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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20
SEVEN WELLS
Drill ahead
DESPITE COLD

The war-llke Firms who fight and
win in sub-zero weather had seven
sets of staunch admirers In Cut
Bank field this week as seven
crews Of drillers kept on making
hole while all others We're, Ike
the quicksilver in the thermom-
eters, huddled up indoors or as
much indoors as possible.
The quicksilver took refuge in
its glass ball house throughout
Montana during the past week, and
during below-zero weather only
Two new locations were made in
Cut Bank and there were no COM
pletions
one new location is British-Am-
crican-Tribal No. IL, c SEA NV "a
an east offset to the
new Jeffries-Clark No. l producer.
1t is reported that ]. w. Johnson,
who will drill this well, is making
a location on his Tribal lease in
NV 4 NWA 1S-32N-5W, but the To-
cation was not announced.
The other is Tarrant-State No.
;, NE NE4 SEA 36-34-6W. 1t is
2175 feet north Of the south line
ana bJU leet west OF the east line
Of the section.
Glacier Production company con-
tinued drilling three wells.
Glacier PrOduction-LOOkho No.
2, c NWh NEA 33-33-5W, is drill
ing at 214O feet.
Glacier observation-disclosures No.
3, c SWA SEA 2O-33-5W, is drill
ing a 1885 feet 1t had Colorado
shale at. ESQ and set surface pipe at
7O4.
Glacier ProductiOn-State No. @,
cNL NWA 1G-33-5W. IS drilling at
SIS. 1t had Colorado shale at 525 |
and set casing at 545.
Jeffries- Exchange Oil No. 1, c i
VWA NWA 34-35-6W. is drilling /
CONTINUED on Page FOUR
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20
Denver Post Prints
Comprehensive Review
OF Montana Oil Fields

The Sunday January d edition of the Denver Post deyoes
column of space review of the Montana OIL m
dustry under heading leads well drilling Ninety
per gain in operations tops all other states in Rocky
Mountain Area report shows
The article appears under Great Falls date line but be
leved to have Denver from reports OF Mon
tana operations. The article in full
of ali
compared with 1888 Initial production as IN
--La IL
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20
No SunburSt
Sand In BOyce

Pfabe * Inglchng-Boyce No. I,
(formerly Lemac-B0yce) on the
north slope OF the field, a mile
northwest of the Sunburst Discov-
cry pool. furnished a mild surprise
this week when the Sunburst sand
was found absent The nearest
well, the famous Sunburst-Boyce
"gusher" a quarter OF a mile north
east, had no sand corresponding to
the Sunburst horizon. however, ex-
animation Of the log Of that well
revealing that there was no sand
below 1870 where a 15-foot sand
was reported The Pfabe &
Engleklng well had a flow OF a
million cubic feet OF gas per day
in this horizon, at the base OF he
Colorado, at 1850 feet Ten-inch
casing was set at 1880 and during
the past week. 7-inch casing was
set at 1860, with the gas flow con-
served by braidenhead. The
sunburst-Boyce found the contact
at 1S70-96, where a broken sandy
lime was encountered, carrying
heavy gas pressure and oil The
well came in during the night and
flowed out OF control, turning into
a 2.00O-barrel water well before a
control head could be secured. No
other well has since been drilled
in the district.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20
POLLY PLANT
BEING ADDED
AT SPOKANE

SPOKANE Directors of Inland
Empire Refineries have authorized
installation of a $4,000 polymeri-
cation and reforming plant at the
Hillyard refinery, General Manager,
d. F. Gerstenberger announces.
D. S. Bennion, sales manager,
and Cecil L. True, a director, have
returned from a meeting of direc-
tors in Salt Lake City where de-
cision was reached to postpone ac-
ton on the proposed Cut Bank
Spokane project until after the final
decision of the federal court case
involving rail rates between Pacific
Coast points and Spokane.
Work on the polymerizing
unit will be started early this
spring and will be finished some
time in May" Gerstenberger said.
This plant produces an exception
ally high-octane gasoline but with
the polly plant the waste gases
now being used for boiler fuel
will be utilized to make 100 oc-
tame gasoline for blending with the
rest of the gasoline"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20
HoI.NIEs NEW MENIBER

WASHINGToN-Rep. Pehr G.
Holmes, Mass, has been named to
replace the late Rep. Carl Mapes,
Mich, as a member of the Cole
oil Subcommittee.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20
EWALD CASE
FINALLY ENDS
OUT OF COURT

Litigation which ran into claims
and counter-claims of millions OF
dollars was terminated during the
past week with the settlement out
OF court of the many-sided battle
over an S0-acre lease in South Cut
Bank on land belonging to F. A.
Ewald of Great Falls.
Announcement OF the settlement
was made by Hugh Stewart. super
intendent, and Yates Land, counsel
for The Texas company. Under
the settlement the Texas company
took over the lease, buying the two
producing wells thereon from Con-
solidated Gas company, and Ewald
signed the unit operation and roy
atty pooling agreement, creating a
64O-acre unit in Section 9, TWP.
32N, re-. 5W. on which repressur-
ing will be used, with other modern
production methods.
Suits between Ewald and Nadeau
Brothers. c. H. Hall, attorney, and
others, were all dismissed.
The tract is described as the
Sc Il NWA and the NE Il SWA g.
32N-5W. Lease on this tract had
been sent to Denver bank by
Ewald before the drilling Of the
South Cut Bank discovery we'll but
The draft was not taken up at the
Tine the joint discovery well in Sec
ion 16-32N-5W was brought in.
Ewald wired the bank to return
he lease and The Texas company
snjoined the bank, suing for the
delivery of the lease. Ewald gave
/ top lease to r. ]. Reynolds and
/ new lease was given to Nadeau
who drilled two wells on
he tract, in partnership with James
w. johnson, OF Consolidated Gas
CONTINUED on Page FiveJ
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20

but advisors of A. B. Cobb who are
superstitious urged him to say IA
wells rather than 10 wells. Cobb
is no more superstitious than any
other oil man but it is known that
the greatest iinx well of his career
happened to be his thirteenth com
pletion in the Cut Bank field. 1t
is the Cobb-Jackson No. which,
after being in commercial produc-
ton, was converted into a three
months-old headache by a shot Of
nitro glycerin which made the well
cost twice as much as 1t should
under normal conditions.
Nadeau Brothers actually had IA
wells but the fourteenth, the Hag-
gerty No. /, was retained by them.
1t is in N1zNWA Section 15-34-6W.
This lease is now operated under
contract by Dick Kuhlberg.
Cobb is taking over the manage
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20

ment and operation of Producers
Pipeline company in which he owns
100 per cent following purchase OF
Nadeau Brothers half interest. He
states that there will be no change
in personnel and no change in
policy. The accounting department
will be moved over into Cobb's
office from the Nadeau office.
Involved in the purchase of the
400 acres with producing wells and
the half interest in the pipeline was
reported consideration of $780,
600. Cobb will supply all the re-
quirements of Home Oil Refining
company under the exclusive con-
tract formerly held jointly with the
Nadeaus. He becomes the largest
Individual oil producer in the state,
as a result of this acquisition.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20
OIL EXPL GRAFTON
EQUIPMENT TO BE
FEATURE Ar TULSA

Progress of oil exploration will
feature the 1910 International Pc
troleum Exposition to be held in
Tulsa on May is to %. and the
appointment of P. E. Fitzgerald, re-
search geologist for Dowell, Inc,
as chairman of the special explo-
ration committee is of particular
interest to Montanans Fitzgerald
was formerly in charge of the
Dowell branch in Montana with Of
fices in Shelby. He has gained ma
tional recognition as an authority
on modern oil exploration and pro-
duction methods.
w. G. Sicily, president of the
exposition, has named a large COM
mittee under Fitzgerald including
several western biologists and pc
troleum engineers. Among them is
Theodore A. Link, western Canada
geologist of Imperial Oil, Ltd, Cal
gary; Glen M. Ruby, chief geolo-
gist, Serviceo Geologic, Y. P. F.,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, and for
merly in Independent practice in
Montana and Alberta; C. f. Dob
bin, U. S. Geological Survey, Den
yer; and a score of others.
Geophysics, soil analysis and 9TH
or sciences will be illustrated in
displays of the latest equipment for
he finding and developing of oil
reserves, according to the presis
ient's statement
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20
RATTLESNAKE
TEST DRILLING
AT 1900 FEET
BY Il. A. BEELER

BILLINGS Watson Oil company
is reported drilling ahead at about
1900 feet, in the Rattlesnake Butte
test on Sec. 22-T13N-R28E, Petrol
cum county about 125 miles north
east of Billings. Information is to
the effect that some oil showing
was encountered below 1900 feet,
in a shale, but not enough to make
commercial production. 1t is re-
ported the operators will shortly
run a "a hour shift, to speed up
completion.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20
OIL STOCK Up
as REFIHERS
REDUCE RUNS

Stocks of domestic and foreign
crude petroleum at the close of the
week ending January totaled
23S,5S1,O00 barrels, according to
data compiled by the Bureau of
Mines Compared with the total
of the previous week, this repre-
sents an increase of 500, 900 bar
rels. comprising an increase of
100000 barrels in stocks of do
nestle crude but a decline of 224,-
600 barrels in stocks of foreign
crude Heavy crude-oil stocks in
California, not Included in the
'refinable' crude stocks, totaled
13,336,00O barrels, an increase of
$4,000 barrels over the amount on
hand December 80.
Current reports of the industry
for the week ending January 6
indicate chiefly a moderate in
crease in production but a decline
in crude runs to stills. Daily aver
age output as reported by the A.
P. I. was about 3,5S4,00O barrels,
or $4,000 barrels above the level
of the preceding week. Daily aver
age crude runs to stills were
$4,000 barrels, decline of
$4,000 barrels. Daily average i'm
ports of crude oil continued to
decline, the daily average being
only $4,000 barrels, compared
with $4,000 barrels for the pre-
ceding week.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20
REFINERIEs CONSTRUCTION
STIMULATES ACTIVITY.

Increased outlet for northern
Montana crude thru construction
of refineries late in 1898 and early
in 1889 at Pocatello, Ida, Spokane,
Wash, and at Cut Bank, Mont,
coupled with extensions to Cut Bank
and Kelvin, and better freight rates
to the west accounted for the gaip
in drilling activity in the northern
fields
Operators in the Cut Bank field
completed seventy-one wells in 1899,
of which fifty-six were oil wells,
six gas wells, and nine were dry
holes. This compares with thirty
four compilations, of which twenty
three were oil wells, six gas wells,
and five were dry holes. Cut Bank
was the factor in Montana's largest
increase in initial production. Sew
eral large 1889 competitions for 200
barrels daily or better gave Cut
Bank an initial of 1878 barrels
compared with $3.50 barrels in
1893. During the year 322,559
feet of hole was drilled in Cut
Bank OF which 306,3O5 feet was
cable tool. and only 1924 feet
was rotary, representing six wells
drilled by the rotary method.
Development OF the North Cut
Bank field furnished the principal
CONTINUED on Page Fivel
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20
Acid Again GiyEiS Magic
Results At Kelvin When
New Well Makes SO BbI.
Swears Well Had Mere Showing Before Acid
"ShOt"- Two Wells With Gusher
Promise Near Sands

lOOO-gaon shot Of hydrochloric acid applied to
lime formation which showed oil measurable in gallons per
day developed production of % barrels per day for A.
Beardsee on his Swcars No II location in central Kelvin
Sunburst field, in center south line SE14NW4 9352W,
this week.
Beardslee has virtually drilled out his so acre tract,
located in the Baker owng pool getting all producers
coping the No which abandoned The twin location,
known as IA producer 1t is understood that Boards
lee will drill we'll his No 49, this lease described
as the south half of the northwest quarter of Section @
35N-2W
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20
EAST TEXAS REFINERY CLOSED

DALLAS East Texas Refin-
ing Co.'s 12,OOO-bbl refinery at
Longyiew. East Texas has been
shut down for a 9O-day period be-
ginning Jan. Is.
In discussing the announcement,
one official mentioned the low tank
car market prices, adding I'VE
can make more money Selling our
crude than by running It through
our refinery
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20
West Test
Is Promising

With the thermometer ranging
from nine to 20 degrees below zero,
there has been little activity in
Kevin-Sunburst field during the
past week. Most wells were shut
down and pumping operations were
suspended on some that were not
fully equipped for winter operation.
CONTINUED on Page FOUR
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20

The No. II well started off at
90 barrels after recovering the oil
used in acidizing At the end OF
three days 1t was shut down owing
to the cold weather and the neces-
sity OF burying the lead lines The
well was showing no water, al
though all wells in the district
develop some water.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-20


In 1899, Montana finished 155
wells. compared with seventy-nine
the preceding year This is a gain
of seventy-six wells OF the $50
competitions, 108 we're commercial
oil wells, with an initial production
of 1O,2S7 barrels. This compares
with fifty-two wells in 1888 with
an initial of 3,S6S barrels. The
state had thirty-five dry holes com
pared with fifteen in 1888. Twelve
gas wells were drilled, the same
number as in 1888.
Principal activity was confined
to Cut Bank and Kelvin fields. Cut
Bank had seventy-one competitions
and Kevin-Sunburst seventy COM
pletions, making a total OF 141,
leaving eleven other compilations
scattered thruout the state.
Evening star., 1940-11-14
Mrs. Mary Brown, IS.
Dies Three Days
After Husband
Widow Of Real Estate
And Bonkine Leader
Overcome by Loss

A chapter in the history Of one
Of the few old residences left on
lower Connecticut avenue green
stone mansion with a side lawn
was closed last night by the death
of Mrs. Mary d'Antignac Cuthbert
Brown, who was IS.
Mrs. Brown had lived at ITO
Connecticut avenue for more than
half q century with her husband,
George Whitfield Brown, for dec
ades a prominent real estate and
banking figure Of Washington. Mr..
Brown died Sunday at 81, after .
brief illness. He was buried Tues
day. Mrs. Brown followed him last
night, unexpectedly. Her family
said she had been overcome by
her husbands death.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brown would have
celebrated their 64th wedding an
niversary on December 13.
Mrs. Brown was proud Of her
South Carolina ancestry. She was
the daughter of James Hazard
Cuthbert and Julia Turpin Cuth-
bert of Beaufort, S. c., and a de-
scendant Of Arthur Middleton, .
signer of the Declaration Of Inde-
pendence.
She kept her membership in the
South Carolina chapter Of the Co
lonial Danes, and also belonged to
the Club Of Colonial Danes Of
Washington She was a charter
member Of the washington Club.
Her husband, who headed one Of
the oldest real estate firms in WASH
lngton, Fitch, FOX d Brown, be-
longed to family which had lived
for three generations in Washington.
He was q director of the American
Security Il Trust Co. Mr.. Brown
was also on the boards Of Children's
Hospital, the Baptist Home and the
Louise Home.
The couple is survived by q daugh-
ter. Mrs. Charles Russell Train. wife
OF Rear Admiral Train, U. 8. NJ, re-
tired, and by three grandsons.
Funeral arrangements for Mrs.
Brown have not been completed.
Evening star., 1940-11-14

An iron ship build In 1848 and
having engines dating from 1863
Is still In use in Britain.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
Nathaniel B. Dial, B.
Former Senator, Dies
Al His Home Here
Funeral Will Be Held
Saturday at Birthplace
In South Caroline

Nathaniel Barksdale Dial, IS
Democratic Senator from South
Carolina from 1919 to 1925, died al
his home. 1852 Kalorama road NV
last night after an illness of a week
He had been resident of Washing
ton for more than 20 years.
Mr.. Dial was a banker, indus
trialist and lawyer, and twice had
served as Mayor of Laurens, S. c..
his birthplace.
He was elected Mayor for the first
time at the age of 26. A member
of the Democratic State Executive
Committee, he later served as del
egate to the Democratic National
Convention of 1888. which nominated
Grover Cleveland for a second term
as President.
President Cleveland later offered
him the consulShip at Zurich, Swift
zerland, which he declined. He was
an unsuccessful candidate for NOM
ination to the Senate in 1912.
Mr.. Dial was born on his fathers
farm near Laurens After attend
ing Richmond College and Wander
bilt University, he studied law at the
University of Virginia from 1882
to 1888. He returned to Laurens to
practice law and entered into active
politics.
His industrial interests included
the Ware Shoals Manufacturing Co.
the Georgia Carolina Power Co., the
LaurenS Glass Works, LaurenS Oil
Evening star., 1940-12-12

Mills, LaurenS Cotton Mills, Reedy
River Power Co., Home Trust Co
and the Sullivan Power Co.
Following his retirement from the
Senate in 1925 he took up per-
manent residence here.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs,
Josephine Minter Dial; five daugh-
ters, Mrs. Matthew w. Perry and
Miss Rebecca Dial, both of WASH
lngton; Mrs. Harold o. Smith, jr.
of Bellevue, Ohio; Mrs. J. Lawrence
Brownlee, Birmingham, Ala, and
Mrs Wessie Lee Williams, Hot
Springs, Ark; two sons. 1t. N. Min
ter Dial, U. S. N, Annapolis, and
Joseph H. Dial of Hawaii, and nine
grandchildren.
The body is at the Hysong funeral
home, 1900 N street NV. Funeral
services will be held Saturday at
Laurens and burial will be in the
family plot there.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
Mems Mercerized Cotton
Hosiery, 49,. 6 pairs ST

1900 pairs in the popular 6x1 ribbed style.
Reinforced heels and toes. Regular or
anklet styles. Black, brown, navy, green,
gray, wine. Sizes 10 to II.
Down STAIRS STORE
Evening star., 1940-12-12

OF the State Departments Division
OF Cultural Relations declared that
in large part the reason this Gov
ernment is becoming concerned with
Improvement of inter- r-American cul-
tural relations arises from recogni-
ton that the destinies of the coun-
tries In this hemisphere are bound
together through force OF circum-
stance.
Cultural relations between the
United States and the countries
to the south, he said, hitherto have
been sporadic and "deplorably lack
ing" He indicated that only in
recent years has the United States
Evening star., 1940-12-12

realized the need for supplementing
political and economic relations
with cultural interchange.
Difficulties Recounted.
Infinite difncultieS," such as
language barriers, varying cultures
and memories of what inter-Amer-
lean relations have been in the
past, stand in the way of develop
ing "a wide. deep and permanent
degree of mutual comprehension" !"
he said.
Mr.. Pattee recommended ex-
change of people, ideas and things
as means of increasing mutual
understanding between the Amer
Evening star., 1940-12-12

tan Doyle Of George Washington
University. Misunderstanding, he
said, are easy enough between peo-
pes and individuals with a COM
mon tongue, and these are increased
tremendously between those of diff
ferent languages and dissimilar cul-
lures.
Harry Warner Trantz, cable editor
of the Washington Bureau of the
United Press. discussed inter-Amer-
lean press and radio relations. He
urged the students against being
swept away by "pan-ideas," stress
ing the need to know q great deal
about one country or a few rather
Evening star., 1940-12-12

icas and said that despite the hand
leaps progress is being made. He
warned against a paternalistic at
titude on the part of the United
States, saying that this country
had much to learn from the other
republics.
This country must prove its faith
with works, he emphasized.
Importance Of Spanish.
The importance of study Of Span.
ish and Portuguese in this country
as q basis for increased cultural un-
derstanding between the Americas
was stressed by Dean Henry Grat-
Evening star., 1940-12-12
Bids 10 Latin America
Declared Based on
Dire Necessity
MutuuI Affection Not
Involved, R. F. Pottee
Tells 6. W. U. Session

A State Department Official today
told 300 high school students from
the District and vicinity that dire
necessity" and not mutual affection
is responsible for the efforts being
made to improve cultural relations
between the United States and the
Latin American republics.
Speaking at Pan-American con-
ference, under the auspices of the
George Washington University Inter-
American Center, Richard F. Pattee
Evening star., 1940-12-12

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Used in early stages Peneuo Nose
Drops famous 2-drop method helps pre-.
vent many colds from developing. This
year enjoy stitch-in-time help-head off
colds miseries with Penetro Nose Drops.
Large many-treatment" supply only 25c.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
generalize about q

than attempt to generalize about Q
larger group.
A discussion of the military de.
fense of the Americas was given by
1t. Col. Matthew B. Ridgeway of
the Army.
The students, who came from II
high schools in the vicinity, were the
guests of the university at lunch
con following the sessions. George
Rowland Cox, director of the Inter-
American Center, was master Of
ceremonies at the session.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
Misses and-Women's
Winter Dress Goats, 'I2.'o
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16 and 10. Were SIG 95. Now $3.50
Shorter Womens Furred Sports Coats Navy tweed Of
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Evening star., 1940-12-12

Roads in the 81 American repub.
lies total 3,618818 miles.
Evening star., 1940-12-12

%. rush out
DIGGING missriss
rush in vitaIizinq
healing air.
Evening star., 1940-12-12
FOR HEAD
COLDS

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head cold you've
got to have
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giving healing
Evening star., 1940-12-12
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