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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-06-24
LEASE PLAY HOT IN BRc.nUs AREA.
Majors Joke For
Position in District

According local oil lately from the scene
Montanas greatest leasing campaigns under way the
southeastern portion of the state in the vicinity of Broadus
Participants include the Gulf other hher
active the relatively large blocks being
Believed be major stimuant in the leasing activity is the
mounting belief that tckened sedmenaon of the found
combination with favorable structural conditions result in
the finding of some exceptionally large production
The has been mapped being the Powder River BASIN
extending far south into Wyoming and very roughly paaeng
Wyomngs Big Horn Basin of of the nations ousand
ing oil discoveries within the past II months
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-06-24

from lI56 TO 1871.
The we'll was plugged back to the
Eunburst sand after drilling to
20O6 and getting sulphur water at
the Ellis-Madison contact.
Nearest producing area Is to the
southwest, where numerous Sun
burst sand wells are being pumped
by Coolidge & Coolidge, who own
two square miles of undeveloped
leases between their producers and
the Texas company we'll Most of
the other acreage in the vicinity of
the Wagner well is held by the
Texas company.
Two miles northwest of the Wag-
ner well, the Texas company Is
trying for further extension of
the field, its No ! Hannah Mars
G Sc NV NV 19-36-1W. This well
spudded June Is and is drilling at
$50.
The Texas Company got the
fields best completion during the
(Coutinued on Page %
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-06-24
PARENT POOL WELL
HELPED BY SHOT

Thorpe Trustee-State No. 1, So
37N-3W, in the Parent pool north
west of Sunburst, completed May
% with an initial of approximately
100 barrels daily of 39.6gravity oil,
barrels an hour after 40-Quart shot
in the Sunburst sand, 1850-1875. 1t
had dropped to an output of six
barrels daily shortly after compile
ton, and before shooting. 1t is the
only Sunburst sand producer in
the pool.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-06-24
Fiat Coulee Well to Acidize
Oil Shoe Found In Lime Break

3D. Cobb Handbook Coolidge operating the Northern
Petroleum Co., preparing TO acidze their No Northern
Farms the Flat CouIee in the Seegrass Hills
after initial which showed ~ barrels of oil i'm "a hours
from break i'm the Madison lime at 81 This WELL in NE Sc
1OS7N5E, got the of the Madison lime 3127 The well
drilled to 2S79 feet in 1886 by Others and last year
taken by Coolidge and Cobb for deepening.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-06-24

Oil has been found in the De
vonian formation in another well
east of the Rockies, this time in a
hole drilled to 2,040 feet at Unity,
Sask., in the west central portion
of the province near the Alberta
boundary. Initial tests indicate the
well may be commercial.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-06-24

Hannah-P Porter Marceau No. /, G
NV Sc NV 3-31-6W, test on the
Blackfeet Indian reservation which
attempted to extend the Cut Bank
field to the southwest, is being
plugged and abandoned after four
small shots failed to help an oil
showing, 308713092. The well was
plugged back TO test the oil show
Ing after getting sulphur water at
the Ellis-Madison contact, 1888.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-06-24
Fulton Wildcat
Cernenting Cave

Fighting to carry down l215.
inch open hole, Bill Fulton's wildcat
on the Hagan structure southwest
of the Cut Bank field, in NE Sc NE
9-31-7XN, is cementing cave at 2,180.
The well has had numerous shows
of gas ina&he Colorado shale and is
looking decidedly "alive," Fulton
reported this week. The Fulton well
is now the only wildcat drilling
on the Blackfeet Indian reserva-
ton.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-06-24
Torrent Rig Burns
On Miczwdy Structure

Rig being used in drilling r. C.
Tarrant's No. Bouma In the Mid
way field east of Conrad was COM
pletely destroyed by fire during the
week, with hole made to 500. The
well, in 31-28N-1W, spudded May Is.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-06-24
PENDROY WILDCAT
ENDS INV FAILURE

Roy Anderson, ct atkinson No. /
in the Pendroy area, on the down
throw side of the Emrick fault,
NV NV NV 21-27-6W, was this
week plugged and abandoned after
getting sulphur water at the Ellis
Madison contact, 1918. Total depth
was 1887.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-06-24

Texas company is drilling past
500 feet in its No. Nick LAS,
NV SW SW 14-33N-4E, mile east
of its discovery well on the Utopia
block north of Lothair The well
was delayed by a fire, resulting
from ignition of a 250, 000-foot gas
flow at 920-930. Damage has been
repaired
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-06-24

The letter emphasizes:
I'VE will expect all producers in
Montana to come into compliance
with the act as regards their labor
contract employees not later than
July 1, 1914"
On and after that date, the letter
stresses, any operator who let's a
labor contract to a drilling crew,
must be prepared to pay time and
half for all overtime worked over
Continued on Page -
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-06-24
Wildcot Neur Collins
M0kes Hole Post ! 900

Union On company's wildcat on
the ]. J. Greene ranch, in NV SW
SW 2S-35-3W near Collins, has
made hole to past 1000 feet with
rotary tools and should be a com
pletion to the Ellis-M Madison con-
tact within the next 10 days
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-06-24

Held.
Compilations were Levi Burd's
Tribal Contract No. / 8, G NV SW
NE 32-32N-5W, which swabbed So
barrels the first "a hours from 2S75-
1900; Consolidated Gas-Frary Allot-
ted 8745 No. l, c NV SW SW 1882
N-6W, which is TO be shot after get
Continued on Page -
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-06-24
Wage-Hour Rule Seems Death Knell
For Oil Field Labor Contracting

Whether any labor will be let in Montana oil
fields after July appeared doubtful this week following receipt
r. Svare secretary of the Montana Oil and Gas
Producers association from L. A. HILL regional director of the
and public division, department of labor
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-06-24
CUT BANK FIELD RECORDS 3
COMPETITIONS DURING WEEK

wells started and completed dry
hole in the rather unexcitng Bank
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-06-24
Oil Price Increase Plan Quashed;
congressman Turn Thumbs Down

The Montana Independent operator struggling
oil prewar despite mounting labor and material
COSTS will have keep right struggling without any hope of
an n o
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-06-24
Texaco Gets Small Sunburst Sand
Pumper to Extend Keyin-Sunburst

Texas Companys No Wagner NE SW NE 2936-1W this week
apparently had succeeded extending the Sunburs sand pouc
ing of the Kevnbus field two miles the northeast
pumping ~ barrels the first % hours after shooting with 80 quarts
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16
Where Your Dollars Go

Now that the Fifth War Bond Drive is ended and lover the top"
we want to call attention to the latest figures Of incomes. The percent
we stress for the benefit of people who still believe that taxes 0 high
incomes make gross profits uninportant.
The Federal Governments latest word is that between the years
1899 and 1913, incomes increased as follows:
Corporation incomes increased 329 percent.
Farmers incomes increased 24 percent.
Business proprietOrs incomes increased "a percent.
Industrial workers incomes increased So percent.
Also that -
After all taxes were deducted the incomes of corporations still
showed a gain of 10I percent.
We started in by referring to the Fifth War Bond Drive. What has
a war bond to do with the increase in corporation incomes?
Well, the answer is that we wouldn't need to pile up such a big
national debt if we could buy what we need at a lower price. And we
could get lower prices if the owners and corporation heads of America
woul not insist upon making profits out of the war.
When people are presumed to cut their living standards IN order
to Buy Bonds First" they Ire told that the bonds ar necessary to
supply the boys in the foxholes with weapons, food and medicine. And
who would want to send American boys out to fight with anything but
plenty of the best
But that's not all that bonds ire needed for. Bonds are needed to
make that 101 percent increase lin corporate war profits possible. That's
where much of the money goes
We're against the profit system because we have seen that, in
peace and in war it works against the interests of the common man.
We generally base our arguments upon the economic interest," of people
when we advocate the socialist program of production for use instead
of for profit.
However, we could condemn profits as unpatriotic, too. For the
nation could do much more with much less if the means of producing
what soldiers need were owned by the people and operated without
paying huge profits to a few people profits which have scared to
twice what they were since mel began dying in the present war.
America can't buy what the fighters need unless most of us sacri-
flee. But America must make the people of today sacrifice unnecessar-
lily, and fasten a huge debt upon the people of tomorrow, because it lets
corporate interests dip deeper and deeper into the public treasury.
We could fight this war without any debt to enIave future
Americans -
If all would sacrifice equally.
And if we owned collectively the natural resources and gigantic
corporations which, together with human labor and intelligence, are
the sources of all wealth. - Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16
&C. Surrenders to Lords Of the Press
Publishers Take Advantage OF Election Year to Put Over
Scandalous Deals; Durr's Significant Figures

just a little while ago-a year at the most-a majority of the mem
berss of the Federal Communications Commission seemed very much
alive to the danger inherent in permitting newspapers to control radio
stations.
With great force these gentlemen pointed out that ownership of
newspapers is constantly being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands
In some very large cities one newspaper dominates the entire field. In
others, two papers have a monopoly. To make matters worse, chains"
frequently owned by the members of me family, are extending their
tentacleS from one city to another.
To permit these newspaper monopoies to get their grip on radio
was obviously dangerous, said progressive members of the F. c. c..
Those of us who shared that view had high hopes. At long last, we
thought, we have an F. c. c. which will protect the peoples interests.
But we were sadly mistaken. The F. c. C. has abandoned its
crusade" The newspaper moguls have won a complete victory. 1t fact,
the commission is 81 anxious to get radio into the hands of the news
papers that it is approving sales of stations without even the fornality
of a hearing.
In that connection, some scandalous facts III developing. Clifford
j. Durr, a member of the F. c. c., who in the past has demonstrated he
has courage and intelligence, points out in a public statement that the
newspapers ire so determined to get these radio stations while the
peries.
the two stations it acquired. The Washington Post" agreed to hand
over 300 per cent increase on the cost of the stations physical proper
ties and over $50 per cent of its net worth"
LABOR is probably just "a voice crying in the wilderness" but
it protests against this gross betrayal of the public interests.
1t is significant that the newspaper monopOlists are pushing their
radio claims o the eve of a general election. Undoubtedly they figure
that in such a crucial time the administration will be less inclined to
antagonze them.
Whatever their line of reasoning may be, they III certainly "get
ting away with the swag," and the brave fight to head off a joint mono
poly of the radio and press by a handful of gentlemen, who are gen
orally lacking in social vision, has apparently been abandoned-Labor
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16
!. and Democratic
Manage ent

The three words that are the caption for this editorial are be-
coming the more important of the Socialist ultimate detectives. Thew
need emphasizing now because there is n o longer any doubt that the
memorable course of events is going to compel society to accept the fret
part of the slogan that Socialist soap-boxers used to submit for puhre
consideration a generation ago.
What Socialism aims to achieve is the Social Ownership AND
Democratic Management of the means of production and distribution
We haven't won through to Socialism yet; on the contrary, what
We have today looks more like fascism than the economic democracy
which Eugene v. Debs SO eloquently idealized. But -
We r fairly we'll embarked upon an ea of social control of .
economic factors of our day and age. .-.- .... -.A. -----. 49,.
1t is the very development of social control without the eimina-
ton of the class character of our society that caused the Socialist Party
of the United States to stress the danger of state ism in is convention
this year.
What Socialists recognize is that social control can very well
be a greater tyranny and a more-hrmly based social Injustice than
the order of Individual enterprise that is now making its exit.
Ii government functions to plan economic processes AND 10
maintain the class relationships of the old order, then fascism = and
not Socialism - becomes the way of life. The greater freedom for
economic control is administered.
Only if the people share in economic control and if the distribution
of wealth is based altogether upon service will Socialism result The
alternative is fascism. Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16
"INFLATiON" AS
Mr.. VINSON SEES 1T

1t does make a difference whose
OK is gored" when government
agencies are considering wage in
creases.
For example, when an emergen-
cy board awarded the nations rail
workers a modest pay boost-one
the carriers perfectly willing
to accept-Fred M. Vinson, direc-
tor of economic sterilization, step
ped in and disallowed the increase,
contending it was "inflationary'.
Thanks to the vigorous efforts
of the rail unions, this bureau
cratic interference was overcome
and the workers eventually got
their increase.
Now, note the difference, when
Mr.. Vinson is dealing with the
wages of capital. This week he ap-
proved an increase of 20 to 80
cents a barrel in the price of crude
oil produced from fields less than
nine barrels per well daily. A re-
latively few individuals and COM
panies will be 0,0OG,0 5O better
off as a result of the concession.
Consumers will not pay the in
crease directly, but they will pay
it indirectly through a government
subsidy. Regardless of how pay
ment is made, the fact remains
that Mr.. Vinson shouts Initiation
when an extra dollar goes into a
workers pocket but isn't alarmed
when the extra dollar goes into the
bank account Of an oil producer
Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16
REACTION HOLDS ITS
DEAD HAND OVER
THE FUTURE

In stable times, when the cOurS
of human affairs runs along a fair
ly level stretch, reaction seek
only to bring back the past ant
put it in place of the present. Con
corning the future its motto is.
after us the deluge."
Today, when we have come to
a turning point, reaction organ
ICES under the banners of fascism
to put the past in control of the
future. In place of government by
discussion and free suffrage, fas-
cism puts government by decree,
ruthlessly enforced. In place of the
extension order and international
relations it offers a revival of
feudal authority, belligerent ma
tionalism and aggressive imperial
ism. In the heyday of his power
Mussolini said that fascism is re-
action. Like the democratic move
ment it seeks to end, the fascist
movement is worldwide.
In every land where industrial
ization has begun, in Europe, Asia
and the Americas, there is either
a party or a coalition of political
and economic factions with the
same aims, principles and methods
assthose which have come to pow.
er in the Axis nations. The com
position of the forces varies &C.
cording to the amount of feuda
survivals, the degree of democracy
arrived at, the extent of monopoly
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16
SMALL CUISINES
DECLINES

Startling figures are cited by
the Department of Commerce,
showing the casualties among
small business during the war. In
two years following Pearl Harbor
1913, 900 American firms went
bankrupt, and only $4,000 new
businesses were organized. "Busi-
ness turnover is normally of start
ling proportions" the survey said;
in two years before Pearl Harbor
GA, 900 bankruptcies occurred. But
the devastation among small bust
ness "has not been accompanied
by a similar decline in the profit
ability or valume of business
among survivors. Profit have been
at a high level, the survey reports
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16
REMEMBER WHO'S
TO BLAME

The denim of your work clothes,
the cottonn in woman's house
dresses and children's outfits and
knit cotton underwear, the thread
you sew with and the sheets and
pillow cases you sleep on will cost
you an extra $50 million this
year.
Prices of all these things are up
already. They went up as the re-
suit of a dirty deal Congress pull
led in Washington when they
tackled a version of the Bankhead
amendment onto the price control
extension bill in spite of grave
warnings from labor as to the eff
feet it would have on the cost Of
living.
Now labor's grim prediction
has come true - workers will pay
and manufacturers get the gravy
from that $3.50 million increase.
But in November Congressman
may be laughing on the other side
of their faces because this is q
lesson for political action that a
worker and his wife aren't likely
to forget. 1t might be interesting
to take it up with your Congress
man while he's home this Summer.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16
INCOME FROM OWNER
SHIP N PROPERTY
CONTROL ALMOST
DOUBLED IN 4 A
By BENJAMIN C. MARSH
Executive Director, Peoples Lobby

Tt Ii S1I111< W. 4f1HGS1L
Executive Director, Peoples Lobby
Income from ownership and con-
troll of property increased by nine
tenths in the four war years from
1889 to 1913. The property owners
will have their property when the
war is overwhelming a good deal
of property the government has
constructed and made for them as
war plants-While the tens of mil
lions of war workers and returned
soldiers will have their jobs
only if these owners of property
give them to them.
The April Survey of Current
Business analysis of who gets the
increase in war income shows the
Department of Commerce looked
after it's clients.
In 1889, income from ownership
or control of property was 1929
billion, in 1943-$42.7 billion,-an
increase of 500 billion-87 per
cent or nearly nine tenths.
National income increased from
S70.8 billion in 1889 to $147.9 bill
lion- in 1943,-by $77.1 billion, or
1899 per cent.
While compensation of workers
increased by $57.1 billion or 118.9
per cent, approximately $780, 600
more people were commercially
employed in 1913, than in 1889
and there were about $500, 900
more in, the armed forces in 1943,
- in all, about two fifths more
people were employed in civil or
military life in 1943 than in 1899.
The increase during these four
years in the number of people get
ting or having a claim on divi-
dends, corporate savings, antrepe-
neural withdrawals, interest and
net rent was small, and newcomers
didn't get much of the cut.
Farm proprietors Jared better
than non-farm. In 1943, their net
income was $12.3 billion-an in
crease of So billion-or 1876 per
cent above 1899. Farm proprietors
r the backbone of the Farm
Bloc"
Non-farm proprietors had in
1943 a net income of S11.6 billion
an increase of only SAT billion, OF
4O.5 per cent over 1889.
Big business got the cream OF
war business.
The total of the increases in ma
tional income over the $7O.8 bill
lion national income in 1889, for
four years through 1943 was
$160.8 billion; the total increase
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16
A HOME For
ORPHANED LIBERALS
X. M. Lands III in the Chicago
Sun

Henry A. Wallace and Wendell
Willkie should get together and
organize, if not a new party, at
least a defeated candidates club.
They have a lot in common. Wal
lace started out in life as a Repub-
lican and became a Democrat.
Willkie started out as a Democrat
and became a Republican.
Somehow they missed each other
coming and going, which was too
bad. They would have made good
travelling companions. Separated as
they were, they maintained a bond
OF mutual respect.
During the 1910 campaign Will
kie was the only Republican to say
a kind word for Wallace. It hap
pened in Iowa when Wallace's
name was booed at a Willkie
meeting.
Willkie astonished the Republic
ans with his rebuke: Henry Wal
lace is a gentleman and a scholar"
And at the Democratic conven-
ton in Chicago last week, Wallace
said some nice things about Will
kie, indicating that a man of his
sentiments belonged back in the
Democratic party.
Audacity Equals That of Willkie
Wallace declared that the Demo-
cratic party was the place for
liberals and the Republican party
the place for conservatives, and the
convention could not doubt his sin
cerity.
THE poll tax must CO." he in
formed the astonished southern de-
legates with an audacity equal to
Wilkes in challenging the Bour-
bons in the Republican party.
And what Claude Pepper said
about Wallace the next day in
seconding his nomination for Vice
President made a lot of people
think of Willkie.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-16
When Is A Unionist
Not A Unionist?

No doubt many of our readers think we exaggerate when we refer
at times, to certain newspapers and newspaper chains as labor hating"
O "ant-iabor." But in what other way can you describe the prejudice
against unions shown for instance, by the Los Angeles Herald-Express
one of the Hearst chain of newspapers?
The Herald-Express. recently published a story about a veterans
service center in Los Angeles. In order not to have to mention the
all to prevent the veterans from hearing of it, the Herald-Express
Identified one top official of the AFL Central Labor Council IS simply
of the War Chest and a leading Go official as "board member
Community Welfare Federation" No mention whatsoever of their
union connections.
Those ar the tactics employed by one laborhating newspaper TO
keep the public and war veterans from hearing anything good
about the unions. But you can bet that had either of the two union
officials become involved in an affair of an unsavory nature, there
would have been spread all over the front page-The Brewery Worker