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Wheeler Credited With Retaining Favorable Rate, Montana Asphalt Senator Burton K. Wheeler, chairman of the senate interstate commerce commission, is credited with having obtained sustain ment of a rate of 31 Vè cents on liquid asphalt to St. Paul, Duluth and the states of Wisconsin and Iowa, in a statement issued by George N. McCabe, Cut Bank oil operator. North Field (Continued From Pace 1) Peterson's No. 3 Government, on the rim of west Kevin. The full field report: ADAMS-HKSLA-MeMAKCS MO. CNESW8W 21-S6N-2W Spudded 8-17-45; drilling, 1225. ABONOW-GOEDÖBBTZ Ha 4— C NE NB NE 16-35N-3W Spudded 8-3-45; standing, 1075. F. J. BCHCHMB-OVKRBY HO. 1— NW SW NB BE 31-34N 2W Spudded show oll. J. B. CATLKTT-CATIJSTT HO. NW NE NE 9-35N 3W Spudded 8-25-45; drilling, 1625. J. BLAND CATLETT-CATLKTT HO. 4— SE SE NW 835N-3W Spudded 0-3-45; drilling, 1175. COBB-HARDROCK-GOVT. HO. 11— NW NW 19-36N-3W Spudded 9-12-45; drilling. 750. ( OBB-HARF)HOCK-GOVT. NO. It— NE NW 19-35N-3W Rig up. ARTHUR H. HBAH-HEUMAN NO. t NW SE NE 22-35N-2W Spudded 8-8-45; drilling, 1150. LATAH-IDAHO-NBWMAH NO. t— NW SE NE 24-32N-2W Spudded 7-28-45; drilling. 1670. OIEN-BNGBMOEN NO. M— NW NW NW 14-35N-2W Spudded 9-4-45; drilling, 1200. (FIRST REPORT ) PFABE « ENGLEK1NG-GOBDDKRTZ NO. 6-16-45; drilling, 1710. EM 1700. i— C NW NE NW 20-36N-2W Spudded 5-17-45; EM, 1584. Shot, acid ized three time*. Standing. P .MJt.-FROSARER-BUE-ERICRSON NO. t NE NE NE I834N-2W Spudded 9-8-45; drilling 728. (FIRST REPORT) PRKVOL A SHAY-GOVT. NO. IT— SW NW SE 9-35N-3W Spudded 813-45; WOC, 1831. SHOBMA KER- W ADLKIGH-PUTN AM NO. 1 C NE SE NE 834N-1W Rig up. SORENSEN A PETERSON-GOVT. NO. 3 SE NW SE 18S5N-8W Spudded 81845. COMPLETION. No re port. H. O. 8TOCK-HAOGEBTV NO. SE SE SE 14-35N-2W Spudded 8-5-45; drilling, 1250. TEXAOO-KBNNBT NON-JOINT NO. II— NE SE SE 15-35N-2W Spudded 7-30-45; testing, 1617. TKIA CO-STATE M IMS MO. 14 C NE NW SE 1836N-2W Spudded 9-9-46; drilling, 650. L. J. VKALKY'-8HAW MO. 18 C NE NE SW 35-38N-2W Drilling, 1058. The Sunburst Badger Says— A minister one day while visiting one of his flock who had been a sailor heard the parishioner's parrot make a few remarks in the way only a true sailor's parrot can. The man was very much embarrassed and apologized. The minister didn't seem alarmed, but said he had a parrot that prayed all the time. After a while the good Reverend made the suggestion that he thought his parrot would have a good In fluence on the sailor's bird. The sailor agreed, so the next day the minister brought his parrot to spend a few days with the other bird. When the sailor's parrot saw the addition to his cage he imme diately remarked, "How about a little loving, babe?" To which the newcomer replied: "What the hell do you think I've been praying for al ese years?" MONTANA STEEL & SUPPLY CO. SES tod St. So. Great Palls, Mont. Phone 7500 41S No. 25th 8 U Billings Mont. Phone 5851 WELDERS AND WELDING SUPPLIES ELECTRIC ACETYLENE PROMPT SHIPMENT From Oqe of the Most Complete Stocks In the Northwest "If We Dont Have It — We Will Get it" The situation, as summarized by McCabe, was as follows: Midcontinent oil operators had petitioned the I. C. C. for a suspen sion of the Montana-Wyomlng rate effective last week, after the Bur lington railroad subscribed the 31% cents from Montana and Wyoming to the midwest on the solicitation of Montana and Wyoming refiners. Up to July, 1944, the rate from Billings, Laurel and Wyoming was 37 cents, while midcontinent rates were 36 cents, McCabe said. How ever, at that time, the I. C. C. ap proved the petition of midcontinent operators for a rate of 29% cents, leaving Montana and Wyoming at 36 cents. Due to war contracts on fuel and diesel oil, the reduced rate did not sharply affect Montana and Wyo ming operators, McCabe said, but with the war's end and the cancella tion of government contracts, they were faced with a loss of market since they could not compete with midcontinent operators in the mid west. Montana and Wyoming operators were additionally handicapped, Mc Cabe said, due to the fact pipelines built from Laurel and Billings which connected with Cheyenne and on into and Chicago affected the tonnage railroads could haul into midwest territory. It was then the Burling ton railroad subscribed the present rate and the midcontinent operators petitioned for its suspension. Senator . Wheeler, McCabe said, immediately protested the suspen sion, "realizing it would curtail drilling and refining and cause severe loss of employment to Mon tana people." "His efforts together with inter ested parties convinced the I. C. C. not to suspend the rate," McCabe said. to nsas City Montana producers, refiners and marketers, especially in Billings and Laurel, are Jubilant at the decision," McCabe said,. JOPLIN WILDCAT HAS MORE CEMENT TROUBLE Fourth consecutive cement squeeze job has been resorted to by the Texas Company in its wild cat north of Joplin, in an effort to test oil saturation cored in the Ellis sand when the well was drilled in several weeks ago with rotary tools. STEVENSON'S WILDCAT NOW DOWN PAST 1400 L. C. Stevenson's wildcat on the Arch Apex structure southwest of the Whitlash field in the Sweet grass Hills is continuing to make hole after an extended fishing job, last reported depth being 1400 feet. TOOLE COUNTY TRANSFERS By Toole Co«»!» Abstract Shelby, Montana co assignment OF OIL AND GAS LEASE A. B. Cobb & Co., and Hardrock Oil Co., to Ray Sorrell, lots 8 and 4, e sw. 7-35-3w. First shipments of oil from the Kuwait field on the Persian gulf— regarded by geologists as potential ly one of the world's major petrole um reserves—are expected to be made in the first quarter of 1946. Canadian Government May Get Profit From Wartime Oil Deal Canadian government backing of a wartime drilling program which resulted in the putting down of 22 wells, 21 of which were producers, may result in a profit to the government, contrary to Big Inch Profitable Beginning its first peacetime op eration and its third year of full length operation, the "Big Inch" pipeline is credited with an incal culable contribution to the defeat of the Axis powers and with a rec ord of accruing operating revenues which exceed the cost of its con struction. The 1,254-mile, 24-inch line from Longview, Texas, to the Philadel phia area, with its 224 miles of feeder and distribution lines, has delivered more than 210,000,000 bar rels )8,820,000,000 gallons) of crude nil to its eastern terminals for the defeat of the enemy and the main tenance of essential crivilian activi ties since it first began full-length operation on August 14, 1943. The pipeline delivered 114,589 barrels of crude oil during the last 12 months of its operation, estab lishing a daily average of 313,045 barrels. Constructed at a cost of about $78,500,000 by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the Inch" has a cumulative op revenue of more than $113,000,000 from transporting crude oil, before deductions for depreciation, amorti «ation of the investment, and inter est on working capital. Before the war three companies worked the oil fields of Burma, run ning the crude through a 10-inch 325-mile pipeline to the Syrian re finery near Rangoon. Other Ran goon refineries received their crude by boat. Big TRUCK TIRE - Recapping and Service The Way You Like It // // First Class Lodi Equipment — Well Trained Operators Proper Inspection We t^arry a Stock of New Truck Tires — 700x20 825x20 — 900x20 750x20 1000x20 — 1100x20 and 1200x20 ALSO ALL PICKUP SIZES — WALLY for TIRES 420 Second Ave. So. Great Falls, Mont. I Ingersoll-Rand MINING EQUIPMENT Compressors (15 to 90 Horsepower sizes) Hand Shanking Devices Centrifugal Pumps Drifter Drills Pneumatic Grinders Jackbits Jackmills Hoists Sinker Drills Stopehammer Drills Jackhammer Mountings Jackbit Grinders Jackrods and Drill Steel Rock Drill Mountings Hand Blacksmith Tools—for Bits and Shanks Oil Furnaces — lor Forging and Tempering INGERSOLL-RAND ACCESSORIES OF ALL KINDS MONTANA HARDWARE CO. BUTTE — GREAT FALLS tations. _is revealed in a feport on the venture, made public this week. Operating as Wartime Oils, Ltd., the Canadian government advanced funds to aid established operators in drilling wells in Turner Valley locations regarded as proven, but with little prospect of outstanding results. At the end of June, the 21 pro ducers were averaging 65.61 barrels daily and had made an average of 29.292.5 barrels each, for a grand total of 615,143 barrels. expec This 4l GENERAL PET. WILDCAT MAKES HOLE TO 1,200 Mourttain-front wildcat of the General Petroleum Corp., 25 miles northwest of Choteau, is drilling at 1200 feet. The heaviest rotary ever used in Montana is being utilized in putting down this hole, located following extensive seismograph surveys. Production in Iran during 1944 averaged about 278,000 barrels per day, and is now about 350,000. M-SC0PE and MT-SC0PE For locating of or« bodies, veins, pockets and faults. FREE LITERATURE upon re quest Also contracted geophvsi cal surveys. Latest pamphlet on geophysical prospecting, illus trated for mining engineers and prospectors, postpaid for 50 cents. Ton cannot afford to be without this Information. Fisher Research Laboratory Palo Alto, California