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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-06-17


The discovery of the Cut Bank
oil and gas field and its subsequent
development during the depression
and crop failure years has given
large amounts of revenue and en-
ployment to the people in the sur
rounding areas.
During this ten year period APP
proximately 500 oil and gas wells
have been drilled, refineries con-
structed, ESQ miles of local pipe
lines and the large gas line from
Cut Bank to the industrial centers
of Helena. Butte and Anaconda con-
structed. Three large supply stores
have built substantial buildings
here. This activity represents a tot
al capital expenditure, by large and
small corporations, of approximately
$50, O0O, 200. Local residents receiv-
ed approximately S3,0O0.0 00 for
wages and services from these pro-
jects.
The present payroll for opera
tion and maintenance of the oil
fields and refineries is approximate
ly s750,000 per year. Royalties
paid to landowners are approx
mately 100000 per year.
The Cut Bank oil field at this
date can produce $4,000 barrels of
crude oil daily This is not a large
figure compared to oilfields in 9TH
or states, but from a standpoint of
proven area, to be drilled in the
future, the Cut Bank field is the
worlds largest. At the present time
there are in excess OF 100 square
miles OF proven oil and gas land
and the boundaries Of the field are
lot definitely and completely known |
It this time. It Is estimated to re-
Iuire 80 years and an expenditure |
II many more millions OF dollars TO !
'emove this oil and gas.
The refineries now operating at
tut Bank can produce 7o.000. 600
allons OF high grade gasoline year ]
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-06-17

The oil money has cut a sunny
strip through Illinois. a bright
beam in the well-known gloom and
It's a theme for melodrama. Five
years ago this whole district was
hard up. Five dollars an acre would
buy many a tired, ne-er-do-weIl
farm. There were houses and barns.
and there still are, which looked
like the poor house on Tobacco
Road
Then Came The OIL Man
Then the oil men came In, and
II was discovered that hundreds of
men and women had been living
500 feet from buried treasure.
A half dozen counties. and more
every day. find that Just as a sur
prise, they have money. The starry
ing prisoner finds bis cell Is made
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-06-17
WANTS OIL LEFT OUT

Vice President John N. Garner
has presented to the Senate a joint
resolution adopted by the legisla-
ture Of California, urging that the
Congress enact legislation prohibit
ing the inclusion OF crude oil in
any treaty or trade agreement
which would encourage or condone
the Importation of this foreign oil
and further asking that Congress
either substantially increase present
excise taxes on petroleum imports
or prohibit them entirely.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-06-17

This we'll is three quarters of q
mile north of the same company'e
Hall No. 1 well, which was the
northernmost productive well up to
that time. 1t is about the same
distance east of the Santa Rita
Shearon No. this being the north
permit of Joe Shearon of Cut Bank.
The No. / valuation we'll has never
been operated although it is small
commercial producer in the Cut
Bank sand. It's isolation from the
nearest Santa Rita production
distance of over three miles-has
made it impractical to produce the
we'll.
The Larson we'll is drilling ahead
at 5000 feet after setting casing at
1920. 1t had oil sand from 3O18
to 302S, Unexpectedly productive.
1t made $50 barrels in eight hours,
having a considerable head of gas
that caused the fluid to come up
2, 500 feet. 1t was established that
the actual fluid level was 1900 feet.
The tools we're still in sand at
last reports.
A sandstone from. 1925 to 1850
was thought to be the Moulton sand
but it is possible that the oil is
coming from the lower Moulton,
there being two sands in parts of
the field. If it is not Moulton
sand, from which the Lander wells
are producing, it is Sunburst sand
since it is too high to be Cut Bank
sand. The Ellis had been expected
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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-06-17
Nadeau Well Produces
In New Oil Horizon In
North Cut Bank Field

Establishing third commercial oil horizon in North
lCu Bank oil field Nadeau Brothers Crowley No well in
lSWANW14 24-7-5W, in the Darling pool this week
struck oil in the Sunburst sand depth of 2676 feet This
is the first well in North Cut Bank get Sunburst sand
oil and the second well the entire Cut Bank oil field get
Sunburst sand oil in commercial quantities. Tie Nadeau
well rated from 40 so barrels 1t made barrels
per hour for 80 hours.
North Cut Bank has three established horizons of
oil and gas productions
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-06-17
NORTH CUT BANK HOLDS SPOTLIGHT
FIVE WELLS
ARE STARTING
IN CUT BANK

Five wells started in main Cut
Bank field this week and a sixth
In the North Cut Bank field. rank
Ing this week as one OF the most
active OF the present year.
The town OF Cut Bank Is again
tense with excitement, recalling the
early days OF Cut Bank oil field
history. as big news events occur
in startling rapidity
Following on the heels of the
completion OF the second Iarg-
est well I'm the field, the GIa-
cier ISroduction-C OrrIgeau No.
3 four miles southeast of the
town OF Cut Bank. came the
completion OF a north extension
II miles north of town.
Added to this was the find
ing, after the drilling of more
than 400 oil and gas wells, OF
new oil horizOn-the Sun
burst sand, which has hereto
fore been regarded as a gas
sand. These Sunburst sand
producers are more than 2S
miles apart, but were deyel-
Oped during the last 10 days.
Furthermore, Glacier Produc-
tiOn company ignited fires un-
der it's new refinery at Cut
Bank during the past week,
following a satisfactory pres
sure test, marking the start of
the towns fourth refinery.
The Corrigeau we'll continued the
center of interest at Cut Bank dur
ing the week. following its initial
of better than 500 barrels per day.
II swabbed 400 barrels the last day
Of the test and Is now being put on
production. This we'll has casing
set at 1894 feet with a liner set
10 1885. Sunburst sand was from
1884 to 1880, making 1876 barrels
IN IL hours. This is the first Sun
burst sand production OF this Inn
)ortance in the history OF the field.
This company's new Larson well on
he north edge OF the field, by com
larison. made $50 barrels in the
'irst eight hours, which may or
nay not indicate that the Larson
nay be a larger well than the Cor
fgeau No. 3.
The Corrigean No. 3 was drilled
IN down to the Cut Bank sand at
1856 where Il found more oil. con-
Inuing to 3012 Hole bottoms one
GOT in the Ellis at 3013. It made
16 barrels during the first "a
ours. ranking this well second in
initial production TO Santa Rita
.ander No. 1, with an initial Of
500 barrels per day The Lander
10. Is producing from another
ORION. the Moulton sand.
Castle-Pardee-T Tribal 179 No. A,
'ell. Sc NEA SEA 12-32-6W. in
he Big Bend pool. made 145 bar
els In the first "a hours and is
ated as a S0-barrel well. 1t had
pper Cut Bank from 1858 to 1887
nd lower Cut Bank sand from
S87 to 1905 with the main pay
Glow s494. Oil rose 1900 feet.
tContinued on rage F1vel
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-06-17
Parkins Gives Resume
Cut Bank Oil Industry


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achievements. Unlike most Of the
other tribes with which the expedi-
ton has come into contact, these
natives soon comprehended that we
did not care to have them wandering
freely about our camp and they kept
a respectful distance. Less suspicious
and less annoyingly curious than the
ordinary jungle inhabitants, they
gained our friendship more readily
and we gave them opportunities to
help us in minor tasks, which they
eagerly accepted.
Although we came to Netherlands
New Guinea primarily to study ami
NAL and plant life and to obtain
precious specimens for the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History, we
occasionally stumble on gems which
would arouse an anthropologist'
envy. And this mysteriously refined
tribe most certainly was such a gem.
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Connecticut Avenue Show
Posters 10 Be Judqed

Entries in the contest to select a
poster for the fashion promenade
and exhibit, sponsored by the Con-
necticut Avenue Association, will be
judged tomorrow afternoon.
Judges will include Louis Massey,
president of the association; L. E.
Rubel, chairman of the Committee
on Advertising and Publicity, and
Harry Kronheimer. promoter of the
style show, to be held at the May
flower Hotel March "a.
The contest, which closed yester-
day, was confined to art schools
within the vicinity of the associ-
atoms territory. Entries were re-
ceived from the Stuart School of
Costume Designing, Critcher Art
School, Abbott Art School and
National Art School.
More than 30 Connecticut avenue
shops will participate in the show.
The booths will be designed to sim
ulate store fronts on the avenue
and color motif of chartreuse,
purple and gray will be used in
the large ballroom, where the show
will be held and in the arrange
ment of the exhibits.
In addition to the style show,
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New Guinea Natives
Master Engineering,
Farming Sciences
Ingenuity Of Aborigines
Amazing to ArehboId,
Expedition Leader
By RICHARD ARCHBOLD,
Leader of New Guinea Expedition.


HOLLANDIA, Netherlands New
Guinea, March II (N.A.N.A).-That
necessity is the mother of invention
can be illustrated no more graph
ically than in the forgotten jungles
OF Netherlands New Guinea.
Here we have discovered native
culture developed in an ineXplicable
manner to an amazingly high
degree.
aborigines who have had no pre-
vious contact with Europeans. yet
have mastered. unknowingly, many
fundamentals of scientific farming
and engineering.
In the so-called Grand Valley, 130
miles inland and separated by a
limestone barrier that would make
contact with whatever European
civilization is to be found on the
coast well-nigh impossible, we re-
Gently established a camp out of
which the expeditions scientists
operated.
In this region lives a tribe of
astounding ingenuity. Dependent on
the earth for their livelihood, the
natives have devised a system of
irrigation, drainage and soil con-
servation that would do credit to
any American farmer.
Know Secret of Fertility.
Their main crops are sweet po-
tatoes, yams. sugar cane, tobacco
and taro. Unlike other tribes in the
hinterland, these natives have
learned the secret of prolonging
fertility. They do not let their
farms turn back to their former
wild state and move elsewhere in
search for their living.
They have learned in that
mysterious manner of people faced
with no alternative but to make the
best of their situation, to rotate
their crops and to allow certain
portions of their acreage to run
falloW for period Of years.
Around their orderly gardens are
irrigation and drainage bitches. The
drainage problem was serious. mas
much as they live in a fiat area
at the foot of precipitous slopes, and
they solved it admirably.
They utilize trees as windbreaks
instead of ravaging forests by ak
and fire. as Is the usual practice of
New Guinea natives. Their euca-
lyptus trees are precious commodi-
ties. They protect the soil, keep it
from blowing away; they provide
firewood and they furnish the mate
rial for building such requirements
as the wooden wall inclosing their
stockaded village of single-room
houses.
When we consider that it has been
relatively not so long since we in the
United States have been planting
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trees and shrubbery as armors for
soil. The remarkably efficient meth
ods of these ignorant natives can
be more readily appreciated.
Pride in Neat Gardens.
They take pride in keeping their
gardens neat. Wherever necessary,
they drive stakes to support the
potato vines. 1t is another simple
evidence of their agricultural talent.
They do not let nature shift for
itself, as Is the usual won't of the
unciviliZed.
Most spectacular of their accom-
plishments and representative of
their engineering skill is a suspen-
sion bridge, whose main span across
the river running through the Grand
Valley is more than 100 yards long.
1t is by all odds one of the most
awesome sights in this supposedly
benighted land. We all have seen
many European bridges whose con-
struction is clumsier.
One of the approach spans, a
steep ramp, reminded me, in its
elements of construction-though on
a necessarily primitive scale-of
the George Washington Bridge.
There is nothing elaborate about the
supports-on one side, the bridge is
secured to a tree, and. on the other,
by stakes in the ground. But there
can be no doubt as to its service
ability.
Military Value Great.
That this bridge has tremendous
military value, as we'll as being in
dispensable to their economy, was
noted by the fact that both ap-
proaches are guarded, "a hours a
day, by tribesmen armed with Is
foot wooden spears.
Their culture is not confined to
their bridge building and farming
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several dance studios will give re-
citals and an exhibition will be pre-
sented by members Of the Emile
health class.
c. Melvin Sharpe Of the Potomac
Electric Power Co. and Charles Pret-
lyman of the Credit Bureau will ad-
Evening star., 1939-03-12

dress a dinner meeting Of the Con-
necticut Avenue Association at $50
pm. Tuesday at the Parrot tearoom,
Connecticut avenue and r street
NV. Plans for the spring fashion
promenade and exhibit will be an
nOunced.
Evening star., 1939-03-12
Cormody to Talk on R. &. A,

Rural Electrification Administra-
tor John Carmody will discuss the
work Of his agency Wednesday at
1890 pm. before the National DEM
ocratic Council at luncheon meet
ing In the Cosmos Club.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Upper Rooms Is Chosen
As Dr.. Whites Tonic

Upper Rooms" will be the sub
Ject OF DR.. Raymond w. White,
pastor of Rhode Island Avenue
Methodist Church, tomorrow morn
ing. Communion service will fol-
low. The pastors evening subject
will be How Be Good" This will
be the third Of a series of topics
dealing with the so-called New
Morality"
Enrolment Sunday will be OBJ
served In the Sunday school at $50
am. The mems Bible class will be
taught by DR.. White. Subject, "The
World Into Which Jesus Came"
There will be a joint meeting of
the Ladies Aid Society and the
Women's Missionary Auxiliary on
Wednesday at II am.
The service Thursday night will
be under the direction of the presi-
dent Of the official board, Harry
L. Strang, jr., in the absence of
the pastor, who will be attending
the Uniting Conference of Meth
odism. Henry Gilligan will repre-
sent the church at the conference.
j. P. Dodge is reserve delegate.
Three youths entered training
schools to prepare for Christian
service this week. Bailey Phelps
entered Westminster Theological
Seminary and Albert Jones, West
ern Maryland College. Sybil Green
way entered George Washington
University to prepare for a medical
missionary for India.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Luther Place Memorial
Theme 10 Be Humility

The Rev. Frederick j. Eckert, as
sistant pastor at Luther Place
Memorial Church, will preach on
Humility" tomorrow at II am. A
group of new members will be re-
ceived. Charles Whitten will sing.
Rally day will be observed through
out the services of the day. Promo
tional day exercises in the depart
ments of the Sunday school.
The Rainbow Missionary Society
will be the guests of Mrs. I. L. Koch,
3942 Livingston street, Chevy Chase,
D. c., on Tuesday evening. Miss
Sarah Jones. assisting hostess.
Leader, Miss Augusta B. Henkelman.
The Young Peoples Fellowship on
Tuesday evening will be addressed
by a representative from the Amer
ican Red Cross.
The Ladies Aid Society luncheon
Wednesday at 1890 in the church
parlors will be followed by a business
meeting.
The Church Council will meet at
the parsonage Wednesday at 8 pm.
Red Cross sewing day Thursday
from 10:30 m. to pm.
Preparatory service at pm. on
Friday will be followed by the rites
of the holy communion. Two COM
munion services will be observed on
October 8, at $50 and at II am.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Plan Bible Lectures

Elsie Wade Stone. president of the
Columbia College of Christian Edu-
cation, announces the opening of
the sixth year of Bible lectures for
women at the college, 1908 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV, Tuesday at
l0:45 o'clock DR.. Stone will speak
on Bible Light on the Present-Day
World Crisis" Tuesday morning. The
lectures will continue throughout the
school year each Tuesday morning
till the second week of June, and
will deal with studies in the Penta-
teuch, beginning with the book of
Genesis.
The officers for the coming year
are as follows: Mrs. Jonas Blank,
president; Mrs. A. L. Baldwin. vice
president; Mrs. Robert Grier, secre-
tary, and Mrs. Philip SLING, treas
urer.
A reception and luncheon will fol-
low the lecture. with Mrs. A. L. Bald
win, Mrs. Cora Kiplinger, Mrs. Jonas
Blank, Mrs. Blanche Hawkins, Mrs.
Robert Grier and Mrs. Philip Sling
as hostesses.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Dr.. Pruden Selects
1omorrow's Sermons

Christ and His Church" will be
the subject of DR.. Edward Hughes
Pruden, pastor of the First Baptist
Church, at the communion service
tomorrow morning, when the newly
organized choir, under the direc-
ton of Harwood Hall, will sing.
In the evening Dr. Pruden will speak
on THE Solitary Throne"
Starting with the Sunday school,
B. Y. p. U. and church services to-
morrow, rally week" will be OBJ
served with interesting programs
every evening except Saturday next
week. This afternoon a church
picnic will be held at Reservoir
Park. On Monday evening the
Mems Brotherhood dinner will be
held, with DR.. William S. Abernethy,
pastor of Calvary Baptist Church,
as speaker. This will be followed by
meetings of the Board of Deacons
and Of the Ann Jackson Glass. On
Tuesday evening the Sunday school
will present program and on We'd
nesday evening the B. Y. P. U. and
the Wigs and Queues Dramatic Club
will give a one-act play, with other
features and a social. The Wom-
ans Society, Miss Elizabeth Clark
presiding, will have charge of the
Thursday evening meeting, present.
ing in attractive form various phases
of their missionary and other work.
The choir will have charge of the
Friday evening meeting, which will
be featured by musical numbers and
an illustrated talk by an outstand-
ing speaker.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Petworth Methodist

Rally day will be observed tomor-
row. DR.. George F. Zook, president
of the American Council of Educa-
ton, will address the combined
classes of the adult department at
$50 am. DR.. A. B. Potorf of the
faculty of American University will
preach at II am. DR.. Frank Steel
man will conduct the service of con-
secration for church school officers
and teachers The intermediate
League Fellowship will be at 6
o'clock The senior league rally
service will be at 7 o'clock. Young
peoples rally at pm. The girls
choir will sing.
The Berean Bible Class will meet
Monday at pm. at the home of
Mrs. Lillian Kenney. 1927 Fifth
street NV. The young peoples BAN
quet will be held at $50 Tuesday,
with the Rev. E. G. Latch as the
guest speaker The fall rally of the
Official Board will be at pm. Tues
day. The women's organization will
meet Wednesday at 1890 am. The
midweek services will be resumed
Thursday at pm, with DR.. Steel
man conducting. Friday at pm.
the Wesleyan Service Guild will
meet.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Minister Will Speak
On Greatest Loss

The Rev. w. S. Abernethy, pas
tor of Calvary Baptist Church, will
preach tomorrow morning on THE
Greatest Loss We Could Suffer"
Communion service and reception
of new members. At the evening
service his topic will be, I'VE Then
That Are Strong He will be
assisted by Herbert v. Pate, Mrs.
Elizabeth Quinn and D. Ray Quinn.
Instead of separate junior
church service, the boys and girls
of junior age will attend the morn
ing service, when the pastor will
deliver a children's story sermon.
Following the occasional they will
be under the direction of Herbert
v. Pate
The Rev. Edwin H. Tuller Of Con-
necticut is to be the new assistant
to the pastor, succeeding the Rev.
Frank E. Johnston, jr. He and his
wife have been spending the past
year in Europe in study. They will
begin their work here October IS.
Promotion day in the Sunday
school will be observed October 8.
The cradle roll department will hold
its exercises tomorrow at 10 am.
The Wilbur Class will hold busi-
ness and social meeting Tuesday
evening. Miss Priscilla Peet will give
an illustrated talk on her vacation
trip to Alaska,
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Incarnation Lutheran
To Observe Sacrament

The Incarnation Lutheran congre-
CATION will celebrate the holy COM
munion tomorrow at $50 and IL
am. with the Rev. Henry Manken,
jr, in charge He will be assisted
by Edward r. Folk and John w.
Martin. The order for the baptism
of infants will be observed at IL
am. In the Bible school depart
ments at $50 am. the classes will
be promoted to the next series OF
lessons of the Lutheran Christian
life course.
The Bible School Association will
meet in its annual dinner on Thurs
day at $50 pm. in the parish
hall, when the address will be
made by the Rev. Ed G. Goetz,
president of the Eastern Conference
of the Maryland Synod. The In
termediate Luther League will hold
a rally tomorrow at $50 pm. at
fellowship supper occasion. The
pastor will install the following Of
ficers: President, William Moore,
jr.; vice president, Virginia Rit-
tenour; recording secretary, Gareld
Schweitzer; financial secretary. Will
liam Sturges; pianist. Peggy Cook !;
librarian, Ruth Rittenour; superin-
tendent, Gertrude Kluge. The
Senior League will meet at 7 pm,
with E. Hoover Duff in charge.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
s.. Paul. S Lutheran
To Observe Communion

At st. Paul's Lutheran Church
tomorrow holy communion will be
observed morning and evening. This
will mark the resumption Of the
Sunday evening worship, when DR..
Henry w. Snyder will preach on
"Our Life Guard" At the Sunday
school session Lindley G. Schmidt,
superintendent, will present certifl-
Gates of promotion to about so pu-
pills. The Luther League will meet
at 7 pm.
The Louie Dale Leeds Class will
be guests Of Mrs. Vernon Ferguson.
4804 Forty seventh street NV,
Monday evening.
Prayer services will be resumed
Wednesday evening. The Ladies'
Aid Society will also meet.
The Young Peoples Club will meet
in Schafer Hall on Thursday eve
ming. Those entertaining will be Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph BARLEY, Miss Patty
Baker and John Baker.
The primary department will pre-
sent Mother in Flower Land" at
7::3O Friday Motion pictures of the
recent children's day procession will
be shown.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Atonement Perish
To Hold Rally Doy

The women of Atonement parish
have been conducting an every
member visitation for the past
month, which will eliminate on
rally day tomorrow.
The sacrament Of the altar will
be administered at the morning and
evening services. Confessional serv-
Ices will precede each service. The
Rev. Howard Snyder will give a
short sermon at the morning service.
The young peoples services will
be held at Z pm. The Rev. Mr.. Pow
ers, assistant, will be in charge.
"A class of adults will be received
on October 8.
The confirmation class will begin
work on October 4 at $50 pm. in
the parish hall.
A meeting of the vestry will be
held October at 8 pm. in the
parish hall.