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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-15
TORONTO PIPE
TO BUILDLIHE
TO new POOL

Extension of it's pipeline to the
new Tribal pool of South Cut
Bank, a distance Of eight miles, is
contemplated by Toronto Pipe
line company, it became known this
week. Official announcement was
lacking because James w. John
son. Montana representative, is
now out of the state, on a cruise to
Honolulu.
1t is understood that the lime.
OF six-inch and four-inch construc-
ticn, will be extended from a point
a mile north of the town of Cut
Bank southwark through the Big
Bend pool to pick up production of
Santa Rita Oil. company and others
in that pool, continuing on south
ward to the recently completed
Consolidated Gas-Frary producer in
Section 19-32-5W.
Toronto formerly had lime ex-
tending into the Cut Bank pool
but sold it to Glacier Production
company which now owns and OPP
crates the former Toronto line
from the north line of Township
80 southwark. Toronto still handles
the oil from many leases and main
tains its 5-inch line to the Inter
national border, at COutts.
Producers Pipeline company is
now serving wells in the new Tri-
bal pool and International Pipe
line company is expected to run
an extension to the new pool to
pick up production of The Texas
company.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-15

Theories regarding the presence of oil in the
Montana and Alberta well during the past year
the finding Of commercial oil and production that Oma
ton Sevevle structure 120 miles north of the Sweetgass
Hills Devonian production has not been found northern Mon
ana because there has been insufficient drilling
of the wells that found indications oil
and in the lower part of the Madison lime Kelvin field the
TroySweegrass diamond drill discussed article by Ge
Oogist Gerlough the Journal
pounded by Gopgh years before proven in the Stevev
well Continuing his discussion of incentives leading further
deep drilling in this area Gerlough wrote
Of the incentives leading up the testing of the deep
formations may be outlined follows:
~ Knowledge that the edimenary formations of every
age produced oil somewhere quantity
or other.
2) Belief that least part if ALL of the oil being
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-15
CRITICAL NORTH
TEST IS CORING
MOULTON SANDS

Corning ahead at $500 feet, the
Reagan Tribal 1874 No. well on
the Blackfeet nose" on the north
west of cut Bank oil and gas field
is today entering the final stages
as it begins testing the sand hori-
IONS OF the lower Kootenai.
A total depth of $500 feet is ex-
pected, to reach the Ellis shale and
thereby test the Moulton sand. the
first and second Sunburst sands and
the first and second Cut Bank sands
five possible ob-bearing horizons.
Failing in all these, the ReagaD
group is prepared to go on to the
first break in the Madison lime, the
producing horizon at Del Bonita, a
short distance north, across the
Alberta line.
Location OF the Reagan test is in
the center Of a block OF Blackfeet
Indian tribal leases, In center east
line of SEA NEA 22-37-7W. The
well was financed by a group of Cut
Bank people. including several sue
cessfW Independent producers. The
geology Of the nose" has been de-
finitely confirmed by the marker
beds found in the present rotary
test
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-15
CHANGED LEASING
OF STATE LANDS
KILLED BY VETO

A measure which would have
made it possible to lease state land
en- a wildcat structure under a
community lease form with one
well validating the lease block, was
vetoed by Governor Sam Ford af-
ter the bill had been passed by
both houses of the legislature 1t
was known as Senate Bill SO.
No measures detrimental to Ell
Their the oil industry or the mining
industry we're passed by this last
session of the legislature.
The governor signed H. B. 226,
relating to the sale of mining in
dustry property in estates of de-
ceased persons; also memorials to
congress urging relief under fed
eral undivided profits taxes for
gold miners and urging continuance
of federal purchase of domestic
silver.
Senate bill, Sc, proposing changes
in the method of gasoline tax re
funds was killed.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-15
ADVANCE FEE idea
LANDS Nine IN JAIL

Montana mining and oil men
seeking funds and who have been
duped by front money" agencies
will be interested in the conviction
of nine members of this racket. in
Guiding Cosmos Investment Co.,
Lincoln Investment Co.. Arley In
vestment Co. of Cleveland, Mon
arch company of Youngstown, War
rem Franklin corporation of Chica-
go; Reinhardt & Co. of Los An
geles, Chicago. New York and
Brussels. Belgium; r. s. Mott Co.,
Victor de Villier Co., Victor de
Vnliers Staff, Inc, w. M. Harvey
Co of New York; Corporation Fis-
cal Co.. Delaware Registration
Trust Co and Commonwealth Trust
Co. of Wilmington. Delaware.
Ever since the coming of the
SEC, these firms have advertised
that they would raise money for fl
nancing business enterprises. The
man who answered the ad was told
he would have to furnish a little
money to prepare the necessary
papers, and the organization was
so widespread that he was made
to believe that he was getting a lot
of action, but never dime did
anyone ever raise.
Now the entire advance fee"
ring is in Jail.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-15

The Cut Bank town pool OF Cut Bank
oil field this week furnished the best compile
ton with a well that made 220 barrels in the
first "a hours 1t is Glacier Production
Nanormer No. 5 in the center of the north
line Of NE14NW4 17-33-5W
Until the development of sensational
wells OF the last few weeks in South Cut
Bank, the Vanormer farm had the most
sensational Cut Bank sand producers in the
entire field Its No | well had ali initial of
$50 barrels, which stood as a record for
many years, to be exceeded by three wells in
South Cut Bank and the new Tribal pool in
recent weeks.
Four out OF five producers on the Van
ormer have had good initial production and
since completion of the No. l in 1884 the
tract has produced more than a quarter of a
million dollarss worth of oil-S259, 28022
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-15

Drilled TO the top of the sand
with rotary tools. the No. 2 we'll
was shut down for several days
while a spudder was moved in
The spudder bailed the mud from
the hole and then got the tools hung
up in the core hole. causing q delay
SO that on Friday the Cut Bank
sand had not been drilled. There
was 1900 feet of OH standing in
the hole but no way OF estimating
probable production. The rotary
core indicated an unusual amount
OF saturation.
The next completion in the pool
will be TeXacO-WilIis No. 4, SW
SW a NEA 19-32-5W. a north off
set to the Consolidated Frary Tribal
No. /. largest well in the pool. II
had the customary showing OF
dead" oil in the Sunburst sand
and found the top of the Cut Bank
sand at 2797. Seven-inch pipe was
set at 2S05, seven feet in the sand.
The Macdonald Henderson-Over-
cash Tribal No. 1, NV NV NV u
29-32-5W, southemmost well in the
new pool, is making 100 barrels per
day. pumping on the beam.
Hannah-Porter cOmpany's Tribal
No. I well, a quarter mile south
OF the Consolidated, is drilling at
400 feet. II had Colorado shale
at 525.
In the north end Of the field.
Consolidated Gas-TribaI No. 1, c
Lot (SW 4 SEQ lO.34-6W, has
run 7-inch pipe at 1921 and is drill
ling in.
Glacier Observation-Disclosures No.
3, c NWA NWA 31-34-5W, north
OF the town of Cut Bank. is a com
pletion, with a swab test OF 4G
barrels In "a hours. II had sun
burst sand from 2755 to 2793:
upper Cut Bank from 1896 to 1858;
.ower Cut Bank from 1853 to 285f.
with S00-foot fluid level. EMis
'hale was drilled from 1857 TO 1882.
5even-inch casing was cemented at
2796.
Glacier ProductiOn-WilIia No.
:, c NV 4 SWA 21-33-5W. made
IN average OF 10O-bbl. per day dur
ng the first 10 days on the pump
NO. 3, CNL NWA 21-33-5W. is
irilling at 1920. Colorado shale
vas al 575 and 1O-inch was set at
S9S.
Santa Rita-JacObsOn No. ., c
wv y NWA 17-33-5w, is drilling
It 1925.
Two new locations were announc-
ID this week:
Glacier Production Vanormer No.
J, CSL SEA S-33-5W, spudding.
Glacier Production. Federal Land
hank No. 2, c SEASWA 3O-34.
W. Rig
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-15
HIGH GRAVITY
OIL WELL GOES
ON PRODUCTION

High Gravity Production com
panys we'll high on the rimrock
west of the town of Kelvin was this
week put on production by Charles
Wrighter, president OF the company
although II is making only four
barrels per day. The well serves
to prove a west extension TO the
high gravity pool Of West Kelvin
and opens up new territory in d
local "high' which extends up onto
the high plateau above the rimrOck
Encountering a hard lime with
no porosity, this test. in Sc NV 4
NEA 19-25-3W, had barely enough
oil to wet the dart Of the baileT
following a nitro glycerin shot II
was acidized and 1t showed about
barrel and a half day 1t was
again treated and II began making
four barrels per day.
A cemented shot of nitro gly-
cerin proved most effective, Great
ing a cavity in the formation that
is known to hold approximately 20
barrels of oil, whereas the ordinary
but a few gallons. However. the
shot hole keeps caying. causing
delay and slow cleaning.
The fact that there is no water
with the oil and the quantity has
with each treatment leads
Wrighter to the belief that another
shot of acid may penetrate a crack |
or vug in the lime that will give |
good commercial production. He
considers that further drilling may |
easily develop some large wells. |
should the bit encounter porous
limestone.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-15
Vanormer Well Near Cut Bank
Makes 22O Barrels First Day

is the latest available figure a yield OF $64,
$50 per well
The Vanormer No offsets the Cobb
Farmers State Bank lease ON the west Ii
had showing OF oil in the Sunburst sand,
284O to 1870; upper Cut Bank sand from
2SSO to 29l4; lower Cut Bank sand from
20l4 to 2024 the main pay, and drilled the
Ellis from 2o24 to POPS The hole swiftly
filled with oil with sufficient gas that it
flowed twice The fluid level was establish
ed at 1000 feet Seven-inch casing was
ccmented at 1880
Glacier Production company Immediately
moved rig to No 6 location about midway
between the No l and No 2 wells, where
large production is anticipated The No. 6
is $50 feet north of the south line and 1920
feet west OF the east line OF Section 8-33N-
5W.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-15
DUNCAN CALLED EAST

H. J. Duncan, district supervisor
in the Casper office of the U. s.
G. S. has been called into Wash
ington. d. c., by the department
to become assistant chief of the oil
and gas division OF the conservation
branch of the United States Geo
logical Survey. He is acting for
the chief who VIII be in California
for three months In connection with
litigation involving government
lands.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-15
sWBETGRAss TOWN BURNS

Historic land marks in the north
Montana oil industry ware destroy
ed by fire in the town of Sweetgrass
during the past week when a
100000 blaze wiped out the main
business section of the town that
was headquarters for Oil men in the
development of the Border Red
Coulee pool The Thompson hotel,
one Of the places totally destroyed,
was the mecca of oil men from all
parts of Montana and Alberta in the
early days of Kelvin development
Another oil fields town, Cut Bank,
suffered a fire this week, with the
loss of the Perry Motors garage.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-15
RETURNS TO WAR WORK

LAUREL-C. d. Monte, head of
the mulsified asphalt manufactur-
ing department Of the Laurel In
dependent Refining Co. representa-
tive CT the American Bituminus Co.
OF Oakland, returned to Oakland
being recalled to the home plant
to aid in the national refense pro-
gram.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-15
Twin Fields
Starts Well

One new location was announced
this week in the high gravity oil
pool west of Kelvin. IT is.
Twin Fields-G Government No. 3,
center north line NEH 1886
3W. two locations west Of the No.
2 producer. 1t is zee feet south of
the north line and $50 feet west OF
CONTINUED on Page Fourl
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-15
HAS NATURAL GAS SEEP

Mrs. Sam owen of Hope, Idaho
writes the Journal that she wants
to interest an oil or gas operator
in some gas seepages on her farm,
located about 10 miles west of the
Montana state line. There are num-
erous large seepages, she states.
and Andrew Stewart, acting chief
chemist of the Bureau of Mines,
Washington, D. c., gave the fol-
lowing analysis:
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-15
GOES TO WEsn INDIES

Robert w. Sanders, formerly of
COutts, has gone to Trinidad,
British West Indies, to work as
chemist in a refinery under three
year contract. He was formerly
employed in the Coutts plant and
more recently in Calgary.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-15

Nineteen years ago today the small to7m of KERN qcuS
srcng ah excitement because Gordon Campbell gcologist
had Just brought an oil 7oc The abo9e picture shozCqnq
the derrick and the rigs of the sqafoys qods
taken BY the editor of The Journal nineteen years ago today
This qoeH alqyals mystery did produce in CONNER
cal quantities. It had initial Of perhaps 20 barrels per
day b4 erbeimctaHy drilled deeper and qcutey
and so ruined Ho0euer Gordon Campbell bro0ded the
impetus to RIM prices of oil lands M $500 an acre and to
bring many major and Independent operators into the KERN
SuburSt
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
Picket Stabbed in
Row with Worker
Over Icing Strike
LabOrer Uses Knife on
Striker Attempting to
Prevent Entering Plant

ROSEVILLE, Cal, July
Is. (UP)-A picket at the
struck Pacific Fruit Express
plant here was stabbed today
when he demonstrated with
a Mexican itinerant who had been
recruited to work in the largest
railroad car icing plant in the world.
Andre Gayaldo, 81, was rushed
to Mercy hospital in Sacramento
suffering from stab wounds. His
assailant, Conrad Luna, 24-year-
old Mexican, returned to the plant
where Is men, including foremen
are attempting to carry on opera
tions.
Bystanders said Gayaldo ap-
preached Luna when he emerged
from the plant gate. The two men
argued for a moment and Luna
drew a knife and stabbed the picket.
City police were called to the
scene but decided that they were
without jurisdiction since the stab
bing occurred on railroad property
Railroad police said they would deal
with Luna.
Until the stabbing occurred, pick
citing b. the 100 strikers employed
at the plant had been orderly.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
Reports Continue
Goering Disgraced.
Put Under Guard

LONDON, July 16 CUP - Re-
ports spread today that Field Mar
shall Hermann Goering, Nazi No. 2
was in disgrace in Germany after
quarreling with Adolf Hitler over
the German war on Russia.
Die Zeitung, anti-Nazi German
language newspaper published in
Britain, asserted that the reports
were correct.
Goering was said to have urged
Hitler to build up air strategy on
the western front.
Paul Joseph Goebbels, propaganda
minister; Joachim Won Ribbentrop,
foreign minister, and Heinrich
Himmler, chief Of the Gestapo or
secret police, were said to have op-
posed Goering, and Hitler was re-
ported to have sided with them.
Goering resigned his command of
the air force, according to Die lei
tung, and Hitler assumed control of
it, naming Field Marshal Erhard
Mich his commander in chief.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16

because of the press of time, but the
warden revealed more than 300 con-
victs had expressed willingness to
sign the petition.
Duffy declined to identify the con-
victs who agreed to substitute for
Mrs Spinelli, who was convicted
with two of her gang of killing 19
year old Robert Sherrard, one of
their group.
He said the law would not permit
substitution for a prisoner under
death sentence. He made plain,
however he did not regard the Of
fer as "grandstanding."
, Members q the committee tolt
the warden they believed Mrs,
Spinelli's ow-conspirators, Mike
Simeone and Gordon Hawkins,
should volunteer to die in her place.
However, both are under sentence
to die on their own account July 25.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
San Quentin Convicts Offer 10 Die
In Place of Condemned Woman Unless
Governor Grants Plea for CIemency

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Calf,
July 16 CUP) - Convicts at San
Quentin prison we're willing to draw
straWs to see who would take the
place of Mrs. Juanita (The Duchess)
Spinelli IN the gas chamber next
Friday if her plea for clemency
goes unheard, Warden Clinton Duf-
fly revealed today.
Inmates of the prison, aroused at
the thought the state of California
could legally execute a woman, have
petitioned Gov Culbert L. Olson to
spare the life of the Duchess.
A prisoners committee paraded
into Duffys office yesterday to sign
a petition to the governor. Only II
signatures were appended before it
was sent to Olson in Los Angeles
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
Provazek Girl
On Way to Health

LaVina Provazek, Central Union
High school pupil injured in a traf-
fic accident at Boulevard last Jan.
S is able to wheel herself around
her room in wheel chair and is
greatly improved, her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John P. Provazek, said
Wednesday.
Since an operation performed sew
eral weeks ago, the girl has improv-
ed rapidly and apparently is recov-
ering from the coma in which she
remained since the accident. She
has regular meals now instead of
a liquid diet, follows instructions
perfectly, and laughs at amusing
incidents. She still is not able to
talk but can make vocal responses.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16

that basis.
The increase, a blanket one af-
fecting all water sold by the district
is expected 10 raise between $l25,-
900 and S150000 year. The in
crease was necessary to meet the
recent wage increase of $4,000 a
year, the increase made necessary
in the attempt to keep district
employees from leaving to accept
higher salaries in defense indus
tries, directors said.
Motion to raise the tolls was made
by Director Charles Morrow OF
BraWley seconded by Director
Frank Grubel of Calipatria. Chair
man Evan T. Hewes, and Director
w. J. Gregg voted with Morrow and
Grubel in favor of it. Director Mark
Rose of Holtville alone voted
against it.
Prior to 1882 water was paid for
at the rate of SIS per $lO0 valuation.
In 1882 taxes and water tolls were
ordered to be paid separately there
after.
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16

attend the session OF ministers at
which the decision to resign was
made but his resignation was sub
mitted to Emperor Hirohito along
with those of the other ministers.
(That may be an indication that
Matsuoka whose policies have been
under fire in many Japanese quar-
ters will be dropped from the new
cabinet which succeeds the present
government.
The cabinet resignation followed
directly from the political crisis
brought on by the Russo German
war and increasing demands from
army and navy quarters for a ma
tionalistic government in which all
political tendencies would be sharp
ly repressed.
Emperor Hirohito is returning
from his summer residence at Haya-
Continued on Page 6, Column -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16


were involved in the fighting. All
but two of the injured men left
the scene of the fight without re-
quiring medical attention. Louis
Tommer, AZ, member of the Van
Drivers union (AFL said to have
been struck on the head with an
iron bar, was taken to a hospital.
The fight started at the ware
house of the Paterson-Leitch COM
pany and Cyril Bath, president of
a neighboring manufacturing COM
pany, said 300 AFL business agents
and union members charged the
warehouse from two directions.
He said the AFL men drove the
CIO members from the plant.
1T was a terrible thing to wit
ness" Bath said. Men ran in all
directions. l saw AFL men throw
ing Wrenches and pieces of angle
iron at the Leitch workers as they
looked for cover. Nearly 20 ran into
my shop where we shut and locked
the DOORS
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
Council viii Keep
City Repair Yards
AT Present Site
Months of Discussion
End with Decision
Against Moving

I'll Centro city counci1men
Tuesday night voted to keep
the city repair yards at their
present site near the railroad
tracks on Orange avenue.
After months of argument for
and against the proposal to move
them to the city water works in
the south west part of the city, the
council voted to l to keep the
yards where they are. Mayor Robert
Hatton and Councilmen H. w. Faw-
cett, Wesley He'll, and P. L. Moore
voted TO keep the shops where they
are. Councilman Charles Bratton
voted against the other members
of the council.
Large delegations of property
owners in the south west part of
the city appeared at council meet
ings in the past to ask that the
repair yards stay on Orange avenue.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
Quake Recorded
South Of Border

PASADENA, Cal, July 16. (UP)
The Pasadena chronological labor
atory reported today that its seis-
mograph recorded minor earth
quake at 8:16;27 pm. (PST) last
night. The quake's epicenter was be-
lieved to be approximately 600 miles
southeast of here, probably in Som
oa state, Mexico.
Scientists at the laboratory said
the seismograph recorded a second
"aftershock" at 8:1S05 pm. Neither
shock was believed strong enough
to have caused damage.
No quakes were felt in southern
California.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16

flVe The Germdn n1gh command
took cogniZance of Soviet counter
assaults but insisted that the Red
army had been defeated with
bloody losses.
However, the Russian ana Ger
man communiques offered one OF
their rare instances OF comparative
agreement on the point of the coun-
ter attacks which also were en-
phasized by Moscow's report on
the front line fighting.
This picture of operations was
given by Moscow and Berlin:
NORTHERN FRONT - German
differed. One said Nazi forces were
near Leningrad". Another said they
had crossed the Luga river 66 miles
south Of Leningrad. Another said
they had encircled a Russian col
umn at Byelaya, AZ miles northeast
of Pskov and 125 miles south of
Leningrad. Russian reports claimed
Germans had been defeated in
big engagement near Porkov, A
miles east of Pskov and $50 south of
Leningrad.
CENTRAL FRONT-German ac-
counts were vague after Tuesdays
claims of smashing through the
last Stain line forts east of Vitebsk.
Russian reports said heavy fighting
still was in progress in the Wit
ebsk region, some 285 miles west
southwest of Moscow.
SOUTHERN FRONT-German re-
ports were exceedingly confused.
Some Nazi quarters insisted Tues
day that Nazi troops had reached
Kiev and started to fight their way
into the city. Later accounts merely
claimed the Germans are again"
advancing on Kiev after big de-
feat of the Russians in the Zhito-
mir-Berechev region, 80 miles
southwest of Kiev. Russian accounts
still placed the fighting at Novo-
grad Volynsk, 142 miles west of
Kiev.
The vanguard of the German
drives on Moscow, Kiev and Lenin-
grad is being pursued by a wide
number of armored columns which
feel their way across the broad
Russian areas at considerable speed,
advancing on their objectives by
various routes and followed at some
distance in the rear by larger bodies
of German infantry and motorized
detachments.
The apparent conflict Of the var
iouS German claims might be at
tributed to reports concerning diff
ferent fighting units. Thus, an ar
mored column might sweep up close
to Kiev, suffer annihilation in a
combat with Soviet defense forces
and then be followed up with
strong wave of Germans advancing
on the city from another direction.
PENDULUM REPORTS
However, there was pendulum
tendency apparent in the German
reports.
Saturday night the Nazi high
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