1939-12-08

pleasantest Of pleasant dreams he
was awakened. Instantly he was
wide awake. He was just as wide
awaks as If he hadn't been asleep
at all. Without stopping to think
anything about 1t he knew what had
awakened him. Some one had just
passed his hiding place.
Noiselessly Billy crept out Of the
hollow log and peeped from under
the pile Of brush. Walking down the
hank Of the Laughing Brook was q
man. 1--WE never seen that fellow
bsSore," muttsred Billy Ito himself.
1T 1sn't Farmer Browns Boy, and
Evening star., 1939-12-08

Nothing goes on along the Laughing
Brook, from where it starts in the
Green Forest to where it joins the
Big River, that Billy Mink doesn't
know about. Billy is great traveller.
He is so full of life and energy that
he cannot keep still very long at
time. Moreover, Billy is one Of
those little people to whom it makes
no difference whether jolly, round,
bright Mr.. Sun is shining or gentle
Mistress Moon has taken his place
up In the sky, or the Black Shadows
have wrapped everything In dark
ness. He takes q nap whenever hs
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Bedtime Stories

BY THORNTON W. BURGESS.
OF al the little people in the Green
Forest there is none with sharper
ges Of keener Wits than Billy Mink.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
jolly Polly
By JOS, J. ERIS(

BY JOS. J. FKISCH.
G. M. F.-"Watch him lose that
smile" is the correct form, not
watch him loose that SMILE" We
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Firemen Take BIuze
Back to Stdtion
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FULTON, KY. - Fulton had q
"three-alarm" IRE when the back
seat Of its sole police car caught IRE
In front Of the town hall.
Firemen were summoned from the
station house in the hall, but the
fire burned stubbornly on.
As q last resort, flremen carried
the cushion Into the IRE station and
turned . hose On It.
That did the trick.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Don't Take
Ny Word for 1t
nv FRANK COLBY.

b1IUO0SS00VS
Noun. An official representative;
an enpoy.
Radio commentators and news
casters, spare US "ambassa- -dore." !"
The fourth syllable Of this word
should never rhyme with core, bore,
more.
The or ending Of such words as
factor, director, legislator, chancel-
lor, actor, meteor betrays many
speakers to commit laughable
blunders, but, apparently, the er-
roneous "ore" sound Of "fac-tore,
di-rec-tore, legisla-tore, chancel-
.lore, ac-tore, mete-ore," ETC., Will
continue to be their especial darling
until the arrival of that day IN the
millennium when right will be
triumphant and speakers will cease
to regard this grotesque pomposity
as the most elegant" speech imag-
Unable.
The fact is, the rhyme with bore
Is q gross error, as any standard
American dictionary will testify.
envoy should NOT be pronounced
CONVOY" The French loan word
envoi is now AngNcized in both
spelling and pronunciation. The first
syllable rhymes with den, hen, men,.
The oar of ambassador, factor,
director, etc., must rhyme with her,
per.
Correct pronunciation: am-BASS-
uh-der.
Capitals indicate syllables to be
accented0
Send your questions about
words, with stamped (3-cent)
.>vs lL~nc.ol >rvnInvHo IN Frank
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Points for Parents

By EDYTH THOMAS WALLACE.
Accepting one another is necessary
for friendly relationships, but &C.
ceptance does not alDays mean
agreement.
Evening star., 1939-12-08

Send your questions about
words, with stamped (3-cent)
self addressed envelope, to Frank
Colby, care The Evening Star.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
we'll SHOWS
UpLEHSING
OF OIL SAND

Another producing we'll along
the gas oil line" of Cut Bank oil
field was completed this week two
miles northeast of the town Of
Cut Bank, by Glacier Production
company on its O'Brien No. loca-
ton, center SWA SWA 1924
3W. This well is close to the Simero
No. / producer, this company's
first oil we'll in Cut Bank field.
The lenticular nature of the Cut
Bank sand is demonstrated by the
fact that the Simero had but three
feet OF productive sand reported
while the new O'Brien producer,
across 80 acres. has 10 feet Of sat
urated sand.
Although considered n very
small well with doubtful
sand when completed, the Si-
nero No. producer, in the
center of the north half Of
Section 5-33-5W, produced
53.248.S6 worth OF oil up
to January 4. 1898. It's pro-
ductiOn was curtaiIed i'm 1898
owing to lack of market. II
paid out its cost In the first IS
months OF production.
Oil rose 400 feet in the O'Brien
No. 3 and it swabbed 145 bar
rels in the first "a hours. The
Sunburst sand, from 1865 to 2695.
showed about a barrel of oil per
hour This was blanked off by
7-inch casing which was set at
2722 feet. The Sunburst sand fire.
luently shows oil in this area but
seldom in commercial quantities. |
The upper Cut Bank sand from
2720 to 2745 had only a small |
show of oil and the main flow came
rom the lower Cut Bank from |
PAS to 275s feet Hole bottoms
1t 1850, two feet in the Ellis.
Completion Of this well reduced
he active operations in the field
o three.
Hanlon-Allotted tract 1913 No. 4,
ISL SEH NEA 12-32-6W. start
ID to rig up during the week but
vas shut down by the extreme
old weather.
Glacier Production-State 16 No.
!. c NWA NWA 16-33-5W, Is
Irilling at 1880 feet.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES No
(. c sEH SEA 2O-39-5W, is drill
lg at $50.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11

sB Moratorium on tax penal
ties. (67 to -.
HJR 3-To encourage the use
OF copper $50 to o..
SB 39-Permitting joinder OF
parties plaintiff in quiet title ac-
lions on oil and gas lands (52 to
o..
SIM 1O-Seeking congressional
action in relation to the smelter
New bills introduced include:
industry in Montana $50 to o.
SB II, BY Cotter-Asking chang
es in the rules for the granting Of
quartz mining loans by the federal
government
lib 347, by revenue and taxa
tion Relating to taxa
ton OF royalty interests in petro-
leum. gas and metals. (Revenue
and taxation).
SB 1872, by oils and leases com
mittee-Relating to tax paid by
petroleum producers (oils and
leases).
GcOntinued on Page Fivsj
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
GROUNDING
makes GOOD
On PROPHECY

When Br'r Grounding diYed
back into his hole on the second
day OF the present month, Montana
oil operators were figuring on
starting their spring drilling cam
paign because the newspapers we're
filled with accounts OF budding
trees and shrubs, the presence Of
butterflies and robins and other
sure signs of spring.
During the past week the Their
mometer stood at 35 degrees '0e-
low zero and three inches of snow
blanketed the prairies of north
Montana oil fields. as evidence that
the Grounding who saw his shadow
on that balmy day was correct
in going back for a siesta.
In Kevin-Sunburst field the cold
weather shut down every rig last
Sunday and no attempt was made to
drill during the week. The only ac-
tive wells were the following:
Big West-Gunderson No. 10. c
SEA NWA 19-35-2W. rigging up.
ullpH-CO veal tn uOHPbbh
No. 2, SW NE SWH 2S-35-3W
Incorrectly given as Ward No.
in Development Information col |
umn), drilling at 200 feet.
Plotke-ward No. 2. Sc SEA |
SEA 29-35-3W, drilling at $50
feet.
Coolidge & Coolidge-state A No.
3, NV NEA NWA 36-36-2W, drill
ing at 500 feet.
Five other wells were shut down
before the wintry blasts descended.
The weather man gives assurance
es that because of frightening
days, the cold spell will not last
long, however it is so general over
Montana that II has halted every +
wildcat well and the only active
rigs in the state today are three
wells in Cut Bank.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
next YUKON
well TO Be
on LUNDGREN

Yukon Oil company, wholly own
ed subsidiary of Santa Rita Oil COM
pany will register the honor of the
next completion in the new Darling
pool of North Cut Bank oil field
on a location selected this week
on the Lundgren farm.
The location announced by L. B.
O'NeiI. president of the two com
panies, is the center of NE "A NV
26-37-5W, south and west of the
Lundgren No. 1, which came in
flowing 80 barrels Of high gravity
crude per day, from the Moulton
sand at 1850 feet.
Statement was made that Yukon
will feel it's way" in it's program
of future drilling, staying relatively
close to production until such time
as the extent OF the Moulton hori-
zon is determined The presence
of the sand was established a half
mile southeast of the Lundgren No
/ by the Nadeau-Crowley No. / well
but the Nadeau we'll was too low
structurally to produce although it,
had showings of oil in three sands
with a combined thickness of more
than 100 feet. The Nadeau well
showed more sand, it is understood.
than any other will in the Cut Bank
area.
The Lundgren No. 2 is believed
to be at about the same structural
as the No. / and there
fore about 81 feet higher structur-
ally than the Nadeau well. Struc-
ture was determined by the Yukon
core drilling. The Jacob
son discovery well. three quarters
Of a mile north OF the Lundgren |
No. /, had commercial production |
IN the Cut Bank sand but had only |
a showing of oil and gas at the |
horizon where the Moulton sand /
should have been. The log does
not record the thickness OF the
sand member.
At the Nadeau well the MouIton /
and was 21 feet thick; the Sun
burst sand, 43 feet thick and the
upper and lower Cut Bank, with i
some shale breaks. had a total
thickness OF 81 feet. the bottom OF
which showed a hydrostatic head of
10 pounds per square inch. Each
and had a showing OF oil and the
Continued on Page Ffvel
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11

L. Shaw, for Lloydminster Royal
ties It was drilled to 1925 feet,
with 10-inch pipe set at 1880, near
the top of the sand, and oil was en-
countered in a 30-foot sand. Oil
rose 700 feet and it could not be
bailed down lower than ESQ feet
in continued bailing tests and it
showed no water Oil had previously
been found at Vera and Simpson,
in Saskatchewan, but both develop
ed quantities of water. The Vera
we'll was 2O91 feet and the Simp-
son well, 2512 feet deep.
Accounts received do not give
the gravity of the crude other than
it is "the same general character
as Wainwright, Unity and Colony
crude" Gas flows were encountered
at several levels before oil was
struck. The oil was found at mid
night Monday and by noon Tuesday
had come up $50 feet in the we'll
Bailing at the rate of IL barrels an
hour failed to reduce height of the
fluid level. 1t was shut down owing
to weather conditions and when
again tested, the fluid stood at
1 900 feet.
Withers estimates that 10 wells
will be drilled as soon as weather
permits. His own company, Triangle
Gas & Oil, will drill two wells;
Royalties will drill
wo; Walter F. Thorn Of Moose Jaw, !
and associates, will drill at least |
1ne well; Gates Petroleum of Win |
,inep will drill at TJovdminster as /
soon as its Pilot Mound well is
The deep test project |
will be carried out at a later date.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
MERGER Of z
REFIHERIES is
RUM0R TOPIC

Rumors, again without confirma-
ton, were rife in Cut Bank this
week that changes are likely afoot
in the announced refinery construc-
ton plans in northern Montana
Whereas it was expected that two
refineries were TO be built, one at
Shelby and one at Cut Bank, it is
now reported that the two plans
will be merged and one large re-
finery will result.
The Cut Bank refinery was to
have been constructed by Glacier
Production company. 1t was to
have been a Dubbs cracking plant,
for which complete plans had been
drawn and it was known that the
Parsons people were to construct
it as soon as weather conditions
permit The outlet for the refined
products had not been announced.
The plant was to have had a
capacity of 1900 barrels per day
and would have used only produc-
tion of Glacier Production company,
Montana Power subsidiary.
The Shelby refinery was to have
been constructed by SocOpy-
Vacuum Oil company, through con-
tracts with Producers Refining com
pany of Montana. This was to-
have been a 2,000-barrel plant
crudes from both Kelvin
and Cut Bank fields Contracts
were drawn in Great Falls two
weeks ago, ready for submission
and final affirmation by the board
Of directors of Socony-V Vacuum.
1t is now reported that Glacier
officials met with
Socony-Vacuum officials and urged
that the plans be merged so that
one refinery with a capacity of
5 900 barrels per day may be con-
structed, probably at Cut Bank, to
provide an outlet for all of the
production of members of the Pro
1ucers Refining company and the
Glacier Production Co., the pro-
iucts to be marketed through the
distributing system of
All of this is in the rumor stage,
from Cut Bank, and with
,ut confirmation from any of the
rarious parties.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
!: ALDL.EASE
SINKS DEEPER
LITIGATION

The maze of suits and counter
suits involving the S0-acre tract of
Fred Ewald, Great Falls attorney,
was provided with a new web dur
ing the past week when a suit for
$20,300 for alleged institution of
uniustified contempt proceedings
and false and malicious statements
was filed against Ewald by Wilfred
Nadeau, Cut Bank oil operator.
Litigation dates back to the drill
ling of the South Cut Bank dis
covery well by The Texaco company.
when Ewald ordered withdrawal of
a lease sent to Texaco through
Denver bank. Out OF efforts of Tex
AGO to keep the lease grew
large damage suit against Ewald
and countersuit in larger amounts,
none of which cases went to judg-
ment. Then Ewald gave a new lease
to Nadeau Brothers and the lease
was again placed in escrow. pend
ing settlement OF the Texaco liti-
cation. The lease was taken out Of
escrow and placed of record after
the first of two producing wells
we're drilled by Nadeau Brothers
Then Nadeau sued for damages.
naming Nadeau and their attor-
tcontinned on Page g1vs)
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
Important Oil Strike On
Saskatchewan Border
Confirmed By Withers
Oil Raises 1000 Feet In Wildcat Well Spotted BY
Late G. G. Howard, GeOlOgist Who Located
First Sunburst Producer

What appears be commercial oil production has been de-
veoped edge of the of Saskatchewan by
OPERATOR H. Whers formerly of the firm of
Wher Kirby according clippings forwarded by
Withers to the Journal from Regina
Thd well in the LOydmnste field in Section &C. town
ship range of the fourth meridian Is fault
mapped by the Grenvle G. Howard together with Dorsey
ager widely petroleum geoogst just west of the Lloyd
gas just of the SaskatchwanAbera line and
one mile west of the town of Lloydminster.
Mither started the well deep test association with H.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11

the hearing of the investigation COM
mittee the subject was preached out
the committee was unwilling to go
into the subject at any length.
One thing that is expected to
grow out OF the hearing is the pos
sible unification of report forms to
various state agencies, to get away
from duplication OF work in max
ing reports.
Thus far no bill which would ser
iously injure either the oil or min
ing industry has been passed by
the legislature and no dangerous
legislation is pending that is like
ly of passage. One measure signed
by the governor. of interest to the
oil and mining industries is
SB 12-Permitting redemption Of
real property from tax sales by
payment OF back taxes without in
terest or penalty.
The following bills have been
passed by the respective houses:
lib 80, by revenue and taxa
ton ommittee-'Relating to assess
ment and taxation OF net proceeds
Of mines $50 to %.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
Moulton Sand Defined
AS Gusher Horizon In
Cut Banks Tribal Pool
Lander No. Is Small Producer But Makes Most
OF It's Oil From Thin MOultOn Sand
New Well Spotted On ''Trend"

Definitely establishing the Moulton sand the horizon from
which Cut Bank largest flowing wells getting their production
the newly completed Santa RtaLander No. well, CIVIL SEA
SEA 6356W south Of the famous Lander No this week
put production flowing about 30 barrels per day of which
is coming from the Moulton sand.
This well 10 be located the edge of the
Moulton pool trend formerly believed that
production the Lander No the Lander No and the
No wells all Of which flowing wells
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
REcOuERYIH
IHDUSTRYIS
REMARKABLE

The annual statistical report OF
the Oil Conservation Board of Mon
tana, issued during the past week
was heralded by operators as the
most complete work of its kind
ever compiled for the industry, CIV
ing producers and refiners a clear
picture of the accomplishments of
the past year which was in many
ways one of the most difficult in
the history OF the industry.
The year 1888 saw the loss of
the Canadian market which took
about 100000 barrels of Mon
tana crude in 1887. The 1898 ship
ments to Canada dropped to 1885,
O1S barrels, a loss of 1 sos, 021 bar
rels. Since this figure is equal to
about one-third of the total pro-
duction in 1888, this would have
been disastrous to the industry ex-
cept for the fact that producers
swiftly established new markets and
refiners stepped up their operations
to absorb nearly a million barrels
of the excess. Production was cur
tailed 100000 barrels, so there
was no alarming gain in storage.
The report shows that the year end
ed with the industry in a very sat
isfactory statistical position.
Storage did gain from 1,37S,S69
barrels to 1,4S0,6O4 barrels. 1t is
believed that a considerable amount
of this reported storage is dot
toms" in the large tanks at Sun
burst, now credited to Kevin-Sun-
burst field. Kelvin storage totaled
55O,931 barrels at the end of the
year. compared with 530,011 bar
rels at Cut Bank. Much of the Cut
Bank storage is oil of Glacier Pro-
duction company, which oil is now
moving to the new refinery of IN
land Empire Refineries at Spokane.
Other oil credited to the storage
of transporter" is for the Idaho
Refining Co. at Pocatello, and
considerable amount of this oil will
be run before spring.
Hardest hit of all fields was Pom
dera oil field where production was
curtailed to nearly half of the
1897 rate. The daily average drop |
ped from 1,133 barrels to sos bar
rels per day, while many wells were
shut in. Pondera could produce |
1 500 to 1000 barrels per day, OPP
orators say, if there were a market. |
Pondera producers have done moth
ing to get a new market for their |
oil since the loss of the Canadian /
market and have even lost most
Of their Montana refinery market
to Cut Bank.
One factor in the annual statis-
tics was the decline in the importa-
ton of crude oil from Wyoming,
1902 barrels or an av-
srage of 512 barrels per day less
han in 1897. The principal factor
was the use of Dry Creek oil in
,ne of the Billings refineries, tot
lling 179,247 barrels. Another Bill
ings refinery used some 5000 bar
els of Cut Bank crude last spring.
Dry Creek production totaled
S3O,352 barrels of which 153,442
barrels were shipped to other
CONTINUED on Page F1vel
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
KANSAS WANTS
CAMPAIGN PLAN
USED LOCALLY

The Kansas Crude Oil Booster AS
ISOLATION of Hutchinson, Kansas
has written to the Shelby Lions
Club gasoline committee asking for
the plan of action in the campaign
of Montana Products for Montana
People" The Kansas association sis
attempting to do the same thing
for Kansas oil products J. C. Prem
ty of Hutchinson, who recently Wis
tied Montana, returned to Kansas
with a glowing report regarding
the success of the Montana cam
paign.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
FLATWILLOW
TEST NEARING
FIRST SANDS

LEWISTOWN - The Brundage-
Mink well on Flatwillow structure.
in sen NWA Sec. 35-13N-26E, is
drilling ahead, as weather permits,
with No National rig, expecting
to get the first Cat Greek sand in
the near future. 1t has had shows
OF oil and a little gas in the shales.
The second Cat Greek sands are
expected at around $50 feet. The
well ia financed by Lewistown men
headed by Clark Rowland.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-11
No Vicious Bills Likely OF
Enactment This Session

introducing bills the legislature at Helena ended
abolish
of
Of
oil
friendly plan