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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-23

The last we'll drilled in Kelvin field
may be the states greatest gusher.'
This was the strange pronouncement
Of a Kelvin operator nearly a decade
ago 1t seemed like wild idea but we
were reminded of it this week when
Lon Crumley brought in a we'll on the
Fryberger farm with an initial Of better
than 1900 barrels per day. The actual
flow was 20 barrels per hour.
That was the initial production fig
ure of the Ohio-Baker No we'll
drilled Is years ago. We remember how
we all shook our heads and said
There will never be another we'll like
the Baker No. 3. We knew that no
large wells would be possible in years
hence because we knew that such big
wells would relieve the pressure and
the field would be content with small
production.
That prophecy almost came true. To-
day operators drill to the top Of the
Madison lime and find a showing of
oil-perhaps a few quarts or possibly
a few barrels per day. Hydrochloric
acid is applied to the formation con-
tanning that showing and wells with
production up to 500 barrels per day
frequently result Without acidization
this field would have been all
through"
Without acid, the Fryberger farm
would not have been drilled out and
surely the 22nd we'll would not have
been completed, because it is located at
the most distant point away from the
known good productive area of the old
Stewart pool.
A couple of lessons which may be
Of value to an investor appear in the
news of the Crumley- Fryberger No. p.
The Fryberger farm had one of the
first wells in Kelvin field. 1t was drilled
by the Gladys Belle Oil company of
Oklahoma 1t found small production
but was not commercial. especially III
those days when everyone was think
ing in terms of multi-thousand barrel
wells 1t actually showed a production
of Is barrels per day but with some
water The water condemned the en-
tire area and Il was not until after the
Stewart pool was developed. southeast
Of the Fryberger farm, that any OPP
orator would take a chance on drilling
a we'll The Western Drilling company
took a chance in the face of the known
water table and drilled well i'll the
southeast corner of the farm-closest
to the good wells on the Stewart farm.
1t had a showing of oil and was
promptly abandoned because there was
nothing anyone could do with show
ing of oil in those days-the year 1925.
The following year, the Maughn
Drilling company ventured to drill
test a quarter mile north of the Gladys
Belle and, as everyone expected, it was
a failure with an initial of 10 barrels
per day, plus little water That was
final The Maughn farm and all of
Section 24-35-3W was considered con
demned."
AS stated, except for the coming of
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-23

It is difficult to make Americans
war conscious" The idea of depriving
the public OF sugar or Of white bread
or of gasoline in order to bring the
war home" in these times Of over
supply, is an insult to American in
telligence. Likewise the plan Of shut
ting down industries and throwing
thousands of men out of employment
is a poor way of going about winning
the war. Closing all filling stations
nights and Sundays is perhaps good
idea, from the viewpoint Of the re-
tailers because the public will buy just
as much gasoline in daylight, and the
saving in wages and lights is an enor-
nous figure. Had the industry pro-
posed the move, the government would
already have 10000 oil men under ar
rest, with courts and bureaucrats
shouting monopoly" and restraint of
trade" But as it is, it is a war move"
the tens of thousands of men thrown
out of employment are not at all in
spired to be fervently patriotic, and
the government has accomplished
nothing good.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-23

small amount Of oil with no water
Someplace in the vicinity of every
strata carrying oil is a column of water
holding the oil in place
That leads us back to the theory
that the last we'll drilled in Kelvin field
may be the states greatest gusher The
man who stated this theory had been
a miner and he had dug shafts, drifts
and crosscuts through the Madison
lime and knew of its porous structure
The accumulation of oil in the Madison
lime is not in the solid limestone
which is incapable of containing oil
but IS in cracks or assures in the lime
doubtless oil that has migrated up
ward from lower horizons. Wherever
the cracks break through to the sur
face of the lime, oil is found in the
proximity of such cracks or fractures
in the Ellis-Madison contact, the Ellis
shale serving as a cap-rock or sealer.
A well which happens to strike one
of these cracks makes history-such as
the Ohio-Baker No 3, the Texas
Pacific-Howling No. 3, the Fulton
Byrne producers and dozens of others
which hit the nerve" Offsets to these
wells have been dry holes in many in
stances. With acid it is possible to
perhaps open up flow channels later
ally to the cracks or vugs and thus
modern methods are reducing the num-
Der of dry holes. However, many wells
that have failed to get oil in the contact
have continued on down to a second
and a third horizon and have found oil
Crumley had "dry holes" in many of
his Fryberger wells and he continued
on down to a second and a third
break" in the lime-the latter having
become known as the "Crumley break"
and have found OIL Thus three wells
in row may be producing from three
separate horizons. Elsewhere in the
field wells have been drilled as much
as IS feet into the Madison lime, find
ing no oil above, and have there en-
countered crack in the lime which
gave large production Most noted of
these was the O'Neil-Lashbaugh gusher
with an initial of 5000 barrels per day.
So it is that there may be cracks or
vugs in Kelvin field that may be tapped
years from now, either by direct con-
tact by the drilling tools or else by
channeling with hydrochloric acid
through the lime, that will open up
many more wells that may make 20
barrels an hour and perhaps much
more.
The man who has a royalty in the
Kelvin field need never be discouraged
over a dry hole The greatest producer
in the field may be completed within
a half mile of the dry hole, as on the
Fryberger.
A royalty investor can do no better
than to pick up cheap royalties on
ABANDONED tracts where oil in non
quantities has been found
in times past A little money and a
little patience can easily make fortune
through Kelvin royalty investments
today
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-23
TO RI1ILn NEW PLANT

KELLOGG. Idaho.-The Bunker Hill
and Sullivan Mining g. Concentrating
Co. of Kellogg, announced tentative
plans for the construction of a $780,
600 Tuning plant as an addition to
its present smelter.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-23
DEPLETION ACTION UNCERTAIN

WASHTNGTON.-Doubt VIII tn r
congress at this time would attempt to
reduce or abolish depletion allowance
on oil and other minerals as recon-
mended by Treasury Secretary Nor
genthau. was expressed today by Sen
ator Connally. Texas member Of Sen
ate Finance committee, who said such
a move probably would unduly delay
enactment Of current $500 900 600
revenue bill
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-23
CuTfeIU LGLU Takes
I50.OO0 Jobs

The curfew law to close filling sta
tons on the Atlantic coast has thrown
10000 workers out of jobs. It saves
money for the owners but the jobless
don't like it. Contrary to Ickes. night
attendants at filling stations are not
skilled mechanics such as are needed
by the munitions factories
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-23
PERCY ROGERs RACK

Percy F. Rogers is now superintend-
ent of the Silver Crescent mill at
MarysWlle He was formerly at Scott
Bar, Calf, and previously was super
intendent of Eldorado Gold Placers in
Montana and Colorado.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-23
NAVY WILL HELP

The navy has volunteered to loan
two of its "swiftest and best tankers"
to help haul oil to the Atlantic sea-
board to help alleviate the impending
east coast oil shortage, while coast
wise tankers are used to haul oil to
England
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-23
GAS CASE TRANSFERRED

The suit Of the Capital Gas Co.,
which seeks sl9,3215O from the FL
deity Gas Co. for breach of contract,
has been removed from Fallon county
to the United States district court in
Great Falls.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-23
REFTNERY AZ rTsTER

CUSTER, S. Dan oil refinery has
been opened here by NJ. w. pat)
BaIlew, formerly Of Fill City. Crude
oil is trucked from the Wyoming fields
and the plant is now in 24-hour daily
operation.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-23
WE BELIEVE

WE BELIEVE
GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS have been definitely proven n1
dspensbe in Morcana. Every wildcat should have both
Madison and Devonan highs determined by reflection
seismograph before drilling begins.
DEEPER DRILLING essential write the real history OF
the Montana oil industry The major OF Mon
tina petroleum is in formations BELOW THE BIG
LIME. Abandonment Of wells at the Cat Creek horizon
is stupidity No we'll should be considered completion
until it is drilled into the Devonian.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-23
DRILLING AT ARMELLS

LEWISTOWN.-A new wildcat oil
well is being drilled on the Edwards
property at Arrnells by local sponsors.
They hope to develop supply of gas.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-23
MAY DRILL m TUNNEL

A California company proposes to
tunnel under the ocean at Long Beach,
excavate chambers large enough to ac-
commodate a drilling rig and develop
submerged portions Of the Whining
ton field beyond reach of directionally-
drilled holes.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-23
Eastern Seab0ard HySteria
Is Not Based or Facts
fcontinned from Page Onel

ICOILMutu IIUH Fa6t OIINI
we'll as industry itself? Industry is
exerting a magnificent effort in the
armament program but producing I'M
der the difficulty Of government in
reference. The bottlenecks are in the
bureaus. not the business offices.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-23

Wood-gas generators are being In
stalled in fishing boats IN Finland.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-23

saw one of the midgets from the mid
way walking down Central Avenue
with his teeny-weeny wagon"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-23

"Calf?"
Fourteen inches"
"Thigh?"
Nineteen inches"
'Neck?"
''YeSr
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-04
BY HARRY CRIMSON NEA Service Sports Editor

Hank 0reenberg, who gets $50,000 Q year for swatting @ baseball, is recommended for deferred status by Q Florida draft board because of fiat feet.
 It is found that the hearing of John Dungan Rigrey, top pitcher, is impaired by a chronic perforation of the eardrum.
 They wouldn't even let Morrie Arnovich volunteer because most of his teeth were knocked out in bas- ketball.
 The examination of young Phil Rizutto revealed a diabetic condi- tion.
 It used to be that nobody came close to a ball player for rounding up imaginary ailments, but that was in the pre- -modern draft board era.
 It would seem that if Q lot of sup posedly robust citizens want @ de- Hated opinion of their health, all they have to do Is visit a draft board.
 Pitching against the Athletics on the coast, Charley Root recalls the Chicago Cubs frightful inning ir the world series of 1929, when the Philadelpnas set a record erasing an eight-run deficit with 10-run rally
 q was walking along the street in Philadelphia that night with Mrs Root" the veteran right-hander when we met MT. and Mrs. William Wrigley, Jr." .
 "Where is everybody" he asked T can't find a player around the hotel"
 Root told the big boss everybody was too upset to be seen.
 "Well," replied Magnate Wrigley that inning cost you fellows just $50,000."
 Root wanted to know why.
 "Because you would have won the series if you won that game" sait Wrigley, land If you had won the series, Mrs. Wrigley was going te make a present of $56o,ooo to the players"
 That undoubtedly was the mos disappointing inning in the life o1 Wrigley, who was @ violent fan.
 It is believed that Joe Mccarthy was let go as the result of the har- rowng round.
 William Wrigley did not replace Mccarthy with Rogers Hornsby ur1' til the Cubs failed to win the fol lowing fall, but 1t is suspected hi! mind was made up that disastrou' afternoon at Shibe Park.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-04
Today's Sport Parade
BY HENRY McLEMORE tUnited Press Stan Correspondent)

sick of reading sob-sisterish stuff about myself that I don't know what to do. sometimes wonder what the golfing public thinks about me They muset picture me as some poor, benighted old c,iss, staggering around the courses of the country with @ forlorn look and broker heart. As & matter of fact, I'm pretty lucky golfer. I have wor more than my share of good cham. pionships, and you can't kick about finishing second Tn such things as the U. s. open, the British open and the masters"
 On Craig,s suggestion I looked into his past performances, and what he said was true--he has won many good title. To name a few he has won there are the Los An geles open, the Metropolitan open Che got that last year with the all- time 72 hole tournament score of 264), the Pasadena open (twice) the San Francisco match play open, the Augusta open, the Pine Valley open, the Australian open, the Ha- waiian open, and the New Jersey PGA four times. And there are dozen others.
 Woman's Angle
 After I had talked to Craig ] talked to Mrs. Wood.
 Honestly, the stories they write about Craig picture him as beaten thwarted man," she said. Actually he is one of the happiest men ir the world. He never has fretted ol fugned about losing championships by a shot or two. We never talk golf after @ round is finished. Ever in those years of 1885 and 1886 when he played so badly he couldn't qualify for anything, he neve, grumbled or aroused. He works or the theory that you get just what you deserve in golf. If you three putt 1t was your own fault. If you get an eagle 1t was your own skill that brought 1t about.
 T will be so happy to read ( story about him that doesn't go or about his hard luck. Because w don't feel that he has had hard luck We feel we're awfully lucky"
 Thus ends my story for today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-04
(Reg. U. s. Pat. oH.)


 Auguta, Ga, April +(UP)- There is a very good chance that this story you are reading now will eventually rank as one of the most novel ever written by @ sports writer.
 ! say this because 1t deal with Craig Wood, golfer, and yet rlo- where in 1t will there be e refer ence to his hard luck in finishing second in so many important cham pionships. There won't be a tear- Jerking paragraph in the entire business, and there won't be Q mem ton of how Craig's pretty wife, Jackie, has had her heart all but broken fifteen times by rival golf CTS executing some miraculous shot on the last hole to beat out her man for the title.
 Nowhere will there be a mention of how Craig lost this title by miss ing a putt no wider than an cells forehead, or how he lost that one just because a thoughtless robin chose that exact moment when Craig was making Q vital shot to chirp the first four bars of the grand march from Aida.
 Character
 To write Q story about Craig without pulling out all the stops in the feart-throb department re. quires a certain amount of charac- ter. The same sort of character, in fact, that @ fellow would need to write about Connie Mack without ever referring to him as the tall tactician," or about Ty Cobb with. out labelling him as the peerless Georgian" or about Willie Heston without once using the word im- mortal.
 Wood, himself, was the one who suggested that I do story about him without touching the runner up angle.
 "1'd appreciate @ story of an. other sort" Craig said as we talked after his brilliant 68 in the open ing round of the masters invitation tournament yesterday. T get so
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-04
LOU 8 TO 5 IN
 LATEST 'LINE';
 BOTH SOUND OFF
Many Back Baer to Score Knockout; Principals in
 Fine Shape for Test
BY HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Edlt0r)


 New York, April 4.-(UP)-Unles' they talk each other to death be- fore sunset, Max Baer and Lou Nova will fight l2 rounds or less tonight to see which one gets September shot at Joe Louis heavyweight championship.
 As the greatest vocal struggle since the Lincoln Douglas debates draws toward a climax, Nova Is fa- vored at odds of 8 to 5. He gets the edge on the strength of Q mara thon oration he has been delivering on his secret weapon which he calls "the cosmic punch" Just what the cosmic plncil is nobody knows, and please don't ask Nova or he Is lia- ble to tell you in 23,00o well chosen words.
 Cab Champ
 Baer, never addicted to terseness has adopted the strategy of sticking to one subject in this conversational conflict It is his favorite topic and after all these years 1t is almost as famous as Bryan's cross of gold speech-"The great Max Baer and how I got that way" But even after he had loosed a conversational torrent, Baer found himself 47 ad- jectives and 28 participial clauses behind Nova, so he goes into the ring the under-dog.
 Fortunately, the rules of the New York boxing commission provide that fighters must wear mouth- pieces, so there may be moments this evening when the boys will get their teeth tangled in the inouth- pieces and have to do a little flght- ing out of sheer necessity.
 Eighteen thousand persons may pay more than $s0000 to see the big boys go. Baer, an in-and-outer who looks brilliant one night and bum rnish the next, claims to be in the best condition of his career. He could be right about that and still not be in Al shape, for 0 good part of his 32 years has been spent doing patrol duty on the primrose path.
 Nova, out of competition for a year because of 8 blood infection that almost cost him his life, has had only one important fight since he started his comeback. That was a i0-round decision over young Pat Comiskey, green kid whom BaeI belted out in less than one round.
 Heavy Betting
 No one, least of all the two gladt- ators, can tell what will happen when two such highty individuals as Baer and Nova get into the ring, but all indications are that this will be the heaviest betting fight of the year. Baer still has thousands of supporters despite what happened to him on June evening in 1889. That was the occasion of his first fight with Nova. On that evening Lou Smacked Baer on the jaw and left a deep cut inside the lip that irlcapacitated Maxie for both talk ing and fighting. After swallowing blood until the i1th, Baer finally lost on Q technical knockout in the 1ith.
 The fight will be broadcast over the NEG blue network starting at 10 D. i1l., eastern time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-04
Sport QUESTIONS Answered

Have you . sports question you want answered? Write your yues- 1lon clearly, sign your name and address and mali your query to Sports Fan Question, Man, Sports Service Bureau, The Waterbury Democrat, 1913 18th street, Wash ington, D. C., enclosing . 3-cent postage tsamp for personal reply.
 c. Who were the leading home gun hitters in the American and National Baseball Leagues in i940?
 A. Henry Greenberg, Detroit GA. L) with 4l: John Mize, St. Louis (N. L.) with 43.
 q. Is the home stretch at Chur- .Rhill Downs race track longer than kt Pimlice?
 A. From the last turn at the Judges stand at Churchill Downs e HOO feet; at Pimlico 1t is 9so Sect.
 e. Is c batted ball strikes first several feet in foul territory and then rolls and finally settles in fair
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-04
HILL PROVES HERO \ OF BOSTON WIN
Ry United Press)

The Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings will meet in best-of- seven series for hockey's Stanley Cup beginning Sunday and Tuesday. Ihe next two contests will be at De- txoit Thursday and Sunday and If other games are required they will he played alternately.
 Mel Hill. slated for the minors sntil ace center Bill Cowley was tn- I5szred, slammed home a third period goal last night to give the Bruins a H-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs in the seventh and deciding aame of their semi-final series pzayed before le.000 fans.
 The Schedule !. Series D (best of seven): | April 6-Detroit at Boston. 1 April e--Detroit at Boston. [ April 1O-Boston at Detroit. ] April lss--Boston at Detroit.
 If other games are required they #fi1 bs played alternately.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-04
} GROUPS TO RUN
 BAY STATE RACES

Boston, April 4.-(UP)-The state racing commission today had grant, ed total 200 days of dog racing in Massachusetts to three groups.
 The Revere Racing Association, 1nc, operators of Wonderland Park, Revere, was licensed yesterday to conduct 100 days of racing, from June 16 to Aug. 30 and from Sept 22 to Oct. 30. The association also had a 100-day season in l940.
 For the first time Q license was granted to the Taunton Greyhound Association, Inc, which will operate the Dighton track. The split sea- son of July 2l to Aug. 30 and Sept. IS to Sept. 30 provides 50 days of racing.
 The Massassoit Greyhound Asso- ciation, Inc, operators of Ranham Park, Rayhnham, which conducted 75 days of racing last year, will have Q 50-day season. The license was for the dates May g to July 19.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-04
Table Tennis

New York, April 4.-(UP)-Sally Green, l8-year old Indianapolis nut sic student, clashes with Helen Ger maine, the national public parks ten- his champion, in the women's singles finals of the national table tennis championship tournament tonight.
 In the mems singles, the semi- final berths are occupied by two New Yorkers-Louis Pagliaro, tiny defending titleho!der, and youth- full Ed Primer, and two veteran Hun garian stars, Lazlo Bellak and Tibor Hazi. Hazi plays with Schiff while Bellak will meet Primer.
 In the mixed doubles Primer and Helene (Tiny) Moss, St. Paul, meet Hazi and his wife, Mrs. Mazda Gal Hazi, in the semi-finals. The other mixed doubles semi-final pits Bel lak and Mrs. Reba K. Monnes, New York, against Bill Holzrichter, Chi cago, and Mary Baumbach, Indian apolis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-04

Celtic Park New York Times reported 1t this Bill eueal Americas distance the 15 mile worlds cham ponsp yesterday sensational fashion by 300 yards defeating Tom the dped all doubts who could ar ladder Probably 10000 w which attracted the pick of professionals the and Canada well Willie Koemainen the Finnish Marathon Homer Edinburgh which he made worlds recor Jimmy Lee of Boston and Ted Crooks of Fall River.
 What of most of the experts the clip at which Lonboat went the first mile the former
 led the wonderful time 444 and 25ts which considered almost suicidal the fact that the had IA miles With the time a two miles showing 954 and 3hs take notice that there something happening the line Such take individual miles beating ten minutes for the first two miles of IS mile and with sembance of having turned @ hair.
 "And went until Longboat began to feel the effects of his
 nderpa wardance dropping slowly but surely back until the With apparently bottled Queal laid behind the failed his pace kill leader disnclnation Longboat naturally
 slowed the time of the considerably Queal laid behind, satisfied with the advantage of @ lap"
 ua training during 1918 first lieutenant in the aviation service WHOA coach helped out the Yale track municipal athletics croounry his N could with his promising youthful 1912 worlds professional running from to IS miles September s 1911 eight mile 1921 and in New York City, April 1912 miles, 0s6 exactly one hour.
 few the Notre Dame sensation mAes indoors 8:56:5 time HISTORY compared with Quea first miles Longboa which outdoors and registered s:54 and 3-5 seconds.