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Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29
arbs

Scientists explode superstition
that wars have an effect on rains.
They do. however, have an effect
on reignS.
A college tennis star has studied
four years for the diplomatic ser
vice. In Difference to the anti-ap-
peasement trend, he will avoid the
word love"
GLASS Bottle Blowers Conven-
ton Hits Nazism" An assembly of
glass blowers, incidentally, would
seem just the thing to give Hitler
a beautiful bird.
The office blond regrets the de
cision to close the Burma road
She kind of enjoyed those shaving
cream lyrics.
An American campaign for self
sufficiency, if it comes to that,
ought not be SO difficult for ma
tion of box-top savers.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
NJ. A. No. 0530S3
District Land Office
Toe ApOaIcc California
Los Angeles, California

June 7, 1910
Notice is hereby given that The
Tycrete Chemical Corporation, by
Louis A. Tyce, president, of Chula
Vista, California, has made appli-
cation for patent to the White
Crystal No placer mining claim.
embracing E1z SEA NEh Sec. l6
and White crystal No. 2 placer
mining claim embracing SWA NWh
NWA Sec. IS; SEA NEANEA Sec.
16 all in t. IT S., r. 9 E. SBM
containing 40 acres, in the Ell Cen
tro Mining District, Imperial Coun-
ty, California There are no adj
joining or conflicting claims. The
location notices are recorded in
Book 359, page 148 and Book 1853,
page 1876, and amended notices are
recorded in Book 460 page 488.
Book 460, page 489. and Book 481,
page 563, official records of Imper-
ial County, California.
PAUL r. WITMER,
Register.
(Jl1-A20 incl,)
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29
Imperial Valley Press

Established April 20 1901
Published every afternoon except
Saturday and Sunday Saturday
afternoon issue now succeeded
by the Post-Press Sunday. es-
:ablishcd 1936l by the Imperial
Valley Publishing company, 625
State Street, El Centro. Calf.
Paul jenkins, publisher; A. c.
Johnston, e-president and
general manager: II. A. Fitz-
hugh, secretary and managing
editor. West Holiday Co., Inc,
National Advertising Represent
atives.
Entered at FL Centro. California
post office as second class mat
ter.
Subscription rates: In California
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soc; paid in advance, 3 months.
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month.
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pubIiShcra' Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29
THE CONCLUSION

Though this is looking pretty much at
the bright side of things, there seems
ample justification. There may be bitches
here and there. but if only half these
things "pan OUT on schedule, that will
be mighty good percentage in favor
of the valley.
Of course the war threat may take
the edges off this final, culminative per
iod for the valley but calm reason die
tates we let that take care of itself.
There is little enough we can personally
do about the world at large.
So, all in all, every last one of us is
justified in saying: Things look pretty
good in Imperial Valley"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29

the visiting prospective farm buyer isn't
so we'll acquainted with the situation,
and becomes afraid of an area where
prices are low and out of proportion to
the claims made for the land.
Sixthly: The potential buyer with sew
eral thousand dollars needs credit for
the balance of his purchase of land. He
finds. to his surprise that there is very
little credit available for land purchase.
He turns to the Federal Land Bank and
learns to his CONSERVATION that the Fed
eral Land Bank won't loan money in
Imperial Valley.
Why? Because of the need for drain
age: because of the need to refund our
district debt; because the Federal Land
Bank like everybody else wants to be
sure the canal is a success and that the
power sales will meet the payments. AT
least those are the objections given to
valley representatives. With these things
now "a boiling and new man, A. e.
Black. in the drivers seat as governor
of the Federal Farm Credit adminlstra-
ton, and with Mr. Black assuring us
that he will make, this autumn, re-
survey of the situation-well, it looks
pretty good for an improved farm credit
picture
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29
NAVY STILL HOLDS
POPULAR APPEAL

al
Some of the army's recruiters
are getting to be good statesmen.
Classic story, just relayed here, mas
to do with a recruiting sergeant
in Kentucky. Salesman for a cor
respondence school dropped in on
him to try to sell him a course in
advertising, figuring that would
come in handy in connection with
the enlistment drive. The salesman
did his stuff. and then the SER
eeant did his. Result: salesman
ioined the army.
Onlv real trouble is that the
average civilian doesn't think the
army has much glamor. Movie
companies are helping remedy TINS
bv making plenty of neWsreel
shorts: also in recent weeks, the
mechanical outfits seem to nave
take non an air of romance, ahdl
recruits for that branch aren't hard
to get. But the navy still has the
edge in the matter of popular ap-
peal.
One thing is certain: the aver
age rookie is a different sort OF
suecimen these days than gener-
alton ago. Recruiting officials here
recently picked up several hundred
recruits cards and fed them into
one of those trick sorting machines
to see what the average recruit is
like. Here's the picture:
He's 81, native-born, 5 feet 81
inches tall and weighing l4'
mounds. He wears 8-E shoes,
n. hat. has a 32-inch waist ant
can wear a regular 36 coat. He ha'
blue eyes and light brown hal
has high school education, ha
had some mechanical. clerical o
occupational training-and come
from a rural district.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29

WASHINGTON, July Coon
trary to what you've been hearing,
the U. 5. army is net having a lot
of trouble getting a big batch OF
recruits.
Fnlistments right now are COM
ing in at 5000 a week, and the
drive to reach a total enlisted
strength of 100000 by the end OF
August is approximately two weeks
ahead Of schedule. Rate of recruit
ments has been increasing steadily
for the past two or three months.
AS soon as it reaches the 280,OO0
level. the army has to begin a
new campaign, taking on $4,000
more men so as to reach the au-
thorized maximum of 375,O00.
Schedule calls for completion oil
this lob by the end of the year,
and present indications are that
goal will be reached.
CCC BRINGS
COMPLAINTS
Reports about the lag seem to
have originated in the second
CORPS area. centering around New
York City. It's true that few tcom-
parativelv) are signing up there
but that's nothing new; for some
reason New York never has peer
q good hurting ground.
Best places to get recruits are
the third corps area. comprising
Maryland. Virginia, Pennsylvania
and the District of Columbia; tht
fourth, which takes in the Caro-
linas. Georgia, Florida, Alabama
and Tennessee; the fifth, which IL
cIudes Ohio, West Virginia, indiana
and Kentuckv, and the eighth
which is made up of Texas, Okla
homa. Colorado, New Mexico ant
Arizona. These areas more thar
make up for New York.
Some army officers have com
plaired that the CCC camps oftel
too much competition, in that they
take young men from the Sam'
general age levels, offer them six
month cnrollments (Which can b'
broken off whenever the enrolle
lanfls a lob and pay them $50 ;
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29
You re Telling Ne

Not having heard from Con-
fuscius in recent weeks, we begin
to wonder if he wasn't just another
of those political candidates who
wound up as also-rans at the con-
ventionS.
1t being summertime, and hot,
we find the Youth Movement ex-
tremely inactive, especially when
it comes to having the lawn moved.
In this scientific age, the little
voice inside one is no longer his
conscience. It's just one of those
new pocket radios.
A certain farmers hen lays an
egg III every new car that stops at
its owners home. Certain radio
comedians do the same thing for
every new sponsor.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29
Thoughts For The Day

But We that did ceave unto the Lord your God
alive every one of you this day.-Deuteronomy 4.4
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29
So They Say

The peoples of America are very
Jealous of their independence.
President ELECT Batista of Cuba.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

month as compared with the army's
S2l. The recruiting branch denies
this competition hurts; besides, 1t
contacts the CCC lads when their
terms are about to expire, and
signs up a lot of them anyhow.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29

1t has been we'll said that a self
ish and grasping people cannot be
free.
President Roosevelt.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29
ANIMALS INSIST
ON THEIR RIGHTS

Earl has had some trouble con-
vincinq Director Louis King that
Duchess. carrying a howdah and
the three principals, can't be per-
suaded 10 20 through an intricate
routine including stopping at an
exact spot and lying down, without
shouted commands or the nudging
Of a bull hook
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub.
fishers Association. National
Editorial Association. Cali
fornia Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29
Rv PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD, July 29.-Armed
with a pocket maehete and pound
of lump sugar. your correspondent
has ventured into the Well-tracked
iungles of Baldwin Lake in the
Santa Anita country. A Paramount
expedition is filming Moon Over
Burma" there. and the eucalyptus
and palm groves harbor flies, mos
quitoes, chiggers, and elephants.
fed all of them.
Ordinarily the ten elephants
would be with a circus. but the
studio signed them first Movie
trained elephants are scarce, and
getting scarcer. Anna May. veteran
Of hundreds of pictures, died last
appropriately enough for a
Hollywood celebrity, 9f stomach ul-
GERS. Sally and Queenie worked six
days in Moon Over Burma" and
we're killed in fire that swept
Goebbel's animal farm. Replacing
those two are Duchess and her
double. Pinto. No glamor girls,
they're about 80 and IS. Glamor
h.sn't anything to do with their
role anyway. which is carrying
Dorothy L8mour. Bob Preston and
Preston Foster through a teak for
est.
Talking with Earl. their trainer
while dolirg out sugar to a line of
uanhandling pachyderms, learned
there are q lot of difficulties in
working elephants for movies. They
can't be directed. as can dogs, by
band signals. And they'll obey only
tie voice Of a trainer They nay no
attention 10 what any star tells 'em
II do eaid Earl q little sr,o1Iplu
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29

There is too much emphasis on
usefulness in writing. Nearly 100
years ago an author wrote a book
about a pond and it is still mas
terpiece of American literature.
Harry Hansen, literary critic of
the N. Y. World-Telegram.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29

The sheer vulnerability of great
cities may force us as a matter
of public policy to decentralize.
Tracy B. Augur, IVA planning
staff.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29

The doves are worn out, I care
more for their health than my own.
.Rosita Royce, dove dancer" at
the N. Y. Worlds Fair, in refuS-
ing to give an extra performance.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29
CHEAPER PULLMANS
(RiUerSide Press

There is one legal action filed by the
federal government against a private
firm which will receive enthusiastic
cheers from the public.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29
Famous Sayings

Every mans life is plan of God.-Horace Bushnell.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24
Hall Gas Flow
8O,OOO,OOO TT.
And Perhaps More

Glacier Production-Hall No 3.
c NWA SEA 35-36-6W. which had
a $4,000, O0O-foot flow of gas at the
top Of the Sunburst sand last week
was drilled this week to 1910 and
7-inch casing is being underreamed
to that depth. The Sunburst sand,
AZ feet thick, was declared 10 be
the finest sand of its kind ever
seen in Cut Bank field. The well
was controlled by a column OF wat
err and the volume of the gas was
not established but It is believed TO
be even greater than the flow of
the Rigney No. 2, a quarter of
mile southwest. which had a meas
ured flow OF SO.00O,0OO cubic feet
per day. The Hall No 3 will be
drilled on down to test the Cut
Bank sand for oil and in due course
OF time the Sunburst sand gas will
be opened up by gun perforation.
This and the Rigney well are the
two largest gas wells ever devel-
oped in the State OF Montana.
Glacier PrOduction-Delaney Unit
No. 1. c SEC. 36-34-5W, is drilling
at 1916.
Observation-Disclosures 1870 No.
Continued on Page Five)
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24

ature rise. Theoretically for a Civ
en- reaction the rate doubles with
with each raise of To- C.. Knowing
this, 1t was apparently possible that
something might be gained by ap-
plying this principle
Hot Acid Experiments
Acid of various strengths was
heated previous to it's introduction
into the well. Most OF this heat was
lost during its introduction down
through the tubing Of the well,
which made a perfect heat inter-
changer with the surrounding oil
in the casing. Hot oil has been cir
culated until the we'll has been
heated before introduce
ton of hot acid. The added cost OF
these maneuvers plus extreme cor
rosion OF both acid, well and heat
ing equipment soon delegated these
methods to the scrap heap, without
definite being learned.
AS time passed, more work was
done to stimulate actual oil we'll
CONTINUED on Page Five)
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24
ROTARY RIG
WILL Be USED
At WHITEHALL

Resumption of drilling on White
tail structure, in the northeast cor
ner of Montana. near Scobey. was
announced this week by John ].
Goehring, secretary OF Whitehall
OIL Syndicate. Osborne Drilling Co
of Oklahoma has been awarded the
contract to drill 5000 feet. Os-
boame is said to have worked in
fields in Montana, Oklahoma and
Wyoming and has drilled in Cat
Greek, POndera and Kevin-Sun-
burst.
Three wells have been drilled at
Whitehall, one having encountered
a flow of gas at approximately
1000 feet. Osborne will use a ro-
tary rig which will be trucked from
Oklahoma.
The syndicate has $4,000 acres
under lease. Geological work Is diff
ficult in the district owing to an
overburden of glacial drift. The
Whitehall Oil syndicate is financ-
ed largely by Wisconsin capital al
though about one-third OF the stock
is owned in Scobey district.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24
WALLER WILDCAT
GETS NO NOD As
BIT NEARS SANDS

r. C. Tarrant's most talked of
wildcat, south of Cut Bank field,
this week ran S-inch casing at 2575
feet to shut off caving formations
and a slight seep of water, and will
be drilling into the upper sands Of
the Kootenai formations during the
next few days.
Location is in Sc SEA NWA
14-31-5W, south of the Marias RI
yer and on a definitely established
nose" as mapped by the United
States Geological Survey. On the
basis of the reported top of the
Colorado, this well is checking even
higher than the U. S. G. S. map
indicates. However, the old-line ge-
ologists and operators who have
all territory south Of
the Marias river are shaking their
heads. They don't even bother to
check up on the we'll, 'No chance"
they say. leaving no alibi for them
selves should the proverbial Tar
rant luck provide an upset.
Tarrant has the play all to him
self with something over 5000 ae-
res in a solid block covering the
high" which he worked out with
,ut guidance of his biologists during
1 holiday picnic. The next week or
10 days will prove the accuracy Of
his deductions.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24
NEIGHBOR FIELD
OPERATORS EYE
KEvIN-SUNBURST

Talk that Cut Bank operators
were casting eyes on the profit pos
sfbilities of Kevin-Sunburst and es-
pecially in Kevin's high gravity pool
found first confirmation this week
when H. f. Patterson of Cut Bank
took over part of PrevoI & Shea s
35-3W and spotted a well a quar-
ter of a mile from the sensational
Ellingson flowing wells. His Pat
terson-G overnment No. 1 Is in NE
Sc ASEA 15-35-3W, $50 feet west
of the acknowledged No. 1.
Tightening of the crude oil mar
ket with resultant price increases
has caused refiners to begin to
look to undrilled locations for sup
plies of oil for the future. PrOduc-
ton Refining company, which is
completing a 1,000-barrel plant at
Shelby, is drilling two wells of a
five-weIl program intended to aug
ment its present production to
supply the new plant.
However. no drilling boom is in
prospect in Kelvin field this fall,
despite the fact that the market
Is improved and sub-posted price oil
a thing of the past. High
gravity oil of the Rimrock pool is
expected to command the Cut Bank
price of $1.10 per barrel in the
future while the rest of the field
IS now getting 80 cents per barrel.
Several compilations are pending.
AronOyy- EIlinuSOn No T. CET
5W u SWH 14-35-3Ws offsettng
Big Vests best El1ingson well on
he west, is testing following aci-
lization. The lime contact at 1851
was dry. The first break" at
.781 to 1888 carried oil which rose
lbout 100 feet in the hole. 1t was
reated with 500 gallons Of acid and
Ooks like good we'll.
CONTINUED on Page Eight
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24
National Crude Picture
Is Best IN Many Years

o is in the mOsta
situation in the history of commercial oil development in this state
stocks with sffcned
products, the
national picture definitely improved.
Illinois has dropped until production than
the cOnumptive demand Illinois refinery MdOnncnt and
Gulf Coast crude G again moving into Illinois,
Michigan years importing
daily while reners have
operating 90 the decline
production Michigan fields.
Only California offers problem effeCting Montana this
owing curtaIment the
of not
from OF during the
states Mississippi
Of production.
Dbl. MONTHS with fields discovered.
discoveries the United
barrels meaning Dbl
six months.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24
every WELL
IN CUT BANK
At CAPACITY

For the first time since the year
1897, every oil we'll in Cut Bank
field was this week producing at
capacity, including all wells OF
Glacier Production company, fol
lowing the sale OF practically all
the storage oil in the field. for ex-
port to Canada
Cut Bank field has 16 strings Of
tools working but competitions thus
far this year have little more than
equalled the natural decline OF OIL
der wells.
One completion was recorded this
week: the Texaco-Hinkle No. T.,
NE NV NEA 2-34-6W, in the
central part OF the field II made
1913 barrels In the first "a hours,
having a fluid level OF 400 feet.
With casing set at 1863 this well
TO 1910; Sunburst sand from 2675
to 269S and from 2705; upper Cut
Bank from 1855 to $500 with
light showing OF oil and lower Cut
Bank from 2S09 to 1892. fully sat
urated, with the main pay from
2S10 to $500. Ellis was found at
1922 and drilling stopped at 1925.
CoJb-Tetrud No l well, Ne NE 4
NEA 24-37-5W, in North Cut
Bank. is swabbing from to 10
barrels every other day.
Dakota MontanaTribal 112 No.
l. Sc SWA NWA 16-35-6W. is
drilling at 1850. Colorado shale was
found at sos and 1O-inch surface
uyan ocv.orsoI -
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24

H. B. Fell, executive vice presi-
dent of the association, will be the
principal speaker and c. E. Buchner,
executive manager, wild take part in
the discussion. They are coming
to Montana for the purpose of
sounding out sentiment of Montana
oil men and to enlist their efforts
in protecting the industry. One of
the greatest menaces is the high
rate of imports which threatens to
undo all the work of sterilization
of the domestic industry Mr..
gram with regard to the loss
of export markets, excessive re-
filming operations and excess of
production over consumptive de-
mand. He will invite Montana oil
men to present local problems for
consideration of the national organi-
zation, in an open forum at the
close of his discussion.
The four-point Roeser program is
being considered nationally which
would empower the federal author
tiles to do these things:
1. Require all oil-producing
states to join the interstate oil
compact.
2. Require states to produce not
more than demand estimated by the
Bureau of Mines.
3. Require refiners to post
prices and prevent them from sell
ing at discounts.
4. Regulate oil imports from
Mexico and South America.
Before coming to Shelby, the
IPA officials are meeting with
Colorado Oil men at Denver on
Monday, August &c, and with Wy
oming oil men on Tuesday, August
81, arriving in Shelby Thursday,
August 20.
Montana directors of the INDIE
pendent association are d. E.
Independent Refining
Billings; d. M. Drum
heller, Jr, Montana Headlight Oil |
Cut Bank; R. C. Jeffries,
R. c. Jeffries Company, Cut Bank;
L. B. O'Neil, Santa Rita Oil &
Gas company, Cut Bank; o. l. De-
Schon, Montana Oil & Mining Jour-
nal, Great Falls; A. G. Eichorn,
SO" Petroleum Corporation, Miles
City; A. E. Crumley, Crumley &
Aronson. Shelby; w. M. Fulton,
fulton Petroleum corporation. Shell
1y; and L. r. Hannah, Hannah
Porter Company. Shelby.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24
Deep TEST On
MOSBY DOME
Of CAT CREEK

A deep test on the East dome
of Cat Greek oil field Is being
started by AFRO Oil G Refining Co.
of Lewlstown, in an effort to devel-
OPP additional crude to care for de-
mands of the Lewistown plant.
A standard cable tool rig has
been moved in from Cut Bank by
Harry Schwartz, Jr., who is in
charge of operations for AFRO The
well will be drilled at least 600
feet into the Madison lime, to
total depth of $500 feet.
Cat Creek is Montana's first COM
mercial oil field and has thus far
produced 100000 barrels Of
high gravity oil worth $22,5OO,OOO
from two sands near the base OF
the Kootenai formation of the low
er Cretaceous. This corresponds
with the Sunburst sand horizon of
northern Montana
Deep drilling in Cat Greek field
has been delayed because the ma
jor leases are covered by excess
lively high overriding royalties,
some of the operators having as lit
tie as so per cent of the oil. Eff
forts to drill deep tests on the West
dome have been discouraged up to
this time. Continental Oil company
controls the main part of the field.
The Mosby dome, on which the
discovery well was drilled. has not
produced much oil as there is con-
siderable water in the Cat Creek
sands in this area. The proposed
deep test is on the Mitchell farm,
near the high" of the local fold.
This well may get production in
either of two Cat Greek sands or
In three sands of the Quadrant SER
les else the top of the Madison
time. The test to 500 feet into the |
Madison lime viii not reach the |
Oevonian as the Madison lime Is
believed to be thicker than 500 /
'eet although this depth may reach I
he Turner Valley horizon, near the
base OF the lime.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24
WANDER PAS BUYS
MAGGIE WARD LEASE

Henry Wander Pas, successful
Kelvin operator, has purchased the
Ward lease comprising 40 acres and
located few miles west OF Kelvin
The deal was closed with Mrs. Mar
garet Ward. This land is her orig
inal homestead. 1t now contains
four producing wells. Mrs. Ward
and son Joe Cruise. and grandson,
Riley Cruise, left for Clearmont.
Wye, where Mrs. Ward has bought
a tourist hotel and camp.
The tract is in the high gravity
pool in section 28-35N-3W.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24
MISSION DOME
MAY DRILL IN
Ry y. A. neeIer


BILLINGS-It Is reported in Bill
lngs, that Ben Ryan, operator on
Mission dome, 16 miles south east
OF Livingston. will return in a
short time to complete the test
started three years ago. It is re-
ported California interests have
Joined Mr.. Ryan, and will drill
the test down through all known
possible oil producing levels. While
recent reports state a test we'll will
be drilled this fall near Three
Forks, confirmation OF this report
could not be made This intended
location Is on the Madison River,
It is reported. and about 10 miles
south Of Three Forks.