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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16
Nyhagen Gets
Another Well

Nyhagen & Sandgren-Anderson
No. 4, NV NEA SWl 26-35-6W.
is a completion of the week, getting
its production from the lower Cut
Bank sand. 1t is in the north
central part of the field, in the
midst of producers. 1t had Sun
burst sand from PITS to 2795 with
oil showing in the bottom 10 feet.
Casing was run at 2S49, however.
after finding the upper Cut Bank.
from 1915 to $3.50. dry. The lower
Cut Bank, 1850 to 1866 was the
main pay. oil coming up 500 feet.
II swabbed IS barrels in the first
"a hours.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16
Four Wells Seeking
Oil In Devonian Now
Drilling In Alberta

thorough of the Devonan formation that underles
north Montana and Alberta along the face of the Rocky Noun
has been Moose Dome Of Turner Valley oil
field Alberta by McCo Fronenac former Texas company af
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16
SEATTLE men
PROPOSE TEST
On ALOE NOSE

1t became known in Kelvin field
this week that Land Owners Oil
& Gas company, a Seattle concern
which owns several. thousand acres
of land IN West Kelvin, has ad-
vanced funds for the start Of a
well in West Kelvin district. near
the Platt location on the Aloe
nose"
Location of the proposed we'll,
it is understood. will be in Section
%, Township BAN, range 3W This
is between leases of the block re-
Gently taken by Santa Rita Oil
& Gas company, Cut Bank opera
tors.
Land owners Oil & Gas company
bought it's extensive holdings at
tax sale from Toole county and
caused the drilling of two wells,
both in Section 3-34-4W, in what is
known as the Midway district.
Sponsors of the proposed we'll
in the Aloe district say that deep
test to the Devonian is proposed
should it fail to get oil at the Ma
olson contact or in one of the
breaks" of the lime. The we'll
must be started before January 1,
under existing contracts.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16
COLE BILL IS
FORGOTTEN
BY CONGRESS

Announcement of the president
this week that there is no more leg
islation which the administration
desires passed by the congress leads
local oil men to the conclusion that
the administration has dropped the
proposed federal oil control Of the
oil industry. at least so far as the
Cole bill Is concerned. Chairman
Cole OF the committee which held
hearings on the bill has not yet
submitted his report, thus delay
ing congressional action OF any
time. 1t is possible that the bill
will be revived at the next sess-
ion of congress hut at present It
is definitely not an administration
must"
1t is expected that the new con-
gress will consider a new tax bill,
to correct existing tax laws, not
ably the excess profits tax law which
contains many inequities and which
works many injustices.
The Independent Petroleum Asso-
citation Is anxious to have oil men
send in examples Of injustices, with
actual figures and factual mater
ial, to aid in formulating recon-
mendations to congress for changes
in the tax law.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16
MARKET FOR
GASOLINE IS
At new HIGH

Demand for refined products con-
tinued at all-time record rates dur
ing the month OF September, accord
ing to the monthly report OF the
Bureau of Mines Domestic demand
was percent higher in Septem-
Der than a year ago Exports We're
higher than expected but the total
Of 1.9O7.0 900 barrels was less than
half what 1t was in September,
1899. The favorable demand situa-
ton was nullified by increased runs
to stills so that the reduction in
gasoline stocks was below expecta-
tions. Inventories OF finished and
unfinished gasoline declined from
S3,701, goo Dbl, the first of the
month TO S1.907.0O0 Dbl. on Sept.
80. the latter being about II mil
lion barrels above the level OF last
year.
Domestic demand for gas oil and
distillate fuel was percent above
a year ago but the domestic demand
for residue fuel oil was percent
lower.
Crude oil production showed
gain in September for the first
time in many months. The average
due to Texas runs, was $4,000 Dbl.
over the August daily average. IL
linois production continued to slump
but the increase in daily average,
from 3S9.5O0 Dbl in August to
Dbl in September, was
much less than in the two previous
months.
Gain IN production was more than
offset by heavier consumption, par
ticularly runs to stills, so that there
was a moderate reduction in crude
oil stocks. the first in nearly
year.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16
new RULING
ON TAXES On
ROYALTIES

Condemned royalties may be
charged off, for income tax pur-
poses, at such time as the owners
may select their loss, according to
a publication issued by the indie
pendent Petroleum Association of
America.
The statement says:
The petroleum industry until the
present year was so accustomed to
the established procedure of the
Internal Revenue Bureau in regard
to charging off condemned royal
ties that many are uncertain in re-
gard to the new procedure of that
Bureau In compliance with the
terms of the Paramount Royalties
decision. In the view of the Internal
Revenue Bureau, the decision in
that case by the United States
Board of Tax Appeals is final UNI
der the present law. 1t is also the
view of representatives of that Blu
reau that the new practice Is dis
tinctly to the benefit of members
of the petroleum industry who are
now able to actually charge off
at such time as they may select
their loss upon a royalty which has
become actually valueless. / am not
In a position to know II this is the
case or not. Because Of inquiries
which have been made. 1t seemed
best to here set forth in more de-
tan than usual the situation in re-
gard to these royalties which have
no value whatever.
Holders of worthless royalties
may charge off the total amount of
their loss on them IL they quitclaim
their title to the landowner, thus
divesting themselves of
any interest. This is the holding
Of the Internal Revenue Bureau.
Such quitclaimtng to the landown-
er will not be regarded as gift un-
der the tax law but will be ac-
,epted as a definite and stated evil
1ence that the total loss of value
has been recognized by the royal
y holder. This, of course, is prac-
.ical only when the loss in value is
complete and absolute. So we are
by representative OF the
internal Revenue Bureau.
When, as was pointed out in our
lcontlnued on Page Fivel
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16
SPECULATOR
SELLS LEASE
FOR $4,000

The Western Examiner of Cal
gary tells about a lease investor in
Canada who "cashed in to the ex-
tent of $4,000 on an oil lease
which he had once thought ready
to charge off as loss. The Exam
liner account says, In part:
'He held $50 acres in a section
of 1885 for three years. 1t was
difficult holding. Once he was Of
fered the usual IS (per acre) but
he held off long enough for bad
news to arrive on the Central Val
ley development. The IS offer was
Withdrawn so quickly that the
paper sizzled.
Things later began to look bet
ter and he held onto his land, now
fairly sure that the unexpected
which, by the way, is the normal
for oil men-would happen.
at happened a couple of weeks
or so ago.
He was offered $3.50 an acre
by we'll established company and
played for time while he gained
his breath. A little mental calcu-
lation showed him SIS, 600 as a GER
tainty and he closed the deal with
Just the amount OF delay necessary
to be decent"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16
Rigney Well
Misses Big Gas

The third well referred to is the
Glacier PrOduction-Rigney No. 3.
&c SW Il NEA 2-35-6W, which is a
quarter mile south of the Rigney
No. OF producer and a little over
a half mile south of the Rigney
$4,000, 000-foot gas well. The Rig
ney No. carried no gas m the
Sunburst sand series and had no
resemblance to the wells TO the
north. 1t had oil in the lower Cut
Bank sand at last reports but the
amount was undetermined. The
log of this we'll is said to throw no
light on the strange presence of a
great reservoir of gas in an area
where gas production is not expect
ed. Two large gas wells have been
completed but the logs of the wells
do not reveal displacement suggest
tive of faulting. The Rigney No.
1, an oil we'll in the Cut Bank sand.
gave no suggestion of the existence
of the gigantic gas flows in the two
west and northwest
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16
GAS PROJECT
At HAVREIS
AGAIN alive

The "cat OF nine Ives has moth,
ing on the Havre municipal gas
lproject which, effectively killed at
Ileast that many times is very much
alive and active. according TO Hill
lcounty accounts.
The government has again extend
ed its WPA loan and grant for the
construction of a municipal gas
system to compete with an existing
natural gas system serving $50 Of
the heating business in Havre at
rate lower than the average gas
rates OF cities OF Montana.
The government has given still
another extension to allow time for
the development of supply of ma
tural gas with sufficient reserves to
amortize the federal loan on bhe
distribution system and a gas main
nine miles out from the city limits.
The possibility of large gas re-
serves in the lower sands OF Signal
Butte structure, north of Hayre. is
said to be the new factor. A well
was spudded during the last sum-
mer by w. NJ. Hanlon, Cut Bank
oil operator, who Shut down pend
ing negotiations to secure a rotary
rig with which he hoped to make a
quick test TO the top of the Madison
lime. Numerous competent geolo
gists have approved the structure
and declared that gas will likely be
found in the lower Colorado, also
IN the Kootenai, known as sun
burst and Cut Bank sands, all OF
which horizons are productive north
and west of Havre The HanlOn
we'll is so located in the faulted
III gh" of the big field as to likely
get gas. However, the federal
grant time limit expired before the
well could be drilled. Now the
grant is revived.
Should gas be found 1t is un-
derstood that private capital will
build the intermediate line from the
field to the end of the municipal
gas line, a distance of some Is
miles.
In the years that the Havre
group has been trying to get gas
for a municipal plant. not one GU
bic foot of commercial gas has |
been found in half dozen wells
drilled east. north and south of the !
rity. Last summer it was believed |
that the proponents Of the plan /
we're defeated. but the voters turn
I'd down the proposed franchise of
he company now serving the city |
IT the special election and the gov
eminent in turn re-granted the fed
sral funds to await the outcome OF
he test of the 3O,OO0-acre Signal
Butte oil and gas dome in which
gas has been found in the Eagle
andstone
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16

Germany conducted negotiations
with Russian representatives with
a view Of getting access to the oil
fields in the near east, now be-
longing to England. This involves
German invasion OF Greece and
Turkey which can be done only
with Russian consent: a factor that
is not yet certain.
In the far east, japan has solved
the problem of the American en-
barge on oil by arranging with
American and British companies
operating In the Netherlands East
Indies. Thus the United States
merely loses the business and Japan
continues to get she oil needed to
continue the war on China and,
eventually, on Great Britain and the
United States.
The press account Of the East
Indies concession to japan follows:
BATAVI. NETHERLANDS EAST
INDIES-An agreement under which
Japan obtains an increase OF her
annual oil imports from the Neither
lands East Indies from $4,000 TO
/ 100000 tons. with big United
States and British companies acting
as importing agents. was announced
here Wednesday.
The agreement was concluded be-
tween Dutch colonial and oil COM
pany officials and Tadahuru Mukai,
chairman of the huge Mitsui inter-
ests and representative OF Japanese
oil companies, but the Standard
Vacuum OH company and the Ris-
ing Sun Petroleum company, japan
of the British Shell in
(conunned on Page Five)
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16

, f. II Hunt, former geOlogist OF
/ The Texas company, Is in charge Of
the Moose Dome operation which
was spudded during the past week
Whether the we'll will be complet-
ed this year depends somewhat on
the severity OF the winter as Moose
Dome is located well UP in the
Rocky Mountains Location Is legal
subdivision OF Section 6-23-6W5
Earlier drilling on Moose dome.
where the Deyonian Is found at
shallow depth, developed oil In
small commercial quantities and
considerable naptha gas. The pres
ent test followed a careful study
OF the geology OF the region by
Hunt, on leases taken over from
+. A. P.lling. former Kelvin oper-
atOr.
A second we'll has been started
on Moose dome by Vancouver men.
Location Is in legal subdivision 4,
Sec. 16-22-6W5, drilling with cable
tools
Drilling starts some 600 feet be-
low the top OF the Madison lime,
which is at the approximate hori-
1oi VI NEiutAHhi i uiucI fh4lcy pro-
duction, found on the prairies, 35
miles distant, al depths from $500
to 10000 feet
Further exploration of the Devon
Jan formation in the eastern side
of Alberta and north OF the east
ern part of Montana. Is In progress
at Steveville where Standard OF
California, operating as Standard
OF British Columbia, found a CO.,
600 ,OOO-foot flow OF gas and show
ings OF oil in the Devonian. The
company is drilling a second well
at a depth of $500 feet. Another
well on the structure, Anglo Cana
dian No. 2. is drilling at 1000 feet.
about 500 feet in the Madison lime.
oil men say that commercial De-
vonian production at either Moose
Dome or at Steveville will be quick
ly followed by Devonian drilling in
northern Montana.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16
ZERO WEATHER
PUTS CRIMP IN
kelvin DRILLING

Sub-zero weather and a light
snowfall put a crimp in drilling OPP
erations in Kevin-Sunburst field
this week with the result that there
was only one completion recorded.
A showing of oil was reported
from the acknowledgements No.
2 we'll Sc SCI SEA 15-35-3W,
west and south of the Ellingson
group of producers, at the top of
the Madison lime at 1881 to 1893.
This formation will be treated with
hydrochloric acid, as is customary
in this pool All wells save the Ar
onow-EIlingson No. flowing well
have been acidized to develop com
mercial production. The EIlingson
No. 8, completed II months ago, is
still the largest well in the pool.
This is the second attempt of
Patterson, a Cut Bank operator,
whose first well did not respond to
acid. He moved a quarter mile
south and is believed to have
better chance for a well than in his
No. / He drilled his No. 2 to 1868,
found no more oil and plugged back
to 1850.
The next completion in the field
will be Kelvin Land Co.Leach No. 4,
in center SEA NEA 31-35-3W, in
the west end of the high gravity
pool, being drilled by M. W. Cas-
sidy for a group of California in
vestors. A fishing job at 1906 was
cleaned up this week and 7-inch
casing has been run at 1910, pre-
paratory to drilling in. Wells in this
area usually get water with the
oil and bhe oil is produced by utl-
lizing back pressure.
MiIIs-GOvernment No. 2, Sc
NEH SCI S-35-2W. is drilling at
$50 after running s II inch casing
at that depth.
wells awaiting completion, but
shut down during the storm, are:
Kippen Oil & Gas-SOlberg No. 2,
CSL NWA NEA 2O-S5-SW, at
1890 feet.
Pfabe & EngIeISing-GOvernment
No. 13, CNL SEA SEA 19-35-2W.
at 1347 feet
PrevOl & y-GOvernment No. 4,
c SEA NEA 15-35-SW, 1910 feet.
WEIGH Bros Lerum No. 2, Sc
SWAN WA 25-S6-2W, 1910 feet.
Pacific NatiOnal-NIcGOwan permit
No. 3, CIVIL SCI SEA 7-S5-2W, /
is shut down at $50 feet.
Scotland-BIcNamer No. 4, CNL
NEA SWA 29-35-3W, is rugged up
ready to spud.
Twin Fields-U. S. No. 4, NV
NWA NWA 2S-S5-3W, is now
making Is barrels of oil with con-
siderable water. 1t made all water
after it was acidized and is slowly
developing into an oil well.
Twin FieIds-ThompsOn No. 8, has
been spotted in NV NWA SEA
2S-35-3W. 1t will be drilled by
Big West.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16
STATE GRANTS
OIL LEASES IN
NORTH COUNTIES

HELENA-Four oil and gas leas-
es We're approved this week by the
Montana land board, Mrs. Nanita
B. Sherlock, commissioner, announc-
ed.
George r. Nadeau bid in 465 &C
res OF oil and gas leases near his
ranch near the Marias river, in
Toole and Pondera counties, south
west OF Shelby. The land is In Sec
tion 16-31N-3W. A shallow well
drilled for water on the Nadeau
ranch is producing enough gas to
supply the farm houses.
A. Beardslee Of Shelby bid in
$40 acres OF state oil and gas leases
on Flat COulee structure, IN sec
lions 8, IA, and 16 in Twp. BIN
Sc.
A lease on 500 acres on Sage
creek structure, Liberty county, in
Section 16-37N-7E, was bid in by
c. E. Briggs who is preparing to
drill a test we'll on Sage Greek
structure.
The 10-year oil and lease Of Boris
A. S. ArOnow on six acres OF state
land on which his refinery is 10
Gated in Kalispell was renewed.
Also renewed was an oil and gas
lease held by o. B. Aasness of
Glendive on $40 acres of Dawson
county land.
A placer mining lease was ap-
proved on application OF William
3rant of Twin Bridges to operate
n that area. Brant will pay the
Itate $25 annual rental and
'oyalty Of per cent.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16
Cobb Follows
Up Discovery

The new Cobb-TribaI 1877 No l.
well, c SEHNWA 19-32-5W, in the
extreme south end of the Big BEND
pool made 100 barrels per dav on
the pump during the past week. It
swabbed 1877 barrels initially. Lo-
Gated a mile and a half from the
nearest producers, north and east,
Il opens up a considerable territory
A. B. Cobb has proceeded immedi-
ately with the drilling of his second
well. 1t is Cobb-Tribal 1877 No 2,
'COnunuea on Page Five,
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16
TRUCKERS WILL MEET

Montana Motor Transport asso-
citation will meet in Great Falls on
December 6 and z, with an ex-
pected attendance of 800 delegates.
The convention will be held at Ho-
tel Rainbow and Ted v. Rodgers OF
Washington, ID. c., president of
American Trucking Associations,
Inc, may be present Gale Whitney.
IS president: Earl Moritx,
Lewistown, vice president: Ray Ba-
zal. Great Falls, secretary; George
Baker, Butte, treasurer, and Ed
Billings, manager.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16
Hundred Barrel Well
Is Completed In North
End OF Cut Bank Field

well with initial of 100 barrels the first "A
completed this the north Cut oil field the
socaled Tribal group which adjoins the Lander pool
This WELL in center east ine NE4NW4 Sec 2235N6W, had
both the upper and lower members of the Cut Bank
although the lower sand the normal producing horizon
2790 285 dry; upper Cut Bank from
with sauraOn from 2843 2847 1876
Casing 280 and the main pay the
lower Cut Bank The Ellis penetrat-
feet 29O Oil 1850 feet and swabbed 100 barr
first "a hours continued swab 46 barrels per
day of eight hours during the week
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16

OUIu WeaIner utIdyeu urIIIlng Op-|
erations only slightly and there
were two competitions while a third
we'll was completing on Friday
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-11-16
Axis Powers Progress
In War For Petroleum

worldwide for the control Of petroleum reserves
took varied courses during the past week
It became known that the great earthquake IN houmana
has definitely hampered Germanys successful conquest OF
the Roumanan fields fires swept the fields wells
collapsed as result of earth and highway and
Ill tatinr unreh adY damaged
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Upper opening contain comb brush mirror tooth brush
holder and other accessories Topgran cowhde in
tan black.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-17
A Destructive Proposal

The old idea of receding most of
the District of Columbia to Maryland
in order to give Washingtonians the
vote has been revived in bill by
Representative Nichols of Oklahoma.
The bill, or course, has no chance
for favorable consideration, in Con-
greSS or out of it, 1t would destroy
the traditional conception of Wash
ington as the Nations Capital under
the exclusive control of the Nation.
1t would tear down the very thing
that sincere advocates of national
representation for Washington seek
to preserve, which is the retention at
the seat of Government of an area
over which Congress must be Su-
preme. 1t mocks, rather than en-
courages, the healthy aspirations of
citizens of Washington for repre-
sentation in their Government.
Why should anybody wish to &C
complish by destruction what can be
so readily accomplished through con-
Structive amendment of the ConSti-
tuition?
The Summers amendment, when
ratified, would leave untouched the
exclusive control by Congress of the
seat of Government. 1t would not
destroy the District and end such
control. The Summers amendment
would round out the powers of Con-
gress left incomplete in the Consti-
tuition in relation to the District of
Columbia. 1t would not diveSt Con-
greSs of power.
OF their friends in Congress- the
people of the District might ask,
above all things, for full and I'M
preiudiced consideration of their
hopes for representative govern
ment in the Capital of the United
States. Such bills as the Maryland
recession proposal do not reflect
such consideration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-17
Labor SHORTAGES

That a shortage of skilled workers
exists in Pennsylvania seems plainly
indicated in the call sent out by the
frankfort Arsenal yesterday for 900
craftsmen urgently needed" to dou-
BILE production under the arms
expansion program. Though the
arsenal recently advertised for skilled
workers, a tWO-Week registration
produced only seventy men. Because
he could not find in Pennsylvania
the craftsmen required to fill defense
orders, the commanding officer is
now seeking to recruit qualified
workers elsewhere
If there is a lack of skilled workers
in Pennsylvania, it seems likely that
there is similar shortage in other
States in the industrial Northeast,
where the bulk of the plants manu-
featuring national defense materials
are located. Production of arma-
ments requires a large number of
key men, with long experience, and
specialized skillS. A shortage of
skilled workers will slow down the
Nations armament effort and there
fore will be matter of real concern.
Federal officials and spokesman for
the American Federation of Labor
and the Congress of Industrial Or
CARNATIONS deny that there is a
shortage of skilled craftsmen avail
able for the defense industries
Based on a survey made in April, the
Federal Bureau of Employment Sc
curity estimated that there we're over
10000 skilled craftsmen in Pennsyl-
vania seeking employment. In the
light of the difficulties faced by the
frankfort Arsenal, some doubt will
naturally arise as to the accuracy of
these estimates.
To train a worker in the specialized
Skills needed in the defense indus
tries takes from three to five years.
In cooperation with employers and
labor organizations, the Department
of Labor is planning to expand it's
apprentice training program, giving
particular attention to the needs Of
industries manufacturing war mate
rails. Though it will be several years
before any large number of addi-
tional skilled workers can be trained,
apprentice training is an important
part of the long-range national
defense program and should not be
neglected. Every effort should be
made to increase the number of
skilled workers and prevent a delay
in rearmament due to the lack of
competent craftsmen.