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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-04-25
WILL. ALLOW
MONTANA OIL
TO AID IN WAR
CONTINUED from Page One)

ACO4bA4QC0 II Jill Se5S INV
DUCERS ARE GOING TO THE
EXTENT OF A PRICE WAR IN
IDAHO TO DEMORALIZE COMPE-
Triton IN THAT AREA Northern
Idaho is the longest rail haul out oil
California, utilizing tank cars which
should be used for short hauls. Cali
fornia producers are losing money in
Idaho, utilizing equipment that Is
sorely needed to supply the district
west of the Cascades, just to defend
their trade territory against COMPETE
ton Of refiners in Pocatello, Salt Lake
and Spokane.
California majors are said to have
forgotten the war with Japan in their
effort to carry on a commercial war
with Montana and Wyoming COM
petitors.
One example of the weird sit
uatiOn is reported where California
gasoline is taken in tank trucks
from rail tank cars, trucked 400
miles into Washington. Allegedly
''tO conserve tires, wear on trucks
and labor" the trucks are re-
loaded with gasoline made from
Montana crude and the gasoline
is hauled back the 400 miles,
whereas a trade of gasoline at the
two terminals would have made 1t
unnecessary TO do any hauling.
The uncompromising attitude of the
California oil men has led to the
slogan:
CALIFORNIA MAJORS WOULD
RATHER LOSE THE WAR THAN
RISK LOSING THEIR TRADE TER
RITORY FOR THE DURATION OF
THE WAR"
1t will require the stern hand of
some federal official-probably a rep
resentative of the War Production
Board-to straighten out the alarming
situation in the northwest. There is
no need for a drastic shortage of
gasoline and fuel oil in the northwest
when that shortage results from ex-
Guiding Wyoming and Montana prod
ucts. BY like token, Texas producers
might be opposing the development of
Pennsylvania fields, which are now do
ing their utmost to relieve the sit
uation in nearby markets on the north
east coast. But they are not that
narrow
Any sensible person, acting as a
referee in the Pacific northwest, think
ing only In terms of winning the war,
would order the delivery of Montana
and Wyoming gasoline into Utah and
Idaho and other points In eastern Ore
gon and Washington that can be
reached with minimum haulage. Spo-
kane refinerieS would be ordered to
go into maximum production and ship
their products as far west as the Cas-
cade mountains. The California sup
plies might then be concentrated on
the largest consuming territory-west
Of the Cascade mountains, where the
gravest danger exists as a result of the
shortage of tankers.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-04-25
HOw to Fire-PrOOf

With the potential danger of incen-
diary bomb raids, attention is being
given to ways and means Of render
ing wood fire-proof, or slow burning.
One source explains that timbers can
be fire-proofed by thorough impreg-
nation with a concentrated solution
of ammonium sulphate in water. A
good fire-proof paint is described as
being made up of liz pounds of water
glass, $50 pounds of whitening and 100
pounds of water.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-04-25
DEPRESSION PROOF INVESTMENTS

available, so far as we know, at any
price. We pass up highly profitable but
perishable fruit farms as an investment,
unless we are prepared to devote all of
our time to such farmland SO on
down the list, through sugar beet land,
wheat land and down to grazing land.
But where we have grazing land or
wheat land or plain dry-land farm land,
under which is known geological
structure capable of containing oil or
gas we have the closest approach to
diamond farm"
Potential oil land is the ONE invest
ment which may make fortune and
which, if purchased on the basis of
agricultural land, will safeguard against
total loss. Let initiation come and go,
the man who owns farm land will never
be sold short" If he crops the land,
he will get something for his crop. If
he cannot get profit on his operations,
he will not farm the land But he will
still have the land, when all else fails.
No person can overlook the POSSIBLE
ity of initiation which may eventually
wipe out his money, his bonds and other
securities, following the war. In World
war No. we were victorious on the
field of battle; but when the last gun
of our enemy was silenced, an equally
powerful foe at home-inflation-wa
debating its own terms of peace; and
harsh terms they were. When the final
reckoning was made in the collapse of
1920, the business man found that he
was compelled to write down his in
ventories to the extent of some $ll,
100000; that the liabilities of bank
rupt firms had reached depth almost
double the previous record, and, finally,
that inflationary prices had increased
the cost of the war by $10,0OO,OO0OOO
which had to be paid off by added
taxes. The situation today presents the
possibilities of an economic debacle
which would offset, to a great degree,
the advantages of complete victory over
the axis.
During late 1899 and 1910 it was
possible to expand progressively the
production of consumer goods along
with the expansion that was occurring
then in the output of war material
There was sufficient raw material, labor
and plant capacity to matcn the IN
creased buying power of the public
with an increased flow of goods. But
in l94l this situation began to change.
AS the armament program expanded,
shortages began to develop, first in
metals and machine tools, then in plant
capacity, and in labor AS result pro-
duction of consumer goods began to
expand at a lower rate, and in recent
months has actually turned downward.
Metals, machines and men are being
used to manufacture tanks and guns
and ships and uniforms instead of au-
tomobiles, radios, electric refrigerators
and civilian clothes.
All this time, while aggregate pro-
duction of military and civilian goods
has been expanding, the number of
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-04-25

This week we did the best stroke of
business, we believe, in our l9 years of
buying, and we have of necessity made
some very successful purchases over
that period of time
We secured in fee simple some
proven oil land which once had So
barrel we'll on it but which has been
tied up by hay-wire operators, bad titles
and mortgage foreclosure. The title
has now been Strengthened UP and we
have contracted for the purchase of the
land from the mortgage company which
is content to take out its cash and
small retained royalty.
This affords opportunity to an in
vestor who wants to buy oil land in
fee simple to become owner of the
surface of the land, the leasehold rights
plus the landowners royalty. There are
a number of investors who read this
column who have expressed desire to
buy oil land in fee simple-something
they can own and control now and in
the future, which may make a fortune.
We have never been more certain of
a property than this one. That it is oil
land cannot be questioned. The only
question is, How much?" Only drill
can answer that question.
1t is known, however, that this land
will produce high gravity oil.
Inflation-proof investments are the
key to financial independence in the
future and there is no more stable in
vestment, in our opinion, than lands.
If we buy rich agricultural lands it is
necessary to operate them, else taxes
will be burdensome. 1t is far more prof
liable to buy undeveloped lands which
are capable of being irrigated or ca
pable of raising wheat and other prof
liable crops.
Furthermore, the person who buys
land should be certain that it is not
exhausted d-from which the fertil-
ity has been removed by many years
of cropping. The value of land is not
what it will bring in a smart trade but
rather what it will PRODUCE. The
man who buys wheat land that has
been exhausted to the point where it
will raise only four or five bushels to
the acre is passing up the opportunity
of buying undepleted Montana wheat
lands which will produce 20 to so bush
els of wheat per acre. The Montana
dry-land wheat, again, is high protein
wheat-more valuable than the wheat
of other states, and the quality of the
yield is an important consideration.
There is nothing more hazardous
than farming. The factors of drouth,
hail, rust, grasshoppers and uncertain
markets make us hesitate to go into
farming, yet we know that the basis of
all wealth is the products of the soil.
In making an investment, it would be
we'll to buy the sort of land that will
yield a commodity least likely to fail
of production or OF a market. If we
could buy a diamond farm, it would
be our first choice, if we could afford
it, but there are no diamond farms
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-04-25

dollars paid out to labor, management
and capital has been steadily increas-
ing. However, the military goods are
not sold to the public. So, all these
dollars, excepting those which are
saved or are being paid to the govern
ment in taxes or are being used to
purchase Victory bonds, are available
to spend on rapidly decreasing supply
of consumer goods. This situation, of
course, results in bidding up of prices.
This year, national income dollars
paid out) will probably total liz bill
lions. Savings and taxes will take 81
billions out of the amount, leaving a
balance of SO billion dollars to buy
consumer goods and services. However,
the supply of consumer goods and
services will amount to only about 65
billion dollars in terms of 1o41 prices.
There will be $4 in money competing
for every So worth of consumer goods
and services in 1912. (The above esti-
mate of national income, savings and
taxes, and value of consumer goods and
services are subject to revision, but the
general relationship probably will not
change much
The era of sellers market is al
ready here and the first steps have been
taken which will see, in due course of
time, the manufacturer, the wholesaler
and the retailer stocked up at the close
of the war with peak-price goods for
which there will be no demand and
then will come the deflation which was
so costly at the close of the previous
war.
Those of us old enough to remember
1921 know that those who had lands,
purchased ahead of initiation, were the
ones who weathered the storm most
successfully. And in the midst of the
postwar depression, great fortunes
were made by persons fortunate enough
to own lands located on oil structures.
Both Cat Creek field and Kelvin field
came into being during that postwar
depression.
1t is seldom that we get proven oil
land in fee simple at a price within
the reach of the average investor, so
we have few precedents for this pur-
chase but we believe that it affords an
investment that is fairly depression
proof and we know that the price is
by no means influenced by initiation. 1t
is, in fact, oil land at the price we are
accustomed to paying for dry-land
farms. This is land that is WORTH
SOMETHING and yet it has the pos
sibility of making a fortune for the
owner from the development of AV-
ERAGE oil production. The best geol-
ogy and the history of development of
the district recommends it. 1t is so
certain of production, we believe, that
it will be in production soon after it
gets into the hands of aggressive new
owners.
First opportunity will be given to
buyers of lands. Thereafter offering
sheets will be issued to royalty invest
ors who request them.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-04-25
WE BELIEVE

GFOPHYSICAL SURVEYS have been definitely proven in
dspensbe in Montana. Every wildcat should have both
Madison and Devonan thighs" determined by reflection
seismograph before drilling begins.
DEEPER DRILLING essential write the real history OF
the Montana oil industry. The ma or of Mon
tana petroleum is in formations BELOW The Bio
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
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13
One Good Reason

81 never see your husband look
ing at another woman"
"No, George is devoted to me.
Besides, he's so nearsighted."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13
Other Games

the year.
Other Games
In the meanwhile the pros and the
army squad are both on their way
to camp, to many camps, for the
eight games scheduled this month
and through early September.
This army division, under Bob
Neyland and Wallace Wade, will set
at least one football record. They
will finish up their schedule by Sep
TENDER 20, just about the spot when
most of the others are swinging into
action.
Coaches Neyland and Wade have
the rush act" to handle. They have
the material-many of the great
football players of recent years-but
the job of whipping these men into
a football machine in short while
is no simple job.
You can gamble that the Washing
ton Redskins, the New York Giants,
the Green Bay Packers, the Brook
lyn Dodgers and others will be some
thing to shove around, despite the
fact they have lost close to a hum
dred star men to the services.
Messrs. Steve Owen, Curly LAM
beau, George Halas and others still
have enough good material left to
keep any team busy, no matter how
many stars my be working against
them. They, also, are out to win.
And these games will play big
part for Army Relief. They are a
big part of the bigger game. And
they will be something to see.
Stout Combination
The Big Nine, plus Notre Dame,
may easily be footballs stronghold
for the new campaign. And this
isn't overlooking Iowa, which would
be a serious mistake.
There are linemen on hand to
match the backs, especially at Min
nesOta, where Morse forwards usu-
ally have the call. Minnesota's big
line will be led by Dick Wildung,
one of the greatest forwards in 1941
"a sure bulwark in the season that
is not too far away, and which the
fans are looking forward to.
It has been the wish of the war
department to keep football especial
ly at top strength this season. This
is not guess nor a surmise. 1t is
a message that comes direct from
Washington and the Midwest is one
big sweep of the country that in
tends to carry this idea to the limit.
Star coaches, here and there, will
be missed, including Bernie Bier
man of Minnesota. But there will
be able instruction to look after some
of the best material of many years.
1t will be needed in facing those
powerful army and navy teams now
on their way.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13
The AnsUers

1. Yes. 1t will again have five in
1913 and 1876.
2. The Federalist party.
3. They travel at the same
speed.
4. Curiosity about forbidden mat
tiers led to disastrous conse-
quences.
5. One hundred two.
6. st. Petersburg, Petrograd
and Leningrad, in Russia.
7. A. D.
8. A pear-shaped citrus fruit.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13

Yale, for example, one of the
most conservative of all the univer-
stiles, has gone all out-nOt so much
to develop a single outstanding
team, but to have hundreds trained
in the matter of condition and dis
cipIine that football demands. Ger
tainly no university is doing finer
job. / also could mention Maryland
and many others.
The Change
These teams want and will work
for winners. But beyond that more
attention will be paid to mass than
to class.
Students who never thought of
football before now will be shown
the feeling of hard body contact, of
increased speed, of improved SIAM
ina, of quicker reactions in compe-
tition. In the universities, the col
leges and the prep schools there
will be at least five, or possibly ten,
football players in training against
one for other seasons.
"Why," someone has asked,
shouldn't these men be in active
war service?"
The main answer is that the war
department wants it this way. First,
because most of these men also are
taking war training. Second, be-
cause the war department wants it's
coming requirements and reserves
TO be the best soldiers in the world,
trained and conditioned for what is
to come later on.
Every university and college of
any standing in the country is doing
its best to comply with the demands
or requests that come from the top.
Football is already under full
swing at the Naval Cadet camps
located at the universities of Geor-
gia, North Carolina, Iowa and st.
Mary's.
"War," as the late General Sher-
man said, 'is hell" But football in
Georgia and North Carolina through
August is no part Of a picnic.
No one yet knows just how such
coaches as Bernie Bierman and Jim
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13

GO, YOU are going to have a
- baby! Well, the clothes prob
lem can be settled very easily
with a frock and jacket-just the
type we offer in this pattern.
Frock has cap sleeves, pleats
down the front provide all the ex-
ira fullness needed and is very
easy to make. The jacket tops off
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13

New York district charging viola
ton of the ration law.
A statement issued in behalf of
the several federal agencies in
volved in the case intimated that
more arrests might follow, saying
this was "the first step in vigorous
campaign which Office of Price Ad-
ministration officials said they
would conduct.
1t was suggested, but not definitely
asserted, that the object of the cam
paign was to stop the diversion of
sugar into bootleg channels.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13

1t is generally conceded that
women are the fair sex. But does
that imply that the men are
unfair?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13
Nab First u. S. Black Market Dealer

old, of the Bronx, pleaded guilty
in United States district court.
John F. Sonnet, assistant United
States attorney, who headed the in
vestigation, said the brief interval
between the return of the indictment
and the plea of guilty established a
speed record in this court. Haus-
ner faces a maximum punishment
of two years Imprisonment and a
$40, 900 fine.
The indictment was the first in the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13

Federal officials cracked down
hard and swiftly on manufacturer
described by one authority as pro-
viding the first tangible sign in the
United States of the operation of
black market in rationed products.
They indicted New York city
maker of soft drinks on charges of
selling illegally 10000 pounds of
sugar. Less than an hour after the
indictment was returned, the de-
PENDANT, Oscar l.. Hausner, SO years
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13
The EgotiSt

The performing flea and an elephant
crossed a Jungle bridge together.
"Oh, boy" whispered the flea in the
elephants ear, zoe certainly made that
bridge slake!"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13

my crowley Will De
able to get winning
teams with squads
that come and go,
with almost no stars
from the pros or
from the colleges.
The odds are all
against them. But
football is a big part
of their training,
and this happens to
be the main idea.
These four Naval
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13

fall came along,
and the dog days
were over. That
meant football. We
began practicing
around September
Is, and the season
came to an abrupt
finish on Thanksgiv-
ing day.
It's all different
now. Football is al
ready at full swing
in many colleges
and Dnanu Caponc
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13

How to keep that schoolgirl
complexion - Hide it where your
sister will not find it.
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yUgT Aggs9
.7:::l::S:::T|;I71lI.iE
That Kind

Inat h1nQ
SIN my time I've had a dozen
men at my feet" she boosted.
"Chiropodists?" inquired her
friend.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13
That Sort of Fellow

els that man annoyed with you?
notice he didn't return your
greeting"
"Oh, he lives next door to me.
He never returns anything"
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~ ~ 81
I5oi1!1li41Q

TURNING back the pages of
many, many calendars, your cor
respondent still recalls the thrill that
came when the first breath of early
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13
ASK Me q
ANOTHER Z
A General Quiz
The Questions

1. Does February ever have five
Sundays?
2. To what political party did
George Washington belong?
/ 3. Does beam of light from the
sun travel equally as fast as a
beam of light from a candle?
4. What had the following wom-
en- in common-Lot's wife, Blue
boards wife and Adams wife?
5. How many Pilgrim Fathers
landed from the Mayfiower?
6. What capital city of what
country has had three names all
within this century?
7. What is the date of the year
following l B. c.?
8. What is a shaddock?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13

OdUSC CdIIlpS HdVG
over 40 games scheduled with the
stronger university teams, facing
one of the toughest schedules of
the year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-22
"A Little of This and That

that racing Whaway the Naraganse in the "heady jockey the credit "outsmarng the the TOUGH the and rider who gets the finish line by Woof Whiy inclined along theory Bierman did whale left to beat the WW combination the rads NOSE
 Yesterday though WAS ON THE OTHER FOOT for according the United Cuddy while watching Shut another horse and rider Mrtens Dark Discovery $3750 for g. while objects his attention Kentucky Derby winners finished futile Discovery wherever he s have WEIGHED yearod daughter beat the distance
 w
 for the of the ball tournament because of football Snkwch the Georgia back who played all player parade for individual performance practically Tulane last Saturday 4o0 all by himself handling 2S times Sincere condolences former BAG foobaers whose mother uns last evening as she going home from
 Meany golfer who once landed an #AESOPLANE the PARKWAY the new DEMOCRATIC candidate Nick scov the genial friendly Italian American gentleman is known Waterbuys been wagering baseball football horse trot for 30 who ever knew him. He verbal reflections are worthy Of notice such that of friend could not the odds Nick settled the issue with this apaooza you? You wanna EAT THE CHICKEN and GIVE
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-22
Hickey Can't Talk About Dodger Job

New York, Oct. 22.-(UP) = Whether Branch Hickey. general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals would take over the same job with the Brooklyn Dodgers remained a mystery today following his return to St. Louis from a visit here.
 1T very definitely have not done anything about the Brooklyn Dodg- CTS nor have seen or talked with anyone about the club" Hickey said last night as he boarded a plane for St. Louis.
 Asked whether negotiations to name him successor to Larry Mac Phail, had been broken of, Rickey replied:
 StilI Active
 T don't think any negotiations I have entered into all this year have been broken off.
 T don't know what I will do in the future and I don't know wheth- CT I will stay in baseball" he said. T hope .. well, I thought had a hope.
 "There are reasons why I cannot talk at this time," Hickey added. T am glad there is all this interest in baseball but I can add nothing to it."