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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-26
SHELBY REFINERY
FILES UNDER 77B

Petroleum Refining Corp. Of Shelby
has filed petition in federal court for
reorganization under 77B Of the Chan
dler bankruptcy act. and John j.
Greene of Cut Bank has been named
temporary trustee and Sept. 4 has been
fixed for the date of hearing
The company built a refinery at
Shelby but it has never operated. A
Kansas City Supply company is re-
ported to have advanced sums Of
money to the company and last week
asked for a receiver in the state court.
The petition, signed by ]. M. Pope,
lists the principal assets as the plant,
valued at $87,7OO; investment in stock
of Pacific National Oil Co., so 600;
loan to Pacific National, $13,568.80;
and accounts receivable Of $3,02265
and other items.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-26

nettes Are Hotter Blooded Than
Blondes" with this theorum:
This situation is true because OF
the fact that heat rays and light rays
have a stronger effect on dark sur
faces than they have on light surfaces.
For instance, oil tanks In the oil fields
are painted with white aluminium
paint to reflect the suns rays so the
tanks win not get too hot.
ION the other hand, nobody ever
thinks Of painting the brunette a
light color because her heat does not
come from outside. It comes from
within. This Is the main reason that
brunettes have the preferential posi-
ton with all men because they do not
need outside printing. All blondes be-
ing necessarily cold because Of their
pale compilations need artificial OUT
side heat to warm their blood to the
boiling point. This is not 50 with bru-
nettes-they are boiling all the time
so why should a man waste his time
warming up blonde when he has a
brunette at his elbow2"
Iady-returning a pair Of Nylon
hose to the clerk.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-26
Cut Bank Has
1000 Barrel Well

Continued from Page One)
100 acres in all, including this 81 NE3
and for $33 an acre he bought the
81 NWa Section 30.
Coupled with the Texas company's
big wells in Section l6, to the north
east, the Jeffries well indicates that
the trend of the new pool viii be
eastward rather than westward New
competitions on the west end of the
pool have been comparatively small.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-26
The First l,OOO-Barrel Well

shoot that sand in an effort to salvage
some little production.
The result of the shot is we'll known.
The Lander well has yielded over a mil
lion and quarter dollars worth of oil
and is still one of the outstanding pro-
ducers of the field. 1t is producing from
the upper Sunburst sand, however, and
therefore is not regarded as a criterion
for the rest of the field
There will never be another Lander
well, people have learned to say, and
Cut Bank producers had grown accus-
toned to Cut Bank sand wells which
settle to an average production around
80 barrels per day.
Then came the development of oil on
the bank of Cut Bank creek south of
the town of Cut Bank, in a spot where
every good geologist would have gam
bled his salary against a dollar that no
oil would ever be found The first one
or two producers, checking far too low
on strata to escape water, were looked
upon doubtfully, but thereafter the
Blackfeet Indians put on sale their
Tribal and allotted lands across the
creek, in the big bend" of the stream.
And thus the great Big Bend pool came
into existence.
1t is a notable fact that along the
creek there were good producers but
as the operators went westward, they
found plenty of sand and little or no oil.
Again someone said Stay with the
creek, as a rule for production Santa
Rita again stepped out ahead of the
others and extended the pool southwark
by going down the creek some distance,
on the Jordan farm, getting the largest
we'll in the pool. Even this did not con-
vince anyone that it was good business
to continue on down the river until the
Tribal council again put some of its
lands ON sale, this time to the south of
the Big Bend pool The first we'll drilled
in the new lease block was that of A. r.
Pardue and it was dry hole. The other
operators were compelled, though un-
willingly, to go ahead with their drill
ing, farther south, because they had
posted bonds. Thus the Consolidated
GasTribal No. came into production
south of the dry hole--a 600 barrel we'll,
swabbing and flowing.
Again there developed the idea that
the most valuable territory was to the
west so another Indian lease was ar
ranged and the western leases brought
the highest prices. The eastern leases
brought less money because there were
few who subscribed to the theory of the
trend" down Cut Bank creek. Before
the last sale, however, a we'll was
brought i'll by Mcdonald, Henderson &
Overcast, south and east of the other
wells and thus the Indians received
much higher prices for their eastern
leases than otherwise.
The new Jeffries we'll is little less
than half mile south of the Mcdonald
ct al producer and when the Jeffries
we'll was started there were many who
expressed the opinion that while he
might get we'll it would be a small one.
The Iowest-priced lease in the sale
was purchased by Lon" Crumley and
it was the easternmost well. He drilled
we'll on his lease and had the misfor
tune of striking spot where the lower
Cut Bank sand is missing. At the same
time he found that he had tapped
structural high" that is some As feet
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-26
Free Oil Appearing
At Signal Butte
CONTINUED from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
company. The first cement is believed
to have "channeled," allowing the
water to come into the hole. The new
cement plug is being drilled out to-
day Saturday.
If this cement job holds the water,
the bottom of the hole will be cleaned
out and a shot of hydrochloric acid
probably 1000 gallons-will be applied
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-26

higher than other wells in the area, and
a structural condition that may have
considerable importance AS to the abb
sence of the lower Cut Bank sand. there
IS nothing unusual about this. It is or
dinarily an erosional feature that is
found everywhere in the field. But the
lower Cut Bank sand carries most of
the production in this area.
We have in this narrative skipped the
surprising developments of the east side
OF Cut Bank creek where the fields
hitherto greatest wells have been com
pleted. The south Cut Bank discovery
well, drilled jointly by Texaco, Santa
Rlta and Montana Power (then Glacier
Production), was a 60-barrel producer
Around it were drilled several mediocre
wells. Recently came the completion of
the State No. 9 which found its oil in
the Cut Bank sand and it swabbed and
flowed or barrels of oil into the tanks
in the first "A hours 1t was about a 300
barrel well on the pump and even so,
It rated as the largest Cut Bank sand
producer in the field This well. south
OF the discovery we'll and closer to the
river, did not suggest the proximity of
the trend" at the time. Now some of
the theorists are pointing back to that
No. well which, coupled with the
Jeffries-Tribal No. possibly forecasts
an area along Cut Bank creek which
may give not only one but MANY large.
flowing wells, because between the two
IS the high that Crumley's we'll de-
veloped
Cut Bank field has been in production
for nine years and it now appears that
its tenth year will find Cut Bank field
producing its production peak, with such
wells as those in the new South pool
coming into production, whereas it was
generally conceded that its seventh year
saw Cut Bank pass its peak"
We believe that there is much to be
learned by anyone who will take map
of Cut Bank field and carefully study
the developed area with regard to the
drainage. We have made it a practice
to pass along to our members every
new theory and something regarding
every new science that may apply to Cut
lain aiiO ttAC llGHQ theory is one
that has stood up better than any other.
This oil is deposited in an ancient
seacoast which feathers out onto the
Sweetgrass Arch uplift-a condition
almost identical with the East Texas
field, on the slope of the Sabine uplift.
The accumulation of oil has been found
to be in moses" or minor folds on this
ancient sandy beach There is a gen
eral pattern for. these folds now be-
coming apparent, from the logs of wells
drilled. 1t is possible to begin to study
their relation to the drainage of the re-
gion. While it may afford no positive
rule, it is an interesting study.
If there is any member of this or
ganizauon or potential member who
lacks a development map of Cut Bank
field, showing the streams and principal
coulees, we will be very glad to furnish
map, because none can get along
without it.
If there are any who wish to go
farther into the theory of the trends"
in Cut Bank we will be very glad to
send publications containing discussions
of this theory as applied to recent de-
velopments.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-26

There are many who would have been
willing to gamble that Cut Bank field
would never have news of thousand
barrel oil wells.
Yet this week finds the newspaper
headlines telling of Cut Bank sand
we'll that has actually been flowing III
excess of 1000 barrels per day.
This we'll is two to three times better
than the best previous Cut Bank sand
completion in the field, according to
production men with whom we talked.
Yet it is not very much different from
other wells in the character of the sand
or in its structural position.
In other words, there is no reason
why there should not be many more
wells of this calibre, as drilling con-
tinues in this remarkable oil field.
The 1.OOO-barrel we'll was drilled by
r. c. Teffries, an Independent operator
who found his first oil production in
we'll drilled on the north edge of the
town of Cut Bank He bought the lease
on which this big we'll is located at the
last Blackfeet Indian tribal sale and it
was the southernmost of the tracts Of
fered
1t is located in the southeast portion
Of the new Tribal pool and there were
many good operators who were willing
to gamble that Jeffries had bought the
wrong tract that the pool extends west
and south, rather than east or southeast.
Yet there were some very capable oil
men who supported Jeffries judgment.
They were believers in the trend
theory and they believed that the trend
which thus far has followed Cut Bank
creek, would not suddenly terminate.
They believed that the trend would
continue to follow Cut Bank creek.
which direction is southeast.
Months ago we ran an article on
"creekology' and we issued a special
publication in which we discussed the
theories of many old-time oil men who
believe that streams and drainage play
point the trend" of production. 1t will
be recalled that in the early days,
''creekology" was the only theory on
which oil wells were spotted The first
wells were on Oil Creek, Pennsylvania,
and so everyone thought it necessary
to drill on a creek in order to expect to
find oil
Everyone knows now that the theory
was wrong. However, those old-time
theorists dropped onto something they
did not understand Biologists who
evolved the anticlinal theory discovered
that stream beds frequently follow along
the crest of a fold and even more fire.
quently along fault lines where the for
nations are cracked or broken and thus
made more subject to erosion.
One operator in Cut Bank field had
pointed out to us that the Rocky Coulee,
which flows into Cut Bank creek,
seemed to be related to the trend of pro-
duction in the oil pool At the head of
Rocky coulee-between the forks of two
drainage beds, is located the Lander
pool which until now has had the fields
greatest producers. The Lander No. l,
drilled in 1896 by Santa Rita Oil & Gas
company, had been expected to produce
in the Cut Bank sand but it was vir-
tually a dry hole, with a showing of
water in that horizon Drilled with ro-
tary tools, it had a showing of oil in an
upper sand, so the owners decided to
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-26

The highest gasoline taxes in Amer
lea are paid In certain localities Of
Alabama and Mississippi, where local
taxes are super-imposed upon the II
cent federal and a cent state gaso-
line tax.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-26

All says the height Of folly Is an
old sugar daddy shopping around IN
the dark with no battery IN his flash
light
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-26

Motor vehicle license fees collected
last year by the states totaled $751;
747OO0, or more than 81 times the
estimated total cost Of the new United
States battleship, the North Carolina.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-26

This piece Of lace on my dress Is
over so years old"
TITS beautiful Did you make 1t your
self?"
A Cut Bank Gilman Of scientific
bent submits the proposition: "Bru-
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-07-26
WE BELIEVE

WE BELIEVE
GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS have been definitely proven in
dspensble in Montana Every wildcat should have both
Madison and Devonian highs" determined by reflection
sesmograph before drilling begins
DEEPER DRILLING is essential write the real history of
the Montana oil industry. The major source of Mon
tana petroleum is in formations BELOW THE BIG
LIME Abandonment of wells at the Cat Greek horizon
is stupidity No we'll should be considered completion
until it is drilled into the Devonian.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-30
LOSS OF PILOT KNOB
AN ECONOMIC PENALTY

Pilot Knob. which can develop from
$4,000 to $4,000 kilowatts of power an
nually, is not an absolutely necessary
part of the great program laid down by
Secretay lckes. It is. on the other hand,
an absolutely necessary part of the econo-
mic structure of the future in Imperial
Valley. The federal government can
get along without controlling Pilot Knob;
loss of its control would impose an Un-
Justly heavy penalty upon the people Of
this valley.
The Department of Interior has offer
ed tentatively to pay for operation and
maintenance of the All American canal
above Pilot Knob, and for the operation
and maintenance of Imperial Dam, in
exchange for complete control of the
huge power drop.
Operated by the Imperial Irrigation
District, with its power output retailed
as well as wholesaled. conservative en-
gineers have estimated that Pilot Knob
will make a return sufficient to leave
two-thirds over after operation and main
tenance of that stretch of canal, and Of
Imperial Dam, is paid for
The people of the valley, in other
words, would lose two-tkirds Of the
revenue from the Pilot Knob plant if
they agreed to the proposal Of the De-
partment Of Interior.
No matter who controls and operates
the Pilot Knob power plant, energy de-
veloped there will be available for ma
tional defense industries The district
undoubtedly would agree to any conces-
sions in that direction the federal gov
ernment might ask, and the people would
indorse the agreement heartily.
All that is left, then, is agreement as
to the conditions of control under which
Pilot Knob is to be constructed.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-30

1t was the newspapers IN Louis
lana, especially the New Orleans
States, which never yielded to the
Long oppression, and which were
largely instrumental at the end in
exposing the shambles he had made
CT decent government.
The papers OF Atlanta and Ma
con. at which Talmadge has been
hitting, are known througout the
country as having integrity, hon
esty, and courage. Their reputa-
tion in their field is solid one
built over long period of years.
When the governor accuses them of
consistently misrepresenting facts.
and as willing to penalize Georgia
to hit Talmadge," readers outside
Georgia reserve the right to Won
Ger what's going on in Georgia.
AS to the internal issues on which
.he Talmadge row hinges, national
audiences are not so directly con-
cerned as they are in whether
there is any chance that another
OF the siSterhood of states may be
debauched by the same kind of
demagoguery and machine spoil
alton that made Louisiana for sew
eral years a clinic of native fascism
and threatened to project that
leadership on national scale.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-30
by Willis Thornton ).
Anew Huey Long on the Horizon?

The full infamy of the Huey Long
regime in louisiana, with all it's
dangers to democratic government,
is only now being realized by most
people of the United States.
The Long movement was not
only total perversion of decent
state government in Louisiana. for
which that state is now ruefully
paying, but definite threat to the
whole democratic process in the
United States.
That is why it is not too early
to cast an eye at Gov. Gene Tai
madge Of Georgia and ask whether
he may not be ali incipient Long,
and whether he, too, may not rise
via the Senate from the state to
the national scene.
1t should be remembered that
one of the first acts of Huey Long
in Louisiana was to destroy the in
dependence and integrity of the
state university and to make it a
mere political appendage Of his
party machine. Governor Talmadge
has already done something peril
ously close to that in stacking"
a refractory university board of
regents which refused to comply
with his will, and appointing mem
bers who would.
Long then launched violent at
tacks on the newspapers as unfair
to his regime, and tried in every
way to hamper and finally to pen
alize them by discriminatory taxes
enacted by a "stooge" legislature.
Governor Talmadge has already
threatened Atlanta and Macon
newspapers with denial of their
ordinary news sources at the state
capital, and has issued yelled hints
that they had better get right"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-30
PILOT KNOB, OUR
ACE IN THE HOLE

1t Will be difficult, if not impossible,
Tor the federal government to convince
the people of Imperial Valley that they
should relinquish control of and profits
from the Pilot Knob power plant, no
matter when or how it is constructed
Doubtless Secretary Of Interior Harold
l.. lckes' plan for greater development
of western power resources is one Of
the most constructive he has ever devised.
From his standpoint, there is no ques-
ton that it would be wiser to pool the
power output of newly constructed
plants adjacent to the Colorado river,
so that the government could wholesale
the power as from one source.
We feel justified in the belief. however,
that if Secretary Ickes were more con-
versant with the detailed history of I'M
perial Valley and its people-particu-
larly in relation to the All American
canal and the power to be developed
thereon-he would appreciate the reluct-
ance of the people to give up, even to
the federal government, the one project
which they have regarded for two dec
AIDES as their greatest potential asset.
There were years of bitter struggle
against private selfiShness and official
lethargy before the All American canal
and its component of power development
at Pilot Knob and other power drops
became anything more than a seemingly
hopeless dream. Those years Of strug-
gle are not in the distant past; they are
just now ending The fighting spirit
they evoked, and the jealous guardian
ship against predatory interests of any
kind, fingers on.
When anyone, no matter who. attempts
to take from the people of the valley
the assets for which they have fought
unremittingly across a span Of four dec
AIDES, the attempt is bound to meet with
suspicion and opposition.
Secretary Ickes being the kind of man
he is, could understand this attitude if
only he could know as we who live here
know how bitter the struggle has been.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-30
ARMORED ENGLISH
AS IT IS SPOKE
New York Herald-Tribune)

New York Herald-Tribune)
One of the most terrifying aspects OF
modern mechanical warfare is the panzer
like English II is inspiring among our
young soldiers. In the letters they write
home to the folks there is much myStlty-
ing talk of ieepS and peeps, hell buggles
and popSickles. doodla-bugs. tubs and
scatter guns. Not the least baffled have
been the veterans of the first world war,
with their limited references to kitchen
police and hashmarks, yardbirds, house
wives and the Old Man
If an oldtime is to translate the letters
received from camp and to understand
the crop of soldier films that Hollywood
is rushing to market, he will do we'll to
bridge the gap in his military education
with the aid of comprehensive glossary
published in the July-August issue of
the recent slang expressions coined by
personnel of the new American Army
the word je2p means a command car;
peep (Son of a jeep) means bantam
car; hell buggy is tank and so is
doodlebug; tub is a scout car, and, as
you may have guessed, a scatter gun is
a machine gun, and a pOpsickle is mo-
torcycle. Also, gasoline cowboy is a
member of the armored force; sky
Winder is an Air Corps man; little poison
is a 37-mm. gun; iron horse is another
name for tank; jumping jeep is an au-
togyrO with jump take-off, and gravel
agitatOr is an infantryman.
We confess we hardly speak the same
language. This jeeping and peeping of
the tongue that Shakespeare spoke leaves
us in state known as cockpit fog, which
can be tanslated as mentally lost.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-30

the week of June 29-July 5, and
the original delegations went home
but not before CIO headquarters
had sent out a call for a July 7
meeting in Washington of six pick
eel delegates from each CIO inter-
national and two from each LNPL
state headquarters. In all, about
250 came to town. They were i'm
mediately given a course in how
to lobby, without benefit OF the
usual lobbyists tricks-the cocktail
party with entertainment. This was
strictly an open, business hours
lobby.
TURNING ON THE PRESSURE
The men were sp.t up into geo.
graphical units. They We're given
lists of the congressman from their
states and lists of the unions in
each congresSman's district They
were told where the congressmen's
offices were, and they were told
the procedure for calling congress-
men off the floor and buttonholing
them in the corridors of the Capitol
itself. There were some amusing
sidelights here. Some of the labor
men, respectfully, didn't think they
should bother the honorable con-
gressmen while they were in seS-
sion. The boys got over that as
soon as they were shown congress-
men mapping in the cloakrooms.
reading newspapers on the floor,
and in general playing horse all
over the place.
Where the going was little
tough, wires went out to the local
unions in the congressman's home
district. And wires came back from
the local unions to the congress-
man, telling him how his constit-
uents felt about this legislation.
This double pressure will get al
most any congressman, almost every
time. and it worked here perfectly
The strictly amateur character
Of the lobby was one of its strong
est assets There wasn't a lawyer in
the bunch, and it didn't operate
as lobbies usually do, with form
letters and city slickers. Some of
the lobbyists were talked out of
their positions on the first call on
their congressman, but they came
back to headquarters, got new an
sWers, and went back to outtalk
even the congressman.
a NEW, PERMANENT FORCE
When the votes were counted.
the Connally-M May measure was
licked by 80. CIO headquarters
tally takes credit for switching at
least 100 votes.
But the important thing is that
the labor forces have learned
trick. They haven't the money to
call in a lobby like this for every
measure they don't like. But they
can do it again when they think
it ecessary-against the Vinson
bill, the Ball bill, the Reynolds bill,
another May bill, the Disney bill
or any of the others.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-30
Did You Know?

SiXty-five per ce;.T o. the an
nual diamond production is used
by industry in drilling and grind
ing tools.
Santa Claus is known as Father
Frost in Russia
+. H. La Guardia mayor of New
York City, has had 13 official res
licences since he took office.
Tides occur twice every "a hours
and SO minutes.
Australia, the largest island in
the world, is also the smallest con-
tinent.
Aubergine is another name for
egg plant.