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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-02-27
INTERESTING PRECEDENT

Al recent sale of oil and gas leases
by the Montana State Land Commits
sion an innovation was provided when
the board elected TO gamble $64O on
exc royalty on an oil prospect in
the Sweetgrass Hills.
II came about IN this manner: Two
operators were bidding for a 640-acre
lease on state school land. One operator
bid 80 an acre, or 81 $50 cash. The other
bidder offered 81 per acre and 21a96
overriding royalty. In other words, the
second bidder agreed to take an $3.50
lease instead Of the customary s71ae6,
the state retaining 1870 instead of
19159c royalty.
The land board decided in favor of
the gamble, deciding in effect to take
$640 of available school funds and in
vest it in 21596 royalty-at the rate
Of 40 cents an acre point.
The industry has been grinning at
the interesting possibilities:
l. Can the state land board engage
in the purchase of royalty, as a legal
investment of state school funds lin
stead of low-interest bonds or other Sc
eurities) and, if so, why not thus pos
sibly make enough money to support
educational institutions of Montana and
thereby lower taxesi Everyone knows
that the state has received millions of
dollars from its oil royalties as proof
that it can be done.
.. Does an overriding royalty clause
not carry an implied obligation for de-
velopmentf The supreme court has so
held on private contracts. The State is
forbidden to sell the retained royalty
and the royalty is accordingly value
less if no we'll is drilled. The rule of
law might Cor would IT'D imply that a
wen must be drilled to give value to
the 215ee royalty which was part of
the consideration in the sale. Other
wise, the operator may hold the lease
until a test well in the general area
fails, then turn the lease back to the
State, leaving the state out $640-Or
3 If no well is drilled under terms
of the lease sold for $640 cash and
21laeo overriding royalty and the roy.
atty becomes worthless through non.
development and so profits the state
nothing, then will not some taxpayer
have a right to sue on behalf of the
State the individual members of the
board for the lost $640 which would
otherwise have been paid by the first
bidder, and sue for the amount of the
cost of well which should have beer
drilled to give substance to the over
riding royaltyf
Not fourth, but merely an after
thought, is it possible that with THU
precedent the state will, like the Black
feet Indian council, shortly be adver
Using for calls for bids on $3.50 lease
or s21Afc or or even 500 leases il
wildcat territoryi
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-02-27

The schoolmaster was angry with the
doctors small SON. 81 viii certainly have
to ask your father to come and see
me-" he remarked.
"You'd better not, said the boy; che
charges five dollars a visit"
The wonderful love of a beautiful maid
The life of a staunch true man,
And the love Of a baby unafraid
Have existed since time began;
But the greatest love, the love of loves,
Even greater than that of mother,
Is the tender, passionate, infinite love
OF one drunken bum for another.
''Do you know the difference between
good and badf"
"What's the difference"
"That's what I say
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-02-27
The Next Illinois Basin

So it was that The Texas Co., Car
ter Oil Co., Pure Oil Co., Gulf Oil
CO., and scores of Others arrived on
the scene.
To return to Montana, no official
has n-much--about the pos
sibility of deeper drilling although
these possibilities are so well recog-
nized that it is not subject Of de-
bate. Everyone KNOWS that there
are oil horizons below present pro-
ducing horizons at the top Of the
Madison lime, in addition to the
Reagan horizon. There is oil at the
BASE of the Madison lime. There
Is oil in the formations BELOW the
Madison lime. That is proven by oil
FOUND in those horizons. HOW
MUCH oil exists, none knows. It
isn't necessary to bring in 10000
barrel well to prove any one Of these
horizons commercially productive.
And so in the spring of 1943 Mon
tana oil history parallels Illinois oil
history in 1886, with the important
exception that Illinois produced only
100000 Dbl. of oil in 1886 and
Montana produced over 100000 Dbl.
of oil in 1912.
The spring of 1943 in Montana
finds Carter Oil Co. and The Texas
company taking leases in North
Montana. Pure Oil Co. has been in
the state, with geophysical crews but
is not yet active in the north part.
Gulf Oil Co. is on the sidelines, to-
gether with numerous other com
panies which had a hand in the
Illinois play.
Illinois must go on with the rest
of the story. Illinois production
jumped to 100000 Dbl. in 1887, one
year after the lease campaign
brought drilling and in the spring of
1888 Texaco brought in its discovery
well at Salem-and the lid was off
Illinois flooded the country with oil
and depressed the market, and
shocked the country with wasteful
production practices. But the impor-
tant thing is that Illinois was no
longer a fourth-rate stripper oil
state, thanks to the chain of events
such as are being re-enaeted in
Montana. Although more wells were
drilled in Salem field alone than
there are producing wells in all OF
North Montana, the fact remains
that Illinois was not nearly so good
a prospect in 1885 as is Montana il
1913.
The demand for adequate Islands
fell flat in Illinois where the oil-ai
in Montana-came from the LIME
the good old Madison lime, as thu
lower Mississippian is called. TIT
lime sbreakp defined as the Me
Closky "sandn is Eight gray pur,
limestone made up of exceedingly
well sorted oolites". We quote from
Mr.. Bells 1887 report. He adds
''There has been very little deposi
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-02-27

A glimpse into he future of Mon
tana oil development may or may not
be suggested by study of the recent
history of Illinois development.
The year 1943 finds Montana in
about the same situation as was
Illinois in 1886.
Illinois had in 1886 no geophysical
work to speak of-as in Montana in
1912.
Illinois had in 1886 little or no
rotary drilling-as in Montana in
1912.
Illinois fields had been developed
between 1905 to a peak in 1910. Be
tween 1910 and 1886 only three or
four unimportant new fields were
discovered.
Montana's former peak was
reached in 1926 when Kelvin produc
tion was highest
No new fields have been developed
in Montana since 1881 when Cut
Bank was discovered. Cut Bank stood
idle for two years before develop
ment got under way. Kelvin, Pondera
and Cat Creek fields have steadily
declined, but Cut Bank field caused
production to grow steadily during
the decade ending January l, 1943.
Illinois got its production from
shallow horizons above the Big Lime.
All of Montana's production has
come from ABOVE the Big Lime.
Shallow drilling was the unwritten
law in Illinois that was faithfully
Obeyed. One operator drilled in what
is now the producing area of the
great Salem field but he stopped
drilling 40 feet short of the horizon
in which The Texas company
brought in the discovery well.
Montana operators are even more
obedient to the law of maximum
drilling depths than they are to the
rationing rules and as a result they
all quit drilling at OF near the top
of the Big Lime. There was in 1912
one notable exception. A man named
Ed Reagan, drilling a wildcat north
west of Cut Bank, kept ON drilling
into the Madison lime for a distance
of 80 feet, all of which was contrary
to the rules and in violation of the
unwritten law of the Montana oil
man and as a result he brought in a
new oil field, but that is beside the
point. Like Illinois operators before
1896, Montana drillers have pretty
well abided by the unwritten law.
Deeper drilling in the Mideontin-
emit and elsewhere brought in new
horizons and the state geologist of
Illinois, Alfred H. Bell, expressed
the opinion in writing that deeper
drilling might do no harm in Hi
nois. Several producers took the sit
uation seriously and in 1886 they
began arriving in the Illinois basin
with geophysical crews and deter
mination to look at the formations
in and below the Mississipian lime
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-02-27

They called her the village queen
because every poker player in town
had held her.
'Do you suppose it's bad luck for
eat to follow you7"
at all depends; are you man or
a mOuse7"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-02-27

ton of interstitial material, so that
porosity may, in some cases, APP
pToach the theoretical maximum for
closely packed uniform spheres. The
thickness of the pay is variable
within short distances as well as its
position in the stratigraphie section.
Because of the lentieular character
of the reservoirs, production may be
looked for well down on the flanks
of structures, as well as dry holes
on the high parts, in some cases
offsetting good producers"
The foregoing might well have
been written of the Madison lime
in Montana
The seismograph was an important
factor in discovery of new oil fields
in Illinois in the succeeding years.
The first three wells located by the
seismograph in Illinois all discov-
cred oil. The discovery wells of the
first three fields of 1887 were al
ready being drilled in 1896 and of
these two were drilled with cable
tools and one with rotary tools. This
was the first rotary test for oil to
be drilled in Illinois.
1t would seem probable, according
", that Montana will shortly have
seismograph crews frightening the
sheep on the plains of North Mon
tana. Possibly this year will com
pare with 1887 in Illinois when there
were 16 seismograph parties working
in that state. Then win come rotary
tools. Montana has been long known
as the "last stand of cable tools" and
the war has taken out most of the
cable tool drillsrs and the cable tools
are pretty well worn out, so perhaps
Montana viii get rotary tools and
an influx of rotary drillers to carry
on its development for the drilling
campaign that is ahead.
Also, the idea Of deeper drilling
carried Illinois prospecting through
the Big Lime and into the Devonian
where new horizons were opened up
to add to the flood of Illinois OIL
Deeper drilling with the Devonian
and Ordovician were originally the
objective of the Illinois revival-as
they likely viii be here in Montana.
We wonder whether new and un-
expected horizons viii be found in
the Madison lime: whether there will
be many old wells re-drilled 40 or so
or more feet deeper, to pick up big
production, as at the great Salem
field.
The possibility is such that it
brings to new life every royalty that
has been purchased through this
agency. The royalty we today regard
as the poorest may be found to be
in the center of another Salem pool
in the tomorrow that is at hand.
Persons interested in Montana
royalty investments or the purchase
of potential oil lands in fee should
write to us. Our publications are sent
only to those who request them.
Detroit evening times., 1943-12-23
Father
Of = Goes
To Camp

Edward c. Ilouk, - Of 9l32
Louis Icft his Invalid wife and
two small children today 10 report
for army service at Fort Sheridan,
I'D
Iouk bartender. was in
>'uctrd by hIS draft board sew
era. months ago 10 give up bar
tending and get a war Job. but he
neglected 10 90 so. A Job as plant
protection policeman awaits him
NJ boz can obtain hS release from
tne army hs wife revealed today
Mrs IIouk am invalid II years.
has no Way of supporting herself
and TWO children Patricia Ann,
lt all Robert d..
~ have enough money 60 pay
The rent and buy coal and gro
ceries for another month, she
-a.d Nfter that. don't know
what TN do
'Hu.,a D. n,lrr cHaTuln of
Haui .u said that Hr had writ
.n f.e e.wwardug officer of The
sixth an.., row w8nd asking
..st iIpsss induction be can
e..od
Detroit evening times., 1943-12-23

Rur Mar savings stamps the
convenient way. order them
delivered Go Your door from your
netrnii Tlmrs carrier- saIcsman.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Florida Life Will Lenethen His
Career, Believes Derrinqer

can't pitch as often as he once did
believes the year-round condition
ing program which he follows will
keep him active for several" more
years.
The big right -hander will be
seeking his 20lst National League
victory when he pitches his first
game next spring. He hit the 200
mark near the end of last season
after getting off to a slow start in
his first year with the Cubs.
Derringer led the league as a
rookie during his first full season
with the st. Louis Cardinals in
1881, but he feels he has learned
much about pitching since then.
Il learn more about pitching
every year." he said. When a.
fellow gets older he has to make
changes to keep ahead"
One of the few pitchers ever to
top the league twice, Derringer has
been helped by exceptional control,
which he developed on the advice
of Grover Cleveland Alexander.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Talent Mediocre, But Jacobs
Rings BeI|With Fistic Gates

has said you can almost put the
Cherry sisters into a Garden windup
and sell out these days because
there's a lotta dough around"
This years gaudy gate-lO of
them over s50,000 and one over $780,
0O0-Were built up with probably the
feWest number of standout swat
tiers ever trotted out before the pub
lie over such a span.
Beau Jack the HeadIiner.
OF the 81 punch throwers. Beau
Jack, the New York recognized
lightweight champion, went to the
post six times during the year and
drew ll1,397 fans and s48l ,415-in-
Guiding the $104,976 for his bout
with Henry Armstrong-through the
cash registers; Fritzie Zivic, in four
starts, brought in 5S,991 customers
and $187,858; Bob Montgomery,
from whom Jack took his crown.
lured 46,625 customers and $213,134
in three outings, and Sammy Angott.
the National Boxing Association
sanctioned lightweight boss, showed
before 1902 Of the faithful who
contributed to pots Of $157,146 in
three ShOWinpS.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Kerr Peeved as West
Uses Army Gridders

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23.-The
Examiner said today Coach Andy
Kerr of the Eastern all-star foot
ball team had taken exception to
West Coach Orin Hollingbery's Sc
lection of f1ve players from the pow
erful 4th Army Air Force outfit.
Kerr. the newspaper said, regards
it as "a violation of long standing
Shrine game policy that no more
than three men be named from any
one team or school,"
1T was understood from the be-
ginning that this would be okay,"
Hollingbery responded. 1.-THE East
had the same opportunity"
In one meeting between the
coaches, the paper said, Hollingbery
referred to having "a few 4th Air
Force players.
"A few! What do you mean a
few? Looks to me like you've signed
up the whole team" the Examiner
reported Kerr responded.
There are no Army players on
the Eastern squad for the New Year
Day game.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
0ma Faces Marshall
AS Substitute for
Ai|ing MaurieNo

Lee Oma, Detroit heavyweight,
not Tami Mauriello, will fight Her.
bert Marshall in the 10-round fea-
ture of the ring festival of the
Liberty A. c. at Ulines Tuesday
night.
Mauriello, suddenly attacked by
the flu, had to postpone his ap-
pearance here, but advised Promoter
Goldie Ahearn that he would be at
his call for future date.
Oma has been impressive in 4
long list of recent fights. He twice
has kayoed George Parks in Balti-
more and also soundly whipped him
here in decision bout He also has
scored over Larry Lane. Big Boy
Brown and recently beat Buddy
Walker in a recenge scrap.
However Al WE'LL, manager Of
Marshall, feels his man has sufficient
to make the bout one of the best in
the heavy ranks the Capital fans
will witness. This time Marshall
will be more nearly on even basis as
to weight and height and figures
these will help greatly. In most of
his recent fights he has been at .
marked disadvantage in both.
Evening star., 1943-12-23

give-and-take proposition. You
give and they take.
Hardest blow-The one Connie
Mack will need to snuff out those
81 candles on his birthday cake
tomorrow.
LuckieSt guys - The fighters
still around caShing in on fat
gates because the fans can't be
choosy about their entertain
ment.
Biggest mass non migration
The ball clubs doing their spring
training up North.
Man with the most consistent
following-Gunder Haegg.
Biggest tank act-Haegg doing
his training on the deck of a
tanker en- route to this country.
Longest mile-From the rail-
road station to Belmont Park. It
took about 10000 feet to cover it
very sore feet.
Evening star., 1943-12-23

BY the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Dec. %. - Remember
how the kids In your block used to
yell: You oughta lick me, you're
two years older than am?"
Well, the youngsters of the Uni
versity of Texas might say the same
thing to the "gray-beards OF the
Air Corps" they'll play against in
the Cotton Bowl football game.
The Longhorns average a bare 49,,
while Randolph Fields Ramblers
boast sedate average of Is years.
Consider Ray Morse, starting
Rambler wingman. He's a ripe 33.
And he'll oppose one of the real kids
of the Longhorns-George Mccall,
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Great Lakes Hd|tinu
OF Irish Voted Top
Surprise Of Year
BY HAROLD CLAASSEN,
Associated Press SportS Writer


NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-With all
the unanimity of a prewar Nazi
election, the sports editors of the
country have selected Great Lakes
last-minute triumph over Notre
Danes football team as the biggest
athletic surprise of the year.
Only 6 of the 80 scribes participant
ing in the annual Associated Press
poll failed to include the Sailors
l9-to-14 triumph on either ballot
and so of them decided that it was
the major eyebrow litter OF 1943.
While the writers were agreed on
the main surprise, they showed little
agreement the rest of the way, and
offera1 Al other shockers that
ranged all the way from the New
York Yankees easy victory over the
st. Louis Cardinals in the World
Series to Max Baer's lectures on
training.
The Yanks' triumph-or the Car
dinal collapse-was second in the
poll, followed closely by the ups and
downs Of the Washington Redskins
in retaining the Eastern title of the
National Football League and the
various chapters of the William Cox
Bucky Harris s-Philadelphia Phillies
thriller.
Steve Lach. former Duke athlete.
fired a 46-yard touchdown pass to
Paul Anderson % seconds before the
final gun to spill Notre Dame and
paste the only defeat on the Irish
record in the teams final game.
That eruption brought the Sailors
1876 points in the present poll on a
basis of 3 for each first-place vote,
2 for second and for third.
Other flrst-place winners were the
College of Pacific football team. the
four-man Southern California track
team which romped off with the
NCAA title, and Kansas football
victory over Missouri.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Shoot 2,007 Against
Grenadiers; Geib
Leads Tourney
BY ROD THOMAS.

I'D like to have a team, not just
a collection of stars" said George
w. Huguely, jr, when he sought a
lineup to shoot War Bond matches
at his Bethesda Bowling Center.
Today it appeared Huguely had
both, Individually, his Bethesdans
shone and team spirit ran high
when, last night, they trounced
Herman Grenadier's Clarendon ALL
Stars with the season record score
of 2.007, against 1870.
Presence of Huguely in the lineup
was an inspiration, it seemed. The
boss was a last-minute substitute
for Tony Santini and in the first
game the boys got hot carrying
him, but from there in he rated his
spot. After a 108 start he began
setting the pace. He fired a IA
game, then 1873 for a set of 1856
one of the best he's bowled.
Real star of the battle, however
was Ell Geib, champion of the Dis
trict League, whose AS gave him
tn scratch lead in The Star War
Bond tournament. All scores in the
match counted in the tournament.
Sponsor of each team bought a
$1,000 bond.
Guethler Is Sparkplug.
Bub Guethler, the Bethesdans'
sparkplug, leading Southpaw bowler
of the city and one of its finest team
performers, was second high with
427; Jack Talbert rolled 383 and
Johnny Ressa, 367. For the Grena-
diers, Al Wright and Eddie Keith
divided honors with 412 apiece,
Wright tossing high game of the
match with 1853, Perce Wolfe had
352, Fred Murphy, $50, and Bob
Miciotto, 344.
Sponsor of each team that meets
the Bethesdans must match Hugue-
lys purchase of a $1,000 bond In
The Star tournament. Tonight
Morris LuStine's HoWitzers will have
60 at 'em and another sparkling
match is the prospect, inasmuch as
the Lustines are nearly the same
team that opposed Huguely's spirited
gang last night. Karl Gochenour
replaces Wolfe for the only change.
The final game last night prob
ably was the most brilliantly con-
tested of the season, with the
Grenadiers winning, 692 to 673.
-Schinnerer Sponsors Team.
A team sponsored by Victor O.
Schinnerer, insurance man, today
was added to the Bethesdans' grow
ing list of opponents. Members of
the team that makes the best show
ing against the Bethesdans will re-
ceive $25 bond each from Huguely
Challenges will be accepted up to
January when The Star tourna-
ment ends. More than 100000
already has been raised in the event,
the goal of which is feet of war;
planes.
A unique bit of competition will
take place in the tournament next
Monday at the New Recreation.
Thirteen girls from the Interstate
Commerce Commission League will
try to win a prize for Sailor Ellis
Annett, on foreign service Annett,
fighting on the home as we'll as the
foreign front, purchased a batch of
bonds and the girls will proxy for
him in the tournament They are
Mildred Sippo, Verna (Billie) Will
liams, Ellen Stovall, Bertha FIGHT
horn, Betty West, Alta Casper, Ruth
Goodwin, Nell McWhirter, Elizabeth
Robinson, Lois Heinrichs, Jessie
Smith, Evelyn Marshall and, last
but far from least. Zona Watson.
zona is 'the girl he left behind"
Well here's hnr1inu ElliSI
Evening star., 1943-12-23

Longest home run-Dolph Ca
MILL. from coast to coast.
Fanciest dive-Ihe Phils.
- Most inoffensive-The Colum-
bia football team.
Best run-The Fritzie Zivic-
JACKIE Lamotta fight series.
Prize pass-The Buck which
Leo Durocher tried to pass to a
scribe in the Newsom incident.
The hottest potato - Spud
Chandler, the Yankee mound
ace.
Neatest block-The one the
Government put on plans to take
a couple of all-star baseball
teams overseas.
Best reverse play-Bill Cox.
Best night attack-Clark Grit
fifth, in getting permission to play
unlimited games under the arcs.
Best flnish-Right here.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Detroit's GoaIie Troubles
Worse as Hawks Win, II
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
Detroit, which has suffered from
goalie trouble most of the young
National Hockey League season, had
a relapse last night with Rookie Hal
Lumley in the cage and was downed
by the Chicago Hawks, to l.
Immediately after the game the
Wings hurried home. where the
awakened New York Rangers, now
the owners of a two-game winning
streak, will be met tonight.
! 1t will be the first game Of a
three-tilt, four-day excursion for
the Blue Shirts, who have, begun
talking Stanley Cup playoffs, al
though they lost IA consecutive con-
tests at the start of the campaign.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Texas u. Gridders Mere Kids
COMPARED to Bowl Foemen

who has turned II. Keifer Marshall
center, also is just IT,
Five members of the Texas start
ing lineup are under 20 Six men,
bers of the Randolph team are Is
or more.
Father" of the Longhorns is j. R.
Callahan, venerable %. The baby
of the Texas squad is Reginald
Owen, 16.
The youngest Rambler starter is
Leon LeinWeber, end, 81.