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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-05

. - IL has been found at the contact of
Is the Madison limestone on the west
- flank of Cut Bank OIL field, 1000
feet down the flank Of the Kevin-Sun-
burst dome. The discovery is at the
Reagan-Trfbal we'll in North Cut Bank
and the well itself As Of little consequence
as compared with the Importance Of the
information that has been dfvulged
thereby.
The man who can interpret the in
formation revealed can make a fortune
for himself with the Investment OF but
little money.
The difference between success and
failure in this business is in knowing
how to capitalize INFORMATION. To
some people information means nothing
tangible because they cannot look be-
yond the bare facts. Others look beyond
the bare facts and see the SIGNIFI-
CANOE of the facts and go on to make
a fortune.
We recall the arrival of H. B. Chess
her in Conrad after the completion of
the discovery well in Pondera oil field,
10 years ago. While everyone else was
standing around the well, watching it
spray oil with a three-mllllon-IOot HOW
of natural gas, Chessher was at work
CAPITALIZING the situation. While
others were shaking their heads, saying
that the little bit of oil showing in the
discovery well-perhaps four or five bar
rels per day-was merely bad news"
Chessher was securing leases and royal
ties which in later years made him
great personal fortune
Others who had equal opportunity
not excepting some big company repre-
sentatives-did nothing and accordingly
profited nothing.
It was not lack of information or lack
of opportunity but the lack of knowledge
of WHAT TO DO with information that
spelled the difference between the highly
successful and the painfully unsuccessful.
Had the discovery we'll been one OF tine
GjuEin gushers. the probabilities are that
Chessher would not have made fortune,
The man who can not see the significance
of a wildcat gasser spraying oil likewise
knows no better than to assume that be-
cause another well is a gusher, all sur
rounding wells will be big producers.
Chessher would not have been able TO
buy the properties which made his for
tune AS it WAS 1t was he who CAPT.
talized the information in the discovery
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-05

well and so 1t was he who later brought
in the Gjullin gushers.
IN the case OF the Reagan-Tribal
we'll, the chance for profit from
future Investment seems very remote
to the uniformed The well is located
six miles back. in the Blackfeet indian
reservation, surrounded by tribal lands
for miles in eEery direction, while the
International boundary is three miles
north. There are no royalties available,
since the Blackfeet tribal council gets
the landowners share. Leases some dis
lance away from the we'll are available
at public auction, should the tribal
council decide to sell, but there is the
further factor that this discovery is on
the Twin Rivers nose a long anti
clinal fold coming up from Canada onto
the Kevin-Sunburst dome. The produc-
ton will doubtless be confined to this
fold and will not extend out onto the To-
cal synclines on either side.
THEN WHAT is THE OPPORTUNITY
OFFERED?
The answer to that question was the
subject of a bulletin issued this week to
Jul oSlAfS AhSANDCASg 6NAAS AAASb
of the Twin Rivers fold discovery We
cannot reveal the contents of that pub
LEGATION until we complete a program of
buying which we had under way before
the Reagan well reached the lime.
The rule of success in this instance is
as simple as the conventional saying that
two plus two equals four.
1t is difficult for us to grasp the
significance of a showing Of oil 1000
ieet down the flank of structure. Yet
il is much easier to understand than
was the discovery in 1891 of oil in the
STRAY" sand at Cut Bank. We did not
know at that time about a buried sea-
coast on the west flank OF the Kelvin
Sunburst dome that the erosion OF the
sandstone had left a sealed trap, when
Lon-porous shales had been laid down
upon these sands. We now know that
oil in some manner entered those sands,
which we now call the Cut Bank sands,
and the oil was washed upward, seeking
escape ahead of the pressure OF under
ground waters. Encountering the imper-
vious shale Gaping, the oil was sealed
on the flank of the dome, in Cut Bank
area.
But now comes the discovery of oil in
the lime at a point structurally below
the Cut Bank sand oil horizon. Oil has
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-05

He had proposed and been &C
cepted. do you think you could
live on my salary of S25 a week?'
he asked.
Surely Darling" she replied,
but what will you dor"
There once was a fisher named
Fisher,
who rished from the edge of a
fissure,
But fish with a grin
Pulled the fisherman in
Now they're fishing the fissure
for Fisher.
Ding-"were you in the army?"
Dong-"Yes."
Ding-"How thrilling. Did you
get a commission"
Dong Nope straight salary"
Two oil DULLES were walking
down the street, terribly drunk.
Jack said to Bill II am awfully
drunk"
Bill says, Whats your wife go
ing to say
Jack says, II amt got no wife. I"
Bill says, ''Then what the hell dId
you get drunk for?"
Indian girl have plenty fun with
beau and error.
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wife: Just suppose we wives
should go on a striker"
Husband go right ahead. I've
got a peach OF a strikebreaker in
.,Fv6
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-05

Indian girl have plenty FUN with
beau and error.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-05
YOUNGBLOOD


A geophysical survey Of the area
established the fact that the De-
vonian high" does not correspond
to the surface structure and the
Carter location will be considera BILE
higher. structurally, than any Of the
three wells. With the guidance OF
the logs Of the other wells, the
Carter expects to have less trouble
with water invasion. The discov-
cry well quickly 'coned" itself
when It was allowed to flow.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-05
HEAVY FLOW OF

-ASN ~@AS ~Aei
ant than the Steveville discovery in
Alberta" one operator declared OF
the Reagan well. at is apparent
that local folding, rather than the
large uplift. determines the accumm-
lation Of oil in the breaks in the
Madison lime. Some very large
production in the lime may be
found at depth in the Eastward
folds.
The well is in the Blackfeet In
dian reservation on a large tribal
lease purchased by Ed Reagan and
associates Of Cut Bank.
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ologists and a well drilled by Ry-
an Petroleum company is reported
to have had considerable gas at
shallow depth.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-05

wife: Just suppose we wives
should 20 on a striker"
Husband go right ahead. I've
got a peach OF a strikebreaker in
mind
Another story regarding the slow
train between Billings and Great
Falls regards the lecturer who.
complained regarding the slOwness
of the train to the conductor:
well, if yer don't like it." the
conductor finally blurted out, why
in thunder don't yer get out an
Walk"
Il would" the lecturer blandly
remarked, but you see the commit
tee doesn't expect me until this
train gets in.
Little Freddie's mother was in
the hospital, and he was paying a
visit to see his new brother. He
wandered into an adjoining room
which was occupied by a woman
with a broken leg.
Hello" he said. How long
have you been here?"
"Oh, about month"
Let me see your baby" he then
asked.
why. haven't a baby" the
woman replied.
Gee. you're slow" said Fred
die. my mama's been here just
two days and she's got one"
Motorist: Il had the right of
way when this man ran into me,
yet you say I was to blame.
Cop: you certainly WERE"
Motorist: why"
Cop: Because his fathers the |
mayor, his brothers the chief of
police. and I'm engaged to his sis
ter
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100 - ees 20
I'VE were interested in the comment
of d leading operator who visited
- " " our office Wednesday, just re-
turning from the new Steveville strue-
ture in Alberta, 120 miles north OF the
international boundary. The Steveville
wells have Oil in the second break IN
the Madison lime-below the Contact. ;, .
That we'll is likewise down the north
flank OF the Sweetgrass Arch.
This operator was commenting on the
Steveville wells and on the Reagan we'll
eThe greatest undeveloped reserves OF
oil on the North American continent are
in Montana and Alberta, he declared.
Because Of it's greater area, Alberta
doubtless has greater reserves tnan MOI
tana 1t is one of the most highly Pc
trolfferous areas in all the world, Eng
land doubtless has greater petroleum re-
serves in this one province (AfDerta1
than in the rest of its far-flung empire
Yet few people appreciate the TACT ana
fewer still appreciate its world wide i'm
portance.'
The accumulation of oil is from the
north, and the formations are region
ally rising into Montana and where there
is lateral migration, the oil is doubtless
feeding up into the great structural con-
dition known as the Sweetgrass Arch.
That fact, combined with a knowledge
of some of the rules of the accumulation
of oil in Madison lime highs, gives us
the key to the greatest opportunities in
the lives of those who read these lines.
So long as there is an excess OF pro-
duction over the normal market (even
though it be only a few hundred bar
rels) there are some who can see little
of hope in the future. But people of wild
er vision know that far greater fortunes
will be made in Montaua-Alberta oil de-
velopment in the future than have been
made In the past.
If any member did not receive a copy
of the current publication re North Cut
Bank, he should write for one without
delay.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-04-05
The Use Of Information

been found in two other wells still far
Their down the flank, on this same nose. >"
To find oil down so low on the flank
of fold. no matter how large it. may
be, rs something OF SIGNIFICANCE. "A
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-16
Admiral Yates Stirling
To Speak In Wilmington

Admiral Yates Stirling, former
chief of staff of the United States
fleet and internationally known
naval authority is to speak here
IN February "a under auspices OF
The American Legion at the New
Hanover High school auditorium
at 8:15 p. m.
Admiral Stirling has a magnifi-
cent background of actual expert
ence with our naval forces having
seen active duty for forty-five
years before his retirement.
During that time he fought with
the Navy in every engagement in
which our forces engaged, earning
him the. nickname of THE Fight
ing Admiral. Beginning as a mid
shipman, he worked his way uI
to the important post of chief Of
staff Of the fleet. He has com
manded every type of ship in the
navy and has also served as com
mander of the Yangtze patrol ii
China and as commander of the
naval base at Pearl Harbor II
Hawaii.
During the World war he dodget
a torpedo by inches which woule
have meant death to the thousand:
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-16
ASSEMBLY PLANS
TO REVAMP THREE
STATE AGENCIES
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Division, the Highway Patrol, and
other related divisions, from the
Department of Revenue to the
newly set up agency. Avowed pur,
pose of the measure is to divorce
enforcement of highway laws from
politics and from the collection OF
taxes.
The joint roads committee has
stamped it's approval on the mea
sure and the bill awaits action or
the house floor Monday night.
Joint committee action in favo,
of reorganizing the Board of Con
servation and Development has also
sped that measure on it's way tt
passage. Representative Mclaughlin
of Iredell, who was a member o.
the Board until he took his oatE
as a legislator, tried to delay con
sideration of the bill until the Gov
errors approval could be sought
for certain changes, but the john
committee instead recommended
that the measure be enacted in its
present form.
Under the measure, the Board o.
Conservation and Development
would be increased from II to II
members. The bill also provides
that each appointee shall serve E
four-year term and shall represent
one of the activities of the depart
ment.
Senator Watson of Nash, told the
Joint committee that the present
board favored the new legislation
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-16
Hopkins Boards Clipper
For FLIGHT To New York

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Feb.
15.-R-Harry L. Hopkins, Presi-
dent Roosevelt's personal repre-
sentative who is returning from
an observation tour of England,
boarded the Yankee clipper to-
night for a 1,6O0-mile flight to New
York.
Hopkins indicated he would take
a plane for Washington Immediate
ly on arrival in New York early
tomorrow, and said he expected
to see MIR. Roosevelt as soon as
he reached Washington. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-16

factors tending to force Germany
to action even before weather
guides anywhere in Europe signal
a favorable outlook for large scale
wal operations. Italian disasters in
Albania, British victories in Africa
and above all the American aid
for-Britain policy are clearly
threatening the Axis with denial of
the fruits of victories already won.
Time is of the essence for Ger
many, There are strong indications
that she is not only showering
Balkan neutrals with ''or else" de-
mands, but is also pressing Spain
and Japan to create diversions
which might scatter British S e a
power.
The stuff of a crisis is at hand,
a crisis forced upon Germany.
only her decision is lacking to
touch it off in days or weeks. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-16
IDENTICAL BIDDING
PRACTICES NOTED
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James A. Horton, chief examiner
for the federal trade commission,
testified that the many contracts
under the defense drive will add
materially to the number of price
fixing cases coming before h e
commission for investigation and
action"
Arnold said a typical recent
complaint of identical bidding"
involved an army contract for
cement. Two Identical bids we're
received and rejected, Arnold re-
lated, and then another firm from
outside the territory offered a
much lower bid.
THE two original bidders then
wanted to reopen bidding and
promised even lower BIDS" he
said. They wanted to show this
outsider what they would do to
price-cutters. I can't give the
names or area now but the evid-
ence' seems convincing"
Both Arnold and W. T. Kelley,
chief counsel for the trade COM
mission, urged that congress put
some real teeth in antitrust laws.
They said the Clayton act should
be amended to prohibit a corpora
ton from acquiring assets" of a
competing corporation. At present
the act prohibits acquisition of
stock control.
They also asked a statute re-
quiring that both the justice de-
partment and the trade commits
sion be notified in advance of any
merger of corporations which
would affect the national output
of any industrial product. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-16
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but Representative McLaughlin re.
piled that it did not.
A public committee hearing has
teen called for Tuesday morning
on the proposed co%ntitutional
amendment to create a new State
Board of Education, veted with the
of the State School Commission.
The board would consist of the
superintendent of public instruction
as eX-officio chairman and of six
appointees of the Governor. The
present board is made up of the
state superintendent, the state trea.
surer, secretary of state, state audi.
tor, with the governor as eX-officio
chairman.
The powers of the School Com.
mission to fix teachers salaries, fix
school districts and generally ad'
minister the public school system
would be transferred to the new
State Board of Education. A secre
tary of the board would serve some
what in the same capacity as does
the secretary of the School Com
mission.
If approved by a three-fifths vote
of each. house, the amendment
would be submitted to the people
in the next general election.
A fifth but minor reorganization
bill faces committee action mex
week. 1t creates a new Board Of
of Public Buildings and Grounds
composed of the Governor, secre
tary of state, treasurer, attorney
general and assistant director Of
the budget, which would supervise
all state buildings.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-16

Onslow county is sparsely popu-
lated, the 1910 census placing its
inhabitants at 1889. Jacksonville
has a present estimated population
of 1900. The land which would be
included in the Marine corps base
there is of varied topography, some
of it being low and semi-swampy;
much of it, however, being well above
sea-level to provide excellent drain
age. 1t is a region of farms devoted
largely to peanuts and sweet pota-
toes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-16
NAZI-HELD COAST
BOMBED BY RAF
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northeast English coast suggested
coastal artillery or naval guns
were in action.
The British bombed the German
held coast line hour upon hour.
1t was a running series of at
tacks in great force extending
northward from Belgium down
along the narrowest stretches OF
the English channel. Hard hit were
Dunkerque and Gravelines, Calais
and Boulogne, and the Nazi big
gun batteries at Cap Girls Nez
were violently pounded.
Dotted With Fires
The channel area was dotted
with great fires and thrrnderous in
termittent explosions suggested
that ammunition and gasoline
dumps had been squarely hit.
London itself was not wholly i'm
mune from attack. Before midnight
there were two air raid alarms
During the first, bombs fell in one
London area, but the second alert
appeared to have been set off by
German raiders heading for other
parts of Britain. Incendiaries were
dropped in Liverpool.
Britons standing by thousands
upon the English coast lifted roll
ing cheers from the British airmer
darling across the channel.
The Raj was switching from
target to target, and at midnigh'
still another f%erocious attack was
observed in progress at Boulogne,
Explosions more distant suggest
ed that inland regions also were
being punished.
The German anti-aircraft gun:
lifted such a mighty barrage tina
it appeared the Nazis had recent,
placed many more guns along thu
invasion coast.
The white beams of the German
searchlight were all but obscuree
now and again by rising columns
of black smoke.
A bright glow filed the skies.
The first attack, men at thu
scene of action reported, made tn
French coastline look like "a mas
of fire."
From across the water brillain
flashes lit up houses on the Ken
coast British bombers sped acros'
the channel in relays. Boulogne ap
peared to be getting a devastating
attack. The force of BURSTING
bombs and shells was SO great tina
windows and doors ratified on tn
English coast.
An ammunition dump neal Bou
logne apparently went up, for Their
was a mighty explosion and
binding flash.
The guns of German ships il
Boulogne harbor sent upa vlolen
barrage, joined by other artiller,
on the crown of the hill behind tn
town. The Nazis appeared determi
ned to defend the port at any cost
the Raj equally determined t.
smash it.
Thousands of Britons lined tn
sea front between Dungeness an
Ramsgate to watch a strange an
savage show; the visibility was tn
clearest since autumn.
The British planes plunged TO
hours through an anti-aircraft bal
rage which observers sadi was tn
mightiest ever raised across tn
channel.
1t was to some extent a case {
give and take, for Nazi raiders re
turned for a night assault on Lor
don and struck, too, over east an
northeast Scotland. The raid her
was a short affair, however, tn
all-clear sounding by mid-evenlng
The British foray along the char
mel was a continuation of a lon
aerial offensive during which, tn
air ministry reported today, Brit
ish bomb bursts Numbered fror
the coast of Norway to the cor
tinental channel ports and far If
land over Germany's areas of wa
;~I,Jfy
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-16

detail: that the Italians had at
tributed to the parachutists the
specific assignment of damaging
waterworks and communications,
while the British attributed to
them a broader task.
The Italians had said the in.
vaders were rounded up before
they could cause the serious dam.
age which they intended" tn us
not directly denying hat S o c
damage had in fact been wrought.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-16
WAR INTERPRETIVE
CONTINUED From Page One>

many must move without delay. If
she waits too long for favorable
weather conditions her Axis mate,
Italy, may be beyond help.
London military folk have that
view. They consider the possibility
of an attempted invasion of Britain
synchronized with thrusts in the
Balkans at Suez and at Gibraltar
and a japanese attempt on Singa-
pore. At least the Balkan and Gil
braltar campaigns might be tried
within 30 days. That would mean
before mid-March. 1t is to be re-
called that the final German Of
fensive of the World War was
launched in France on March ID.
1918.
The Battle of Britain, so styled
at the time by Prime Minister
Winston Churchill, began June 10,
1910. The sweep of circumstance
throughout the eight months since
that date has been against Ger
many and even more against Italy,
despite their stunning previous vic
tories on the continent.
Except for the deadly toll thai
Nazi aircraft, submarines and sur
face raiders are talking of British
shipping in the Atlantic, none o:
the. war developments of those
eight months tend to lessen conf
dence in England or in the Unitee
States that England can hold out
That was sharply reflected in tn
testimony of Wendell Willkie be
fore a senate committee on his re
turn from England.
Distinction
Willkie stressed that his recon
m%endation for about American ait
to Britain had to do with helping
Britain prevail in the war;" no
merely with helping England sur
vive." There is a significant dis
tinction in that choice of words
President Roosevelt, in its recen'
fireside chat, said that, on tn
basis of information available tt
him, 1.-THE Axis powers cannot wiz
this war"
That was a negative assurance
1t did not include an assurance
that Britain could win the a l
left the possibility of a deadl,
stalemate outcome.
Assured of the vast "arsenal' il
America the Washington admins
tration has undertaken to provide
Britain now seems utterly conf
dent of final victory, not merely o
staving off a Nazi all-out attack o.
England.
That was the burden of the Chur
chill radio appeal to America TO
the tools" of victory, the mean
to prevail in the war; as Wlllkl'
put it. England's ability to "sur
vive" and it's ability to ''prevai
in the war; are not one and tn
same thing.
England could survive and still
lack the means to win a positive
and complete victory.
! All of these considerations ar
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-16

of women and children he was
bringing back from France.
Known for his articles as naval
critic which are released to 400
newspapers, Admiral Stirling is
one of the most important figures
on the platform in the present de-
tense emergency.
He is to speak on The Chal.
lenge Across the Pacific" 3