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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-27
HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year to all readers scattered AZ of
United States Alaska South America and the beeaguered Philippine
islands and Hawaii
Happy New Year to the oil operators of Montana Wyoming
and the wdates the DakO Oregon Washington and may
they be able to figure the Qs
ferrous figures which make possible for them get pipe and
under priOrities
Happy New Year placer who have prior
y rangthe boys whom nobody loves excepting
Happy New Year the hard producing
lead and zinc increasing build the munitions
Happy New Year to those engaged the enterprises of chrome
and manganese May their tribe and may these industries
become firmly bedded in the industrial the
Montana during 1912
Happy New Year the petroleum reners may they be able
to set records for time stream in 1912.
Happy New Year the marketers they be able
that filling station operate profit without much
tire business.
been patiently waiting for the drill to arrive their lands and who
the possibility that development this the most
important year in Montana production history.
Happy New Year SOupusS Ikes May learn love him
of intelligent and friendly coordination the oil industry
during the coming year.
Hard going for everyone know-but HAPPY NEW YEAR
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-27
.BOWDOIN SALE
TO BE- HELD ON
FEBRUARY IL

Leases on oil and gas lands Of Bow
dom dome are this week re-advertised
for sale by the y. S. land office, fol-
lowing the recent postponement. APP
parently the only change from the first
notice Of sale is in the rental which
was reduced from 81 per acre TO Is
cents an acre The sale will be held
at the Great Falls land office on
Feb. IL.
The tracts advertised total approx
mately $500 acres and under the terms
OF the sale no one bidder may have
more than $3.50 acres in one parcel,
so the acreage will probably be sold
in two parcels.
The tracts are In the center Of Bow
doin dome, vast oil structure in north
eastern Montana that is said to be
the largest fully enclosed structure on
the continent There are hundreds OF
thousands Of acres within the closing
contours that are Unbiased. Present
gas production which supplies the
high line" Of Montana and supple
ments the supply for eastern towns
and cities in Baker-Glendive area, Is
coming from shallow depth, in a sandy
shale. Presence Of an unteSted section
Of Pennsylvania lime, also the Madi-
son lime and the Devonian is def
tnitely known in the area but none
Of these have been tested.
1t has been rumored in recent
months that major company, in CO.
operation with Montana-Dakota IT'LL
tiles Co.. is preparing to do extensive
work ON the vast uplift
with a view to locating local struc-
tural highs on which a deep test
may be drilled. The presence Of both
folding and faulting is definitely es-
sablished near the apex Of the struc-
lure. In the vicinity Of Bowdoin lake.
There are So producing gas wells
IN Bowdoin Of which 10 were drilled
turing the present year.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-27

The new maps show the areas ir'
which leases on government land must
be acquired through public sale, as
against areas where such leases are
subject to mere filing.
Kelvin field was extended on the
southwest, west, northwest, east and
southeast, 1871 acres having been
added, as compared with the former
boundary map. The present area as
shown is 60.422 acres, exclusive of the
gas area.
The entire gas area Of Kevin-Sun-
burst field has been thrown into one
designation now called the Gas Ridge
field. Formerly the Shelby gas field
adjoined the Gas Ridge field on the
south. The combined area Of the Gas
Ridge field, with addition Of 9.489
acres is now 1882 acres. The produc-
tive area was extended so as to join
the two pools, with several sections
added northeast Of Shelby, reaching
southwark within a mile Of Shelby and
within a half mile Of Farrell, railroad
point east Of Shelby.
About IL sections heretofore included
in the designated producing area were
in the new map.
The Cut Bank producing area des-
Ignated on the new map totals 1929
acres and includes none Of the Black
feet Indian reservation on which the |
most important extensions have been
The government now car
RES the proven area all the way down |
Cut Bank creek, on the east bank. to
the bottom Of Township 80. Several
areas in the gas district we're elm
mated but the newly proven territory
greatly exceeds the Examinations.
Cut Bank formerly contained 1891
acres under the U. s. q. S. designa-
CONTINUED ON Page Four
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-27
MORE OIL AND
HIGHER PRICES
ARE NECESSARY

Declaring that the available
crude oil supply above ground in
the United States is sufficient for
only so days, Col Earnest o.
Thompson, chairman Of the Texas
railroad commission, declared the
supply dangerously low" and
called upon the nations petroleum
industry TO increase production by
1,000,0 600 barrels day to feed fuel
TO the engines Of war.
He estimated a demand Of s.
OO0, 600 barrels per day TO carry on
the war, as compared with present
yield above 4,000,O 600 barrels. He
said there was serious doubt that
present fields could for a long
period produce more than 5000, 900
barrels daily. Demand through 1945
win greatly exceed that figure, he
said.
To stimulate drilling he advO-
Gated an increase in crude oil price,
with a gradual rise 10 $1.60 bar
rel which would I'm fact only bring
OH up 10 parity with other basic
cOmmOditles.1
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-27
BIG NITRO SHOT
BOOSTS YIELD
OF HANLON WELL

Heroic measures to get a big well
offsetting a big well. included a record
nitro glycerin shot in Cut Bank field
this week as Bill Hanlon's north off
set to the Jeffries-T Tribal 1,000-barrel
well was boosted to 345 barrels in "a
hours.
A shot Of 260 quarts of nitro glycerin,
the sixth one used, was exploded in
the well which had an initial of 260
barrels In "a hours. Production had
improved with each shot and Hanlon
had hoped that it might flow, as did
the Jeffries well which was the largest
Cut Bank sand producer In the field.
Its initial of 345 barrels indicates that
it will make $50 barrels or better on
the pump. The 260-quart shot was the
largest ever used in Cut Bank field.
Santa Claus brought no rich pres
ents to Cut Bank operators this week
and if there are any deserving good
boys" they viii get their reward later
on. OF three competitions two were
very small and the third was average.
Glacier Production harrington No. 3,
G SW4 SEA 18-33-5W, south Of Cut
Bank. made only 20 barrels in z hours,
swabbing. Completion data follows:
casing point, 1910; Sunburst sand,
289O-2910; upper Cut Bank, 2915-2952;
lower Cut Bank, 2975-2987. Ellis, 1887;
total depth, $685. Fluid level, 400 feet.
TexacO- Bonnet No. A, G Sci SWa g. !
S2-5W, in South Cut Bank, swabbed
140 barrels in the first "a hours Com /
pletion data: casing point, 1855; Sun
burst sand, 2800-2830, good show of
oil; upper cut Bank, 2855-2885; lower
Out Bank, 2885-2901; Ellis, 2901. Total |
depth, 1904 Fluid level, 14OO feet. Shot
with 100 quarts.
TexacO- Government b. No. S, c Lot
2, 20-32-5W, swabbed 12a barrels in
seven hours. Completion data: casing
point, 2755; Sunburst sand 2680-2705;
upper Cut Bank, 2745-2783; lower Cut
Bank, 2783-2784. Ellis, 2784. Total depth,
1896. Fluid level, 400 feet.
The close of the year finds IA
strings Of tools working in Cut Bank
field, Is cable tools and one rotary.
Two new wells were started this
week:
Santa Rita-T Tribal No. 16, Center
NWa SEA 3-35-6W, south Of the newly
Tribal IA which Is still
flowing 1876 barrels per day through
the casing. The No. Is is 1860 feet
north of the south line and 1900 feet
Continued on Page Four
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-27
SEC Stops Sales
OF MOndGkOtG Stock

The Securities and Exchange COM
mission has filed a complaint In the
United States district court at Butte,
Mont, seeking to enjoin the further
sale Of the common stock of the Mon
dakota Development Co. in violation
of the registration provisions Of the
securities act of 1888.
The defendants named in the COM
plant were John Wight, Mondakota
Development Co. "a Montana corpo-
ration, E. A. Wight and C. H. Braden.
The commission in its complaint al
legged that the common capital stock
of the defendant corporation was be-
ing sold without a registration state
ment covering it being in effect under
the securities act.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-27

January at n 500 barrels, which will be
higher than the November and De-
cember runs and higher than the av-
erage for the year, 1871. The average
for the first 10 months Of lD4I has
been 20349 barrels per day as COM
pared with 1927 barrels per day dur
ing 1870. The all-time high In the
recorded annals of Montana oil pro-
duction was 22.l09 barrels per day In
October, which exceeded the former
record Of 81 $50 barrels in September.
The December production is expected
70 be $1,000 barrels or slightly less
than the November average Of ap-
proximately p 100 barrels per day.
The telegram from Secretary Ickes
follows:
Washington, d. c. % 3O1P
Dec. %. 1871. 2:s2 P. M.
r. P. Jackson, Secretary,
OH Conservation Board Of Montana.
Ford Bldg, Great Falls, Mont.
have issued the following certifica-
ton today and 1t is being sent airnaN
to you: Pursuant to the provisions Of
the presidents letter Of May %, 1871,
establishing the office OF Petroleum
Co-ordtnator for National Defense, Il
is hereby certified that the office Of
Petroleum Co-ordinator for National
Defense. after a careful, scientific and
impartial investigation, collection and
evaluation Of all available pertinent
data, and the findings and recommen-
dations Of the Bureau OF Mines, has
found 1t to be necessary. In order to
insure the maintenance OF a ready and
adequate supply Of petroleum and Pc
troleum products for military and
civilian needs, that the production Of
crude petroleum in the State of Mon
tana be at the rate Of, but not greater
than, 81 500 barrels daily, for the
month Of January, 1912" The above
stated amount is hereby recommend
ed to the oil Conservation Board Of
Montana as the operating schedule for
the State Of Montana during said peri
cd, beginning as OF a. m. CStandard
time at place Of production) Jan. /,
1912.
HAROLD L. ICKES,
Petroleum Co-ordinator
For National Defense.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-27
Fix Profits of
Oil Pipelines
At z Percent

WASHINGTON - TIL e government
announced a final Judgment against
20 major oil companies. So pipeline
companies and subsidiaries or az
filiates which places a percent limit
on returns the oil companies may re-
ceive from pipeline investments.
The Judgment provides: No defend
ant common carrier may pay, directly
or indirectly to any shipper-owner In
a calendar year beginning Jan. /, any
earnings derived from transportation
in excess Of its 7 percent share Of the
ICES valuation Of the pipeline prop
erty If the pipeline has carried any
for the shipper-owner
during the year.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-27
Wildcat Paints Prairie With
Crude As Derrick Blows Down


with a showing Of oil In the Of the lime.
While witnessed the crash which during the night the
oil that
carried the wind for distance Of nearly mile wide around
S bIackened with oil
discounted the
to dis
while
Following the storm
The wenw was repaired the flow is shut in.
expected deepened
we'll will be drilled
oil the Regain wen has already oil pool Lo
the midst of 20O0-acre
miles north and six miles
west of production
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-27

Gold can be beaten into such thin
layers that a single ounce viii cover
146 square feet.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-27
ICKES ASKS FOR CAPACITY PRODUCTION
Allowable of q, 500 Barrels Daily
Fixed for January by Oil Co-ordinatOr

Montana oil producers have been called capacity
ton of all oil wells during the month of January 1912
recommendation of Harold es petroleum
al defense telegram received by the Oil Conservation
Montana COOdnaOr Icke fixed the for
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-27
Montana Oil Fields Set
AII-Time Record With Yield
Of 7,400, 900 BbIs. in III

An all-time production record Of
nearly "a million barrels Of oil IN
Montana fields is expected for the
year, 1871. now drawing to a close.
II December production equals that
Of November, the total production for
the year will be 7477,072 barrels, or
at the rate Of 20.485 barrels per day.
Production by months was as fol-
lows:
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-27
BLGckOMt Time
Isn't Overtime

Time spent by employees on the
premises of an employer covered by
the wage and hour law during black
outs or air raid alarms where no work
Is done need not be compensated for
as hours worked Acting Admins
traitor Baird Snyder, wage and hour
division, U. S. department of labor,
declares.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-27
INCORPORATE HERE

Lincoln Placers, Associated, Of Sc
attic, has filed application to do corpo-
ration business In Montana, listing
Lincoln as the chief city Of operations
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-27

War production, even at fun speed.
Is lengthy job in shipbuiIding. A
battleship requires four years, a
cruiser three years and q submarine
30 months.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-12-27
u. S. Adds $4,000 Acres.
TO Proven Area OF 2 Fields

within
the bound Of fields
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-26

Lawyer: Where did you get the
black eyer"
Janitor: Il went to a dance hall
last night and was struck by the
beauty OF the place"
Monte Proser told the yarn about
the young man who inherited his
fathers railroad after the old mans
death. The old gent has been a
mean, tough. skinflindt, cordially
hated by all his employees, and the
road had gone to pot during his
regime On his first inspection
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-26
NATURAL GAS Is
STORED AS LIQUID

The greatest quantity of natural
gas stored above ground in one
place, 15O,OOO,OO0 cubic feet, has
been concentrated in three relative
ly-small Hortonsphere tanks at
Cleveland-but in liquid form. The
three spherical tanks, each only
81 feet in diameter, hold an amount
of gas that in its normal gaseous
form would require so tanks 102
feet high and $50 feet in diameter.
This is the first commercial ap-
plication of the liquefaction Of nat
ural gas for concentrated storage,
and it solves the peak-demand prob
lem that has plagued the natural
gas industry for years. An ingenious
method of compression and refrig-
GRAFTON liquefies the natural gas so
that it takes up only fraction Of
the space normally required. The
storage tanks are heavily insulated,
and when needed the liquid gas is
withdrawn, heated, and moved to
the gas mains in its original gas
eous form.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-26
BOTTLENECKS
ARE ABSENT IN
OIL INDUSTRY

One industrial agency that will
know no bottleneck in any nation
al emergency that may arise is the
refining industry. In its annual
survey of domestic refining ca
pacity the u. S. Bureau Of Mines
declares:
The United States has ample re-
finery capacity to take care OF any
expected increase in demand for pc
troleum products in 1871. Because
OF the importance of petroleum and
it's products to national defense, the
Bureaus survey was carried
through in record time to determine
whether there is danger of a
"bottleneck' in the supply of ma
jor petroleum products"
The bureau found that the ca
pacity of refineries increased 20
in 1910 over 1889, from 1925
646 to 4,71S,969 bills daily, while
the number of refineries increased
from 557 to 562. Total capacity of
operating cracked-gasoline units
increased so, to 1,021,006 Dbl.
Fifty refineries were closed down
in 1910 due to low gasoline prices
and competition for crude oil sup
plies, particularly in Illinois and
Los Angeles areas.
Much of the imperative capac-
ity is incapable of meeting current
specifications for products, but the
operative plants can more than
care for national defense, the bu-
reau found.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-26
NO CONTROL NEEDED

In the recently closed Cole bill
hearing at Washington the govern
ment was unable to get anyone out
side of Ickes' lieutenants to say
that any possibility exists for
"bottleneck" in the petroleum in
dustry. Dr. Robert E. Wilson, the
governments expert in the office
of production management, warned
that super-regulation of the indus
try would do more harm than good
Army and navy men said they were
well satisfied with the adequacy OF
the industry to care for military re-
quirements.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-26
DANGER OF Oil.
famine IS ENDED

Americans may hereafter disre-
gard all shouts of alarmists about
the danger of an oil famine. The
U. S. Bureau of Mines at Washing
ton has determined that oil enough
to care for the nations needs for
5000 years can be recovered from
the country's coal fields. The bu-
reau estimated that the hydroge-
nation process would recover g.
S0O,000,000,0O0 barrels of oil. The
cost is expensive, as compared with
crude oil production cost, but will
be produced commercially when the
oil is required North Dakota lig-
mite, the bureau found, will yield
about two barrels of oil per ton of
coal.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-26

See hyah, woman. I heerd that
you was kissin' a no-count piece o.
trash in the alley last night.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-26

This well spudded at p. Nj. last
Saturday afternoon and at our last re-
port at 4 p. Nj. Wednesday was down
14O0 feet. That Is what rotary tools
will do. Progress from now ON win be
slower the driIIens win take a core
OF each sand horizon, starting with
the Bow Island gas sand in the middle
Colorado shaIes, the Blackleaf members
at the base of the Colorado and success
sive sands of the KOotenai, including the
First and Second Sunburst sands and pos
sibly First and Second Cut Bank sands
Thereafter will come Madison lime corr
ing, so that the drilIers will have posi-
tive evidence of the possible OiI-bearing
horizons: win be able to measure and
examine the sandst0nes, since the rotary
core barrel brings out a S-inch cylin-
der of the formation, intact.
Should this well fail to find CONNER
ciaI production in any of these horizons
and unless IL encounters some unfaYor-
able geological conditions possibly re-
lated to the fault, then drilling viii con-
tinue on TO the Deyonian, about 500 feet
below the top of the Madison lime This
lower horizon is known to contain oil in
the Steveville field, Alberta, northwest
Of Signal Butte The DevOnian i6 known
to be present and known to be petr0Ii-
ferrous in the Little Rocky Mountains
southeast of Signal Butte. Oil was
IOunu IN bAAc GGNOukdAn ln DSnES OCu
structure, directly west of Signal Butte,
I'm one of the few DevOnian tests ever
drilled in Montana. So with these
favorable indications that the Devonian
is not present but Oil-bearing i'm this
region, It Is doubtful whether a more
favorable spot could be found for De-
yonian development than in Signal Butte.
Other than the fact that the rotary
test is now drilling at an astonishingly
rapid pace, there is little of news I'm this
discussion, for members Of our organize
ton. They had maps, geological re-
ports and other data on Signal Butte
more than a year ago and most OF them
have brought their deposits at very
low prices So far as we are concerned,
Signal Butte royalties are about off
the market. Practically all that can be
bought for any reasonable prices are
today in the hands of investors or specu-
latOrs.
Many of our members will sell part
of their royalties drilling proceeds
Some of them bought enough so that
they can sell half of their holdings at
n price comparable with present quota
tiOns, retaining the other half with no
investment-and possibly with a profit.
There is little or no royalty to be had
anywhere close to the well except at
spectators prices. However. there is
an occasional bit of royalty available.
We urge those who wish to sell part
of their holdings to communicate with
us and IL there is any of our members
who has no protection" royalty on
Signal Butte structure we viii be glad
to submit offering sheets covering pro-
perties available at prices which we con-
slider reasonable.
At the rate this well is drilling, it
appears that this is about the 'last
caIIv to royalty investors on Signal
Butte.
Those who wish to look over available
properties now listed should send the
attached coupon.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-26
FLYING FREIGHTER"

Obsolete bombers are known as
flying freighters" to the Air Corps.
but to petroleum technologists
they're something entirely differ
ent. Motor-fuel experts, who know
their anti-knock numbers, are pre-
Quoting that sky freight trains fly
ing 500 miles an hour will be an
everyday occurrence in the future.
Planes functioning as locomotives
will draw strings of elders filled
with freight.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-26
WE BELIEVE

GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS haze been definitely pro-
zen indispensable in Montana EVery 7UiIdcat should
haze both Madison and DeVonian highs" deterntn-
ed BY reflection Seismograbh before drilling begins
DEEPER DRILLING is essential to qUrite the real his
tory of the Montana oil industry. The major
source of Montana petroleum is in formations Be
LOW THE BIG LIME. abandonment of 1VeHS at
the Madison contact is 7VaSe of money Aban-
don,nent of zees at the Cat Creek horizon is stu
bidHy No 7veH should be considered completion
until it is drilled into the DeV0nian.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-26

question is How much?" Our royalty
buying on Cedar Greek is practically
ended as prices are too high even before
the well starts.
MOS Shy DOME
The second deep test in Cat Creek
field is less Of a criterion. Drilled in
a highly petrOIiferous area, this well is
stEucturaIsy lower than the water table
of the regional basin, as shown by the
Cat Greek series. Whether IL will continue
to get water all the way down remains
to be seen. Whether it is desirable to
develop deep production in Cat Creek
field before the present leases expire
many of them carrying overriding roy
alties which would prohibit profitable
deep producti0n-seeGns to be deterrent
to this deep test The well In any event
would be more convincing were it on
the west nose in the area of Cat Greek
sand production. We are content to
do no more royalty buying at this time.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-26

happened to be there, IN pay cost
of adw't. Telephone jefferson
8100.
Seen on theater marques:
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY
WANTED
BIAACKOUT.
HAVING A WONDERFUL TIME
with
THE FARMERS DAUGHTER
The dejected-looking income tax
payer explained: 81 thought / was
smart in letting my wife go to
work, but the government just
charged me more taxes. Well, that's
what l get for letting my wife
making an asset of herself"