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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22
DRILL AHEAD
AT MIDWAY TEST
in WET" HOLE

Drilling Is proceeding at the Tar.
rant Wood deep test on Midway struc-
ture with wet hole" this wildcat well
registering as a war casualty. Failure
to get a water shutoff resulted from
the fact that the army took all avail
able cement in the oil fields and Tar
rant was able to get only 60 sacks
rather than the $50 sacks needed to
get a shutoff and protect two upper
formations IN which oil was found.
The amount Of cement was insuffi-
cient to get a shut off but the pipe
cannot be moved Drilling continues
in the Madison lime at 1880 feet and
the hole win be carried on down to
the Pat Trapp horizon, 225 feet below
the top of the lime, where q showing
Of Oil was found, south Of Conrad.
Seven-inch pipe may be run at that
horizon.
New Wen Checks High
Tarrant-DeSteffany NO. /, c NW3
NE3 30-27N-1W, north of the Wood
deep test, is down $50 feet after find
ing a 200,000-foot flow of gas at 815
feet and continues on down, probably
to the Sunburst sand, expected at 1875
feet. 1t is checking 30 feet higher,
structurally, than the Wood well and
higher than the Anderson well, mile
west, on the gas sand. The Anderson
is shut down on top of the Sunburst
sand, waiting for another string Of
casing. The first string was appropri-
ated by the army for use as water
line at Great Falls.
Half Moon Nears End
Tarrant is drilling q wildcat near
Kalispell on Half Moon structure,
SEA SEA 25-20N-21W, and has reached
q depth of 625 feet. Contracted total
depth is to be $50 feet and unless a
new contract is arranged, this drilling
machine will be moved to Midway to
development of the Sunburst
and area.
bingham Well at 800
Two other wildcats in northern
Montana are reported drilling, the
3iggs well on Sage Creek at 278O feet
md the bingham Fink well,
Ne SEA NW4 25-33-1OE, near Hing
lam, at 800 feet.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22

FOuOWlng is the telegram forwarded
by the board to Walter F. George
chairman:
Re. hearing on depletion for petrole-
UNI and other mineral industries COM
mencing Aug. 10. Oil Conservation
Board Of Montana, state government
oil regulatory agency, respectfully
recommends and urges that your hon
orable committee disapprove and re-
Ject any proposed amendments of, OF
repeal Of, existing laws or regulations
applicable to depletion allowances and
ALLEGATION intangible drilling and other
mining costs to operating expense be-
cause we are convinced that reversal
OF long established governmental poll
cles respecting said matters would
have such immediate disastrous eff
fects upon mining industries and in
veStors, especially small ones, that loss
OF income tax revenue rather than
gain may be expected as well as mate
rial impairment of production crude
OIL and other minerals vitality needed
during present war emergency.
We have personally labored in pc
troleum industries many years and
know said policies as to oil and gas
mining and production are sound and
nave been most encouraging and de-
cisive factors in discovery and devel-
opment Of crude oil resources to our
present fortunate position of indie
pendence as to sufficient supplies to
meet current requirements of our
country and its allies.
With all due respect to Secretary
Morgenthau and assistants, we resent
and deny charge that owners of oil
wells and mines are highly privileged
group as to income exemptions and
confident it cannot be sustained as to
great majority Of operators. No doubt
there are impressive examples of sing
ularly fortunate individuals or compa-
MES available for your consideration
but to offset each such case we be-
heve a hundred could be presented
showing losses or very limited profits
from investment risks and efforts in
volved. Survey we have made this
month Of situation Of Montana oil
producers indicates out Of total of 2O5
active in state more than half could
not continue operating without benefit
Of depletion allowance against their
small gross income.
Comparative figures for older pro-
ducing states where small gtripper well
properties and operators are more
numerous undoubtedly afford convinc-
ing proof Of dangers inherent In max
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22
Higher Prices
For Black Crude
rs Recommended

Montana had no official represen-
tation at the hearing in Casper this
week of the senate public lands sub
committee which came west at the
instigation of Senator O'A1ahoney of
Wyoming in the interest of increased
activity on oil lands of the public
domain.
The committee was told that in
creased crude oil prices. especially on
black oils, and revision of federal roy
alties to a flat 12A percent, like fee
lands, would provide stimulus for more
prospecting and development of fed
eral lands.
Price increases were urged partic-
ularly for heavy grades Of crude which,
Wyoming witnesses insisted, were
frozen at abnormally low levels on
Oct. / of last year. The black oils are
going chiefly to Independent refin-
ers, while the light oils go, for the
most part, to the major refiners.
The committee viii not visit Mon
tana but will proceed to New Mexico.
Read the Classified Advertisements.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22

ing drastic changes in taxation poll
cies affecting all mining industries
such as recommended by treasury Of
ficials.
We realize you must impose and in
crease tax rates to provide necessary
revenue and we believe majority of
citizens in mining industries will
cheerfully bear their shares of addi-
tional burdens, but think it neither
just nor advisable to cancel rewards
for past explorations and discoveries
represented by depletion allowances
under present laws or to deny such
rewards in future to workers and in
vestors who will risk their money and
efforts in prospecting for and devel-
oping deposits of oil and other min
erals to insure adequacy of supplies
for war and industrial purposes.
Respectfully yours,
L. j. YEALY,
Vice Chairman.
Oil Conservation Board of Montana
A. B. Cobb, chairman
M. r. Wagner, Casper T. Oien,
Dean Chaffin, members.
r. P. jackson, secretary.
-S>-
The lumber in two average desks
would provide enough material to
build a trailer for war worker.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22
Higher Wage Is
Asked by Unions
In Copper Mines

Wage increases ranging from 81 X
$155 a day in 81 mines, mills anc
smelters producing non-ferrous metal:
are being considered by the National
War Labor Board in Washington
D. c., this week The hearings started
Wednesday.
Extension of the war production
drive to copper companies, already in
stituted in Montana, is being carried
into Utah and Nevada and next month
it will be extended into Arizona and
other southwestern states. Agreement
between the companies and the union
as to effective dates of wage increases,
If any, has been secured. American
Smelling g. Refining Co. is the prin-
cipal Montana company named among
the 81.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22
TerGcO Holds
Up Next Well in
DHDHuer Area

The Texas Co. this week halted It's
development program Of Dupuyer dis
trict, after abandoning its Kingsbury
No. / wildcat in c SEA SCI 8-29N-7W
and Manning & Martin, rotary con-
tractors, are moving their rig back to
Wyoming. Texas Co. planned to drill
two additional wells, without regard
to the outcome Of the first. The de-
cision of the company is said to be
based somewhat on the plans Of other
companies which plan to drill In the
district, which wells will give further
geological data on which to base
Texaco's next location. This company
has some 10000 acres under lease in
the district.
1t is reported that A. B. Cobb is
moving his rotary rig from the Twin
Rivers fold northwest of Cut Bank to
his block of leases near -Four Horns
lake, northwest of Dupuyer, and Of the
Texaco lease block. Cobb is under OBJ
legation to drill under terms of a lease
from the Blackfeet Indian tribal coun-
Gil.
Another pending test which will
serve to indicate the location of the
south extension of the Cut Bank sand
stone, is the Fulton well on the Hagan
nose, southwest of the Tribal pool of
Cut Bank proper. The Fulton well has
been held up pending issuance of
tribal leases necessary to complete his
block.
1t is reported that Carter Oil Co.
and others are putting geological par
ties in the Dupuyer district but this
is without confirmation. Some 10000
acres have been leased south of the
Texaco block, extending southwark
from the town Of Dupuyer.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22
BOgie Returns
To His Work In
Card Enqineerinq

HELENA-Howard ". Bogie, state
director of the production division of
the war production board, has an
nounced his resignation from the po-
sition.
L. A. Miller, regional director of the
production division, accepted the res
ignation.
Bogie said he was loaned to the
WPB last November by the Card En-
cheering Works of Helena and it has
now become necessary for him to take
over his former position due to the
shortage of men.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22
IN OUR
MAIL BAG

Montana Oil Journal,
Great Falls, Montana
AS matter of appreciation of what
the Journal is, and has done for the
oil fraternity of the Inland Empire in
calling to the attention of the public
the magnificent opportunities preva-
lent and the prospects and develop
ments of It's natural resources, may I,
or rather we, contribute a few lines,
exemplifying our interest in, and de-
velopment of one of the many natural
resources of neutrality-suspicious..
Since 1910, our jurisdiction has, from
year to year, been mentioned by many
biologists and noted writer's, as an
"Oil Structure" because of earmarks
of an "undeniable feature" Two years
ago, a Mr.. c. E. Biggs solidified, by
lease, a purposed structure. The Sage
Greek Oil Co. was organized upon q
contract from Biggs, and the project
financed by our local farmers and a
contract was executed to drill to a
depth Of $500 feet. This accomplished,
with wonderful gas showings, the
drilling contract terminated
r. F. Smith, j. c.. Gulick, both Of
Joplin, Mont, local farmers, and
Oscar Sorenson Of bingham, Mont,
Ford dealer and garage owner, re-
financed, upon proper assignments
from the Sage Greek Oil Co., resumed
operations, and viii prosecute drilling
to reasonable depth for production,
since we feel it so vital to freedoms
existence"
We have had occasion to meet many
men of business within the fraternity,
all Of whom have been very pleasant
and inspiring. We thank them through
these columns for every courtesy and
thank the Journal
We are a closed trusteeship at pres
ent and cheerfully, win, lose, or draw.
More news from this front from
time to time.
Very respectfully yours,
r. F. SMITH
j. G. GULICK
OSCAR SORENSON
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22
HURT IN FALL FROM TANK

HURT IN FALL FROM TANK
A fall from a ladder at a Texas Co.
fuel tank at the Great Falls airport
on Gore hill resulted in compound
fracture of both wrists for George G..
Gregoire, local Texaco manager. He
fell about IL feet when the ladder on
which he was standing slipped. He is
at his home, 1921 First Ave. No, and
doctors say it will be several weeks
before he is able to work again. His
right wrist is broken in two places
and his left wrist in four places.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22
Lack of Miners
Closes Gold Mine
At Ruby GuLch

MALTA-The Ruby Gulch mine at
zortman, a leading gold producer in
the state for six years, was shut down
last week due to labor shortage, Of
ficers of the company announced.
The mine was started in 1886 by the
late Charles Whitcomb after having
been closed for an extended period.
Suspension Of operations follows clos
ing Of the Little Ben mine near Lam
dusky earlier in the season.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22

NEW YORK-Directors of Sunshine
Mining Co. declared a dividend of Is
cents a share on the capital stock, a
reduction Of 10 cents a share from the
amount previously paid. The dividend
is payable Sept. 80 to stock of record
tug. 20.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22
DAKOTA OIL NEWS

Thickening formations have in
creased the necessary drilling depth Of
Carter Oil Co.'S deep test northwest of
Bismarck, N. D., by about 1000 feet.
No showings Of oil or gas have been
found in 1900 feet Of drilling. Nearly
all the formations have shown a
thickening, particularly in the Nissis-
sippian lines. The Big Snowy lines
of upper Mississippian age were pres
ent but carried no oil as at Baker,
Glendive. The Madison lime likewise
showed no oil. Drilling win continue
to the Ordovician series which showed
much of the oil found in Carriers deep
test south of Baker, Mont.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22

American troops are being equipped
because of that radio-p photograph Mr..
and Mrs. America didn't buy this year.
The steel in an average radio-phono-
graph would make close to a dozen
bayonetS.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22
Half of Montana Operators
Unable to Survive Depletion
Allowance Ban, Ayers Board

opposition
treasury eliminate
of
ing OF the Senate Finance D. c.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22

Carter Oil Co. now has a seismo-
graph crew working in Grant county,
North Dakota, northeast of Lennon,
near the Montana border.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22

Hot Springs, S. D., Evening Star
states that Continental Oil Co. has
given contract to Manning g. Mar
tin, rotary drillers, to drill a test 10
miles east of Provo, to depth of 1900
feet
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22
LEAD PRODUCTION is UP

Lead miners are doing their bit in
winning the war. Current lead produc-
ton is in excess of demand and the
monthly lead pool of Is percent of
each producers output, set aside for
WPB ALLEGATION, has been revoked.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22

Despite the discouraging situation at
the Carter well there are still rumors
of other tests planned. Magnolia is
said to plan well in North Dakota,
on the east side of the Missouri river,
north of Bismarck and east of the
Carter well
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22

John Arp has started a well in Sec.
19-3N-7E, in Meade county, South
Dakota.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22

REOPEN CARBONATE GROUP
Glacier Mining Trust is reopening
its Carbonate group of claims in the
Silver Camp district of Lewis and
Clark county, near Wilborn.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-22

Where it passes Cape Hatteras, N. c.,
the Gulf stream is $50 miles wide.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
Your Monitor-Leader

In todoys edtion-its first under the masthead
of The Daily Monitor-Leoder-thi newspaper is tok-
ing monentous step which, its publishers ore sure,
will result in more complete, we'll rounded and
proper service to its thousands Of Mocomb county
readers.
The stoff of the Montor-Leoder we'll realize the
responsibility that is theirs in publication Of this
great areas only daily newspaper. 1t is not to be
taken lightly ond they will not treot it The public
entitled to- ond shall receive, clear weIlwrtten ond
impartial coveroge Of oil the news that is fit to print.
The editorial columns Of the Montor-leoder
will always guard against ovorice and improper con-
duct It's editors will to the best Of their obiIity re-
ton oil Of the constructive tocors which we're built in
to the lone-estoblshed Daily leoder ond combine
them with the veor, cIeor-siehtedness and deoIism
Of The Daily Monitor to form for you the best possible
news medium in their power to produce
This newspaper will now exert its every effort
toword retonng the respect and confidence Of those
whose support have made this merger possible.
The Montor-Leoder is your newspaper
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
Fatal.
10 Child. 8
Gross Fire
Ignitss Dress

Janice Hilbert, 8, of 102
Gibbs, died at $40 am. today in
ST. Joseph's hospital of burns
she sustained Thursday when a
grass fire touched off her
clothes.
The fire, burning in an empty
lot at the foot of Gibbs, ignited
the girls skirt. BY the time G..
l.. latham, a passerby, threw his
coat around the girl her clothes
were completely ignited.
latham rushed the girl to ST,
Joseph's hospital at 1890 Thurs
day where she was given treat.
ment by DR.. Joseph j. Reichman.
The girl died Of first, second and
third degree burns which COW
cred virtually her entire body,
DR.. Reichman said.
A report that several children
playing nearby did not tell the
girl she was afire could not be
confirmed tody. Janice, accord
ing TO Coroner Howard V.
Groesbeck, Jr., said II could
have rolled on the ground had
known"
Janice, a third grade student
at ST. Louis school, was the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
HILBERT. Besides her parents,
three brothers, William, Russell
and Thomas, sister, Joyce. and
his grandparents, Nj. and Mrs.
William Thomas, Of Mount Glenn
ems, survive her.
The body will lie at the Thorn
as home, 90 Gibbs, after 400
am. Saturday. Services will be
held at $50 am. Monday from
90 Gibbs and at 900 from ST.
Louis Catholic church. Burial
will be in st. Peters Catholic
Cemetery under the direction of
LaCroiX and Groesbeck.
Prayers will be said Sunday
night at 800 o'clock at the
Thomas home.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
Back England,
Leonard Says
Defense Commond1r
Speoks Before 900

England Is our ally and ~
should back her to the limit"
Capt. Donald S. Leonard, state
commander OF the State Civilian
Defense Council, told 700 teach
ers attending the County
School Institute Thursday after
noon in the auditorium Of thu
Mount Clemens High school.
An estimated 200 others join
ed the teachers in hearing Capt.
Leonard describe his trip 10
England. While there no OBJ
served the Civilian Defenso
set-up as he of six observers
from tn United States.
WONDERFUL MORALE
He described British morale
as wonderful while obeervin1
frequent bombings have kmttA
ted the people closer .toustAnR,
Blackouts are not eomEloeu -
England, he said. AMI suDn1s,
goes ON a. usual" ss
He urged his listsnefs - -
count virtually al ruGnq9e
During the sQpf11n ~
the teachers neaf1 CT
ton Chief Guy L. - = -
scribe the part thgy ~ .!
the sugar rationjae reo0
The balance. 6 ~ ~
session was 1svoto4 1 =
meetings. III "a
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
Good Friday Brings
Halt 10 Business
Many Stores to Stoy
Open This Evening

Business halted in Mount
Clemens this afternoon as hun
dreds bowed their heads at SOL
emn services concentrating
the crucifixion Of Jesus.
Traditional Good Friday rites
brought throngs to virtually al
Mount Clemens churches. Bust
ness resumed again nj three
o clock.
Announcement Of Easter serv-
ices will be mace in The Daily
Monitor-Leader tomorrow.
Meanwhi.e. many merchants
revealed they will keep th.ir
stores open until nine o'clock
tonight.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
Queen Speaks

LONDON, April - (A) -
Queen Wilhelmina told the peo-
pIe of the Nazi-Occupied Meth
erIands over Radio Orange to-
night that Dutch East Indies
forces which escaped from ia
va and Sumatra would be re-
armed and formed into units
"to take part again in the fight
at the earliest opportunity
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
Air 5quadrons
Pound Frame,
HeI|'s Corner
Deoth- DeoIin9
Bombers Range
'Home-Front'

LONDON, April 3 Up In
the fiercest exchange of air
blows in many months, Raj
planes inflicted heavy damage
on the MatfOrd truck plant out
side Paris, raided docks at lie
Havre and carried out fighter
sweeps over Nazi-held airfields
last night while the Germans
countered with smashing blows
at English south coast points.
The Air Ministry said bomb
err pilots returning from the
Matford raid reported they had
carried out an effective bonn
bardment of "this important
objective" - one of the key
French industrial plants in the
Air Mjnistry's master plan for
demolishing Nazi and Nazi-
controlled war industries,
BUT TWO LOST
Only two British planes were
lost, the Ministry said.
The G. m n communique
identified their detectives as
Dover and Portland. Coastal OBJ
servers said the Nazi raiders
dared the British balloon bar
rage by coming in at extreme
ly low levels, then climbing
sharply after releasing their
bombs.
The fry os the .Spoonlit Ger
man assault. sudden and brief
See RAIDS-rage 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-03
laps Crack
Right Wing Of
British Lines
Americans Mop-Up
Jop Units in
Bottom Area
BY ROGER ID. GREENE
Associated Press War Eatlse


Grave new reverses marked
the Allied defense of Burma to-
day as British headquarters
acknowledged that the japanese
had cracked the right wing an
Choir at Prone, key to Burma's
vital oil fields, but the news
from the Philippines was more
heartening.
On long-besieged Bataan PEN
insula, Lieut.. Gen. Jonathan M.
Wainright's American and Fill.
pino fighters were officially re-
ported hopping up pocketed
japanese units which yesterday
burst through the main line In
two heavy assaults.
The war department said ~
considerable number" Of Jap
anese got through, only to b
trapped as u. s. troops counter
attacked fiercely and sealed TIN
gap.
sAAAND w 1$xAAN NA
With Japanese invasion threat
ening from next-door BURNS,
leaders of midas millions still
wrangled bitterly over the Brit
ish proposal to grant India SELF
rule after the war in returrhfpr
fighting support.
Chinese Generalissimo Chiana
Kai-Shek, advocate OF war ool-
liberation between China's 4Oo.-
100000 and midas 800, OO0, 600
was said to have INTERVIEWED In
the negotiations, urging India
to accept the British proposals.
Chang was said to have sent
special messenger to convey
his views to Pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru. powerful former presi-
dent of the All-India Conxreas
party.
In Burma, the situation wa1
critical at both ends of the Brit
ish-Chinese defense line guard
ing the Burmese oil fields, Z ma
jor source of China's Rasolina
and oil supplies, and the rod
to Mandalay.
The British acknowledged thaf
they had been forced to retire
to the north of Prone. less than
100 miles south of the Yenanst
yaung oil fields, falling back an
er night-long fighting in the jun
giles south of the Irrawaddy riv-
err town.
DENY LANDINGS
However, British headquarters
denied reports of q landing BY
Japanese sea-borne troops 1t tho
west Burma port of Akyab, on
ly 100 miles from the Indian
frontier, which would have been
an even greater setback.
See WARFARE