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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-01-31

If given your choice of all available
royalties in -Sunburst area, which
tract would you buy
This question was submitted to a
group of royalty buyers in recent weeks
and we have had some interesting re-
plies. 1t was apparent that practically
everyone grasps the idea that the most
desired tract is that which has not been
exhausted There was a time when
everyone wanted to stay within the big
producing pools They wanted TO buy
producing royalties, even on farms
which we knew were past their peak
hat idea is fortunately displaced by
the desire to participate in new pools
For twenty years we have been study
ing the production of Montana oil prop
critics. We have seen S14,OOOOOO dis
tributed among royalty owners. We
know that the fortunes have gone to
those who have followed pretty we'll
defined rules in their royalty invest
ments BY the same token we know
that next year a million dollars will
be paid to Montana royalty owners. The
next year, probably more will be paid
and in greater sums in succeeding years
We have discovered that application
of simple and well-established rules is
more apt to make fortune than the
evolution of some complicated or spec
uative adventure.
When we see certain set of circum-
stances result once, twice or three times
in fortune for someone else. it is not
necessary for us to greatly alter those
methods or rules to make some finan-
cial gains for ourselves
In the early days Of Kelvin field-2O
years ago-it was all pretty wild gam
bic. Some of us were lucky enough to
come into possession of ROYALTY on the
Irving Baker farm, ahead of the drill.
Baker royalty has paid over 100000
and is still paying consistent income.
Others of us bought William Howling's
royalty about the same time That farm
has yielded over 81, 100000 and 121196
of the total has gone to the royalty
owners. many of whom paid very little
for their share.
With the whole field to choose from,
but with little to guide us, it was diff
ficult for lis to catch the vision of w
NJ. Fulton who went out into the I'M
promising "10-barrel district" of east
Kevin-Sunburst field to start drilling
He had a simple and well-established
rule in mind and he made it pay mil
lions. Just one of the farms so devel-
oped, the W. H. Byrne, has produced
over $2,6OO,OOOOO worth of oil and the
royalty investors who followed Fulton's
Judgment have shared more than $500
600 which this, royalty has paid.
During the depression, Kelvin field
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-01-31
CRUDE OIL STOCK REPoRT

Stocks of domestic and foreign crude
petroleum at the close Of the week
ended Jan. II totaled 246267,000 bar
rels, according to data reported to the
Bureau of Mines, United States depart
ment of the interior Compared with
the total Of the preceding week, this
represents an increase Of 1905, 900 bar
rels, comprising increases Of 1900 900
and $4,000 barrels in stocks of do
nestle and foreign crude, respectively
Heavy crude-oil stocks in California,
not included in the "refinable" crude
stocks, totaled 10,414.O00 barrels, an
increase of $4,000 barrels over the
amount on hand Jan. 10.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-01-31

ducing farms such as our members
designated as "today's choice" We can
do no better than to follow their lead.
Application of the new priorities
rules, together with the new spacing
arrangement, makes it clear that this
coming year will see much exploratory
drilling, Operators MUST do explor-
atory drilling if they are to get casing
and equipment In Kelvin and Cut Bank
fields they must drill one we'll to 40
acres. In the gas fields they must drill
one we'll to $40 acres.
The government encourages drilling
of wildcat or exploratory wells. Pref
erence Rating Order P-98 defines such
a we'll as "any we'll located not less
than TWO MILES from any we'll ca
pable of producing petroleum. That
opens a wide territory in outlying dis
tricts of Kevin-Sunburst. The program
for drilling one well to 40 acres is
clearly outlined to anyone who will
take map of the field and locate the
undrilled 40-acre tracts.
Instead of inhibiting opportunities,
the new rules will doubtless result in
increased opportunities, since the hope
of the government is to increase oil
reserves. For the present, there is no
need for intensive development of
present proven tracts, but should that
day of need come, the government will
give the order and operators will bring
to the surface whatever amounts of oil
are needed, to carry on the war.
The consensus of opinion among
most oil men with whom we have
talked is that there is going to be
SHORTAGE of oil rather than a sur
plus, in the not distant future. 1t takes
more drilling in Montana fields to keep
production up to market demands than
is possible under the well-to-the-
forty program. In view of the impend
ing attack on Pacific coast tankers,
throwing the burden of the Northwest
and Alaskan market on Montana out
put it seems probable that the govern
ment will shortly relax the restrictions
on drilling in northern Montana.
No matter how it comes, we know
pretty we'll where the drilling will cen
ter. We have a fair idea where to ex-
pect the increased production necessary
to care for Nhe established refinery
markets. Our current publication gives
the result of our recent survey" of
opinion, naming the farms designated
as preferred" and pointing out the
rules by which these farms came into
the place where they are scheduled to
succeed the Baker and Howling farms
of pioneer days.
This publication will be sent to those
who request it.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-01-31

cake, etc.
0b) If IN tavern, grab bottle
(c) IF in a movie, grab a blonde.
3. II you find an unexploded bomb,
always pick 1t up and shake 1.-THE
firing pin may be stuck.
4. If an incendiary bomb is found
burning IN a building throw water on
1t. You're unable to put it out any
how, so you might Just as wen have
a little fun.
S. Always get excited and holler
bloody murderl It will add to the fun
and confusion and scare the little
Riddles.
6. Drink heavily, eat onions, lin
burger cheese, ETC., before entering a
crowded air raid shelter. This win
make you very unpopular with the
crowd in your immediate vicinity, elm
mating any unnecessary discontinue
from people crowding too closely.
T. If you should be the victim Of a
direct bomb hit, don't go to pieces
lie still and you won't be noticed.
8. Knock the air raid wardens down
If they start to tell you what to do.
They always save the best seats for
themselves and their friends anyway.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-01-31
Fulton Hears From
Man Who Gaze Him
His First Oil Job

While w. M. Fulton is the dean"
Of Montana oil men in years OF
active service, he is still a young
ster in the oil business. He stin
carries on a correspondence with
the man who gave him his first
job in the oil business So years
ago. The man is Marion Barrett,
living in Harrison county, eastern
Ohio. He is now over 1O1 years old
and Fulton congratulated him on
the occasion Of his birthday.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-01-31
WE BELIEVE

WE
GFOPHYSICAL SURVEYS have been definitely proven in
disnensible in Montana Every wildcat should have both
Madison and Devonian "hghs" determined by reflection
seismoqraph before drilling begins.
DEEPER DRILLING is essential write the real history OF
the Montana oil industry The major source Of Mon
tana petroleum is in formations BELOW THE BIG
LIME Abandonment of wells at the Cat Greek horizon
is stupidity No we'll should be considered a completion
until il IS drilled into the Devonian
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Evening star., 1942-03-15
European Front

The bitter cold Of winter has gone
from Southern Russia But the Russians
continue their winter habit of victory. In
the south, in Eastern Ukraine, Marshal
Semeon Timoshenko is throwing 80 di-
visions at the Germans in a great effort
to drive them back His primary o5-
jectlves are Kharkov, Stshno and Tagan-
rog, along line which runs northwest
erly from the Sea Of Azov. The Timo-
shenko advance began in the middle Of
the week
Stockholm reported that the Germans
had been forced to dip anew into reserves
trained for their own spring push. Ger
many sought 100000 new troops from
Italy Hungary and Slovakia. Red Star,
voice Of the Soviet Army, declared that
the offensive this spring would be Rus
sian. not German, and described the Nazi
military machine was worn out from its
costly fall drive and the battering it
has received this winter
Apparently in an effort to break the
line of supply joining the United States
with Russia, the new German battleship
Tirpitz, on Monday made for a Russian
bound convoy in the far North Atlantic,
but British torpedo planes drove it back
into its port. Trondheim. The Tirpitz is
the sister ship of the Bismarck, sunk
by the British last spring.
Evening star., 1942-03-15
By James J. Srebis,
Wide World News.

Pearl Harbor, back beyond Munich. 1t
is not peculiar to America, but rather,
he explains, "a set of ideas common to
the democracies.
"Since Pearl Harbor," Mr.. Arnold con-
tinues, lighting his pipe in the middle
of every other sentence, most OF us are
looking for goat. Industry blames
labor, labor screams at industry and the
press criticizes Government agencies for
compromises with the anti-productive
ideas of both of those groups, and even
fostering such ideas in agriculture. Ac-
tually, such compromises were not due to
bad intentions, but largely because there
was no organized pressure the other way.
WAS industry unpatriotic? No; it
may have been selfish and short-sighted,
and I think it was, but it was nonethe-
less patriotic and went along about
as fast as the American people generally
wanted it to go. 1t did as much as 1t
could without changing its established
ideas or endangering its profit making
capacity for the future. For one thing,
the need was underestimated.
We've got to 60 beyond individuals
and organizations for our goat and find
the set of ideas which made high prices
at the expense of low turnover the dom
mating slogan Of business. 1t was fear
Of increasing productive capacity and
Evening star., 1942-03-15

agriculture that every increase Of pro-
ductive capacity deprives them of future
economic security. 1t is not misfor-
tune, it is a blessing that the greatest
expansion of our production is going to
occur in precisely those industries which
for the past 20 years have been the
greatest obstacles to full production.
mo monopoly can maintain its control
over prices in the face of surplus which
1t does not control. The full production
compelled by the war may. therefore,
solve our monopoly problem, provided
it does not fall into few hands with
power to shut it of. The evil Of monopoly
is not size, it is its power to hold back
production, thus to exploit unorganized
business, consumers and farmers.
"Our morale to win the military and
political war Is already high because
we see political future in hemisphere
solidarity and in the elimination of in
ternational gangsters. Every one sees
the constructive possibilities in new
political world.
"Our morale in industrial production
has not been high because we have talked
only of future collapse and depression.
We need a long-run economic vision to
inspire us to produce"
Evening star., 1942-03-15

Netherlands East Indies and elsewhere.
Gen Macarthur and his men have
caused the enemy to lose much time, his
most valuable commodity during his
blitzkrieg attacks on the insufflciently
defende islands Of the Southern Pa
cific. Furthermore, in the unprecedented
upsurge Of the little. yellow mans pres
tige Gen. Macarthur and his men have
done much to save the white mans
face In the Far East.
The loyalty shown by the Filipino SOL
dier-and that of the Philippine people
as a whole-proves that the American
brand Of imperialism pays the most in
the end. The United States has never
exploited Philippine resources against
the Filipino peoples will The United
States has not stopped at the policy of
keeping the Fiipinos well fed and we'll
protected from devastating tropical dis
eases
Unafraid of enlightening the subju-
gated natives. the United States estab-
ing the old imperial principle Of divide
and rule, the United States taught the
polyglot population to speak and write
one universal language, English, and
encouraged Filipinos to do away with
ancient tribal animosities and to develop
homogeneity and dynamic nationalism.
Taught Filipinos to Rule.
To the British, the Dutch and the
French, the other Western people who
held territories In the Far East, the
American policy toward the Filipinos
was quixotic. to say the least. But the
United States, a novice in colonial ad-
ministration, went on confidently with
its colonial experiment.
The United States took over the Phil
ippines not to rule, but to teach the Fill
ipinos how to rule themselves. The Fill
pinos were given more and more auton-
omy until in 1885 they were allowed to
elect their own President.
The Filipinos know that In resisting
the Japanese invasion, they are not
merely fighting for the sovereign power,
but for their own country and freedom.
They know that the Philippines belong
to them and not to . ruling people.
The Filipino soldier and the Filipino
Evening star., 1942-03-15

creating surplus which would disturb
business when calmer times returned
Industrial morale was not in step
with military needs. During the first 10
months Of the war We looked at the ne
cessity to expand production in steel and
aluminium and rubber, in drugs and
chemicals, as . man looks at the neces-
sity OF going to the Notwithstanding
that must be done eventually, but some
thing to be put OF as long as possible.
Large industry got control of patents
to shut out new producers and then join
ed in international cartels which kept out
foreign competition by establishing pro-
duction limits and apportioning world
markets. Germany was generally key
stone in such cartels, always willing to
let American business keep the American
market in exchange for free hand v1r-
tually everywhere except on the North
American continent"
World Markets Apportioned.
Mr.. Arnold has pretty complete pic
ture of that situation. His staff of spe-
cially trained lawyers and economists
has been digging into business files for
years, and particularly since the autumn
of 1899. At that time, investigating pat
ents in the optical business, they came
on contracts which they said strangled
productive capacity for military preci-
sion instruments, essential to the armed
forces of both this country and the ma
tons then fighting the Nazis.
From there, they proceeded to an
amazing series Of disclosures relating to
vital materials. Their information went
before grand juries, mostly in New York
and New jersey and most Of the con-
tracts-some Of which, they argued,
helped Germany maintain her place in
Latin America and finance her agents
throughout the Western Hemisphere
have been broken through consent de-
crees filed in Federal courts. Many
thousands Of dollars in fines have been
peid into the Treasury.
But Mr.. Arnold is not yet happy.
Even Pearl Harbor has not wiped out
the psychological handicap Of fear Of
production" he says "The feeling is
that war is q sort OF interlude in which
full production and new enterprise are
tolerated only because Of imminent
danger.
I'VE must get rid Of the fear which
now obsesses labof and industry and
Evening star., 1942-03-15
Australia, southeast OF New Guinea,

Of Australia, southeast Of New Guinea.
at the weeks end.
American flyers entered the battle over
New Guinea Wednesday. The War De-
partment announced that
American Ave American Army flying
Bombers fortresses shot down five
enemy planes and inflicted
heavy damage in raid on Japanese
held airdromes near Salamaua and Lac.
The American bombers were attacked by
a formation of Japanese fighting planes
during the raid on the harbor Of Lac,
where a direct hit was made on pier.
No American plane was damaged. The
Australian government said that in all
Is Japanese ships were put out Of action
of New Guinea, and the Japanese gov
ernment acknowledged that cruiser.
two destroyers and three requisitioned
ships were sunk or beached.
However. as at Java. the Japanese
carried out their landing operations in
spite Of the losses.
The assaults on New Guinea were made
possible by the collapse Of Java. Premier
Peter Gerbrsndy Of the Netherlands gov
ernment, in London, said that Japan
had a fleet Of IA cruisers, 55 destroyers,
IS submarines and five aircraft carriers
in Netherlands Indies waters when the
small Dutch and American fleets were
forced into battle to defend Java The
American and Dutch fleet was less than
a third the size of the invaders So IL is
clear why, in spite of the successes in
Evening star., 1942-03-15
Morley
Continued From Page BID

fight a war successfully without precise
objectives.
But when due allowance has been made
for these factors it still remains true that
the military record of the United Ma
tions, except in the Philippines, has fall
en- far below even the most modest ex-
pectations. And for this poor showing
the explanations must be sought in
deeper factors.
Perhaps it may be found in the indi-
cations that the entry Of Japan and
the United States into this struggle made
it a real World War, in a far deeper
sense than that in which the phrase Is
generally used.
In the past, in speaking of a World
War. we have really meant one in which
fighting among white nations, using ma
tive levies took place on the Seven Seas.
and in several of the continents. We
have not meant a war in which every
people and every race were really deeply
involved, and in which the eventual out
come might therefore be decided by fac
tors which the long dominant Western
powers would not be able to control.
Such a World War-the first in history
may now be upon us. If so the out
come in Europe, weary little continent
which has long held q disproportionately
large place in the minds of many Amer
leans, may IN time become relatively
small part d the problems ahead.
Evening star., 1942-03-15

week was issued by the Navy Department
In Washington. 1t reported that during
the week ending March United States
submarines sank q Japanese destroyer
leader and a large naval tanker and
damaged and put out of action four other
enemy craft in Far Eastern waters.
Exactly where these successes were reg
lstered the Navy Department did not say
A Japanese light cruiser which our Navy
missed shelled the port Of Cebu on the
island of Cebu in the Philippines. DAM
age was slight. Cebu is a long, skinny
island north of Mindanao.
Burma furnished it's share of bad news
Official war reports in London on Tues
day said British forces had
Jopsi in abandoned the southern tip
Burma of Burma to the Japanese
and withdrawn success
fully" into Central Burma to continue
their fight Side by side with our Chinese
Allies" So went Rangoon, the port on
the Irawaddy which until very recently
was the port for China and the Burma
road. The loss of Rangoon brings the
war much closer to India and threatens
our communications with our Chinese
Allies" Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell, in
command of the Burman- Indian war,
said. He explained why Lower Burma
was lost:
Much the same story applies in Burma
as in Malaga. We were not sufficiently
prepared. Reinforcements arrived too
late and, in the same way, they were
not trained sufficiently. Needless to say,
we shall continue to fight the enemy in
Burma to the utmost of our resources.
We are making every effort to open up
fresh lines of communications to COM
penSate for the loss of Rangoon. I think
there is little doubt the Japanese will
endeavor to push their advance into
Upper Burma to cut our link with China
and obtain bases from which India may
be attacked or threatened. That is the
immediate danger we have to meet"
From Rangoon to India is 600 miles,
across rough mountains. But on the
day Rangoon was lost the
lndion India Legislative Assembly
Crisis was told Bombay and Karachi
are in danger of attacks from
the sea. The situation in India hung
in delicate balance because Of the coun-
try's political restlessness. Indians want
freedom. On Wednesday Prime Minister
Churchill repeated Britains promise of
dominion status for India and announced
that Sir Stafford Cripps, his ranking
aide, would go there as an emissary to
seek assurance that a precise plan al
ready drafted by London would gain
general Indian acceptance
The previous day Mohammed Ali jim
nah, president of the All-India Moslem
League. declared in a cablegram to Mr..
Churchill that Moslem India would revolt
If the Prime Minister'S expected state
ment on India were detrimental to Mos
lem interests. particularly to the Mosem
plan to divide India into separate, self
Evening star., 1942-03-15
Far Eastern Front

For a month, Allied watchers of the
Asiatic-Paciic war have wondered where
Japan would turn in search of new
battlelelds if she gained the Indies.
Australia? India? Russia? Alaska?
The Indies are gained The japanese
now make it clear that Australia GER
tainly is on their books for conquest. A
week ago today two strong japanese
landing forces established themselves on
the shores of New Guinea at Lac, the
capital. and at Salamaua. A day later,
under the protection of heavy bombing
attacks and naval artillery, they landed
reinforcements, and on Tuesday they
put ashore more troops.
The moves into New Guinea we're
obviously part of a general plan to
put the japanese in
Australia place to attack Aus
Threatened tralia. The japanese go
about the task of prepa-
ration Systematically. They have estab-
lished themselves on the half-Dutch,
half-Portuguese island of Timor, which
is west of New Guinea and about 400
miles north Of Port Darwin, Australia
They have bases on New Britain Island,
200 miles east of Salamaua The occu-
patton of that city gives the japanese
command of the strait between New
Guinea and New Britain, the natural
gateway for a sea-borne assault on the
Australian east coast. Both Salamaua
and Lac were abandoned by Australian
ground forces before the japanese
landed, and all important installations
there were destroyed in pursuance of the
scorched-earth policy.
Salamaua is about 400 miles airline
northeast of Cape York, Australia, which
is at the end of the peninsula that juts
out of Australia's S northeast corner. Pert
Moresby, on New Guineas southern sic =
300 miles across Torres Strait from Cape
York was bombed by the japanese in
accompaniment to the landings on New
Guinea's northern side. Between Sala-
msua and Port Moresby lie a heavy
jungle and a range of mountains 5000
feet high. The full set of preliminary
steps necessary to move actually
against Australia can be expected to con-
sumo considerable amount of time.
On Tuesday the japanese made land