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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-25
GOVERNMENT
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ible; and the department has made
it clear that the burden of proof
rests with those who propose such
restrictions to supply evidence that
there is a necessity for such action
In response to requests from con-
gressional committees for comments
upon bills dealing with this subject,
the department has taken the posi-
ton that wise national policy would
tend to avoid rather than to seek
the imposition of any obstacles to
the importation of petroleum, since
such action would have the affect
of fastening exhaustion of a linn
tied and irreplaceable natural re-
source.
THE petroleum products normal
ly imported into this country are,
generally speaking complimentary
to American petroleum products,
yielding a high proration of heavy
fuel oil and asphalt, both of which
are in demand in this country and
unobtainable, at least in like guam
tity and quality, from California
fields. 1t is apparent from refer
ence to the statistics of trade in
petroleum that imports of even
these relatively non-competitive pro-
ducts have not been large in COM
parison with domestic production |
and have been exceeded, in both vol |
ume and value, in every year since |
1922 by exports of crude and re-
fined oil"
Research into more efficient use
of fuels also is recommended in
the report, such as more miles per |
gallon for automobiles. In this
connection the committee foresees a
growing field for diesel power. The
report says on this subject:
THE diesel engine promises bet
ter rehabilitation than the gasoline
engine. Diesel engines not only af-
ford more miles of travel per gal
ION fuel, but also they probably
will be developed to use fuel SINH !,
ar to much of the raw material OF
,asoline manufacture. Research is
to reduce the present high
ost of building diesel engines. and
o develop them so that they will
as smoothly as gasoline
ngines. improvements are to be
expected, and progress already has
cen made in the use Of diesel en-
ines in heavy trucks, where cold
tarting, quick acceleration, and
Their items of performance are not
, important to the user as lower {
ost of fuel"
The report places the proven oil
sserves of the country as of Jan. :
1898 at 15,000.O0O,0OO barrels.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-25
MANY PRECAUTIONS MUST Be
TAKEN IN AVOIDING CHANCES
OF ERROR IN ORE SAMPL|NG

The precautions to be taken in
sampling are legion. To the layman
investor the job of sampling seems
the simple process of gathering UP
pieces of rock here and there.
Here are II chances for error in
hand sampling, as listed by T. ].
Hoover in 1.-THE Economics of Min
ing"
l. Intentional sailing for pur-
poses of fraud.
?. Friable streaks in the ore,
causing an excess of one such por-
ton to enter the sample.
g. Hard streaks in the ore,
causing deficiency of one such
portion to enter the sample, the
converse of the situation given a.
bove. If the friable portion in the
above case were comparatively
rich, the assay would indicate too
high a value; If the hard portion
were comparatively rich, the assay
would indicate too low a value.
The way to avoid this difficulty is
to sample the friable and hard por-
tions separately, even though they
are quite narrow, even less than an
inch in width in certain cases where
rich streaks occur. This calls for
very careful measurement, and al
so the allowance, in calculations,
for possible variations in specific
gravity of hard and soft portions.
4. Failure to recognize ore, thus
leaving it unsampled. "a classic
example of this is the zinc carbon
ate deposits of Leadville, Colorado,
which went untouched for years
before being recognized as ore.)
5. Laziness and fatigue. The
Influence of these are felt in the
actual cutting of samples.
6. Ignorance and inexperience.
This can usually be corrected by
from the experienced en-
yineer.
7. Failure to see and examine
III openings. Blocked-up sections
nay contain low-grade ore. although
hey also have been known to con-
ain bonanzas.
8. Failure to take samples at
light angles to the vein. or to make
he necessary mathematical correc-
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-25
COPPER, NICKEL AND
COBALT AT MAIDEN

MAIDBN-The Black Rock mine
which this fall was tested and
sampled. giving assays high in gold
and silver. has since been closed
out and numerous additional sam
pies taken. Tests indicate that the
ore contains also copper, nickel
and cobalt Copper is very promi-
nent and probably runs high in
some part of the ore deposit Some
samples have been sent to the In
ternational Nickel company's 1t,
Of Canada. by A. Franchie, who
is conducting some research work
on this ore. The ground comprises
several claims owned by local men.
There are several veins on the
property.
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CALALYTIC REFINING
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csc and nickel. Delightful to the
refiner is the thought that such
catalysts economically can be re-
placed, or. in some cases, recon-
ditioned for additional use.
Psychologists already are talking
about the development of a ''cata-
lytic technique" which will enable
refiners to obtain a wide variety
of catalysts to meet specific refin-
ing needs. They assert the initial
use OF catalysts in petroleum re-
filming has opened a dozen new
doors to assorted industrial en-
deavors.
While they are discussing the
subject, refiners are spending addi-
tiOnal millions of dollars to recon-
struct and mOdernize their plants
to take advantage of virtually every
thing that is being developed.
Such drastic and expensive steps
have been taken before, particularly
when continuous distillation became |
the vogue. Invention of cracking /
marked another period of transition |
of polymerization a |
few years ago was a signal for re- |
finery expansion and the addition |
Of polymerization units to existing /
equipment. The chances are that it i
all will happen again, and within
a few years, or just as soon as re-
5earchers can turn over a few more
pages in the industry's book of
scientific mystery.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-25

OPERATORS and geolOg1sts may avail
themselves of the use Of the Montana
OIL and Mining journals geological
library, which has the largest colIec-
ton extant of q. g. g. g., State and
private reports on Montana oil and
mining geology. Since many Of these
seports are Owt Of print, copies win
be furnished Of reports. together with
maps, on moderate folio charge
through the Supply Department Non
tana on and Mining Journal, First
National Bank Bldg. Great FANS
Montana.
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has been awarded to Bob EngeI-
king. Crumley will drill the No.
IA location himself, in the spring.
Need for additional oil is said to
have necessitated the winter drill
ing.
Agan & Goeddertz are preparing
to start their No. IS well on the
Goeddertz farm in Section 90
35-3W, north of Kelvin. Their No.
II well, Sc NV u SWA %, is now
being pumped, making Is barrels,
natural.
Big West-Gunderson No. 10, C
SEA NWA 19-35-2W, is drilling
at 1895.
Coolidge & Coolidge.state A No.
3. NV NEA NV 36-36-2W, is drill
ling at 875.
Fulton Commonwealth Thomp-
son No. 2. SW NEA SWA 1886
SW, Is drilling at 500.
Plotke-W Ward NO. 2, SW SWA
SWA 2S-35-3W, is drilling at 700.
Superior Petroleum Goeddertz
No. 4, GEL SEA SWA 12-s5-3W,
has been making only eight barrels
per day so it will be drilled deep
er, to produce from both the Sun
burst sand and the top of the Mad
ison lime.
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FLOWING WELL
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quarter mile east of the Clarkson
is a gasser.
At the state No the casing was
set at 1887, shutting off a showing
of oil in Sunburst sand from 1905
to 1881. The upper Cut Bank sand.
from 1882 to 2S75, was dry. There
was a shale streak from 2875 to
1884 above the lower Cut Bank
sand which occurred at 1884 to
1904, where the oil was found. Drill
ling continued one foot into the
Ellis shale for a total depth of
1905 feet.
Glacier Production company's
Shearon No. 2. C SEA SEA 20
SS-5W, will be the next completion
in the field 1t is drilling at 2190.
Hanlon-AllOtted 1913 No. CSL
SEA NEA 12-32-6W is drilling at
$50. Ten-inch surface pipe was set
at 584. Top of Colorado was at
$40.
Santa Rita-Tribal No. 9, Gel SCI
NEA 16-35-6W, in the Lander pool,
is drilling at 626. It was spudded
Saturday, Feb Is. Surface pipe
was set at 626. Top of Colorado
was at 593.
Glacier Production-Simero No. A.
c NEA NWA 5-33-6W, is drilling
at 745 Surface pipe was set at
420 after finding the Colorado at
400.
Two new wells were started in
Cut Bank this week They are:
Tarrant-Long-Miller No. 7, NE
SW U MEL 1A-2A6W II 10 15AO
feet south of the north line and
1910 feet west of the east line of
the section, where rig is up.
Glacier Production Bliesner Unit
No. l. NE SEANEA 3-33-5W, in
the gas area, is 219O feet south of
the north line and 400 feet west
of the east line of the section.
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ton for width sampled
8. Undue haste. A bad sample ST
worse than no sample.
10. Contamination of low-grade
samples by material from high
grade samples adhering to tools,
utensils, canvas, or machinery In
variable and scrupulous cleanliness
is the antidote for this.
IL. Failure to include seemingly
barren spots in the sample scheme
These must be sampled separately
or else recorded and excluded from
later ore estimates.
II. Inability later to mine to
the exact limits of the sampled
block. This must be taken into con-
sideration in the calculation.
10. Failure to include, in sam
pies or calculations, weak ground
adjoining the walls of the lode
which will be broken with the ore
in stopping operations.
IA. Failure to clean sampling
surface. Clean thoroughly, even to
the extent of blasting a new face
where necessary.
10. Improper reduction to assay
pulp Of samples taken in the mine,
of incorrect assaying.
Is. False assumption that sam
pies for irregularly spaced levels
represent the average of each block.
Such levels sometimes have fol-
lowed the best ore, and the reas-
pms for the irregular spacing calls
Tor investigation.
II. Confusion of samples. If |
critical samples cannot be a1locat |
I'd, unending trouble will follow,
rhe remedy is painstaking record
ng and marking of all samples.
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The rocks. broken by blasting
or power tools. come from the
mines mixed with the minerals in
such indiscriminate masses that it
might take days for one man to
separate a truck-load by hand
But dumped into a trough OF the
liquid, flowing about a mile an
hour, the rocks either float while
the valuable minerals sink. or the
reverse if the minerals are the
lighter weight The two float out of
the end of the trough as completely
separated as swimmers and fish in
river.
Density Variable
The extinguishers, furthermore,
can do a trick that fish have never
been trained to- The liquids density
can be regulated so that rocks
which are half mineral and half
dross will flow along midway be-
tween top and bottom of the artifi-
aial stream.
The commercial feasibility of this
process depends on not losing any
of the valuable fire extinguisher.
which has to be used over and over.
Discovery of a way to do this, made
by the Dupont company, was de-
scribed by w. B. FOulke. director of
the company's mineral separations
division.
Actually the liquid never touches
the rocks whether they float or sink
in it. The new DUPONT process i'm
munizes both rocks and minerals
against the extinguisher by dipping
them in a bath OF water mixed with
few thousandths of one per cent
of fannie acid.
Film Covers Rocks
The acid causes a thin film of |
water to Jacket" the rocks so /
tightly that the extinguisher does
not wash 1t off. The rocks emerge |
still iacketed with water and the
extinguisher flows off for further
use. The old water film, however,
dries in air quickly as any other
water.
In practice the artificial river of
fire extinguisher is nearly three
feet deep and about the same width.
On top of it flows a stream of water
two feet deep The water serves to
spread the rocks floating on the
extinguisher, so that they do not
pile up to sink each other.
The separation depends on diff
ference in specific gravity and
said the fire extinguishers
will separate rocks such quartz
and calcite. whose specific GRANTEES
are very close. namely 2.66 and
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Geological reports copied OF min.
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New FlotatiOn Methods
Claimed To Sort Ores
Out OF Country Rock

NEW YORK-Fire extinguisher liquids which look like
float rocks big mans head announced
aid to mining
The exngushes described to the American Institute
of Mining Meaurgca Engineer useful for separating
the rock from Is minerals ranging from coal to gold
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-02-25
MIN

VALUABLE mining property for sale
or lease, containing gold, silver and
Grand County, Colorado f. Naron
~ Dayton Avenue. ST. Paul, Mime.
SOC 2-20-a
MINING OPPORTUNITY--AfIl needed 70
$500 10 $1,000 per ton; propertv SaIz
On long term lease; ore enough To rnn
ltO ton mill 10 to IS years. Inveasil
s4te; satisfactory terms to right partv.
ADDRESS Verona Allen 7OB FsnciiS
Avenue Pueblo, Colorado. 800
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OVER THE COUNTER
Wash. Water Power $3.50 1O1.OO
Mont Power Pfd...1O1.5O 10000
METALS
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-20
WISHING 4 MERRY CHRISTMAS

We give Best Wishes for filled with Happiness and Peace Good Will and Good Cheer and the Spirit that makes Christmas the great edaY of all great daY We hope ha Christmas finds in inc enjoy men o all he blessings life and that he New Year brings you b fulfill meni of worthwhile plans and ambitions
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
SAFETY TALKS

IT'S an art, this walking along
the highway, and not every
body who does it lives to tell about
it afterward. At least a third Of
the pedestrians fatally injured in
rural districts are struck while
walking along the roadway, ac-
cording to figures of the National
Safety council. And about two
thirds of these were walking with
their backs to approaching traffic.
In many places, sidewalks are
being built parallel to the high
ways to segregate motor and pc
destrian traffic, but in places
where they aren't yet built, the
council has these four suggestions
to offer:
walk on the left side Of the
road.
AT night, carry a light.
Swear light clothing or at
least some article of clothing
that's white, to make it easier for
the motorist to see you.
4Walk on the shoulder Of the
road instead of the pavement,
where possible, to keep from Fore
ing cars into the path Of oncoming
traffic.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
TIPS %


MANY lobbyists get pleasure
lVA from special gardens. Some
have been successful with all
marigold, or all-petunia gardens.
Marigolds are available in a wide
variety of sizes and shapes and
provide a golden-brown garden
scene of unusual richness.
Petunias have a wide range of
color, and more and more they
are being used for cut flowers as
well as for garden color and
beauty.
Some have grown gardens pri-
marty for fragrance. The best
flowers for such garden, accord
ing to Harry A. Joy, flower expert,
are: Alyssum, carnation, pinks,
mignonette, nicotiana, sweet pea
and sweet William.
For garden of plants without
actual flowers but with snowy foli-
age, interesting results have been
obtained with the following: JOS
eph's coat, coleus, dusty miller,
snow-on-the-mountain, annu l
poinsetta, kochia and castor oil
bean.
The following will fit well into
a typical wildfower garden; An
nual lupin, bachelor button, rud-
beckia (cone fower), columbine,
perennial aster, heuchera (coral
bells), and perennial lupin.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
Trend

HosD the sUind is blowing /.
DEFICIT-The u. s. treasury
ended the first seven months Of
this fiscal year with 81 1851, $751;
1853 deficit, having spent $5,222,-
500, 404, compared with $4,262,-
464, 425 in last years similar Pc
riod.
observation-disclosures reserves
of federal reserve member banks
are declining after a steady, dis
couraging, rising trend in Janu-
ary.
EGGS-Oficers from two Ital-
ian cruisers were rotten-egged
while driving through Panama
City to visit government officials.
TAXES-Jewel Tea company
reports its taxes now cost $685. %
per worker compared with $87 81
in 1882. Total: 81. 100,4l5 against
$248, Asst in 1882.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
Weekly News Analysis
Federal Insurance Supervision
Nav FolIo,u Committee Probe
BY Joseph w. LIN Bine-

was ready to surrender, but not
Premier Juan Negrin. His terms
~ elimination of foreigners from
Spain; az plebiscite by the Span
ish people to decide their future
form of government; (3) no repris-
ais on either side. Those terms
having apparently been rejected by
the Insurgents, Premier Negrin pre-
pared to fight to the finish in the
large southeastern section of Spain
his government still holds.
Anglo-French concern over the
Spanish war may be expected to
grow daily until that conflict is end
ed. AS last chance for peace with
security, London and Paris jumped
on the bandwagon for Negrin's plan,
realizing these terms held a scant
promise that Spain might emerge
from the war as sympathetic ma
ton, rather than as a tool for Italy
and Germany.
But it would obviously be fool
hardy for the Fascist governments
to accept peace with partial victory
when full victory is so near. That
accomplished, France will have to-
talitarian neighbors on three sides
(Spain, Italy, Germany and will
be ripe for plucking by Mussolini.
It is significant that Italian terri
torial claims against France are
being held up until the war is over.
But the approach of this French
italian struggle draws Paris closer
to Britain each day. Before the
house of commons, British Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain has
promised full military support in
case France is involved in war.
AUiatiOs
U. S. and British airliners have
been hopping the Atlantic in test
fights for two years, planning to
start London New York service si-
simultaneously next summer. Last
fall a reciprocal agreement was
signed but the English, piqued be-
cause the u. S. refused to let Inn
perial anyways ships land at Homo
lulu, shrank back in pout. Anx-
ious to start transatlantic service
this year regardless of the British
attitude, the U. S. opened negotia-
tons with Paris and Immediately
arranged Paris-New York flights via
the long Azores route. Meanwhile
the British announced they would
inaugurate independent service
next June.
But the Americans showed them
selves better diplomatic pilots than
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
Wives i'm the News

GANDHI - Mrs. Kasturibhai
.Gandhi, faithful, silent" wife of
India's Mohandas K. Gandhi, has
|sbeen arrested for participating in
"a civil disobedience campaign.
3 FLEGENHEIMER - Mrs. Ar
THUR Flegenheimer, widow of
New York's late policy racketeer,
Dutch Schultz Flegenheimer,
testified she saw her husband in
conference with James J.. Hines,
! Tammany leader who is accused
of selling protection.
/ MO0NEY--Mrs. Rena Mooney,
|swife of California's ex-Convict
Tom Mooney, promises to fight
her husbands reported attempt
to divorce her.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
BY WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg, Washington D. C.

were authorized after Ambassador
Bullitt, in his reports from Paris,
had laid bare the whole situation.
I am told that Mr.. Bullitt ad-
vised Mr.. Roosevelt to treat the
matter as a routine; that to talk
much about it would excite people,
unduly. Well, the Bullitt idea was
working until the unfortunate acct
dent out near Los Angeles when a
big bombing plane fell, injuring a
member of the French mission that
is in this country buying the planes.
Then, out popped the secret and out
came the critics of the Roosevelt
foreign policy.
It is not within my power to say
whether Mr.. Rooseve1t's foreign pol
icy is right or wrong. I do not
believe anyone can tell yet. Any
foreign policy is something of a
gamble. If it works, the author is
a hero; if it fails, the author of the
policy promptly is termed sap.
But of this phase, l can write:
why should the howlers now arise
and denounce the Presidents for
eign policy on the basis of sales Of
planes to France, when more than
year ago the British government
began buying planes from our man.
ufacturers? Why is it wrong to let
the French buy and right to let the
British buy? Or, to state the mat
ter affirmatively, it seems to me
that we cannot well differentiate be-
tween two nations with whom we
have friendly relations.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
Frances Purchase of
American-Mode Airplanes

To get back to this airplane thing,
should like to set out some of the
facts. France is buying American
made airplanes-several hundred of
them. She is doing this because her
own airplane production has stalled
and France has sufficient gold to
buy them elsewhere. The French
military service must have them in
case there is that outbreak of force
that seems so imminent on the sur
face for the reason that Germany
and Italy are superior to France in
the air.
The contracts were let in this
country after Mr.. Roosevelt had
talked over the whole question with
his cabinet and with the war and
navy departments and certain lead
ers of the airplane industry. They
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
Business

AS counsel for a New York state
legislative insurance committee
Charles Evans Hughes made a
name for himself in 1905 uncovering
what he thought to be irregularities.
The chief Hughes fear: That in
surance company resources were so
large as to make conservative, re-
sponsible management increasingly
difficult. The Hughes remedy: Fed
eral supervision of insurance invest
ments.N
Since 1906 Mr.. Hughes has risen
to the u. S. Supreme court and may
have changed his mind. At least