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DAILY AVERAGE PRODUCTION
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VOLUME 20—NUMBER 0
APRIL
27.
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SHOWING OF OIL IN
BANNATYNE HORIZON
IN NEW GENOU TEST
A showing of oil in a sand}' lime near the base of the Ellis
found by the drill of Security Petroleum company on Genou
structure during the past week. Genou is about 45 miles north of
Great Falls, near the Sweetgrass Arch promentories called The
Knees. Location of the well is C^NEVi NE*4 23-26N-3E.
was
The showing is believed to
from the Erarick sand, in
come
which 32 wells found oil in Ban
jiatyne field, 18 miles west of Ge
nou. The oil was heavy, residual
oil and there was considerable of
the peculiar crude mixed with 40
feet of cavings which were drilled
out during the week, to penetrate
the formation at 2091 feet.
The first well at Genou, which
had a good showing of oil, got the
Madison lime contact at 2225, get
ting water. Drilling continued to
the first "break" where oil was
found, at 2310 feet. The Security
Petroleum well is checking consid
erably higher. The old Genou well
was lost when the owners were un
able to shut off the water and got
into mechanical difficulties.
DRUG STORE DIDN'T
CASH CHECK TO PAY
FOR HIS BREAKFAST
CENTRAL! A, ILL. — The
gentleman enjoyed a liearty
breakfast at a downtown drug
store, and casually tendered a
check in payment.
The chock wasn't cashed—
not by the drug store at least.
It was for *140,000.09. Its
owner was John H. Young, of
the oil Youngs, who is watch
ing with Interest the 106th
well now drilling on his farm
in the Lake Centralia-Salem
filed.
Bat John was only joking—
he had the right change in
his other hand. The check rep
resented the royalty from his
wells for the last month.
RALPH WIL IS VISITOR
Ralph Wil, associated with the
Anglo-Canadion Oil Co. of Calgary,
which has drilled a number of wells
in the Turner Valley field, was In
Great Falls Tuesday, accompanied
toy Mrs. Wil, who boarded a plane
for a visit with relatives in Okla
homa. Wil returned to Calgary by
car.
MIUU-PMK
WEEK ENDED H 20
MONTANA—
Cut Bank.
Kevin-Sunburst
Border .
Cat Creek.
Dry Creek.
Pondera .
10610
4810
40
520
760
760
17500
TOTAL.
WYOMING—
Big Muddy.
Garland .
Lance Creek.
Oregon Basin.
Rock River.
Salt Creek.
Wertz ....
Badger Basin....
Black Mountain....
Cody Dome.
Cole Creek.
Dallas JDerby.
Dewey * Dome .
Dutton Creek.
Elk Basin..
Grass Creek, light
Hamilton Dome.
Hidden Dome.
Hudson .
Iron Creek.
Labarge .
Lost Soldier.
Medicine Bow.
Mahoney .
Mule Creek.
Osage .
Quealy Dome.
Teapot .
Warm Springs.
Frannie . .
1180
3595
27205
3925
2545
14140
2450
240
250
60
150
460
10
60
615
1785
2150
70
230
30
1170
2010
770
310
200
600
600
10
70
2180
.... TOTAL.
Total Colorado..
Total Rocky Mt. States.
69060
3870
90430
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VAST AREAS
LANDS OPEN
FOR LEASING
More than 63,000 acres of gov
ernment lands were thrown open to
leasing for oil and gas prospecting
in the Great Falla land office on
Thursday, this area -being covered
in 4 5 cancelled prospecting permits.
Following is the list of permits
cancelled, with name aqd address
of former owner and description
of lands:
Edwin R. Strate, Ophelm, Mont.—
All of Sec. 1 & 2, SE»4SW^4, NE «4
Nwy„ EVi 3, NW *4 NE Va , NW ^4
NW% 4. SW*4 NW Va , NE>4NW^4.
NViNE%, SWViNB% 10, N%NW%
NE Va NE »4 11. NM-NW14. NE % ,
SE *4 SE Va 12-37N-38E. 2429.45
acres.
King Lewis, Opheim, Montana—
NE »4 NE %, SWy 4 NEy4. SEV 4 SE»4,
WVfcSW'A, NW»4 13. NB(4 NW Va .
E% Sec. 14, SW !4 NE Va , SW>4
NW% 15. NW%SWV* 15, E%
SE>4 20, N%SWÎ4, NI4NE14.
SWÎ4NEW 21. SE>4, EVi8W% 24.
NE ^4SE >4 22, SW14SW14 23, 8%
NW14, SWV4 27. NE % NE % 32,
SW V4SE 14 34-37N-38E., SE»4SEJ4
2. SE Va SE % 3, W^SE%, SW %
NWy,, SW 14 12, S % NE Va , SEVi,
11-36N-38E. 2360 acres.
Milton B. Sherrard, Opheim, Mon
tana—WVà, WV4EV4. E%SE(4 26,
All of Sec. 27, NV4NEV4, S>4N%.
NVèSVfc 28, NV6NWV4, NWV4NBV4,
NWV48WV4, SVfcSVè 35, all of 34
36N-38E. 2660 acres.
Joe Reboula, Opheim, Montana—
NW14SEV4, SV48BV4 10. SE'4
NWV4. SW<4 11. N%N%, SVa
SBV4 14, All of Secs. 16 and 22,
SV6NWV4, 8WV4 23, NE% 24-36N
38E. 2240 acres.
Melvin Markuson, Opheim, Mon
tana—S% 13. S%NEV4. S% 14.
SE»4 15. All of Secs. 23 and 24,
NW V*, W%NE!4 25, NE'4 26
35N-38E. 2560 acres.
Roy I. Smith, Opheim, Montana—
SV4SEV4 20, SW Va. 21, WV£NWV4,
SW 14 28, All of Sec. 29. N %, NVfe
SV* 31, WV4NWV4. EV*WV*, EH 32
WV4 33-35N-38E. 2483.15 acres.
George G. Keup, Opheim, Mon.
tana—S % 10. WV*. SE V4 . SV4NEV4
NWV4NEV4 11, SV* 12, AU ot
Sec. 13, all of Sec. 14-34N-38E.
2520 acres.
Niles Anderson, Opheim, Mon
tana—Lot 4, SW !4 NWVi, Sec. 1,
SV*NV*, NV*SV*. SV*SWV4. SWV 4
SEV4 2, Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, SV*. SV*
NV* 3, Lots 3, 4. SV* 4\ SHNH,
1, Sec.
acres.
Charles H. Reed, Opheim, Mon
tana—AU of Secs. 20 & 21, W %
22, all of Sec. 28, EV* 29-34N
38E. 2560 acres.
Bruce R. McNamer. Shelby, Mon.
tana—NE »4 SW »4 1, NWV4NEV4 20,
SW >4 SW V4 , NV*SE*4, SWV4SEV4
29, NW 14 NE 14 . NW *4 NW,V 4 , 32
37N.3E. 320 acres.
S. H. Erickson, Havre, Montana—
SV*SWV4, 3. NHNWH, 10, SEVi
SWV4 19-34N-2W. 200 acres.
Wallace A. Bickford, Glasgow,
Montana—SW V4, N V* SE »4 , W V*
NWVi Sec. 23.36N-14E. 320 acres.
Ellen W. Cochran. Box 1573,
Great Falls, Montana—SEVi. EV*
SW Va 7. SW Va SE Va 8-21N-2W.
280 acres.
Ole H. Hendrickson. Big Sandy,
Montana—SE Va SW >4 , SW Va SE »4
20, Lots 3. 4, SE Va NE V4, SEVi
SW Va . EV*SEV4, SWV4SEV4 30,
Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, NV4NEV4 SWV 4
NE V4 EHWH, NViSEV4. 6WV4
SEVi 31. EV4. EVzNWVi, 6WV4
NW V4, NVèSWVi 29-30N-35E.
1537.01 acres.
Laura E. Dewey, 323 16th Ave.
So., Nampa, Idaho —NE Vi SE V4 22,
SVà. NE Va. EV4NWV4, NW Va NW V4
23. SWViSWVi. SEV4 27. SWV4,
NEVißE V4, NE V4. WV4SEV4 26.
SV4. SV4NV4. NWV4NWV4, NV4
NBVi 34. all of Sec. 35.14S-8W.
244 0 acres.
E. H. Dewey, % Dewey Invest
ment Co., Nampa, Idaho—EV4.NV4
NWV4, SBV4NWV4 IT. N H NW V4,
(ConMoaed ot Pt|e Pint)
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QUICK WÄRKET
M. E. Tolea, one of the newest
entrants to Kevin-Sunburst field,
scored a success on his first dril
ling venture this week with the
completion of his Blumberg No. 1
as a natural producer in NE NE >4
NB>4 32-35N-3W, in the Rlmrock
high gravity oil pool.
With fifteen feet of highly sol-'
uble and well saturated lime,
from 16S5 to 1700 feet, the well
has 300 feet of oil in the hole and
it is -being put on the pump for
a production test preliminary to
acidizing which is expected to make
a 50 to 100-barrel well.
Tolea came to Kevin from Wy
oming with a view to contracting.
He soon decided to go into the pro
duction business instead, moving
in a new large Fort Worth spudder
with large diesel type motor. It is
one of the best rigs in the state
having the feature that it is mount
ed on wheels and can he moved
from location to location ln twa
hours time with a minimum of rig
ging up and tearing down. Toles
has an immediate market for his
production which Is high gravity,
sweet crude of Cut Bank quality.
High Gravity
District Active
Him rock Oil company this week
started pumping its Schmidt No. 6
well, preparatory to acidizing. It Is
ln SW SBI4 NWÎ4 29-35-3W and
found the lime contact at 1785. It
had no oil until it reached 1789,
getting three feet of porosity. It Is
a 15-barrel well natural and should
develop into upward of 100 barrel«
Initial after acidizing.
This company, discoverer of the
Rimrock high gravity oil pool, i>
moving its rig tcf a new location.
It Is:
Rimrock-Schmidt No. 6. SW
NEV» NW% 29-35-3W. It Is 1100
feet south of the north Hne and
154 0 feet east of the west line.
Fulton Petroleum, Thompson No.
4. CNL SW Va NE *4 26-35-3 W. is
drilling at 1140 feet after running
8-inch casing at 890.
Vanderpas-Oedar Creek No. 7.
CWL SW«4 SB 14 31-35-1W, Is
drilling at 420 feet.
Stewart Pool
Has Producer
In the Stewart pool in the central
field, Crumley A Sons are installing
pumping equipment on Pry berger
No, 18 well in center east line, SB >4
SW Va 24-35.3W which had the cus
tomary showing of oil from 1566 to
1579. It is a small well as it stands
hut will be immediately acidized.
Rig is being moved to new loca
tion. It is:
Crumley & Sons.Pryberger No.
I». NE NW *4 SE 14 24-35-2W. It
is 2420 feet north of the south line
and 1540 feet west of the east
line.
In this same pool, to the south
east of Crumley, Frazer & Smith
Van Note No. 2, CNL SWV4 NWVi
30-35-2W, resumed drilling this
week at a depth of 1380 and is now
reported nearing the top of Madi
son lime at 1430. It Is said to be
checking higher than the No. 1 well,
a small producer one location away.
(Continued on Pag« Five)
Sateve Post Champions
Cause Of Teias Promoter
Montana oil men who know Chester A. Everts, Texas oil op
erator are grinning this week at the '■'break'' given Everts in an
altercation where he found the Saturday Evening Post as his cham
pion. Everts put an advertisement in the Wall Street .Journal stat
ing: '"Wanted Fast! One man with $15,000 cash money or two men
with $7,50Q cash money each. I am just getting ready to dig a
4300-foot well on an 80-aere property in Eetor County, West Texas.
that is right square between production. • ^
Scarcely was the Journal on the street when Everts was in
the toils of the SEC at Washington. The following week he ran a
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a second advertisement in which
said he "sure didn't know I was
breaking any law" and he with
drew his offer until and if he
could prepare a regular official of
fering sheet. But that did not end
it because the Post could not un
derstand why Everts was a law
breaker any more than the man
who advertises a half interest in a
hamburger stand. The crux of the
situation, which the Post does not
grasp, is that it is illegal for Everts
to advertise: he must print a pros
pectus.
In the lead editorial of April
27, the Post comments, "Puzzled,
we wrote Mr. Jerome Frank, chair
man of the SEC, asking him the
distinction If any, between the
Everts ad and these (relating to
Two More Wells Come In With
Natural Production Near Kevin
Young Operators Get Good Well
Two more producers, each with a commercial flow of oil without
acid, were completed on the Ellingson farm three miles north of the
town of Kevin in west Kevin field this week. This farm, long frowned
upon by operators who doubted that it would ever amount to anything,
today has the largest flowing wells in Kevin-Sunburst field and three
other producing wells.
Big West-Ellingson No. 1, NW SE»4SW> i 14-35-3W, east of the
flowing well, is preparing to acidize its newly completed well which
during the week tested 15 barrels per day on the swab.
Big West during the week moved its spudder one location south,
in center west line SE 1 4SW!4 Section 14, and is now drilling at 520
feet. The next well has been spotted in the southwest corner of the 40
acres.
Morton & Shaw, two young drillers who have stepped boldly into
the role of operators, appeared this week to be well on their way to suc
cess, with the completion of a natural 35-barrel will on their Ellingson
No. 1, a half mile south of the Aronow-Ellingson flowing well.
When the bit cut the lime contact in the Morton & Shaw°
well a pocket of gas hurled the tools 300 feet up the hole where
they stuck so tightly that it was necessary to go in with a fishing
string. When it was drilled in from 1720 to 1724 the oil rose
rapidly to 1.000 feet. They are now running tubing and will
put the well «11 production test before determining whether to
acidize. With good porous lime and no water, Morton & Shaw
believe they have another big well in the making. They financed
locally through sale of participating royalty and by doing the work
themselves are said to have set a new record for low cash cost.
Production Of
Ellingson No. 1
Totals $60,000
The Aronow-Ellingson No. I, CNL
SWViSWVi 14-35-3W, was also a
small pumper when completed a de
cade ago. It is one location west of
the No, 3 which is flowing about
126 barrels per day through tubing
recently Installed, It had been
flowing through the casing pince
December. The Ellingson No. 1
has thus far pumped approximately
$60.000 worth of oil.
Jack Agen Is preparing to start
his Goeddcrtz No. 2 well a quarter
mile south of the flowing well. In
NE NWV4NWV4 23-35-3W.
Rimrock Pool
Still Flowing
125 Barrels
In the adjoining pool to the
north, the Rocky Ridge pool.
Superior Petroleum company's Hau
gen No. 3. Is still making 125 bar
rels per day, flowing naturally,
making pipeline oil with no show
of water. It has all the eyemarks
of being the best well in the Rocky
Ridge pool.
Henry Ford prophesies a com
bination alrplaaie and motor car Is
coming. He declares also two ma
jor developments in aircraft con
struction are much bigger planes
AUTOPLANK COMING
and much smaller ones.
sale of lunch counters, etc). Was
it the Intent of Congress that the.
SBC should police the small fi
nances of the harSer. the butcher
and the baker? Ten days later he
had not replied. He is a busy man
and may have had no opportunity
When he does explain, we shall
r „ . ••
publish his answer here.
And thus the Texas oil man,
known In the fraternity as a pro
moter, starts on his way to fame,
for no other oil man has ever had
so powerful a champion. Certain it
is that Everts will be able to raise
all the money he wants, as a result
of this world-wide publicity. He
will have done something that no
other oil man has been able to do
since 1933.
TOO MUCH MOISTURE
If moisture were the iwily re
quisite to Insure wheat, North
Montana would be certain of a
bumper crop. With between two
and a three feet of moisture in
the ground already, a generous
Mother Nature put six inches of
heavy, wet snow on north Mon
tana oil fields this week and con
verted them into quagmires.
Many rigs were shut down by
the storm anil roads away from
the main highways art' virtually
impassable.
NEW PROCESS
IN COAL MINING
UTILIZES OIL
WILMINGTON, DEL.— E. I du
Pont de Nemours & Co. announced
a new hydraulic coal mining pro
cess designed to minimize mine fa
talities and accomplish the work
new process "an electrically driven
hydraulic pump forces a low-in
previously done by explosives.
The company said that under the
flamable oil from a storage tank
! through a hose into an expansible
I tube placed In a drilled hole" and
I "expansion of the tube under the oil
J pressure breaks the coal along its
j natural parting lines."
J The company claimed that the
! process eliminated the possibility of
j explosion, flame or noxious fumes
and the danger of cavelns.
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Halliburton Cement company
which recently purchased the Per
paring to do another "squeeze" job
in West Kevin.Midway field on
the* Lund-Dahl well, in center SE>4
DOING SQUEEZE JOB
kins business in Montana is pre
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INWV4 35-3 5-4W. where a small
amount of water was found at 2183
{f) 21g5 feet Drilling will con
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tinu « after the water is cemented
off by "squeeze" methods perfected
by Halliburton. The water rose
only 300 fe ,, t K0 drin ing will con.
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tinue until the bit finds e ther oil
or a substantial amount of water,
OIEN GOES TO MA VOS
Casper Olen, Oflmont producer,
is undergoing treatment at the
Mayo clinic at Rochester. Minn. He
was for several weeks In a Great
Falls hospital, suffering from a
spinal trouble.
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The Miller farm southeast of the
town of Cut Bank yielded
its fifth consecutive producer this
week with a well that swabbed 190
barrels during the first 24 hours.
It Is Glacier Production.Miller No.
5. In center SWV4NEV4 32-33-6W.
It had 1800 feet of fluid In the
hole from the lower Cut Bank sand
which was saturated from 2940 to
2962. Sunburst »and from 2870
to 2880 and upper Cut Bank sand
from, 2905 to 2940 were dry. Cas
ing was set at 2935. Hole bot
toms at 2963, one foot In the
Ellis shale.
Tarrant.Partlec-1 'orrlgeaux No. 2,
(formerly Castle-Pardee) ln SE
NEV4NBV4 2-33-6W, is rigging up.
Elevation is 3735 feet.
('obb.Vandemark No. 5, C SEV4
NE >4 35-35-6W. 1» drilling at
2710.
Glacier IToduct ion.Bonnet Xo. 5,
C NW Vi SE Vi 4-32.5W. is drilling
at 150.
Glacier Production-Whetstone No.
«. C SB Vi NW V4 8-33-5W, Is dril.
ling at 98 5. It had Colorado shale
at 485 and set surface pipe at 532
feet.
Hclmnc TruHl-41«vernment No. 8,
NW SE*4 SW V4 32-33.5W, Is dril
ling at 160« feet.
Kately, Agent-Kramer No. 1,
CNL SEVi NE Vi 15-3 4-6W, is dril.
ling at 1600.
( SEVi NE Vi 8-32.5 W, is drilling
at 2500.
Sant« Hi (a-1 .ander No.
NW Vi SE Vi 16-35-6W. is drilling
at 1875.
Texaco.Tweedy No. 4. C SBV4
NW V4 21-35-6W, is drilling at
SE
r».
5, C NWV4
SEV4 8-32.5W, Is drilling at 50
feet, having spudded on April 24.
Texaeo-Stafe M455 No. 5, C
NWVi SEVi 16-32-5 W. is drilling
at 410, having spudded April 20.
Texaco.Unit 11 No. 2, north of
the new No. 1 producer which had
an initial of 166 l»arrels, is to be
drilled in center SEV4NWV4 11-35
«W.
Texaro-Uurran No.
HAVRE WANTS TO BUY
PRESENT GAS SYSTEM
HAVRE—The city council has
made a written proposal to Mon
tana-Dakota Utilities Co. to sell
its distribution system to the city
which has a PWA grant of $73,636
and loan of $90,000 for construc
tion of a competing system. City
would contract with the Utilities
Co. and Montana Gas Corp. to
furnish gas at the city gate. The
city has been unable to find a sup
ply of gas for a municipal system
and stands to lose the grant if
some alternative is not found. Pur.
chase of a gas purchase contract now
held by J. L. McLaughlin of Great
Falls Is Involved In the deal.