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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-09-13

ing to the national emergency, 1t is not
highly desired by Midcontinent refiners.
Adjustment of rail rates is at hand, to
give Montana refiners an opportunity
to entrench themselves in new outlets
which can be retained for years to come.
We have seen a map showing in col
ors the trade territory of the Montana
refining industry, starting back in 1880.
when out of every 10 gallons of gas
oline used in this state was shipped in.
Then followed the Montana-made ex-
pansion of the refining industry and the
map records the turning point and the
by-year expansion of markets until the
last three years show the blue line lap
ping outside Montana into the Dakotas,
into Canada and into Idaho, Oregon and
Washington.
AT the present moment, this blue line
reaches out farther than ever before
The outer edges are determined by rail
rates-products going as far as present
crude prices plus rail rates will allow.
Around the edges the margin of profit
is very small. The question is whether
this new new blue" territory can be
maintained.
If the price of crude should be adj
vanced in Montana, the blue" limits
would have to recede, because the high
er cost would make it impossible to meet
competition on the small margin edges
If the cost of rail transportation is
advanced, as is likely, it will make no
difference, since it will hit Midcontinent
prices in exact proportion to Montana
costs.
If the price of Midcontinent crude
advances 10 cents and the price of Mon
tana crude advances 10 cents, there
would be no change and this would
give Montana no advantage Were the
Montana prices to remain at even
scant margin of profit, would it not be
better to go along on short rations until
this state can step out and insure its
market for the years to come?
Many Cut Bank producers know the
answers to these questions The group
which contracted with the refinery at
Pocatello, Idaho, took an awful whip
ping through that deal. While crude
prices were low, they actually shipped
crude at a loss They could not drill
wells and lift the oil at the low prices
under the original contract But the
contract provided for advances in price,
as the plant got under way and built
up a volume of output Thus the pro-
ducers actually financed the plant even
though they could not afford to take
a loss. Once they were "big brother"
to the plant now the plant is big
brother" to. the operators who are glad
they made the sacrifice because they
are insured of profitable market, based
on the Midcontinent price
Likewise, the Spokane market was
dearly bought The operators who are
today enjoying a profitable market in
Spokane are doing so because they spent
their own money to build refineries. 1t
was no mere piece of luck. It was not
a chance occurrence.
Again, the Producers Refining COM
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-09-13
Do Royalty Owners Want An
Increase in the Price Of Oil?

Does Montana want higher crude oil
prices?
The average operator and the average
royalty owner regards this as a silly
question. Naturally" they say. with
increasing costs including cost Of ma
terials, labor and everything else, the
price of oil must keep pace"
There are some operators who see an
other price increase coming before
spring Except for increased costs, the
present prices make it possible for those
operators who are selling most of their
production to make a fair margin of
profit To the one who is selling only
tank or two a month, as on some farms
in Kelvin field profit would not be
possible even if the price of crude adj
vanced even 20 cents more.
We have discussed the price Of crude
with a score or more of oil operators.
They are agreed that the market trend
is upward With 80 gravity Mid-Con-
tinent crude at SLY per barrel it ap-
pears that Montana prices are not out
OF line, with Cut Bank crude posted at
S1.20 and Kelvin crude posted at ST
barrel.
But surprising number Of Montana
oil operators agree that IT WOULD
BE BETTER IF THERE IS NO FUR
THEIR ADVANCE IN THE PRICE
OF MONTANA CRUDE At THIS
TIME, EVEN IF MIDCONTINENT
PRICES ADVANCE
The reason is that Montana needs
market expansion. The present is the
golden hour of opportunity. Failing to
grasp this opportunity, the Montana oil
industry will be delayed decade in ar
irving at its proper place in the Ameri-
can industry.
The Montana oil industry has never
arrived at its proper proportions be-
cause it has never had stabilized mar
ket. The present time finds the most
stable market the Montana oil industry
has ever known The expansion of this
market is necessary before the Montana
market arrives at a true basis of VOL
UME which will make possible toe-to-
toe competition with California on the
west and the Midcontinent on the east.
This is the time of opportunity to
expand the Montana market into the
Inland Empire of eastern Washington,
Oregon and Idaho at time when the
Pacific coast tanker shortage makes this
market unavailable to the California
suppliers. No longer are the barges
coming up the Columbia river, bringing
low-transportation-cost gasoline into the
Spokane territory. Rail rates between
California and the Spokane territory are
too high to compete with Montana rates.
1t is the opportunity of Montana pro-
ducers and refiners to entrench them
selves deeply in the Inland Empire mar
ket-so strongly that it will definitely
belong to Montana when the present
emergency ends.
Likewise, Montana now has its chance
to take the Dakota heretofore
a dumping ground for the Midcontinent.
The Dakotas have never been highly
profitable market for anyone, and ow-
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-09-13

pany group seems to be on top of the
world today, with market for all their
production and buying oil from others,
on a rising market They are lucky
dogs" as termed by others less fortu-
nate. But they are lucky only because
they chose to take it on the nose" by
taking a low price for their oil until
such time as their market could increase
to basis of fair net-back Operators
who were getting full price for their
crude laughed at the Producers group
when they were getting 10 cents per
barrel less Now the laugh is on the
other side
So it is that SACRIFICES are nee
essary to arrive anywhere in business.
We as royalty owners want more drill
ing. We know that this can come only
when the producers are prosperous
enough to afford more drilling. We
know that the starvation diet of Kelvin
producers in recent years makes it vir-
tually impossible for them to do much
drilling. An increase of 10 cents a
barrel or even 20 cents a barrel would
not drill more wells. 1t would merely
inhibit the expansion of the market that
would otherwise afford a demand for
10000 barrels day from Kelvin rather
than 5000 barrels.
The desire of Cut Bank producers is
that the present emergency shall make
it possible for the market to grow to
10000 barrels a day With market
insured, giving each operator a chance
to sell all his oil, there will be funds
with which to drill undrilled tracts in
proven and nearby areas and to drill
wildcats and bring in new fields, else
drill to deeper horizons.
Deeper drilling and campaign of
validating will doubtless give Mon
tana some multi-thousand barrel wells
The modern sciences have made wild
eating much cheaper and far more GER
tain of success than ever before If
Montana operators can only get ahead"
so that they can avail themselves of
modern equipment and utilization of
modern sciences, they will in turn cut
their costs. Likewise, the refiners will
cut their costs by virtue of volume
throughout There is much profit to
be made through MARKET EXPAN-
SION.
Royalty owners will find that their
prosperity will be in direct ratio to the
prosperity of the producers The adj
vantage of l0-cent raise in the price
of crude will mean nothing to the roy
atty owner, as compared with the adj
vantage of an increased market terri
tory which will bring double and per-
haps treble production to every produc-
ing tract
This period of expansion is definitely
at hand. Fortunate is the owner of oil
lands and oil royalties in Montana
today.
We have learned of one important
development that is coming in the not
distant future 1t is our practice to
capitalize these developments. Details
will be furnished to those who request
our bulletin No. 49,
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-09-13
Tale Deposit
Near Helena

HELENA.-L A. Solomon OF New
York said here he is considering de-
velopment of what he described as a
deposit Of tale near Helena.
Solomon said the tale Is OF high
grade but the amount available has
not been determined. Tale is used in
manufacture of face powder, paper
and other industrial products.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-09-13
WE BELIEVE

GEOPHYSICAI SURVEYS have been definitely proven in
dpensble in Morana Every wildcat should have both
Madison and Devonian thighs" determined by reflection
seismograph before drilling begins
DEEPER DRILLING is essential write the real history OF
the Montana oil industry. The major source OF Mon
tina petroleum is in formations BELOW The Bio
LIME Abandonment of wells at the Cat Greek horizon
is stupidity. No well should be considered completion
until it is drilled into the Devonian.
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HIGH GRAVITY
OIL FOUND IN
RIMROCK TEST

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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-02-27
Camp Fire Girls Blaze
Treasure Trails" Mar. 29

More than 100000 Camp Fire Girls
throughout America are holding a
nationwide celebration during Mar.
of the 29th birthday of their char
acter-building organization, it is an
nounced by Mrs. A. r. Chase and
Mrs. Bert Wilson, leaders of the To-
cal Camp Fire groups in KenneWick.
In observance of this anniversary
the Camp Fire Girls are working on
national birthday project called
Treasure Trails" which deals with
Americas creative arts.
The Treasure trails project is
arousing considerable interest
among local Camp Fire Girls. It is
to be the theme of the local council
fire to be given March 10. At that
time each girl will exhibit in her
Treasure Trail" note book what
data she has assembled about her
favorite composers, poets, artists,
etc.
Different community leaders and
teachers are cooperating in the pro-
ject by giving the girls access to
books, photograph records, etc.
Among them are Mrs. Julia S. Hem
enway, principal Of the grade school,
and Edgar r. Gilbert of the Jun
iOr High.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-02-27
FEWER AUTOS

Comes the word to Kennewick
that automobiles are going to take
back seat in production before
many months and that "those in the
know" are buying cars while they
can. There is the rumor of a gov
eminent tax, of a lack of steel and
especially since so many plants are
undertaking defense work will there
be reduction in pleasure cars. A
subscriber says we haven't seen a
Stream-Ened auto until we get a
view of these models that will
be exhibited before September as
the 1912 motor car. Maybe we are
not going to have a shortage Of
autos and perhaps this is all sales
manship as folks will say, but we
do know that the national automo-
bile show in New York this year
has been cancelled. So you can be-
ieve there is something to the
story as it stands.
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STOP MOANING

A friend in Kennewick says we
should mention the subject of un-
Americanism from the standpoint
Of the individual who listens to
winners and complainers and fret
full souls who are expecting the
worst to come and insist upon pro-
claiming their sobs to everyone at
hand. The un-American part, he
feels, is to be so convinced that all
Is dead black, the world going to
pieces, a future of change dire to
all of us, and so on. Perhaps the at
t1tude is not unfounded since we
might be into the war, we may suf-
fer great economic changes, that
freedom is at stake. Admit all this
and yet while we still have our peace
and freedom we must build up a
reserve of great courage. The effect
Of the wall is not to anyone's credit
and the sound of hopeful voice is
a song, light in the dark, a flag
to the resisting force. Longfellow
put it this way,
''But noble souls through dust and
heat
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger"
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CUTTING DOWN

Most people in Kennewick realize
that rural America is the biggest
percentage of the country that is
strongly dry. The fact that dis
tillers of Intoxicating drink have,
in the past, tried to promote ad-
Vertising in the rural districts be-
cause that was the field to be "edu-
Gated" is the testimony that rural
America is dry. There has been a
growing sentiment against liquor
throughout the country and we are
all glad to hear it. Finding out that
liquor isn't necessary to social
prominence and business success,
shows that drinking is not good
common sense. Due to industry be-
ing opposed to liquor when it inter-
feres with production in business,
and it always does interfere, this
will tend to bring a drop in the
sale. Rural America knew it was
right in the first place!
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prove our products so we can tell the customers
still better story and perhaps move out little ahead
of the other fellows"
Suppose you had the power to stop your COM
pettors, to deny them the right to advertise leaving
the field to you, would you Use that right7"
He thought minute and then gave me this answer.
''No. would DC tempted to do that If could.
But I'm too greedy and. think too smart, TO want
to. My business would 60 to seed. So would other
businesses in my line and other lines. Pretty
couldn't sell my goods because there wouldn't be
enough customers with good enough jobs to afford
to buy my stuff. Then it wouldn't be long until ]
myself would have a hard time getting the new and
better things I'd like to have It wouldn't work out"
"Then who loses when money Is spent for adver-
Using good products7" asked.
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God Bless America
Samuel Koch, Rabbi, Congregation
Temple De Hirsch, Seattle

America vibrates with personality.
Diverse are the attitudes, interests
and appreciations of men. In
science, religion, politics, in fact in
all human relations there are no
consciousness of let or hindrance;
all function, and for the most part
earnestly and spontaneously, under
freedom. This recognition of per-
sonality is the insight that makes
America blessed. Suspicion, fear,
subtlety, enmity have no place in
a land where lockstep as a thing of
government is taboo along with die
tatorial imposition, supercilious and
arrogant, and outmoded dogmatism.
Blessed is AmeriGa-our America,
any America-where men may ex-
pand to the circumference of their
potencies, and where initiative, self
reliance and intellectual curiosity
ar encouraged, not suppressed. In
blessed America mems minds are
not so inhibited as to go to seed,
but every individual is encouraged
to climb up the one and only in
tellectual ladder as high as his
ability and opportunity make pos
sible. The country where the alert
and disciplined mind prevails can
not but cultivate inclusive sympa-
thies, cultural pluralism and per-
vasive neighborliness.
The sequel is that America, where
Democracy is reasonable along in
process, Is the land that we love. To
1t we would be genuinely loyal with
out the need of naturalization. For
1t we would gladly die if ever the
challenge came, but we court the
opportunity to live for it resolutely,
unflinchingly. America incarnates
the ideal of what a civilized, cultur-
ed, Industrious people ought to be.
With her are all "our hopes, our
prayers, our tears, OUR faith trium-
plant DER our fears"
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"Damnation," he exploded. Nobody loses. Ad-
vertising is just like better tool When man buys
million dollars worth Of good tools for his factory
and uses them to save his customers q couple Of
million and to increase his payroll another couple Of
million and still manages TO keep out enough to buy a.
shirt and pay his income taxes, nobody loses"
My manufacture CT friend went his way without my
telling him that he had missed an important part Of
the benefits of using advertising an economic tool.
You can call IL your selfish part and mine. His
advertising not only brings you and me news of such
things as good values, but It also helps TO pay the
cost of gathering and publishing the news by which
you and learn the facts We must have In order to
keep ourselves free.
don't know how you feel about this particular
American brand Of selfshness, but I like fa
4 Il
NOTES The purpose Of these regular weekly lnstitu-
tonal advertisements DO 60 make American life and
American business better. Your suapestons criticisms
or rea lions viii be appreciated by tho Newspap Pub
Hshers Committee and its chairman. Address the
mittee In care Of the Business Once Of this paper
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The problem these days with many
isn't to make money, but how to
save money. It doesn't require the
average man long to make a thous-
and dollars, but when it comes to
saving a thousand dollars, that is
quite another thing. Under our
scheme of living it is not possible
with many persons to live one year
without work, ON the savings of ten
years.
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church school: 1000, divine worship:
Holy Communion with sermon. Ser
mon topic: Does G n riS i ani { V
Change Human Na:ure?"
Monday, Mar. $50 pm, meet
ing of the Bishops committee.
Tuesday, Mar. 4-8 pm, Public
lecture. Church of Our Saviour, in
PaSco, why Ritual?"
Thursday, Mar. $50 pm, Guild
meeting.
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ED UP
TOWN.

Ernest Huber says he can i'm
agine going without a, number of
things, but he can't picture doing
without onions.
zone thing when a fellow forgets
anniversaries says Don Doyle,
"his wife doesn't worry at nights
about burglars stealing jewelry that
she hasn't.
"The girl who says she isn't worthy
of the fellow she is going to marry"
thinks Margaret O'Hearn, changes
her mind soon after marriage"
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BETHLEHEM LUTHERAN
Third and Benton St.
NJ. c. Kauth. pastor

Divine services Sunday at 1870
am, Sunday school at $50. Sun
day evening Lenten seSrViceS will be
resumed on the coming Sunday, ser
vices beginning at 800 pm. The
Walther League will meet Thursday
evening at eight. The Christian
Fellowship League meets Monday
evening at 8 o'clock. Don't neglect
to tune in on The Lutheran Hour"
Sunday 10000 over KIT, Yakima.
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Sunnyside BOwlers
Challenge Kennewick

Commercial Inn VS.. Sunnyside,
ten games. total pins to count. Five
games will be played here Sunday
and five games at Sunnyside at a
later date.
The Commercial team will go to
Sunnyside next Sunday to take
part in a tournament there and from
there on to ToppeniSh.
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in order to live, must let Ive-or must even hello
Others to live betterl
Merchants and manufacturers who advertise in
newspapers are selfish. talked today with an espe-
cially selfish manufacturer.
'Why do you spend money for advertising space7"
asked him.
II don't spend money that way. save IT," he
answered. eff there were any cheaper ways to tell
people about my goods, I'd try them"
'"Then what do you do with the savings7" went
On to inquire.
I'D like to keep them" he admitted. 'But mostly
use them to harass my competitors If can reduce
myprces and give better values get the customers"
"And what do your competitors do7"
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Deer, Alta, will have charge of both
morning and evening services. Also
he will preach every evening at 7:30
turnout he week except Saturday.
We invite you TO come and hear
this good man early in the meeting
you then may want to come often.
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CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
j. N. NOLT, Pastor

Sunday bible school at 10 am,
VIM. Mills, Supt.
Morning worship at II o'clock.
N.YPS., Juniors and prayer ser
vices at $50 pm.
Evangelistic service at 7:30 pm.
Evangelist H. H. Tromberg of Red
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Greed and
GUnnpfion
By NORMAN CHANDLER
Choirmon
Nswzpopsr PubIisbers Committee

Newspaper Publishers COMMITTEE
THERE AREN'T MANY wholly
= unseLfsh people outside of in
sane asylums.
And you and I can be thankful for
thisi It is human nature to be selfish.
The very will to live is selfish; the de-
sire to succeed, to win the respect of
our fellows, to make the world bet
ter, safer and pleasanter place-aI1
that 10 just. a combination of greed
and glmption. Just a recognition that,
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"Oh, the same thing" he said erinning. "And an
ct us In my business hunt steadily for ways to inn
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KENNEWICK BAPTIST CHURCH
r. 8. Holden, pastor
Phone 1881

Communion Sunday-10:30 morn
ing service with Communion and
bible session from 11:30 to 12:15.
$50 Jr. and ST.. BYPU. Live young
peoples meetings.
7:30 Evening gospel service with
good singing and a message from
Gods Word.
1880 Wednesday evening. Midweek
service for prayer and study of the
book of Luke.
A welcome awaits you in the SER
vices in this friendly church.
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Sunday school 1n.1s

Sunday school lO:l5 am,
Morning service ll.I5 o.
mon topic: The All S en-. SCI.
Grace" SuIIlei@t
The Confirmation class mes..
saturday morning at 10 o,cIo.SS q
Choir rehearsal Friday evsn;,.
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You are cordially invited To A.
our services. W atten