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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-28
C0-0PS BUILD
1,550-BARREL
DUBBS PLANT

CHICAGO-Howard A. Cowden,
president Of the Cooperative Re-
finery Associa lion, North Kansas
City. Missouri, announces that he
has just signed license agreements
with Universal Oil Products Com
pany, Chicago, covering a 1850
barrel-a-day Dubbs cracking unit
and a catalytic non-selective poly
merization plant. These will be in
stalled in the refinery the Cooper
alive will build Immediately in
northwestern Kansas. The crack
ing unit is so designed that cox
ing equipment can be added later,
If desired.
The refinery association is a sub
sidiary of Consumers Cooperative
Association wholesale which has
between four and five hundred
member companies operating bulk
plants and service stations in ten
middle western states. The plant
will have a daily crude capacity
of 5000 barrels. An adequate
supply OF Kansas crude is assured,
and gathering pipelines from the
field TO the refinery is a part Of
the project. Gasoline, kerosene, !
tractor distillate and diesel fuel
will be produced for cooperatives in
Kansas, northeastern /
Colorado and western Nebraska.
Consumbers Cooperative Associa-
ton, organized in 1929 with only
$4,000 of capital, now has total 1
assets Of nearly three quarters Of
a million dollars.
L. M. Johnston, formerly super
of the Producers & Re-
timers refinery (now Sinclair) at
pareo, Wyoming. viii be in charge
1f refinery operations.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-28

One bill known as House Resolu-
ton 1868. introduced by Repre-
sentative Horton, republican, pro-
vides:
A BILL
To provide for the extension of
certain oil and gas prospecting per-
mits issued under the Acts OF Con-
gress entitled IAN Act to promote
the mining of coal, phosphate. oil,
oil shale, gas and sodium on public
domain" approved February Is,
1920 al Stat. 437: U, S. c.. title
30 secs. 1856, 223). as amended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives OF the
United states Of America in Con-
gress assembled, That oil and gas
permits issued under authority Of
an Act entitled IAN Act to promote
the mining of coal, phosphate. oil.
and oil shale. gas and sodium on the
public domain" approved February
rs. 1920. as amended, outstanding
on December 81, 1888, and not ex-
tended by the Act of Congress APP
proved August 26, 1887. (a) under
which approved drilling was actively
in progress at sometime within the
calendar year 1898; or (b) which
have been issued subsequent to
August 81, 1885, and for which
timely compliance has been made
with the drilling requirements un-
Ter section 10 OF the Act of Febru-
ary 25, 1920, to the extent required |
by December 81, 1898, or. in the |
, hoapoa - ouoh drfTlIpu - 4v-hf.t 4
an acceptable cooperative or unit /
,lan OF development and operation /
las been filed on or before said
late. are all extended to December
II. 1899. the provision Of any other
Act or Acts to the contrary notwith-
All oil and gas prospec-
ing permits extended hereby shall 1
ease and terminate without notice /
" cancellation on December 81,
939.
While the foregoing measure would
ring some relief, the second
Measure is something that all the
western states will desire but is
ess likely of passage. The extent
II this House Resolution 1858
A BILL
To amend the Act entitled IAN
let to promote the mining OF coal
hosphate. oil, oil shale, gas and
odium on the public domain"
pproyed February Is, 1920 al
tat. 437; u. s. c. title 80, secs.
IS. 223l. as amended.
BE It enacted by the Senate and
Eouse Of Representatives Of the
continued on Page Eighrl
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-28
THOUSAND BUCKS
FOR SOME SHELBY
HIGH SCHOOL KID

The Independent Petroleum AS
ISOLATION of America will award
one prize of 81 900 and IS state
prizes OF 500 each to senior stu
dents who are this year complet-
ing their work in accredited high
schools, it is announced by w M.
Fulton. Montana chairman Of the
association at Shelby. Shelby and
Cut Bank students have an excel
lent chance TO win the national
nrize as well as the State award.
The awards are to be made for the
essays on the project: What Oil
and Gas Have Done for My Com
munity."
Announcement Of the contest is
being made to superintendents Of
fconunued on Page Fsvel
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-28
HOME CREDIT UNION
DECLARES DIVIDEND

A dividend of per cent on all
shares and a reduction OF interest
rates was voted at the annual meet
ing of the Home Oil & Refining Co.
credit union this week. Around rs
employees attended the meeting at
the Park hotel
Annual reports OF the various
committees and officers were read.
The treasurer's report showed as
sets of the organization are 3d.
453 as compared with SS,75S a
year ago. There are 80 members Of
the union, and the average deposit
is s135.89 each.
Officers of the union are S. Van
Blaricom. president; Leonard Hal
gren. vice president: Fred Erickson,
ecretary-treasurer all of whom
were reelected. May and Roy Sta
pleton were named directors: Frank
Fogerty, Garrett Hatback and Carl
credit committeeman,
and M. b. Stanley, Ann Courts and
Bernice Balch, supervisory commit
tee.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-28

GUNDERSON POOL IN
kelvin FIELD SHOWSUP
WITH TWO BIG WELLS

The pool central Kelvin Sunburs field took
the spotlight northern Montana this week wells
responding acid and the other getting
unusually large showing of oil that promises good production
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-28

Big West-GundersOn No. o, NV
SEA NWA 19-35-2W, in the center
of the Gunderson lease, had a small
showing Of oil when it reached the
top of the lime at 1903 and drilled
on to 1854 without getting more
oil. 1t was plugged back to 1908
and acidized with 500 gallons of
hydrochloric acid Placed on the
pump it quickly gave up the oil
used in treating and in the sue
ceeding "a hours made seven bar
rels an hour; indicating an initial
production In excess Of $50 barrels
per day. Friday morning the well
began making water and rods and
tubing are being pulled to determine
the cause.
On the north end of the same
farm. Kluth ct aI-Gunderson No. 1,
Sw sWA SWM 18-35-2W, drilled
into the Madison contact from 1870
to 1875 and oil rose 800 feet. Rods
and tubing were run and 1t began
making around 10 barrels per day,
natural On some days IL makes
IL barrels and is pumped but eight
hours per day.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-28

tails it is expected that contracts will be
awarded in the not distant future, giving
promise that the plant will be in operation
in time to care for the peak of the 1889 gaso-
line market
1t is reported that the plant is to be
thermal cracking unit of late design but
whether it is to incorporate the new Houdry
process is not known. Socony- Vacuum is
building several large Houdry units in its
several refineries, these units producing go
actane gasoline, leading to the introduction
of new quality of gasoline
Entrance of the Socony-Vacuum Oil
company into Montana as a refiner is hailed
as one of the most important events of the
decade. An outgrowth of the Standard of
New York and Vacuum Oil Co., it is one of
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-28

tconaagsd "a Pass -Four,
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-28

When a gas well making water
goes wild, during winter weather,
this is the result. shown above. This
is the Big Piney well located at
a high elevation in Sublette coun-
ty, on the c. P. Budd ranch, as it
appeared after a flow of gas blew
out of control on December 3, 1888.
The well was reported making from
three to 2O,OO0,OOO cubic feet of
gas and from 5000 to 5000 barrels
of water.
The ice drove the drillers out of
the rig and the danger of fire made
it difficult to combat the formation
of the ice. Accordingly, the boil
ers were set back a considerable
distance and steam lines were di-
rected against the derrick. When
the ice melted the crew went back
onto the floor of the derrick and
at last reports were working to
bring the gas under control.
The picture was taken by Z. NJ
Henderson of the u S. G. S. on De-
cember 16, 1888.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-28
Fate OF Permit Owners
Depends On Support OF
Bills Now In Congress

relief
permits and their
operators write their
gress urging o relief
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-28
Looks Good
AS CrumIey's
Last Well

BY way Of comparison, the
CrumIcy- Fryberger No. -13 well,
some distance south but in the same
pool, had a natural production of
eight barrels per day and when
acidized made around 200 barrels
per day initially. accordingly, it
is expected that the Kluth well
will make 100 barrels or better
when acidized. 1t will be pumped
until such time as a market can be
secured. This well belongs to a
group including r. P. Jackson of
Great Falls and Mrs. Edith Merrill
of Cut Bank.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-28
Superior Has
High Gravity
Oil Producer

A third completion Of the week
in Kevin-Sunburst field was Super
Tor Petroleum cOmpany's Govern
ment No. II, GEL NV ASWA r.
(Continned on Page FIvej
Evening star., 1939-09-17

ICE is plentiful in Southern as we'll
as Northern states. Why not?
Telephone the ice dealer and order
a cake or a carload, or set the tenn
perature control on the mechanical
refrigerator, and ice is yours.
Simple, isn't it? Today, yes, but
not a hundred years ago when DR..
John Gorrie was trying to reduce the
temperature of fever patients in
Southern hospitals.
John Gorrie was not trying to make
ice. He was trying to make sick people
comfortable. He accomplished both,
though he died before he could reap
the reward of his efforts. His dis
coveries have done more to promote
public health and comfort and to
improve sanitary conditions than all
the gold mines in Christendom.
Ask dozen men: who was John
Gorrie?" They will probably shake
their heads. Yet statue to DR.. John
Gorrie stands in the United States
Capitol; monument to him stands in
the municipal park of Apalachicola,
Florida, and travellers bound west
ward along U. S. Highway No. 80
enter Pensacola, Florida. over the
Gorrie Memorial Bridge.
Apalachicola was thriving cotton
port in 1888 when Gorrie arrived to
practice medicine. There were no rail-
roads in the South but Apalachicola
ranked third among shipping ports on
the Gulf.
Malaria was prevalent throughout
the United States, especially in warm
regions. But John Gorrie was un-
daunted.
Born of Scotch-Irish parents in
Charleston, South Carolina, he had
been graduated from the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, New York,
and had practiced few months in
Abbeville, South Carolina, before 60
ing to Florida 1t was summer and
sickness was rife.
'Ice! Icev' was the cry of feverish
patients, but there was never enough
ice and what there was didn't last
long.
Gorries income from his practice
was slender, so he served four years as
postmaster. In 1887 he was elected
mayor and served two years, still
practicing medicine.
Evening star., 1939-09-17

healthy people who slept in such
rooms seldom contracted malaria.
BY 1845 he had stumbled on the
discovery that the artificial cooling of
air was a step toward the artificial
freezing of water For the next five
years he labored to perfect a machine
for making ice.
BY that time the United States was
at war with Mexico. More Americans
were dying of malaria on the Texas
border than from bullets on Mexican
battlefields. Ice was needed - for cool
ing hospital rooms. for refrigerating
food on troop ships. for easing the
parched throats of dying men.
In 1880 John Gorrie had finally sue
ceeded in manufacturing ice with a
machine of his own design. using the
same principle incorporated in most
mechanical refrigerators today -
namely, the absorption of heat &C
companying the expansion of a gas.
His machine consisted primarily of
Evening star., 1939-09-17

BY 1889 Florida was aiming toward
statehood, but malaria was taking a
heavy toll of life and interfering with
successful colonization. Medical l
science was not yet aware of the part
played by mosquitoes in spreading
disease. Gorrie believed it was caused
by vapors from low swampy places
and that heat was factor in increas-
ing the vapor. He thought if he could
reduce the heat the disease could be
thwarted.
He devised room without windows
or doors. One wall had an opening at
the floor level. From the ceiling at the
opposite end of the room bowl of ice
was hung. Over the bowl he placed
cone-shaped hood with vent pipe
passing through the ceiling into the
chimney. The cool air from the melt
ing ice descended to the floor, passed
out through the hole in the wall,
caused suction of air down through
the vent pipe in the chimney and
Evening star., 1939-09-17

pump that increased the pressure of
air in a chamber In this chamber
was container filled with water that
froze when the air was allowed to
expand.
On July Ia, 1850, at dinner
celebrating Bastille Day. given in
Apalachicola by one M. Rosan, a
French cotton buyer, DR.. Gorrie fur
nished the diners with ice of his own
manufacture. After dinner he demon
strated his ice-making machine.
Without capital to carry on his
work he journeyed to New Orleans
where a Bostonian lent him the neces-
sary funds to apply for patent.
U. S. Patent No. 1880. granted Mays.
1851, to John Gorrie, was the first
patent on mechanical refrigeration
ever granted in America.
Gorrie wanted a large commercial
plant that would serve the entire Gulf
Coast. He toured the Southern states
seeking capital. But the world was
skeptical.
At last, worn out and discouraged,
DR.. Gorrie collapsed. On June 16,
1855, he died.
That same year in Paris, NJ. Edmond
Care (said to have been close friend
of the M. Rosan who, five years
earlier, had witnessed Gorrie's demon
stration) invented an ice-making
machine that was commercially sue
cessful. 1t would be hard to say how
far Gorrie's efforts contributed to his
success. Care has been acclaimed as
the inventor of the first practical ice
machine. But to Gorrie belongs the
glory of the pioneer whose aim was for
the benefit of humanity.
Today millions upon millions of
efficient artificial refrigerator units are
in domestic and commercial use. Re-
frigeration is used in the making of
dynamite. in refining oil, in cold
storage of everything from fruits to
furs, from chickens to cheese. Every
American who uses an ice cube, who
carries home a pound of meat or fish
or fruit, every woman who orders her
fur coat into cold storage, every hos
pital patient in an air-cooled room,
every patron of an air-conditioned
theater should pay silent tribute to the
memory of John Gerrie.
STELLA BURKE MAY
Evening star., 1939-09-17

lowered the temperature of the room.
The carbon SCOT in the chimney was
supposed to filter the incoming air of
all impurities.
This crude process did lower the
temperature and brought some COM
fort to fever patients. Likewise,
Evening star., 1939-09-17
Concentrated Super Suds, made with P'
gives S great washday advantages

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the amazing new CONCENTRATED
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
NEW YORK STOChS

NEW YORK, ,,e-il 25. UP)-The
stock market made an irregular ad-
vance today. Volume continued
light.
Bonds also were mixed. Wheat
made gains ranging TO more than a
cent a bushel and sugar future
were higher. Other commodities
generally were firm.
Caution continued among tho
trading element pending delivery Of
Adolf Hitler's speech Friday.
Tradig from Thursdays close un-
til m. today amounted 10 only
,24O. 600 shares which is the figure
Wall Street calculates is necessasV
for a regular session for the brok
ers to break even. Recently with
volume under a half million shares.
the financial district which deal
in stocks for brokerage lost money.
Small gains were noted in util=
itios. rails, oils and mercantile m
shares. Coppers held steady. Avia
tions and building issues were mix
ed
DOW Jones closing stock aver
ages: industrial 127.36 up 0.02; rail
25.59 up 0.01; utility 22.15, off o.09,
SIS stocks 42.57 up 0.02.
Selling in the last few minute
brought prices down from their
earlier highs. but the market tone
remained steady to firm at the
stock sales we're 100000 shares
compared with 100000 YESTERDAY.
Curb stocks sales totaled $4,000
shares against 10000 in the pre-
ViOus session
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25

haven't had a pitcher go the route.
Prothro has paraded 16 pitchefsa.
four times calling on three hurlersf
to get the Phils over the jump.
Hershel Martins double which
drove in two runs was the winning
hit for the Phils yesterday, and
Boom Boom Beck, veteran south
paw, stopped the Giants rally in
the eighth and shut them out in
the ninth.
The Chicago Cubs grabbed the
undisputed National league lead by
dumping the Pirates, 60. In the
other National league game the Bees
beat the Dodgers, Al, as Lou Fette
won his second game. Al Simmons
was beaned by Van Mungo and
spent the night in the hospital for
observation.
The Yanks nosed the Athletics,
2-1, on three hits, one of them Red
Rolfe's homer.
Detroit moved into second pld
by winning from the Browns, AZ
behind Tommy Bridges six-hit
pitching. 1t was Bridges second vic
tory
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
By HENRY McLEMORE

NEW YORK, April 25. tUP)-
1 found him in the shadows of the
dressing room, tucked away on
bench in the corner, pulling on
cigarette and a tall glass of beer
In a room full of men he was
alone
Stripped to his funny baseball
underwear he just sat there, un-
mindful of the laughing and joking
and talking going on about him.
Just sitting, just thinking, just
worrying.
The Yankees had just won close
ball game, but you never could
have told it from looking at Lou
Gehrig. His one hit in II times
at bat, the walking of Joe DiMag-
gio to get al him as an easy out,
the cruel stabs in the newspapers,
the tough walk from the sunshine
into the shadoWs-all of these hurts
showed on the face Of the man who
for so long had dominated the
American league with his bat
There could be no easy approach
TO the man, SO I made 1t direct.
LOU" I said, if you had it
to do all over again would you pun
ish yourself the way you did to
get that consecutive games played
record? If you were just starting
out would you drive yourself to
play even when your legs were
bruised, your toes and fingers brok-
en-, and-well. when you were
sick2"
yeah, I would. Yeah, I'd do it
Just the way 1 have. Maybe it
wouldn't be smart, but it's all l
know Work, mean. 1 never have
known anything but work since I
was six years old. If I had ever
sat on the bench when I thought
could have done the club any
good, 1 believe I'd have batted my
head against the dugout wall"
Lou stopped talking and looked
straight ahead, as if reviewing all
the games he had played without
a miss since that afternoon in
June, 1925, when he broke in as
a regular.
"I know what you're thinking" !"
ne said after a while. THAT If I
had nursed myself along I would
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
Today's Sports Parade

mt be worrying SO much today.
My legs would be faster. my eyes
sharper. everything would be bet
ter. But you're wrong. Wrong
about me, anyhow. | never could
help giving all I had. l never
could see playing in 1873 games If
you could play in 154. Colonel Rup-
pert knew how l felt. I'll never for
get him telling me that no man
who ever worked for him had level
led anymore than I had
Lou pulled on his cigarette, and
changed his tone.
Listen, suppose this is my last
year. What of it? In my Is sea-
sons l have played as much base
ball as the fellows who spread it
out, took it easy and lasted II or
l8 years. When | started baseball
I figured that a players big league
life was eight or nine years.
" I decided to get in all could
get all the money I could while
I was able. No matter how much
man loves baseball he must re-
member that it is his business, his
career, and that from it he must
earn enough to get a nest egg,
enough to take care of a wife and
family. That's what I did. Drove
myself as hard as l could. Con-
centrated everything | had
I asked him if he thought this
was his last year in baseball.
NO" Lou answered, II don't
I'm pretty bad right now, but l
was worse this time last year. Re
member, 1 didn't get hit in the
first 81 times I was at bat last
season."
Are you worried now, and arc
you pressing?' / asked
Sure l am" the big fellow said.
I'm the worrying kind Can't
help it. But I'm coming out of
it. AT least I think I am. And
haven't the Yankee fans been
swell? Lord, it helps to hear them
pulling for me-
When 1 left him l couldn't help
but feel that the fellow who said
only game fish swim upstream was
all wrong. Because Gehrig, being
swept downstream, is going game
ly. He can take it-and is.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25

f26-year- old Californian on flrSt
base, but Babe is Manager Joe
McCarthy's insurance policy against
an infield breakdown.
Although Lou Gehrig is fast ap-
preaching the end of his amazing
career. Dahlgren knows that he Is
not likely to get the first call 10
fill the vacancy. Mccarthy is prep
ping young Tommy Henrlch, an
outfielder, for the jo' Every DAY
Heinrich works out around tlrst
base. and only in cast ot his fallure
will Dahlgren get chance at the
position.
Although first -basing is Babes
speciality. he also is an excellent
third baseman. and his future
seems Just as limited in that direc-
ton with Red Rolfe doing a grand
job for the Yanks. Dahlgren blames
it all on his being right-handed.
Its a left-hander's game he
joked. cts just my luck to swing
from the other side. A southpaw
hitter saves those couple or three
steps to first base. They even build
the ball parks for the left handed
hitters. Look at Yankee Stadium,
Shibe Park, Sportsman's Park. The
only field in the American league
where I know the left field fence is
less distant than the right is at
Boston.
Look at Gehrig. He is left-hand-
ed and so is Heinrich. It's the same
story at third base with Rolfe."
Too good for the minors. plenty
good enough for at least three other
American league clubs, and still not
good enough for the Yanks, Dahl
gren is well paid. His last years
World Series check of S., 1926 add
ed to his regular salary, made him
the best paid bench-Warmer in the
game.