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Sr o*. D FRICKS ---^-V- «145 ^■T FNim--_'.... „ 1.0» ^ ■ Cw Bwk. .... 1« ■ Cm Owk-1-45 M Ooumal DAILY AVERAGE PRODUCTION K Week Hadiag Ju«n I«, 1087. Unite*! States 8,184.800 lactase 68,800 iCv •i 18.200 Decrease 600 u Milan « •j LG, I o«o kTA — tf i v ss KBf! GREAT FALLS. MONTANA SATURDAY, JANUARY 28. 1087 OLLME I« -* UMBER 4«. 5c PER COPY. CANADA 10c I JIM IF KEVIN OIL IT 11 ADOS if Lhe »presenting 2,000 or 20,000 barrels «.heretofore been ) Several tanks i a*d to bave nmiiar accumu • ! I of pvo acuon sa r«NÉ üerm-onüNinT ua ut ana teids followed round Uoaids -veek which iurtea osas aa i rtf ted over tod banked a~ . an narre««. utoinar it for uuij' operators amp heir wells or o tsi « get taeir oil in saape far the w meime cn omasa sub-zero veaiher made ■rfflenit for all operators to heart ■ u ■ urflcieutiT to settle out the •axer 'nieas here Is a naage in ,ie -«outer. the c hances are that a«re will be bat little storage oil n ie .ad in the spring. That -til aean that refiners will have to menu arsrety upon current runs it arm* usd rummer operation mereas ordinaxiily oil Is scored in rie "inter or ummer reserves. isfooM Bottoms." «perators are agreed that the mount of storage oil in the Kevin eid ia- doc as great as -the figures tdicttt». The 'bottoms* in the irse anas at Sumrarst are said to e sia mon aa tern fast thick. These Tnctomo" use ongealed oil. .(tam-dùmnarg, qertatemc no wean -«finery <ut Sunburst re nnt ir • ■ ;anedi an 80.000-barrel tank ne aa w i g arm in which the n octoms we «ported to have been 0 aet hick, arrets .er foot t o Ü ■ aat oanred i» norng». -re -toons. last Be teamed Oat iaiuerr - totes tank it -vas necee ary ~o cut a lower pta*e out of the nt *na put in ; ce»m «'oils to heat Then it waa ne ongeaied nass, ectweary r.o run a four-inch plpe me rom .he ank to tihe refinery Tth a wo-moh pipe inekie the vur-mon. nnoing live steam nrougn ; he larger pipe, to keep the uid moving in the smaller pipe iter he oli bad been teamed out t ae ank. The «inly alternative ■aa so go in with -ages and chop It at :41 m t-oTOwood: a more difficult netnodD. >nce it ia »cognized that these inks with a -sported 100,000 bar ste of lorage oil actually contain at a ractron of that amount, oper ators toy, it will become apparent tax acraaaaö rnna will be neoea ary to >;uppiy »Bflnery requirements in .NertSi Man tana. I anoaian retinera will start the i with considerable ! 3ritIsh-Am encan is i ) I j I I i i 660 I urner Valiev rhreateiu unn* eason tarage oil. Conunuert on Page Five! ¥SK ENDED JAN. 16 lONTAXA— Gat Creak-. ... 1740 410 04,5 .12306 1010 ... 26751 .15930! 80 40 630 60 10 900 Cut Bernik - levin-trunourat Fondera - Buckley Border Dry Creek - Lake Basin..— ...10220 ... 4270 740 220 7-5 40 16225 "OTAJL _ WYOMING—— Big Muddy ■•Ilk Boom - Greek Laoarge - .ance Creek - :o3st Soldier . Oregon Basin - .ock River - Black Mountain 3a«lgor Basin . Byron..— Dallas Derby - button Creek . Ferns _ Frannie .. a. nano _ lamUton Dome Hidden Dome _ Hudson - (fid wav .. «age - Pilot Baue _ Poison Spider _ Quessty Dome - South Caspar _ "e*pot _ Waugh Dome _ imnson Ridge letnmne Bow ... 1T3TÄJL _ 5 .... 2490 870 500 280 550 20 1201 10 30 650 20 230 620 2350 .47751 3470 Total dorado - Total Rnegy MX. State....a 67446 Bank Swabs 6 Hours At Rate Of 500 bbls.i Hanlon Well in Cut The storm halted a 24-hour test of the newly completed Hanlon-Tribal well in the Big Bend pool of Cut Bank oil field this week but the indications are that the well is the best completion in the district. Reported drilling in last week with 2,000 feet of fluk. in the hole this well subsequently drillet! 22 feet of saturated sand and was reported to have swabbed 120 barrels in six hours. This would indicate a production at the rate of better rhan 500 barrels per day, but this figure cannot be estab lished until an actual 24-hour test is made. Hanlon, pioneer Montana oil operator, reported saturated Cut Bank sand from 2950 to 2972. He drilled two feet into P the Ellis, from 3972 to 2974. dinariUy this district has about 10 or 12 feet of saturation. Furthermore, this oil is reported to be 39.2 Be. gravity, whereas other wells in the district are pro ducing 34 to 36 Be. gravity oil. There was much speculation and little certainty about the well dur ing the week but It was hnpossible to get in to the location which is SE^ NIH 12-32-6W, in the "bad lands" of Cut Bank creek crew Is housed in the camp at the well. It is impossible to move stor age Lanka so no test can be com pleted until the roads are opened. The well was financed by William Hanlon, who for many years has been associated with Hannah-Porter interest, as an independent project through the sals of participating interests to Cut Bank business men. Among these there is much cedebrat ing and many of them assert that it Is the second best well In the Cat Sank oU field. The PROPOSE BOND TO INSURE PAY FOR EMPLOYES One of the chief measures to be discussed 1 by the coming meeting of the Mining Association of Montana Helena next in at the sessions Thursday will be House Bill No. 14, now in the hands of the commit tee on labor, providing for security for the payment of miners and oth ers. Many contend that the measure will serve to hinder the "little feWow" who is trying to develop a prospect on unpatented claims, proponents of the measure insist thar the ]aw w iH be Invoked only against those who have a reputa tion for faUdng to pay employes. The proposed law provides for the filing of a 5500 bond for jobs employing five men. to insure their pay. where the employer does not own the fee rights of the prop erty being worked. However, It ap plies only upon application of the commissioner of labor, saying; Whenever it shall appear from re liable information satisfactory to the Commissioner of Labor of the State of Montana that any person, firm, partnership or corporation engaged to the business mentioned in Section 1 hereof, and not exempt from the effect of this act, shall have failed to pay any wages or salaries due his employees believes that the violation was wilful, or that the employer Is a non-resident of this state, or that the financial condition of the em ployer is such as to endanger em j pioyees in receving prompt pay j ment or collection of wages, he shall .file a complaint OOOfc^rt 0 f t he county wherein the j operations of the employer is be ing carried on, and praying that re itof be had against the employer for the greater security for the pay ment of salaries and wages of the empkoyees." After hearing, the court may de manii that salaries paid immediately else require a bond of $500 for each five men employed, to insure future wages. There is no prohibi tion of grub-stake or no-jack agree ment. and such comimiseion ■r in the District NEW JOBS ON HR BOARD Andr P w Mackay, Emmett Fogarty, Louis Gukioai and Ibert A. Kaufman have been appointed to positions with the n«w «bate railroad comm la aion, aacceaitlng Peter O'Connor, H A. Samipeon. Albert M. Mehems, John A. MoGilli* and Mary Ahce Coulaon. JOINS SHELL GEOLOGISTS Donald J. MaaNell of Coleman, Alto., has accepted a position as geologist for Shell Petroleum Corp., and to leaving Alberta. Or-O çut Bank operators are look ing forward to the spring aale of Indian leases south and west of the Big Bend pool; a vast are» of some 30 square miles opened up by two wildcat ex tensions during the year 1088. Meantime, the Black feet tribal council at Browning is beginning to worry about the possibility that Secretary Icke« will succeed in his effort to prevent a sale. The tribe is caught in the jamb of two doors. 1. The tribe seriously needs revenue from oil since the TRIBAL SALE NEXT SPRING IS DOUBTFUL has left the proud Blackfeqt vir» tually impoverished. Sales of leas es have thus far brought no appre ctable amounts, the valuable leases in the Big Bend pool having eold at public auction for as little a s 11.25 per acre. The sale was held at a time when operators doubted the existence of a pool In the diatrict. 2. Anxiety of the tribe to (Continued on Page Four) TARRANT'S GOOD LUCK HOLDS GOOD M vAUCIC CICI IT AARdAd rlCLII _ Completion of a 2500-barrel off set to the ea«t line of an 80 acre | lease ow*ed by R. C. Tarmnt ofh Out Bank in Russell. Kan., oil field, has greatly brightened the new year for the Montana operator. Tarrant divided a 160-acre farm with Skelly Oil Co. and before be could complete his first well, Brit ish American Oil Co. bought a half Interest with him. The first well had an Initial of 630 barrels per day Skelly Oil then drilled! on Its clos eert location, 990 feet from Tar rant's No 1, and completed a 2500 barrel well. Tarrant is now drilling a direct j offset to the Big Skelly well, on his east line, hmaving every reason to j expect another large producer. Price Cutters Banned By Proposed Bill Which Follows California Act An anti-dlBcrimination bill ha* been introduced in the Mon tana senate by Senator Wass, intended to follow the California law rela ting to unfair competition. Aa now worded the law doubtless would have a bearing on the gasoline business. It makes it unlaw ful to cut prices "with the intent to destroy the oompertition of any regular established dealer" and also would ban price discrimi nation "between different sections, communities or cities or por tions thereof." It embraces "any scheme of special rebates, collat eral contracts" or any like device. It is unlawful for anyone to "sell, offer for sale or advertise for sale any article or product or service or output of a service trade, at less than cost thereof of such vendor. The term "cost" includes "the cost of raw materials, labor and all overhead ex penses of the producer; and as applied to distribution "cost shall mean the invoice or replaicemert cost" ....plus the cost of doing business. Pines of from $100 to $1,000 are provided for violators and third convction will mean proceedings to deny a price cutter unfair competitor the right to do business in Montana. Its sponsors say that this law has proven workable in Cali fornia and has helped to eliminate price cutters in the gasoline business. or LUNG IN [10 WELL ON MOSSER being* drid^Mn T^dly^by B r ' c* tJ* rant, discoverer of the new shallow oil pool along the great Fromberg fault. The third well on Moaser dome. This well is midwav between the discovery well and the Sayers pro. IhowHn» ^ /'flT ° f ^ and a showing of oil at the top of the sand, at around 990 feet. The casing was cemented at that depth n ng e ast Unx Is resuming today (Saturday.) Meantime the second producer Is being pumped intermittently, as weather permits, and the oil is be ing hauled to the Yale reßnerv st ; Billings. It is 22.5 gravity ' oU.l cross-base, containing both asphalt and paraffin. It Is a brown crude, j rather than black, as might be ex Ordln-i arflly, this formation, the Dakota sandstone, carries high gravity oil and it it believed that there has been some escapage of the higher "ends" along the fault plane re »Ponaible for the fold, located in Section 26-$S-'24E. R- C. Tarrant this week spotted a new location on an even shallow-' er dome known at Cottonwood dome.) 1 Vi mile south of Moaser. The Dakota sand will be encountered at t 400 feet In this fold One well was drilled on Cottonwood, known as the Murray No. 1. In this well the Dakota yielded both oil and gas in small quantities He believes that a higher point, structurally, will reveal another small bat highly profitable pool ( pec ted of 22.5 gravity oil. AUI __- _ 0PIL>T TWO WELLS ___ HAIM APTIVC Ilf llVff Mil 11 VC In AIIT BA MV ripi n itU I PßreN F IfcLD ' Only two wells are listed as "oc getjtlve" In Cut Bank field this week, with one shut down on top of sand and another with surface pipe aet. 1, NW ^4 NE >4 15-34-6 W is still from the of blizzards and sub-ze Dakota-Montana-Government No. working but suffering handicap 10 ■t-mperature. A fishing job at 2100 feet was successfully complet-j ed but meantime the hole caved back ito 1930. The crew is now fighting cave at that depth, sE^ZU^W^n in ch pipe at 607 and then abut dcwn until the weather improves. A correction is shown in Develop ment information this week In the cooler production-Abreham No. 1. w hj c h i s in SW»4 SE G 19-34-5W, instead of Section 20. ' pyvrrer it* itn No *> 1 u ^ r u 1in V '\ E ^ ÛO ® v '. * . 6 - 3 ;: 5W l. " 4t 29 "®: ''"J*?* ,, d ^ a I h® in £ th « onl ; Jpa 4 dur,n « the *»"* . Whetstone-Tribal 117 No. £. NE '4 SWV4 36-33-6W. set 7-inch casing at 3025 and shut down, to drill in when weather permits. Salt Water In North Test On Baker Fold Reported By Mondak Montana Dakota Utilities company's north test on Baker (ileTKiive anticline, six miles northwest of the town of Baker, this week encountered salt water in the horizon in which oil was fCntUKi in the discovery well miles southeast of Baker. The lime formation was found at a depth of 7,264 feet ^ from the surtace. approximately c00 feet lower structurally 'l'an the disooverv well. a ted with salt water, where the oil was exacted. The well will be [»lugged back and completed as a gas well in the Judith It is known as Warren Xo. 2 well on Unit No. 2. in C SEU NW»4 23-8N-59E. Cores of the formation taken from this well were satur River sands, comparison the Baker outlook more favormoie than Cat Creek, for the indicated producing ore« will «greatly exceed that of Oat Creek, la PLENTY ROOM FOR LARGE OIL POOL AT BAKER A Twin Otic» .broker cm Thursday wired the Journal asking "Rave you revised your opia ion prospects , . . Baker To which the Journal replied. 1st port: "Don't forget 800 acre* la Cat Creek ho» produced $35. OOO.OO©.'* ' the opinion of a interviewed by the Jonrmol The discovery oil well la Baker had an initiai of 316 barrels per .hour and while water developed, this problem has been solved by the conng of the formaikm in a isecowi well located î.ùuO feet north of the discovery well. A water stra to between two "pay" streaks has q.en definitely determined by a the'core taken from the second well In <ae discovery well no core could joefcy of chose be recovered thus the water trouble There is keen interest in the Twin Cities In trading in Mod tana u^noia Utilities stock. Seventy per c«nt of this stock is closeiy held by official* of the company and of the 30 per j a other hands only a hundred »hares are available for trading. reim tte L io üwf^^k *, g n)T '^re u , a ^ » to^fcJhLt bands, osa the taghest price paid t* genera.«? regarded os leÄS 40 411 1X0 e worLh oI Lile auli * Uee aloae Veteran oil men familiar wuh 'he siiurton soy they expect the Smith »eil to produce from 500 to 1.000 tarrei* and that other well* 0 [ tou type will be completed in devetopment of the *'high*' 80U t.b of Baker, producing from two bornons, the top of the Madison lime and the top CEMENT WON'T SET IN THOMPSON WELL) —_ -_ SEC COUNSEL RESIGNS A fourth effort has been made by a Perkin* cement crew to ce ment the pipe in the W. M. Fallon bole on the Thompson farm. Kevin Sunburst field, ln NW SWt* NBÜ 28-35-3W, For some unknown reas on. the cement has failed to sex. Hole bottoms at 17 00. The Agan-Goeddertx-State No. 1 well. SD SE»4 SW>* Î6-35-3W, is estimated at 10 barrels, after acid izing. O'Laughîin-Tnom paon No. 1, (Twin Butte Syndicate) on NW NW»4 NW 1 * 32-35-3 W, is shat down at 1010. the crew having been unable to get out to the rig. John J. Barns resigned as Gen eral Counspl of the Securities and Exchange Commission, effective Jan uary 15. Alien E. Throop. Senior Assortant General Counsel, wo* ap pointed to succeed Jndge Bum. Judge Burns has been General Counsel since the organization of the Commission In July, 1534. He will return to the private practice of law. Mr. ThBaop has been As sistant General Counsel *ioc P Sep tember. 1534. O The No 2 well on Beaver dome, south of town, which encountered oil at a depth of 6751, is waiting for fUbdag tools to recover a reamer lost while enlarging the hole pre paratory to setting cuing. A good core of the formation in this well is said to have revealed a thin water strata in about the middle of the "pay". Although there was oil above, the greater amount of oil showed below the water streak, so the cuing was to be set down below the water to take the lower produc tion. loss of the reamer, coupled with bad weather, has caus ed a delay in completion. Failure of the north well to find oil was no surprise to those who knew that U was checking 500 feet low. struct nralliy. there Is the poeeibfHty that faulting or other structural features may result in accumulations farther north the Warren well would seem to limit the oil producing possibilities of the SO-mlle-iong anticline to the sooth The Whereas However, Monta no-Dakota Utilities has thousand« of acres of probable oil lands in this south area, and there are adjacent folds that ore nearly as high structurally as the so-called Beaver dome on which two wells hare found production, leav ing room for many oil fields the sise of Cat Creek which has la 15 years yielded 525,000.000 worth of a; ARONSON GETS LOW LICENSE NUMBERS Hugo Aronson, better known as the Galloping Swede, grabbed off the low license numbers for Glacier county in securing 1937 license plates for the 23 vehicles in hi* fleet of equipment. He secured No. 1 plate, with eight others for his trucks, likewise Not 1 and upward plates for bis trailers. On his auto mobiles he wm forced to be con tent with No. 2 plate, the county treasurer having taken No. 1 for Thus Hugo too* No. 2 and upward for his road cars. Aronson, veteran rig builder and tracker, is said to have the largest automotive fleet of Ha kind in the State of Montana, equipped to move anything and everything from a sack of cement to a 120-foot derrick. hi* own car. COOLIDGE HAS ! NO INTEREST IN CABBAGE WELL When served last week with a writ commanding him to desist wastage of gas at the Cabbage well on Bowdoin dome. E. B. Coolidge. well known oil and gas operator was surprised if not shocked. The reason is that he has no in terest whatever in the well or the company which drilled It; is not a stockholder nor hae he any other interest of the faintest degree in the situation. This recitation of fact was con tained in an affidavit which he im mediately filed with the Railroad commission which named him, along with officers of the Phillipe County Oil & Gas company. The Cabbage well is a gasser which is open and Afire and bos been burning and state is making an effort to have the waste stopped. Just why the members of the commission picked out Coolidge con be answered only by a politician, Coolidge is carrying on extensive operations in the prod-uction of oil and gas in Montana and is active In conservation work, and to be accused of having anything to do with gas wastage classifies the incident more as a practical joke on the part of members of the commission than injurious to him.