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' ' ' - T. ' i ' J ■ ■ — » ' '■ ' . oumal Aoian ,* kfA MÜM ■ W«IW«I - -" ■ " qg w ■ » COPT~ CftSADA Mr v< S ►AY. I*. II—INX1MBKR «7 mUSBIXS U 8 * — « IMG HORN REFINERY SOLD TO iS olden Dome Wildcat Off To'îï? Fast Start With Rotary Rig GASOLINE TAX RATES SOAR AS PRICE IS CUT IN HALF 3A50tf*f O ©AU- ON W.-CRA6Ç GASOLINE TÀ* ASSESSMENT v. AVERAGE PSÎC? »E 30* 30* i/ / 25♦ / V ■ > — ^ -— -ÿ 20 * 20ft /, i 15* I5X T \ y t W* kV 7 •oft / / . » I 9X 5« - fra —■ . M r ■■ - ■ If Mi O T T T r •*» X Ö, r F A - 3 3 PCf> «ALLO.» - 2 2 - ) i o — 0 vjr prim » huve *> een out in half during the last hile gasoline taxes during the same period Good top ten years, mBKÊ ÊÊ ÊÊM jumped nearly one-third. That is the message conveyed by the above diusiretum, issued by the American Petroleum institute. Gasoline prices in 60 referesentattve American cities averaged 29.74 cents per gallon. At the beginning of 1932, in these same cities, the actual gasoline price aver aged only 13 cents per gallon. In 1920, in these same cities, the gas tax averaged .09 gallon. Today it averages 4 cents—nearly one cents per ] third the retail price. These figures explain why a nation-wide move to cut gasoline taxes is now under way. - New Gas War Looms In Northern Montana O'Neil Reported To Have Taken Over Interest In Jones Gasser On Box Elder-Havre Asks Montana Power Service Makings of another first-class gas are brewing in northern Montana, adjacent to Havre, in the opinion of local operators who have kept in close touch with the situa tion in that district. war Their opinion is based onf two things, finit, report that Havre residents have petitioned the Montana Power Company to install a gas distribution system in the city, second, a report current this week that U B. O'Neil had acquired hold of T P. Jones and associ mgs ales on the Box Elder structure a few miles from Havre, with centering around a acreage well drilled in last year with a reported open flow of 10 000,000 cubic feet from a sand tapped at 1272 feet. Heekett Compart Havre is now supplied with gaa by a distributing system owned by the Northern States Utilities Company, subsidiary of the Minnesota-Northern Power Company of Minneapo lis, headed by R. M. Heekett. Gas is implied to this com pany at the city gates by the Montana Gas Corporation with wells in the Bowes field. This' company is headed by E. B. Coolidge of Great Palls. Low Gas Rates Havre consumers are at present paying an average price of 30c per thousand feet for all gas delivered, one of the lowest prices in the United States. (Owtfneed on Psgv Habt* ; mUTLASH NELL C0KTIMES STEADY OUTPUT OF CRVK Western Natural Omm Company's No. » Hick* on Whlt lash structure In the Oweetgram Hills continued to produce high -gravit) oU steadily during the week, at a rate of about 30 barrels dally. If the well, which has appar ently opened a new oil field, con tinuée to produce at this rate, jit wfll be put on steady pro duction in the spring. If U drop* to around 10 bar rels, officials of the Northern States Utilities Company, which drilled It for gas. will continue it on down to the Sunburst sand In search of high-pressure gas. If It la permanently classed aa an oil well It wlB be turned over to the Western Natural Oaa Com pany. for whose account It was drilled. Oil men who are familiar with the territory believe the gaa mep may receive another shock the well is deepened, with possibility that the Sunburst also produce oil, probably in mo oh greater volume than the present z producing sand. Makes Hole Past 1,400 In 10 Days Resuming operations tm davs ago with equipment, Ohio Oil panv'* Ro. 1 KudMbudd. wildcat testing the «olden Dome structure i* 0«rbo» County ; near Red a 1406 more than feet of bole in 10 days The well was drill«! by th. Ohio to a depth of 986 feet with cable tools, for completion was then let to the Olsen Drilling Com pany of Tulsa, Oklahoma Rotary Rig This firm moved in an dec trically powered rotary rig and commenced .IrüHag 10 i days ago. The hole i* now past 1,400 feet. Contract is reported to call for coaÉfdppm of this well inside of 60 day«. Golden Dome structure m iw* garded as one of the most promising in the entire state. Like Dry Orsak It is simply another **high" on the same anticline as that on which the Dry Creek field is located, with a syncline separating the two. The Golden Dome wildcat ia only six miles from the Ohio's Ountrmrt discovery well in Dry Creek, and is west and slightly south of the latter. Ideal Location Both Golden Dome and the Dry Creek field have an enor mous gathering area for the Accumulation of oil. Both are sharp dip and both are at the apex of a gathering area which extends for many miles to the south, to the synclines of oil fields located near the Wyom ing line. Until the Ohio brought in the Dry Creek field with a 2,000-barrel well flowing 54 gravity oil from the Dakota sand at 5523 feet, operators (Coo tinned on Klshti HILLS TEST HEARER TO OBJECTIVE Satisfactory progress was re ported this week by the Standard of California text on Utopia structure in the Bweetgrass Hille. The well la drilling and carrying 10-tnch pipe to case oft upper water sands and is re ported paat the ZêOO-toot level, with pipe carried to the same depth Speedier progrès» is an ticipated once the water horlsons have been passed. Production is expected at about »12« fet, Tax Evasion Hullabaloo Is Hooey, Official Says Moat of the hullabaloo that hu been raised ta meet month» im Montas* error *U*g«*l «anoHna tax hooey dealet* m well as to the pohtir to In * gasoline 'la* raefcot* la MoaUur." ta Helen*, Thursday by Judge 2. > board of equal Nation, who said J- Green«, he based it to offatt the effect of a major company advertising into think campaign evidently Intended to (triad* L*ir that the only pore and hlglk-mied flDiRg «Utk« proprkv tot* aad *moUm dealer« were those who haadled jmdnrtii of Total dillaqacaclea for 1W1 will aw* exceed a pout hie ow ability be collected at the conchwton of coart action new pend in«. Greene said. 'In the five years,' (iopartment has haadled the cotlectfam of which time we collected titan *15,000.000, we hare the Independent ref teem aad dealers Jnat as honest aad as th« themaeivea additional taxes. unrepeatable for that there is a deliberate attempt on the part of the largest dealer of gasoline in this state to mislead Into believing their generous action is being nullified try a mythical 'racket" The board explained that the tax collection machinery is effective and that its Investigations of reported evasion have caased It to "feel justified In asserting that here is no gasoline racket in Montana." WIGHT ASKS TWIN CITY Head Of Montana Gas Company Says Con struction Of Line My Be Commenced This Year If Request Granted Great Northern Gas & Utilities Com pany, headed by John Wight, with extensive holdings in the Baker-Glendive gas area, has applied for a natural gas franchise in Minne apolis and may start construction of a line this year if the franchise request is granted. This ia the information tuined in a letter from Wight who is now In Minneapolis. He says: *1 believe we have a 60-50 chance of having the franchise approved. "In the event we are successful I believe <be project can be fi nanced and construction com me need this year. "The franchise was applied for in the name of the Great Nor thern Oa* ft Utilities Company which Is our holding company." Sentiment among business men of «he Twin Cities Is reported strongly in favor of bringing . .*■ , gas from this «Ute In view <* the fact that the source of the gas aa well as the entire regiot which would be traversed by such a line is in Twin City trade territory Ther* la much outspoken op position to plans for bringing gas from Texas for the reason that field« which would supply a Hue from Texas are entirely out of the buoiness »one tribu tary to the Twin Cities con-«—-———- MPCVTCHEOH WELL NEARS COMF 1 rnoi Delayed by bad weather, fish ing Jobs and other trouble. McCutcheon et al are reported to have overcome the trouble in their well on Berthelote struc ture in the Bweetgrass Hills, with the prospect that it will be speedily completed. Casing is being carried down to the bottom of the hole to »hut off cavings and according to a fletd report thll| th , job is nearly completed. Once the pipe 1« landed, the wei has only a short distance to go to tap the Sunburn sand, in which the field's discovery well found about a 10-barrel flow of high-gravity oIL The McCutcheon wall la «back i B g much higher structurally than the discovery well and for* that reason la being watched with a great deal of Intaraat I p se Garland Annonnoaingnt wag made this week of » deal where by the Big Horn Refinery of Billing* hM been taken over by Oregon capitalists and will be enlarged to provide a daily capacity of 8,000 barrels of erode per day The purchasing company is known as Portland Associate* Inc., headed by Franklin T Griffiths, one of the leading business men of Portland and manager of the Portland Elec trie Power Company. Portland Associates own ac reage and a producing well in Garland field and expect to market this crude through the Billings refinery. The producing well, complet ed several months ago, is rated at 1,800 barrels per day, and has been proceed at the rate of 1,000 barrels per day. It is 30.9 gravity crude with a sulphur content of less than one-half of one per cent, mak j perhaps the most deair black oil refining stock loped in Northern Wyrnn tag. The work of rebuilding the Big Horn refinery is already upder wsy and it is expected that the plant will be hand! ing at least 1,000 barrels per day daring the coming sprint: or summer. The consideration in the deal It was not announced but it i» understood that the owners of the Billings refinery are tak ing a stock interest in Port land Associates, Inc. ALOE WILL MAY MILL THRO LIME Possibility that the Ortrft Hlggs well east of Alee hi the Kerl n-fi unborn* field Go* beneath the Madison known week when official« of the Urne became company were reported ne gotiating for additional equipment The well la now paat 1*00 feet, in the Madison lime, making about three bailera of water dally. Offsetting the water la a pronounced oil showing found In brown sandy lime below the con tact. Backers of ehe well believe it merits the slight additional ex pense required to pot it through the lime, since ft is unlikely more casing will he required un til the base of the Itane is reached. BUCK HORSE WILDCAT IS Ä WJWcatof (partes Mem et a) ° n ,h# , 1 * „ 1>a ** strn( , tnr *' * few m,,e * nort b«a*t of | h * 0r< * t H,v tmH * n8 *f. com f* „ ^ weH <^med off water found * " ® ** aa ® r ** ,, ** <J HM*»# usrig this weak, with fCMtansd ** Page Pte»>