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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-01-29

Of great interest in Montana are
several of the listed projects.
One calls for detailed strait
graphic and structural studies of
the Milk River anticline In Glacier
county, on the Blackfeet Indian
reservation.
Another is projected revision and
republication of the structure con
tour map of the Montana plains, by
C. E. Dobbin and c. E. Erdman,
first published in 1892. Inasmuch as
this is the most comprehensive
u. S. G. S. map of Montana pub
lished, taking in the entire state
east of the Rockies, its revision is
expected to be of great value in
providing a base for exploratory
work anywhere In the region, tax
ing in more than 100000 square
miles.
Also of great interest will be
photographic and structural study
of the disturbed belt east of the
Rocky Mountain front in Glacier,
Pondera and Teton counties. Work
on this subject has been COM
menced.
Also scheduled is revision and
republication of the preliminary
structure contour map of the Cut
Bank-West Kevin-B Border districts,
in Glacier, Toole and Pondera coun-
ties, initially published in 1899.
Scheduled for completion this
year Is detailed surface and sub
surface study of natural gas occur
(ConttnHed on Page -
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-01-29
g1SToRoa
GAGE WELL INITIAL FLOW 3sS 5 BARRELS
COMPLETION
SIGNAL FOR
LEASE RUSH

Greatest activity since the
''b0Om days" that followed ehe
initial discovery of oil in Mon.
tana appeared Ina sight In south
central Montana thfs week. fol-.
lowing tests I'm which Northern
Ordnance c0mpany's second
well on Gage dome. near Round.
mp, flowed SS8 barrels I'm a a.
hour test
For, In the thousands of square
miles adjacent to Gage dome, dozens
of sharply defined structures have
lain dormant for more than a dec
ade, condemned" by early day
wells which were little more than
post holes, and which now are re-
allied to have meant nothing at all
The Gage dome wen which was
tested this week is about twice as
deep as the average hole that was
put down in this area. Even so, at
6125 feet, as has barely scratched
the surface, insofar as productive
possibilities of the region are con-
cerned.
Like all of the rest of Montana's
more than 5000 oil and gas wells, It
is getting its production from a
horizon above the Madison lime,
long the traditional stopping point
for Montana drilling operations.
According to the grapevine as the
week ended, a very intensive leas-
ing campaign is under way cover
ing dozens of structures in the Gage
dome area. Aiding the lease hounds
is the fact that location of all of the
structures has been known for
years, plainly outlined on the U. s.
G. S. maps.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-01-29
SEVEN CUT
BANK WELLS
STRIKE PAY

Taking advantage OF c0ntin-
ued baIrny temperatures, OPP
orators In the Cat Bank field
daring the week registered
seven compilations and started
four new wells.
Best completion of the week was
Texaco-Mueller No. 2, c NV SW
2-35-6W, which swabbed 200 barrels
the first "a hours after an 60-quart
shot.
Second best completion was
Wright Haggerty's Tribal No. 2,
NV NE NV 32-32-5W. It swabbed
100 barrels the first "A hours, with
out shooting.
Other competitions were B. l..
Frary's Tribal 7 No. 2, Sc Sc Sc
14-32-6W, which swabbed 100 bar
rels the first "a hours and is to be
shot; c. w. Jeffrey Tribal 10 No. l.,
Sc Sc Sc 23-32-6W, which swabbed
100 barrels the first "A hours, was
shot with so quarts and is testing,
Rulberg-Tribal 200 No. /, NV NV
NE 25-32-6W, which swabbed Is
gconsamusa On Page 81
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-01-29
WELL STANDS UP

Interest in possibilities of the
Border nose, northwest of Sunburst,
mounted this week when the sec
ond well in the area, Thorpe-Hol-
brook No. 2, put $50 barrels of high
gravity oil into tankage in a three
day test, after having first been
pumped off. Government sanction
for a price of $1-30 is being asked
for this oil, because of its extreme
high gravity. A third well is start
ing one location to the northeast.
Handbook Coolidge is taking the
oil, for his pipeline to Canada.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-01-29
HARLO DOME TEST
NOW CORTNG. 343O

Center of increasing interest
since the opening of commercial
production on Gage dome so miles
to the east, Mid Montana Young No.
/ on the Harlo dome, NV NE 10
7N-1SE, in Wheatland county. Is
coring with rotary tools at 3430
feet.
Confident production win be
found, operators have ordered a
production string, tubing and rods.
The Madison lime is expected at
between $500 and 1000.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-01-29
Those Were The Days :.
From Files Of the Montana OH Journal
Twenty Years Ago This Week

Midwest Refining Creek price
S155 The field has 164 producing wells
Northern installed oil burning locomotives
its Havre-Cut Bank
WINNETTCat Greek field oil operators up
Petroleum by splitting Fergus county
They point the field occupies only 100Oh of the
fCentnns donp
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-01-29
STRUCTURES
THIRD TEST
NEARING PAY

That deeper drilling has re
suited I'm bringing I'm another
major oil field In Montana APP
peared assured this week, when
the Northern Ordnance com.
pany's second wen ON Gage
dome, IL miles northeast of
Roundup i'm the south central
portion of the state, flowed S58
barrels I'm "a hours.
The well is the company's No.
Darr In S SW NV 14-9E-26E, three
quarters of a mile northeast of the
discovery well in the field, the No.
/ Morris in c SW SW 15-9N-26E.
The Morris well, apparently inn
properly handled when 1t was
brought in, pumped Is barrels on
initial test, from 1865 feet, and Is
to be re-worked.
Another well In this field,
the Northern Ordnance COM
pans No. Suzanne Brothers,
i'm C NV SEC fs-DN-2gE, little
more than three miles south
east of the discovery well and
checking about $50 feet strmc-
turally lower, is making hole
with rotary tools Mt $500 feet and
should be a completion within
the next few days.
The Darr well, according to D. G.
Walker, production superintendent
for Northern Ordnance Co, appears
good for about IL barrels an hoafr
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-01-29

Heading for a test of the Ellis
Madison contact, Northern Pet
Northern Farms No 2, on the Flat
Coulee structure in the Sweetgrass
Hills, In c NE SW 10-37-5E, was this
week reported drilling at 304S. with
the expectation It would test the
Ellis Madison contact inside the
next Is feet.
This well had IS barrels produc-
ton from the 76-foot Sunburst sand,
topped at 1908.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-01-29
BULLETINS
DEEP TEST GIFTS GAS

Most important well now
drilling In Montana, A. B.
Cobb's deep test I'm the south
eastern corner of the Pondera
field, cOred 5OLfo0t aiive" gas
sand I'm what Is believed TO be
the base of the DevOnian or
top of the Ordovician, and is
now making hole at past A,OO0
feet.
This well. in the high" Of the
field. has bad no water sands, found
commercial production at the Ellis-
Madison contact, has cored numer-
Gus oil and gas showings in the
Devonian, and may bring about a
revolution in northern Montana oil
field practice. II is the only well
ever started with equipment ade-
quate to test all likely productive
horizons on the Sweetgrass arch
No test has yet been made of
any of the showings so far en-
countered.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-01-29
ACID HELPS
2 WELLS IN
NORTH FIELD

Two compilations, one q well
which svabbed as barrels the
first n hours after acidixati0n
with $50 gallons, che other a
well which swabbed So bar
rels the first c. hours after a
similar acasaizafion, were record
ed durfng the week I'm the
lCcasaamed em Page 40
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-01-29
Next w eek .

The story of Elk Basin-an oil
field in the Rockies Montana
Wyoming discovery rated as the
top development of 1913 In the
entire nation. II Is the familiar
story of an old field, drilled
deeper, and found To have tre-
mendously greater reserves In
the lower sands than In the SHAH
lower horizons In the Journal,
next week.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-01-29
NEARING TENsLEEP

Ohio OH cOmpany's Tensleep
test In the Dry Creek field,
Carbon county, it's No. ~ N. p.
in S-7S-27E, made hole during
the week TO 1850 feet. TensIeep
Is expected at past 5000.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-01-29
U.S.G. S. kenews
State Oil Study

New light be thrown productive possibilities
and Wyoming peroIrous by
ing the coming made possible by increased appropriations
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
SOLDIERS VOTE
AND FOURTH TERM

The presidents special message to
Congress touching on enactment Of
measures to provide the ballot for the
military forces has not served to help
congressman resolve on workable plan.
ION the other hand it has acted to hinder
faction. The message dealt mostly with
"a measure passed last December in the
4senate through coalition of southern
senators and Republican members. The
Aelement of states rights figured IN dis
.cussion of that measure and the coali-
.tion won in its stand that the states and
mot the federal government should pro-
vide for the voting. That measure did
mot please the president and he only re-
sopened old sores by his language in the
smessage
On the floor of the senate democrats
-openly associate the new vote measure
with a fourth term. One senator went
$50 far as to declare that the whole ma
.stion wants Roosevelt at the helm until
unconditional surrender is obtained" and
in this statement he had to include the
Fighting men. Only one result could
scome from such Incorporate statements.
Republican members, encouraged by an
sandercurrent of resentment among
GROUP of democratic senator's, could do
-no less than rise up and do battle. Their
action 'flabbergasted" the very demo-
scrats who had broached the fourth term
in their debate.
= 1t hardly could be expected that par
1isan feeling would stay out of this de-
bate, but not even the rankest partisan
shardly expected to hear arguments for
1he bill tied up with the fourth term.
Republicans can't be blamed if they keep
"a weather eye out when the record of
the New Deal from its inception Is one
aOf taking every possible political ad-
yantage in legislation.
: congressman should not take all the
Blame for muddlng the plan up with
politics. 1t is not the first time execu-
Tive meddling has interfered with the
Legislative branch of government.
However. it is to be regretted that the
main objective could not be reached with
tout stirring up mess, and in this regard
mo one can escape blame Steps should
shave been taken long ago. Then the
states would have had sufficient time
to provide the necessary machinery
which manifestly is state duty as we'll
as a prerogative.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 3424

ESTATE OF JAGAT SINGH,
DECEASED.
Notice is hereby given by the un-
dersigned, BISHAN SINGH as ex-
ecutor of the estate of Jagat Singh.
deceased, to the creditors of and
all persons having claims against
the said deceased, that within SIX
months after the first publication
of this notice they either file them
with the necessary vouchers in the
office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of the State of California,
in and for the County of Imperial,
or exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers to the said Bishan Singh,
as Executor of said estate, at the
office of D. B. Roberts, Bank OF
America Bldg, Ell Centro, Califor-
MIA, the same being the place for
the transaction of the business of
the said estate in the County OF
Imperial, State of California.
Dated at Ell Centro, California,
this 5th day of January, 1914.
BISHAN SINGH,
Executor of the Estate of
JAGAT SINGH,
Deceased.
(No. 34) (J7-14-21-28)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
DILLON MYER DEFENDS
Jap POLICY TO END
CLOS Angeles Times)

clos Angeles ImeS)
In his speech here a few days ago de-
Tending the War Relocation Authority,
Dillon S. Myer made a number of inde-
fensible statements which indicated that
his greatest apparent desire is personal
vindication for policy which has been
almost universally condemned by in
formed persons. How else. for instance,
can the statement be explained that
Pacific Coast opposition to presence here
in wartime of Japanese is due to race
prejudice?
If Myer were competent to handle his
post he would know that race prejudice
is a very minor factor in the situation.
Myer ignored completely the report of
Gen. John L. Dewitt, who gave the true
reasons for exclusion, which coincide
with the true reasons for opposition to
their return: the fact that there were
among the japanese a considerable num-
Der whose aid to the enemy was plainly
demonstrated, and whose preparations
for further aid were much more than
suspected.
Myer points to the fact that some per-
sons of japanese ancestry are loyal to
the United States, and points to the good
military record of those who have been
inducted into the Army. No one here
disputes the fact. But these Army re-
cruits had their loyalty Investigated, not
by the WRA but by the considerably more
competent Army Intelligence before they
were given arms.
If the people of the West Coast doubt
the ability of the WRA as at present con-
Quoted to tell whether a given Jap is
loyal to the United States or to Hirohito,
there has been abundant basis for that
doubt developed by Congressional and
other Investigations.
And if any so-called Exaggerated"
and misleading" accounts of the Tule
Lake riots were published, who is to
blame for that but Dillon S. Myer, who
barred the press from the Tule Lake
camp?
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
Nurse Describes
Sinking Of
HospitaI Vessel

LONDON, Jan. %. CUP)-The
Germans couldn't possibly have
mistaken the hospital ship st.
David because they dropped flares
before loosing their bombs, two
American army nurses said Friday
in a dispatch from the London
Daily Mails Fifth army correspond
ent.
The nurses, Second Lieutenants
Ruth Hindman, Johnstown, Pa, and
Anna Berret, Natchez, Miss, said
the st. David was lighted and fully
loaded when it was sunk during the
allied landings below Rome.
The flares dropped by the bomb
ers revealed not only the st. David
but also her sister hospital ships,
st. Andrew and Leisnter, they said.
Then they scored a direct hit on
the st. David
Lieutenant Hindman, whose head
was bruised by the explosion, said
the ship lurched and sank sud-
denly, throwing her, many army
doctors and hundreds of wounded
soldiers into the water. Most of
the wounded were walking cases
she said, and were not trapped be-
low decks when the ship went
under a
Nurses, doctors and patients
clung to RATS and floating pieces
of wood until the Leistner picked
us up she said. 1T was cold and
miserable in the water, especially
knowing the patients were there
| too"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
ON INVADING JAPAN

(San Francisco Chronicle)
An officer on General MacArthur's
staff discussing possibility of defeating
Japan before invading the homeland,
touches point of strategy often over
looked.
Defeat before invasion is not only
possible but is quite probably the way
it will be done.
When the time comes to invade Japan
itself it will be job of walking ashore
if the octopus tentacles have been cut.
The japanese will not be driven out Of
their sources of supply and back to their
homeland without destruction Of their
air power. That now is at high rate,
for the facilities we have been able to
assign to the Pacific.
Back in Japan they would have few
planes left to resist invasion and no
gasoline to send them up. If it is en-
ticed into sea test, allied naval officers
are confident they can destroy it. If it
is hidden at home, oil will be lacking to
operate it.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE

nv
Imperial Irrigation District will
offer for sale on February g. 1914
the following described property:
That 50-foot by 140-foot one
story building located on the
southwest corner of Sixth and
Main Streets, El Centre, Cali
fornia and more commonly
known as the California Elec-
trio Power Company office
building, together with the air.
conditioning system, venetian
blinds, plumbing and lighting
fixtures, and linoleum, all in
stalled therein.
Sealed bids should be presented
to this Board on or before Febru-
ary 8, 1914 at ten o'clock am.
The Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids. 81
? Oral bids may be received at time
of sale provided the first oral bid
is at least ten per cent higher than
highest sealed bid. Thereafter oral
bids of not less than five per cent
of highest bid will be received.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT
G.. l.. DERMODY,
Secretary.
mo. 39) (J25-28; F1-4
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
Auto Licenses
Hit S75.128

Collections Of motor vehicle IL
cense fees mounted higher and
higher Friday with the total this
year $24,870 ahead of a year ago.
Captain M. p Hebblethwaite OF
the California Highway patrol in
Imperial county said the grand
total today is $75,128 but this IS
still short of the amount that mus
be collected from owners of auto
mobiles, trucks, and trailers.
Deadline for paying the 1914 Ii
cense fees is February 4. After that
date the state collects a heavy PEN
atty issuing the licenses.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE

NJ ol1SL
Imperial Irrigation District Will
offer for sale on February l, 1914
the following described property;
All desks, tables, filing cabinets,
chairs, metal suitcase stands,
dressers, waste baskets, letter
trays together with one 12-foot
by 12-foot rug with pad and
other sundry office furniture
all located in the front room OF
the building located on the
southwest corner of Sixth and
Main Streets, Ell Centre, Cali
fornia.
Sealed bids should be presented
to this Board on or before Febru-
airy l, 1914 at ten o'clock am.
The Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
Oral bids may be received at
time of sale provided the first oral
bid is at least ten per cent higher
than highest sealed bid. There
after oral bids of not less than five
per cent of highest bid will be
received.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT
G. L. DERMODY,
Secretary.
(No 40) (J25-28
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
RECEIVERSHTP

CARSON CITY, New, Jan. 28
UP)-A receiver for the Pioneer
club of Las Vegas. said to be one
of the largest gambling organiza-
tions in the state, was asked in a
complaint filed in federal court
Arguments on the complaint are
scheduled for Saturday. The petit
ton was filed by H. II. Atkinson,
Reno attorney, representing Frank
A. Simmons. Simmons charged
profits of the club have exceeded
$4,000 monthly since 1941 when he
was assigned two and one-half
per cent interest through payment
of $4,000 to Mrs. A. w. Crosby. Sim
mons said since that time he has
received only S1,250.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
White Collar Unit
Has Advocate

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. CUP)-
Price Administrator Chester BoWles
told a senate subcommittee that
white collar workers constitute the
only segment of the working popu-
lation that has failed to gain
economically during this period Of
wartime prosperity
BoWles told the subcommittee,
which is considering economic prob
lens of white collar workers, that
factory employees are generally re-
ceiving weekly wages 81 per cent
above 1941 levels. Farmers net in
come, he added, is SO per cent
above l941.
But many millions of white COL
lar workers, our millions of citizens
living on fixed incomes, and the
100000 men in our armed SER
vices have alone failed to gain
economically during this period,
BoWles said.
These groups, who with their de-
pendents total one-quarter OF the
population, face n growing econo-
mic threat" the administrator
warned.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
IceI0ndic Youths
Hold Blood Rite

youths pledged themselves blood
brothers" through an Icelandic
ritual in which they slashed wounds
in their left arms and mingled
their flowing blood.
After separation of several
years, they met again recently at
the University of California. where
Thors is a political science student
and Eggertsson a major in business
administration.
This week Eggertsson learned
that he will leave soon for Colum-
bia university in New York to COM
plete his education. Last night the
youths decided to complete the
blood ritual before they were sep
arated again. Each pricked one of
his fingers with needle-p pointed
siX-inch dagger and mingled their
blood.
Early this morning a waitress in
a Berkeley restaurant noticed the
sheathed knives on the young men.
She called them to the attention
of a nearby policeman, who ar
rested the youths and took them
to jail on charges of carrying con-
cealed weapons.
Police also found a % caliber
pistol on young Thors. He explain
ed he was going target shooting
after leaving his friend-it's anothe"
Icelandic custom.
Police released the youths with
out filing charges. They broke the
knives and pistol and tossed them
into San Francisco bay.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. CUP)-
A vast work program has been for
mulated which could be launched
less than a month after peace is
declared, and it is being kept Up
TO date for the time when demobi-
lized service men and war workers
are again on the labor market,
Secretary of Interior Harold L..
Ickes said today.
In the interior departments an
nual report to President Roosevelt,
Ickes said a single type of project
in this postwar work program
power and irrigation construction
would keep 100000 veterans gain
fully employed for three years and
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28

BERKELEY, Cal, Jan. %. CUP)
Two Icelandic youths landed in
Jail after celebrating an ancient
Morse blood rite.
The youths are Gunnar Eggerts-
son, 81, son of Eggert Kristiinssen,
president of the -Icelandic chamber
of commerce; and Bjorn Thors, 20,
nephew of Thor Thors, Icelandic
minister to the United States.
Years ago, in Iceland, the two
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE

NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Purchasing Agent of I'M
perial County will receive and
open sealed bids and award the
contract for the purchase of one
used model lob Bucyrus machine
with dragline and shovel attach
ments and bucket equipped with
Buda engine and Butane carbureto,
and two tanks on January 81, 1914.
at 10 o'clock am, payment to be
made on regular County demand
The right to reject all bids g
reserved.
DATED at Ell Centre, California,
January rs, 1914
r. L. BAKER,
Purchasing Agent.
(No. 42) (J26-31 inc0
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
SCANS SEWER SET-UP

LOS ANGELES, Jan. % CUP)-
Superior Judge Alfred E. Paonessa
Friday took under submission the
states attempt to put legal cork
in the only sewer outlet for greater
Los Angeles, an area with a popu-
lation over 100000. The state
sought TO enjoin the city and nine
surrounding municipalities from
using the Hyperion disposal plant
effective at once, on grounds it
has been illegally operated since
May, 1912, polluteS the beaches and
is a health menace.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
RAIL LOADINGS GAIN

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. CUP)-
Railroads of the nation loaded 1885,
722 cars of revenue freight in the
week ended Jan. %, an increase Of
1882 cars from the previous week,
the Association of American Rail
roads reported.
The latest weeks total repre-
sented a rise of 95,423 cars from
the corresponding 1943 period, but
a decline of 1889 cars from two
years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
n. Y. PUBLISHER DIES

NEW YORK, Jan. %. VUPJ :
William T. Dewart, 68, president
and publisher of the New York
Sun, died at his Park avenue home
Thursday night. Dewart, general
manager of the newspaper since
1903, bought the Sun in 1926 for
reported Sl3,0OO00O from the resi-
duary legatee under the will of
Frank A. Munsey, the metropoli-
tan museum of art.