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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
Completion Is
Due Today on
MidUGV Test

Completion of a second well in the
Sunburst sand horizon in Midway field
is expected during the next "a hours
as Tarrant-DeSteffen No. l, G NW3
NE3 3O-28N-1W is. drilling at 1890, ex-
pecting to get the Sunburst sand at
IT'S to 1725. This we'll is northwest Of
the Tarrant-Wood deep test and is be-
ing drilled to determine the extent of
the Sunburst sand production revealed
by the Wood well
The Wood well is shut down at 2085
feet, waiting for a string of casing to
shut off water at the top of the Madi-
son lime The Tarrant-Anderson No. /,
c NE4 SCI 26-28N-2W, another Sun
burst sand test well, is likewise shut
down waiting for casing. A string of
pipe has been secured for the De-
Steffany and is now being hauled to
location.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
new TEST Is
STARTING ON
CONRAD BUTTE

EDGEMONT-T first oil test by q
major oil company in Fall River
county is expected to get under way
within the next few days on the Flint
Hill structure, near the Robert Gun
ranch seven miles east Of here.
A drilling derrick has been erected
on the site by Martin g. Manning,
Casper, Wyo., driIlers, for Continental
Oil Co.
The steel derrick is visible from the
Hot Springs -Edgemont highway. A
new road has been built by the COM
pany to the drilling site in Sec. 1888.
This is the first drilling operation
in Fall River county by a major oil
company, and oil men say 1t will be
the first real test of the Chilson anti
cline, which is considered by many
biologists as the. best oil structure in
this area.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12

4 ManpoWer commissioner PAU v.
McNutt designated as critical labor
areas" the states Of Arizona, Colorado,
Idaho, Montana, Utah, California, Ne
vada, Oregon, Washington, New Mex
leo and Texas. The 100000 workers
affected are engaged in logging and
numbering and in the mining, smelling,
milling and refining Of nonferrous
metals such as copper, aluminium, zinc,
magnesium, lead, mercury, manganese,
tungsten and molybdenum.
A meeting Of labor and manage
ment representatives will be called In
three months to study the success of
the order.
The conference, McNutt said, would
recommend such notifications or al
terations as may be required" He es-
timated that the order will not inter-
fere with union activities or collective
bargaining agreements.
The order does not prohibit men
from moving from job to job within
the same plant. Employers viii not
release workers except in cases Of
gross misconduct, without the approx
al Of designated representatives Of the
United States employment service"
Workers may obtain Certificates Of
separation" only on these grounds:
When they are able to perform high
er skilled work
When their work Is not fun time.
When the distance from residences
to Job is aunreasonably great"
When they have compelling personal
reasons for wishing to change.
When they are working at wages
or under working conditions substan-
TALLY less favorable than those pre-
vailing in the community for the kind
of work on which they are employed"
McNutt said labor shortages had
produced these results:
Lumber output is expected to be
cut by 100000 to 1000, 900 board feet;
log inventories are the lowest in five
years.
Copper production in June and July
vas 1000 tons below previous levels.
Aluminium production in one area
vas cut 100000 pounds
The order Is expected to be enforced
" cooperation of the army, navy and
maritime commission using their con-
rol over contractors.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
DIR. FULTON TO
JOIN STAFF OF
MINES SCHOOL

BUTTE-"Am in good health anC
anxious to go to work." was the reply
when President Francis A. Thomson
Of Montana School Of Mines wired DR.
Charles H. Fulton, distinguished re-
tired teacher of metallurgy, TO inquire
as to his availability during the emer-
gency. AS a result, DR.. Fulton viii
shortly arrive in Butte to take the
place, for the duration, Of Prof. John
p. Spielman, head of the metallurgy
department who is now an officer in
the United States air corps.
DR.. Fulton, who was graduated from
Columbia School Of Mines in 1897, has
had a long and notably successful
teaching career in the field Of metal
lurgy and ore treatment. He has been
connected with the faculties of Co
lumbia, Wyoming, South Dakota
School of Mines, Case School of Ap-
piled Science, and Missouri School Of
Mines and Metallurgy of which latter
institution he was director from 1920
to 1887. Upon retirement from the
at Missouri, he was ap-
pointed research professor of metal
lurgy.
DR.. Fulton is the author of two well
known textbooks, Manual Of Fire AS
saying" and Principles Of Metal
lurgy," both Of which are widely used
IN American mining colleges.
I'VE feel ourselves fortunate to have
so eminent and experienced
a man to head our work In metallurgy
during the war period, said President
Thomson. Il have known and admired
Dr.. Fulton for IS to 30 years, and we
appreciate his willingness to leave his
retirement in order that
our students may sit at the feet of so
notable a teacher Of the metallurgic
art"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
Trust LOIL, Bites
At MOLybdenuna

NEW YORK-The justice depart
ment filed complaint charging vio-
lation Of the Sherman antitrust act
and entered consent decree in fed
eral court against five principal
American producers and distributors
Of molybdenum, steel hardening al
10y vitality important to armor plate.
Defendants were Climax Aolybde-
mum Co., Greene Cananea Copper Co,
Anaconda Sales Co., Molybdenum Corp.
of America and Kennecott Sales Corp,
all of New York.
The decree. signed by Federal Judge
Vincent L. Leibell, enjoined the de-
PENDANTS from dividing up world mar
kets and fixing resale prices.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
NELSON HOPES
TO HELP MINES
INCREASE OUTPUT

DR.. Wilbur A. Nelson, chief Of the
mining branch Of WPB, has been APP
pointed special assistant to the deputy
director general for industry oper-
atoms, it was announced by A. l. Hem
derson, the deputy director. DR. Nelson
will deal with production and related
problems Of mines, mills and shelters
DR.. Nelson win develop 8 program
to obtain maximum mining production.
Among other things, he will:
l. Act as a clearing house for solu-
ton of problems relating TO prices of
minerals, particularly as prices affect
production.
2. Handle tax matters as they affect
mining production with the proper
government authorities, with view to
prevent impairment Of mineral pro-
duction because of taxation which may
inhibit maximum mine operation.
3. Develop a morale program to at
tack the broad problems of miner abb
senteeism. At the present time pro-
duction in many mines is suffering
from absenteeism in one form or an
other
4. Handle development Of access
roads to all mines.
5. Undertake any overall problems of
mine operations which are holding
back production.
Current pressure for minerals pro-
duction," said DR.. Nelson, "is bringing
serious problems to mine operators.
One result of this operating under
forced draft is the mines inability to
carry forward the necessary develop
want vrorr We ara i0iro S0mptbiOQ
about this, so that future production
may not break down when all ready
developed deposits are mined"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
Wants Financing
Of Prospecting
With u. S. Funds

WASHINGTON-Rep Randolph, D.
w. Va, has advanced a program fol-
government financing of private in
dustry in a search for strategic min
erals in western states.
He told the house, in an extension
of remarks in the Congressional Rec
ord, that the cost Of such a program
would be $26,s65,OO0.
This work." he said, should start
Immediately"
His studies of the problem indicated
he explained, that more information
was desirable on disable reserves OF
vanadium, zinc and minor materials.
Search also should be expanded, he
added, for manganese, tin, chromium,
tungsten and other ores.
Altogether, he listed 10 strategic and
critical minerals in 81 states as wi
tally needed to win this war"
Among these, and the states in
which they had been found by geol-
ogists, he listed:
Cadmium "a zinc by-product), pro-
duced in plants in Colorado Montana,
Idaho, Utah; observation-disclosures,
oregon, Montana, Washington, Wyo-
ming and Kenai peninsula in Alaska.
The West Virginian's proposal called
for the forming of private corpora
ton, financed through congressional
to bore 1000 holes 5000
feet in depth, by core drilling, as a
means of scientifically prospecting
for these raw materials.
The work would be done under nego-
lated contract in places recommended
oy the geological survey and state
biologists. All discoveries would be
claimed in the governments behalf.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12

Protecting motors against lightning
requires more equipment than is re-
quired for transformer protection
Why2
For purposes OF illustration let us
compare a 2.400-volt transformer and
2,200-volt induction motor. A trans
former performs its function without
moving parts and hence 1t can be inn
mersed in transformer oil AS oil is q
good insulator, more than 10000 volts
is required to jump across a one-tenth
inch gap or approximately 10 times as
much voltage as Is required to jump
across this same size gap when it IS
In air.
Furthermore, the high voltage coils
in transformer may be grouped to-
gether and adequately insulated as
the space is available. The insulation
of the high voltage coils in a 2.4OO-
volt transformer Is tested with volt
age of 10000. Even the 120/240 or 400
volt secondary insulation of these
transformers can Withstand 10000
volts. These are routine test voltages
and, of course, the breakdown voltages
are much higher.
The insulation of motor operates
in air. The winSIng of a motor is
placed in slots Of limited size distrib-
uted around the entire stator, and
each coil must be insulated for the
full test voltage It would be possible
to build motor with larger slots to
permit using more insulation, but the
motor would be larger, more costly,
and less efficient to operate. There
fore, the insulation Of 2,2O0-volt mo-
tor is tested to Withstand $500 volts
as compared to 10000 volts for the
of 2,4O0-volt transformer.
The insulation of a transformer is
at peak efficiency so long
IS moisture and sludge is kept out |
If the oil. But the Insulation Of a
motor must stand much greater abuse
because of moisture, dirt, bearing oil,
abrasives, and other foreign matter
Usually present in the surrounding air
hat impair insulating qualities.
Because motors have less insulation
han transformers, ordinary lightning
rresters will not protect them against
lightning strokes of any appreciable
magnitude. Next week, the required
protective equipment will be discussed.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
GOrhGna Chalet Not
Burned. SnuS seP. 4"

NO, it wasn't the Gorham chalet at
Silver Gate that burned. 1t was the
Silver Gate inn, next door. The Cor
ham chalet is intact.
Such is the word from P. r. Cor
ham, pioneer Sunburst merchant. to
Montana mining and oil men, many
of whom were lamenting the loss Of
the chalet at the Cooke City entrance
to Yellowstone park, The 1910 mining
association convention was held at the
Gorham chalet.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
CRUDE OIL STOCK REPoRT

Stocks Of domestic and foreign crude
petroleum at the close of the week
ended Aug. % totaled 249,OO7 900 bar
rels, according to data reported to the
Bureau of Mines United States de-
partment of the interior. Compared
with the total of the preceding week,
this represents an increase of 2,7O0. 900
barrels, comprising increases of 1884,
600 and 10000 barrels in stocks of
domestic and foreign crude, respec-
lively. Heavy crude-oil stocks in Cali
fornia, not included in the 'refinable"
crude stocks, totaled 10,673,0OO barrels,
gain of 21,0O0 barrels over the
amount on hand Aug. %.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
Modified Gas
RGtiOning Plan
Recommended
Continued from Page One)

CONTINUED from Page One)
yearly by use of recently developed
apparatus, these plants also to be
erected near grain producing areas
and at places where water transpor-
tation Is available.
Butadiene is one of the basic ma
terials from which synthetic rubber
can be obtained and the committee
figures that increasing its output by
100000 tons through refinery CONVEX
sion would make available an addi-
tional 10000 to $4,000 tons Of the syn
thetic rubber itself in 1913.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
BGurite Claims
In Dillon Area

DLLON-E. H. Williams, Dillon
prospector, recently announced the To-
cation Of several claims In Frying Pan
basin which contain ore assaying as
high as 20 percent bauxite, the vital
war material from which aluminium
is made.
Samples of the ore have been sent
to the Bureau Of Mines in Washing
ton. The claims we're filed by williams,
W. E. Stinson and Harry Brown.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
NeU Tax LGLU
Would FAVOR All
Strategic Mines

WASHINGTON-In an effort to en-
courage. minerals needed in the ma
TONS war effort, the senate finance
committee voted to exempt from the
excess profits tax the profits derived
from mining eight vital ores.
They were manganese, tungsten,
chromite, antimony, quicksilver, plati-
mum, tin and vanadium.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
MONTANAN ASSIGNED

HELENA william Manning of Hell
ena, regional technical adviser to the
mining branch of the war production
board, win leave next week to inveSti-
gate the black sands of Oregon beach
es to determine whether they are
adapted to commercial recovery of
chromite and other vital war minerals.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
RAILS RECEIVE $3.50, 5O3,177
REVENUE FROM AUTOMOBILES

Railroads obtained $3.50 ,503,l III from
automotive freight in 1941, an amount
sufficient to pay twice over the prop
erty taxes of all the railroads in the
country, figures compiled by the Au-
tomobile Manufacturers association
disclose. One out of every seven car
load shipments of rail freight in 1941
was generated by automotive trans
portation.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
Phosphate Rock
Nay Be Source
OF VGnGdiEEHra Metal

BUFFALO. N. Y.-Discovery In fer
tilizer Of a new source Of vanadium.
the metal which hardens steel and
armor and Is war shortage, was an
nounced to the American Chemical
society recently.
The new source promises to make
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12

the United States largely independent
Of foreign imports of vanadium, more
than half Of which now comes from
the southern hemisphere.
The vanadium discovery opens one
of the worlds largest untapped reser-
voirs Of that metal in Idaho This
reservoir is nearly six billion tons Of
phosphate rock.
: The new method RECEIVERS the price
less war mineral from the refuse left
after fertilizer has been made from
phosphate.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
Oil Runs Lou
In First Week
Of September

on production dropped of in Mon
tana during the week ended Sept. 6,
according to oil run figures of the Oil
Conservation Board, dropping HOO
Bbls. below the daily average for Au-
gust Runs by fields:
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
ALBERTA OIL NEWS

Gulf Research and Development
Corp. is completing it's seasons work,
having made extensive surveys in
southern Alberta. w. H Rulen has
been in charge of geophysical and
geological work.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12

The total wealth of the United
States amounts to $294, 4S1 ,OOO, 900, &C
cording to a report of the National In
dustrial Conference board.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12

Montana production of phosphate
mines during the first six months
of 1912 was 1896 long tons as
compared with 30,91e long tons
during the first half Of 1941. The
rock was valued at the mines at
s130,880 or an average Of 1915 per
ton as compared with 1924 a ton
in 1871. Most Of the Montana phos-
phate is shipped to British Column
bia.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
Plenty out late IS Order
Freezing" Miners to Jobs
'PlentY-but % 20. :

This is the Montana adaptation Of a the
h war industries has been pretty wen concluded and the who left
are quite likely TO Montana
Inc order provides that workers production
elsewhere
from the y. 8
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12

Norcanols Oil g. Gas Ltd, is drill
ing a deep test in southwestern Sas-
katchewan, not far from the Montana
border, in what may be the northwest
extension Of the Williston basin.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12

Japanese beetles prefer yellow; traps
painted that color captured so percent
more beetles than standard green and
white traps.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12

Gases are composed of molecules
moving rapidly through the empty
spaces lying between them.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12
SUNSHINE FILES HERE

SOANSANAINE TILES HERE
HELENA-The Sunshine Mining Co
of Yakima, Wash, has filed articles
of incorporation here, naming A. T.
Hubbard Of Helena as its Montana
representative.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12

Drilling is in progress at the joint
test of National Pete and Vulcan Oils
at Erickson coulee, north of the
Sweetgrass Hills and close to the Mon
tana boundary. Location is in Sec. s.
1-12W4, not far from the Imperial
well which had substantial oil show
ings at depth. The companies have a
lease block Of 1890 acres.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12

Standard Of British Columbia aban-
doned its Eyremore-C. P. r. well south
Of the Princess field, in eastern Al
berta, at depth of 1850 feet.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12

HUSTON IN CUT BANK
George o. Huston, formerly cashier
of the Montana Bank 81 Trust Co. at
Great Falls, has taken charge Of the
Bank of Glacier County at Cut Bank.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12

Shell Exploration Co. is starting q
well in Jumping Pond field, not far
from Turner Valley.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12

Imperial-Mongram No. well, be-
tween Brooks and Medicine Hat, is
now starting.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-12

Standard Of British Columbia is
putting its new Taber producer on
the pump. The well has been variously
estimated up to 300 barrels per day
but no adequate test has been made
The union times., 1942-01-17
Coop Drives
 Show Success

Due to the necessity of meeting larger quotas with the Eastern Co., operative Wholesale and of purchas- ing larger stocks as a protection against rising prices, the New Haven Cooperative, on the recommendation of the treasurer, Harvey Mansfield, called capital drive during Novem- Der and December which has just been successfully completed.
 Subscriptions of $2,030 are reported, with oyer $1,800 in cash already paid, and with 205 members participating.
 Other statistics are also good. At the last annual meeting in February the budget called for a total patron age of $90,000. Actually, 1t will run something over $11O,00O. This year the quota for new membership was set at 200, and we'll over that number are now on the roster.
The union times., 1942-01-17

 Credit Union Making Good!
Local 79's Group Growing Annual Meeting on
 Tuesday, Jan. 20

The Federal Credit Union of Lo- cal 7o, New Haven Carpenters, has sold a $1,0O0 Defense Bond to tic local and $500 in Defense Bonds and Stamps to members. The Credit Un- ion, which has a membership of 108, expects to sell additional Defense Bonds to the local in the near future, according to William Dick, clerk and treasurer, who has been authorized by the Federal government to handle Defense Bonds.
 ANNUAL MEETING
 The annual meeting for the election of officers and to deter mine the discount rate for the past year, will be held Tuesday, Janu- ary 20, at PM. in the Labor Tenn pie. Present officers include Will liam Therrien, president of the board of directors; Everett F.. Prindle, vice-president OdinnO MOntari, and Ernest A. Hartman, and William Dick. Dick asks for a large turnout.
 The Credit Un;on which was
 Continued on Page Three)
The union times., 1942-01-17
Iron Workers Send Pledge. To President
Morrin Also Tells Locals To Avoid Any Strikes Or
 Stoppages'

Local 424, New Haven Iron Workers, of New Haven and Fair field Counties, which has purchas- ed $5,OOO in Defense Bonds, as we'll as Local 532, point with pride to President Roosevelt's reply to the pledge of all aid given him by President P. J. ''Patty" Morrin of the International Association of Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, for the union.
 EARLY ANSWERS
 Presidential Secretary Stephen Early wrote to MT. Morrin:
 For the splendid assurance con- veyed in your message, he (the Pres ident) is more appreciative than he can say"
 WIRED PLEDGE
 On behalf of the union. Mir. Morrin had sent to the President a telegram pledging ''our full CO., operation and support in all of your efforts to defend and protect our country against the unwar-
 Continued on Page Three)
The union times., 1942-01-17
Riddle Plays Of
 Non-Citizens
Says Firing of Aliens ''Most Effective Way to Create
 Disunity'

WASHINGTON. = Discharge of nOn-citizens by private employers has been denounced here by Attor- ney-Ceneral Francis Riddle as Ca most effective way to create dis unity.''
 Riddle said he was sorry to re- port that numerous instance" have come to the attention of the Department of Justice of employers discharging workers because of suspicious and because they have foreign sounding names."
 T should like to remind such em- ployers that of our total non-citizen population of about 5,00O,0OO, fewer
 Continued on Page Two)
The union times., 1942-01-17
BakersObtain Vacation And
 7c Increase
Local 11's Men At Bond Bread, Wonder Bakery,
 Get New Agreement

A two-weeks' vacation with pay and 6-7 cents an hour increase are the New Year gifts gained by the em- ployes of Bond Bread and Wonder Bakery through organization.
 After ratifying the agreement which International Representative James Montgomery characterized as ''the best in New England," Lo- cal II, Bakers, New Haven, unani- mously reelected all present off cers with the exception of James Pagan, who is succeeded by Thom- as Macdonald as corresponding secretary. Reelected officers include L. George Martin, president; Henry Misbach, financial secretary and treasurer; George WOedtke, Mac DOnld, and Isaac Goldman, execu- tive board members; Martin, Theo- dOre Berube and George Remmler, board trustees.
 August F. Striby and Woedtke are delegates to both the Central Labor Council and the Bakers State Joint Board.
 Frank McCarvey is the locals other delegate to the Council.
 The joint one-year agreement retroactive to November 25 signed
 (Continued on Page Two)