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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-06-05
Cobb Wildcat
Shows SO Feet
Of Saturation

A rotary core revealed 80 feet Of oil
saturation in a 75-fOot sand at the
base of the Kootenai formation in the
wildcat well of A. B. Cobb on Black
leaf structure in western Pondera
county, this week, at a total depth Of
4s53 feet
A drill stem test was attempted but
at last reports it showed nothing.
Whether there was a complete lack OF
pressure or the quantity of oil too
small to show up in the tool was a
matter of conjecture
Part of the sand was so soft that
it lost its form in the core barrel and
came up as loose sand. Subjected 10
treatment with chlorofOrm the sand
gave up considerable quantities Of oil.
Blaekleaf is sharp dip structure
along the east face of the Rocky Noun
tains and apps rently undisturbed by
the over-thrust. Formations thus far
are reported to have been regular.
Cobb's well is part Of a systematic eff
fort to locate the south extension of
the black ebert member Of the Cut
Bank sand East and southeast Of
Cobb's block is the Texas company
block of some $4,000 acres and farther
south Carter Oil Co has some 100000
acres
Northern Ordnance is drilling on two
Of the Carter blocks south Of Dupuyer.
This eompany's Jannusch No. 1, in C
NEAs EA 13-2sN-7w, on the north or
Pondera block, is drilling at 2295 feet,
having made 1000 feet in the last six
days, using rotary tools.
Northern Ordnance Campbell No.
in c SEA NEA 5-26-7w, on the Teton
block, is rigging up rotary tools.
North of the Cobb well is W. NJ Full
toms wildcat on Hagan structure, about
midway between Blaekleaf and Cut
Bank oil field, which has succeeded in
driving surface pipe through 100 feet
of quieksand. The pipe is now landed
on Colorado shale.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-06-05
Rotary Makes
1900 Feet of
Hole In Week

Rotary tools @did their stuff" in
northern Montana during the past
week.
Northern Ordnance corporations Red
Creek well, west Of sunburst, knocked
out 1000 feet of new hole during the
past week. Starting the week with sur
face pipe at 40 feet, it is now down
21O1 feet Location is on a State lease
in NEH NEA 10-36N-4W.
In willshaw coulee, on the Doug
Parker farm, NWA NWA 20-s7N-3W,
surface pipe has been eemented at $40
feet.
This company's Aloe test, MOser No.
/, in swA NWA 14-32N-sW, is eoring
sand at 1899 feet
Northern Ordnance announced its
location on Ingomar dome, north Of
Billings, this week It is to be drilled
with rotary tools and derrick is now
building. It is Northern Ordnance Hill
ison No. /, C NEK sen 2s-9N-35E,
Rosebud county. This gives Northern
Ordnance seven active operations on
Carter Oil Co. blocks Of leases in Mon
tana. This company has q well starting
in North Dakota and another in South
Dakota.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-06-05
Leases IN Cot
Creek M0Y Go to
Public Auction

Leases Of Continental Oil Co. in Cat
Creek field are expected to go up for
sale at public auction as a result Of
that eompanys inability to get the
royalty reduced TO per cent, as re-
quired by the government. Since the
2O-year term has expired, the govern
ment may cancel the Clayton, Green,
Wildschultz and possibly the Oldham
leases and they win go up for auction.
Shallow upper sands Of Cat Greek
have produced around $23,000,000
worth Of oil and field production Is now
down to 325 Dbl. per day. Continental
is still representing the west end.
Secondary recovery was very success
full in the east end but not such good
results were obtained in the west end
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-06-05
Sult Wuter Is
Newest Freok in
MidwoY District

Midway district, Pondera county,
furnished another surprise this week
when salt water appeared in the Sun
burst sand, below a showing of oil, in
the Tarrant-Anderson we'll which
checked 26 feet higher than the De-
steffany producer which has no water
in the identical formation.
The Anderson well was the north
west test drilled by Tarrant in an
effort to outline the sunbprst sand
production. No other sunburst sand
oil has ever been found south Of the
Marias river. The presence Of water
in this sand is not customary and salt
water is virtually unknown in north
Montana oil fields The Anderson had
a show Of oil at 1880 and drilled into
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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-06-05
Celebration
Marks Start
OF Wildcat

The town of Harlowton in south
central Montana put on a celebration
on Sunday on the occasion Of the
spudding of the Mid Montana Oil com
pany's well on Harlo dome, with an
old-fashioned fish fry and a picnic
program including speeches.
About 400 people attended, includ
ing number of outside notables. Trib
ute was paid to the late Gordon Camp
bell, discoverer of oil in Montana,
whose last work was an effort to Sc
cure a test on Harlo dome Nearly a
decade passed between the time he
first mapped the structure and the
start of the present wen.
A. A. Ebony" Poirier, Harlowton alb
stractor who has had an important
part in bringing about this develop
ment, presided at the ceremonies. He
called upon Mayor L. L. Kalberg,
James McGowan, geOlogist who with
Gordon Campbell mapped Harlo dome
and many other Montana structures;
Leonard Young, Montana railway com
missioner, on whose land the test is
being drilled and DR.. A. M. Hanson
known to everyone in the crowd as
aHans" Hanson-who pressed the lever
which started the rotary drill. Each
speaker paid tribute to Gordon Camp
bell and at one point the entire assem-
bly, paid homage by a moment Of 81
lence.
Harlo structure was first mapped by
C. F. Bowen for q. s. G. s. in 1918,
before he went with Standard Oil.
Campbell with MCGOWAN made plane
table map of the structure in 1884
when Campbell expressed confidence
that Harlo is an ideal trap for oil
Later he made an effort to finance a
test we'll CampbelPs map was re-
checked recently for Mid Montana Oil
Co. by W. E. "steve" Dunlap, consult
ing petroleum engineer, former chief
geologist and manager of the produe-
ton department of Richfield Oil Co.
Dunlap spent six months Of 1941 in
southern Alberta, developing Madison
lime production and il familiar with
North Rocky Mountain geology. he
spotted the location of the present
well.
Bob Amick, head drilIer, has had
years of experience in Wyoming, how
ever he recruited part of his crew in
California. Mid-Montana has a fine
rotary outfit, adequately equipped tc
test the Madison lime if commercial
production is not found in upper hozi
IONS. DR.. Hanson, Los Angeles physi
clan, who has successful oil enterprises
in California, owns the rig.
Evening star., 1943-06-05
Plain Jake Devers

FROM the Topeka Capital.
Germans don't need to be told that
Gen. Eisenhower, Kansas farm boy in
supreme command of the Allied armies
that drove the Axis out of North Africa
Is OF German descent. If Germany had
treated his ancestors right, instead of
mf1lctlng mlitaristic regulations and
feglmentation upon them, the Kansas
Elsenhowers might still be living over
there. But because of expressions and
the lack Of opportunity they emigrated
TO great, free America and became part
OF it. good citizens all. even to fighting
for their adopted homeland. Now comes
the news that 1t. Gen. Jacob L. Devers
has been placed in command of Ameri-
can forces in Europe. He, too is of Ger
man descent, product of the American
melting pot. a typical Pennsylvania
Dutchman. familiarly known around his
home town of York, Pa, as Jake"
Devers
When Hitler began planning his war
OF conquest he called upon persons of
German blood everywhere to join the
fatherland in the conflict. Instead, Der
Fuehrer aroused Americans of German
ancestry to fighting mood-but against
the Nazi oppressors and not for them.
Evening star., 1943-06-05
WhippoorwiII

Weird as flute, your pzatntiue cry
comes near
As 9ray-clad dusk is merged Nth
black-coUled night.
Lou in the sky, the evening star
burns bright;
Petunias breathe their truorunce.
Soon the ear
Strains for your call, tinged Nth its
note OF fear.
You cannot move the senses to de-
light
Like the proud mockingbird, or please
the sight
As cardinal, BY chance should you
appear.
Yet harbinger of summer, this I
knoU,
You bring to mind hte's untorgotten
days,
A loaded ,oagon; pungent scent of
rue;
Home-going cattle, placid-eyed and
sloD /. -.
We close our eyes and sloply peace
1lluys
Our cares, as evening keeps its tryst
NTH you.
LOUISE CRENsHAw RAY.
Evening star., 1943-06-05
A Wooden Argument
Wood may soon be used as fue

WOOD may soon be used as fuel in
some State vehicles, says the Mary
land State Forester. The conversion,
he says, is not too difficult. The gas
tank is replaced by sort of wood box
connected with a small still, gener-
ating fumes that 60 to the engine and
are fired there just like gasoline va
por. Speeds up to the maximum
legal limit may be obtained.
Just about the time the spreading
chestnut tree died. the village black
smithy evolved into the filling sta
ton. Will that in turn be replaced
by the fashioned woodshed, now
used mainly as the site of juvenile
punishment? It could be. The idea
might we'll be attractive to motor
lists who are down to their last cou-
pom. Surely old spools, sawdust and
the like will always be available and
unrationed. Especially would the
conversion be a boon to husbands
whose wives are afflicted with the
antique mania, and who clutter up
the home with furniture entirely too
valuable and rickety to be actually
used. They could put. up quite an
argument based on the premise that
transportation is more important
than decoration. On second thought,
however, probably the best plan
would be to hurry up and win the
war.
Evening star., 1943-06-05

sought to establish ian air line" to
India and China. Mr.. Johnston con-
cedes: "Of course, his ideas were
quite impractical at the time. He
had no knowledge of structural
strength requirements. His notion
of the power needed for flight was
completely unrelated to fact" But
full credit must go to (him) for an
imagination that then conceived a
form of aircraft describable in the
same terms which apply to modern
monoplane. Unfortunately, his
thinking far outreached the capa-
bility of his times to grasp" He
never flew, but in the roster of those
who prepared the way for others to
travel through the clouds his name
must be included
Evening star., 1943-06-05
Personnel Criticism

In complaining about the type of
employe furnished by the Civil Serv-
ice Commission, Controller General
Lindsay c. Warren has sounded a
familiar note Testifying at the House
Civil Service Committee personnel
inquiry Mr.. Warren said that some of
the persons recruited by the commits
sion were not worth training, and
this no doubt is the truth. Other
agencies have been similarly critical,
and the commission itself probably
would be the first to agree that the
lowering Of standards necessitated by
the unceaSing demands for man
power in the mushrooming Govern
ment establishments in the past
three years has resulted, too often. in
hiring inefficient Workmen This,
seemingly, has been an inescapable
part of the price to be paid for build
ing the huge civilian machine.
On the basis Of a satisfying expe-
rlence in Asheville, where part of the
General Accounting Office was trans
ferred, Mr. Warren feels that direct
recruiting by the employing agency
is remedy for the condition which
he assailed, but while this might hold
good in some cases. it does not follow
that the policy would be successful if
applied generally. The whole truth
Of the matter is that the Government
went into the market for so many
hundreds of thousands of employees
that the point finally was reached
where it became necessary to take
whatever was available. Whether
much Of this help was needed is open
to question. but the fact remains that
unrestrained hiring for months was
the order of the day, and if this
encouraged inefhciency and waste, it
was no more than might have been
expected
Mr.. Warren's testimony was valua-
BILE, for it should lend strength to the
demands for personnel reforms ex-
pected to develop from the committee
inquiry. The recruiting issue probably
will settle itself, for the hiring peak
has been passed. The committee s
study, however, has disclosed degree
of poor personnel administration that
demands attention. Reform hardly
can be looked for during the war, but
certainly it must be undertaken early
ir the postwar period when the dis
mantling of the wartime Government
starts.
The Controller Generals recon-
mendation that the Government re-
turn to the old five and one-half day
Evening star., 1943-06-05
Wise Reconsideration

. The Commissioners have been we'll
advised in reconsidering and finally
reversing their previous decision on
officially recognizing, and supporting
from public funds, the civilian de-
fense activities grouped under the
heading Of Civilian War Services.
These activities are not part of the
protective ORGANIZATIONS, such as the
warden service or auxiliary police
and firemen. They have to do gen.
orally with providing leadership and
securing cooperation Of citizens in
such undertakings on the home front
as Victory gardens, salvage, public
welfare projects, bond campaigns
etc, and in establishing proper
faison between various programs and
between citizens committees and
regularly established Government
agencies.
Part of the Commissioners original
diSinclinati0n to assume financial
responsibility for such activities re-
suited from the involved procedure
they face in obtaining congressional
authorization for spending public
funds. Unlike the situation in Balti-
more, or any other Self-governing
community, there are no expendable
funds available in the District except
those specifically appropriated by act
Of Congress. Getting local legislation
through Congress in these busy days
IS tedius undertaking. While the
Commissioners were able to borrow
some S2000000 under the "Blackout
Acts" the money was available only
for use in protection of life and prop
erty And even now that the decision
has been reached to support civilian
war services. the S25 900 budget rec
commended will not be available until
the blaCkout acts have been formally
amended With Congress planning
an early summer recess, the Com
mlssionerS will have to move quickly
if they expect to have the money
before fall
III ItN NC1 H1IlES lIlt'll blISlIldl OtIlSIOll
TO abandon civilian war services, in
SO far as official recognition and
financial support were concerned,
the Commissioners again have dem
onstrated willingness to respond
to local sentiment, as indicated by
community spokesmen. This latest
decision on civilian war services has
the added advantage of having been
reached after careful reconsidera-
ton Of the issues involved and prob
ably represents adoption of better
plan than was contained in the pro-
poSalS previously vetoed, as we'll as a
substantial reduction in the original
estimates Of cost.
Evening star., 1943-06-05
forgotten Pioneer

The average American of the pres
ent period of human experience
probably never has heard of William
Samuel Henson as the grandfather
of flight Ordinary histories of avia-
tion fail to mention him. He comes
into his own, however, through an
exceptionally interesting article by
S. Paul Johnston, published in the
Technology Review for June. The
recent discovery Of long forgotten
diaries and letters, it seems, has
supported the claim that the neg
leCted pioneer was indeed "a man
who dreamed dreams" of
heaver-than-air flying machines
almost century before science
made such things possible" :"
Henson, Mr. Johnston says, was
born at Nottingham, England, May 3,
1872. He probably was a lace manu-
faCturer in his youth. BY 1885 he
was known as a machiniSt, residing
at Chard in Somerset County. Sir
George Cayley's speculations on the
movements of birds in the air are
supposed to have prompted his first
enthusiasm for aeronautics about
1888 or 194O At what date ne began
experimenting with gliding models,
tentative constitutional devices and
a light steam engine is uncertain.
That he had the collaboration Of
John StringfelloW for a While has
been established AS partners from
l843 onward, they built two power
driven Contraptions, one of which
the Smallcr-WaS flown successfully
In l846. A quarrel allegedly broke
up the association. Henson married
and emigrated to Newark, New Jersey,
In the spring of the last mentioned
year.
During the next four decades the
records show that he was prac-
ticing engineer, not always prosper
Gus. Between 1864 and 1866 he was
in Peru, but what he was doing there
Is not chronicled. The whole of his
career. generally speaking, is mys-
terious. In his last day, "he became
intensely interested in the mechanics
OF the universe. He observed, he
read. he speculated, and he wrote on
astronomical matters"
Henson died March 90, 1888 His
patent for an aerial steam carriage"
had been recorded in London in 1912
And led to the organization of an
Aerial Transit Company which
Evening star., 1943-06-05
Change of Heart

In the latest act of what would be
a farce comedy were it not for its
tragic implications, John L. Lewis,
availing himself of an invitation
from Secretary 1ckes, has recon-
mended that his miners go back to
work, and the United Mine Workers
Policy Committee, to the surprise of
no one, has acted favorably on this
recommendation
Thus, the primary objective
getting the coal mined-is achieved.
Unless the unexpected happens the
miners will be back at work Monday,
although they have again set dead
line for the Governments capitula-
ton to Mr.. Lewis. The latter, mean
while, can take whatever satisfac-
ton he finds in the fact that he sent
his men back to the mines at the
request of Mr.. Ickes after the Presi-
dent had gone over the head of Mr..
Lewis to order the miners back to
work. If it suits his purpose to do
so, Mr.. Lewis can say that he sent
the men back, that they did not and
would not have returned at the COM
mand Of the President. And if this
is true, which it probab is, the Pres
ident no doubt will be perfectly con-
tent to let it go at that.
In calling off this second wartime
coal strike, Mr.. Lewis may have been
influenced by one or more of several
considerations. For the first time,
1t had been made clear to him that
the Government was not going to
grant any of his demands while
strike was in progress. That un-
doubtedly had its effect. Secondly. if
Mr.. Lewis is gambling for larger
stakes, as many believe it must have
been evident to him that he was
prejudlcing any chance that he might
have of playing decisive role against
the administration in next years
political campaign. The people had
become thoroughly exasperated with
Mr.. Lewis tactics, and a continuation
of the strike might we'll have reduced
his influence to zero in the next
election. Finally, there was the fact
that Congress, responding to popular
demand, at last was preparing to
pass anti-strike legislation.
Whether Mr.. Lewis, by sending his
men back to work, hopes to head off
this legislation is a moot question.
But whatever his purpose, it is clear
that the Smith-Connally bill should
be passed. If Mr. Lewis has done
nothing else, he has proved the
inadequacy of the effort to cope with
strikes through administrative action
unsupported by legislation. Spokes-
men for the President in Congress
have conceded, in effect. that labor
troubles cannot be dealt with through
day y-to-day improvisations. The need
for legislation has become self
evident, and the House approved bill
should be enacted
Evening star., 1943-06-05
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trace1CeU.

These foods are simply sprinkled in the
grass.
No sooner has the screen door slammed
(not very loudly, because we do not be-
lieve in slammlng screen DOORS than
the birds come down.
Usually there are pair of robins. the
pair OF starlings, at least two pairs of
mocking birds, several pairs of catbirds
score or more OF English sparrows and
pair of song sparrows
These make an imposing and interest
Ing array Of birds and we find the
starllngs and English sparrows as inter-
estlng as any. We are glad we have tried
honestly to like and admire all the birds
We would not willingly cherish the
grudges against some of the species that
many honest, but we believe mistaken
persons do
There is enough discrimination going
on in the world today too much battling
and Ill will, to add to it in an utterly
unnecessary way
wood thrush sometimes Joins this
throng, but he never manages to get
anything to eat
He is, of course, much too gentlemanly
for his own good
occasionally he arrives within a few
inches Of some food, but no sooner is he
there than robin chases him away.
II 1t isn't robin, it is starting. and
II no startling is present, then a cardinal
will chase the thrush.
All Of them chase him. which is too
bad. since he is the finest of all the birds,
at least in our eyes. and richly deserves
his share of the food
Speaking Of cardinals, there is a new
one in the neighborhood which saws
Come ere, come ere, come ere" lust
as plainly as can be.
Steady readers OF this column will rec
ognlze that this is the first time that We
have ever admitted that a bird of anv
species can talk" English, at least to
the extent of saying words or phrases
which really seem to be words.
There are other cardinals and all of
them sing, but not a one of them has
such a distinct saving as this particular
birds. He actually says the words.
Come here with Just little cockney
accent on the second word.
Feeding the birds just before dusk is
particularly gratifying. both to the per-
son who puts out the food and to the
songsters.
They like to come for bits of food for
their nestlings and are able to get MANY
a good mouthful for themselves. Later
they bring the young, always an inter-
esting sight.
A few starlings nesting In a neighbor-
hood add to the variety and seem to lack
the belligerency OF startling groups.
This, too, is very human. It is COM
mon experience that an individual NAV
be very nice alone, but rather bad when
IN a crowd. Many persons are unable
to resist the temptation to poke fun at
others In group. something which they
never do when with the other alone.