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member that King Solomon used to "Use Just been bit by a dog and ‘T «ent my husband to the hos­ P take his pick and go to bed.” I’se worried. I hear whenever a pital because cd bis knee.” L dog bits yon, whatever the dog has, “Did he hare -water on H?” • • • • • . “No; his private secretary.” For Sale—Pure Bred Milking you got.” /-Aonla 'Journal shorthorn ball. Ready for service. "Boy, then you have a right to • • • • • —Owendboro (Ky.) paper. worry.” "Last night my boyfriend gave me Sap He’s got something Giere. "Why?” a quarter for every kiss I gave him.” «ESTABLISHED 1921 PUBLISHED WEEKLY • • • • "That dog Just bad eleven pups!” "Why are yon telling us?” s I Bat» all kind Nature doth bestow, • • • • • “I thlought maybe you could tell Owned and published by the Montana Oil Journal, a Montana corporation. me where I can buy a yacht.” it will amalgamate below. "What dreadful language your Address all communications to 618 First National Bank Building, K the mind says so, it shall be so parrot uses.” • •••••• I But If you once begin to doubt Great Falls. Montana. O. I. DeSCHON. publisher "Yes. My husband bought the Son: Daddy, what Is the différ­ The gastric Juice will find it out. ence between seduction and nape? • • • • • bird in town and drove It home In SUBSCRIPTION RATES: bis car. He had three blowouts, Daddy: It’s salesmanship, son. V Year In Advance—Canada and Foreign Subscriptions 32.50, Colin courage conquers sauerkraut. 32.00 Per ...... and engine trouble on the way." salesmanship. Per Year. 31.25—6 Months. Foreign 31.75—6 Months. "Doesn’t It strike you that’s a Published Every Saturday, queer harp that new woman angel Second Class Matter, April 23, 1921, at the Poet Office at is lugging around?” asked St. Peter Entered as with a perplexed frown. Great Falls, Montana.—Under Act of March 3, 1879. Little Audrey had a baby brother “That Isn’t a harp. It’s a radio Oil & Mining Journal endeavors to insure the honesty named Oaka. One day her mother set,” answered Gabriel. “She’s en­ The Montana joying her husband’s howls from and trustworthiness of every advertisement■ It prints Band BH avoid the told her to go upstairs and bring of all advertisements containing misleading statements Oaka down. Audrey laughed and Station HELL.” publication ...... I laughed, because she knew dhe : or claims. couldn’t carioca. Some men smile in the evening, 4 T 70 gasoline ! ' Some men smile at dawn. SSai u ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION But the man worth while Perplexed Oriental: “Our childlen Is the man who can smile utofuel , velly white. Is velly stlange.” A I has not yet made an appearance. __ ... . „ When his two front teeth are At the Sign of Better Motoring / The Texas company has some 22 j Wel1 • • • Occidents w 11 happen. gone. | i HEILAND RESEARCH geophysical crews at work in var-1 **'***.,. (Continued from Page One) ions parts of the United States, buti "There is nothing new about the “Tell me, papa, what is a con­ olaeed by American firms using none in Montana. W.P.A.” remarked J. Edgar Pew. sulting physician?” more advanced methods. Also, The ------__------“The whole idea antedates the “He is a doctor who is called in '3 VAisn Texas company bought the basic BUYS DRILLING MACHINE ! Christian era.”^ at the last minute to Dinare the r t patents in Germany and only recent- Commercial gas production is Is a "How’s that.’ he was asked. blame.” ]y all manufacturers and licenses fact an(j development of oil produc- “Well, If you have studied your have been compelled to pay royalties tjon jn Saskatchewan is almost a Masonic history, as you should Jailbirds are tihe offspring of to The Texas corporation. certainty, in the opinion of A. Stan- have,’ replied J. Edgar, “you 11 re- larks, bats and swallows. Dr. Heiland was offered a chair ! ley Smith of Regina who was a as head of a department of geo-1 visitor in Great Falls this week. His! m -r- T physics at the University of Colo- ; company. Northern Royalties, Ltd., ! ~y »ill 2n L'ili*!- LiLiLEi ! I II! If mm v rado with permission to do outside jS drilling in the Pawee Hills at j MMHS work. Thus the Colorado instltu-1 Reserve. He came here to buy a tion has been the center of geophysi- Lydecker machine with which he! cal science in America, built around | wju replace present equipment. His j Dr. Heiland. test is eight miles from a shallow I Methods Are Improved well which gives evidence of! GEOPHYSICS ARRIVES IN MONTANA gas Earlier methods dealt chiefly j structure and of the presence of with gravity, utilizing the pendelum, sas m the fold, Smith says, torsion balance and vertical comp- mant gravitometers. These instru­ CALL, FOB BIDS 0>' STATE Oil. Passing through Conrad one day this tion discussed the various types of geo­ great Standard of Indiana who not only ASD GAS LEASES JFLÏ 14. 1937 ments measured the attraction of week we saw the start of one of the physical instruments. While the several guaranteed the world that there would is hereby given that the Stale gravity due to some in the earth. Board (N :svk survey in the center of the Hw Arch, on a structure near Conrad known ing machines which will measure vi­ oil state but they won’t work in Montana, 8W lo Hcate seismographs located at con­ wj 36 :r.N : brations, are set up at various intervals. we were told. But as we lived to see êt El 12 -.'.N 4W : 2i • as Midway structure. siderable distances, around the arc The Board reserves the right to reject Geophysical methods have brought In a These recording machines are similar oil produced in Montana, we have seen of a circle. This method was fol­ any and all bids. majority of the new oil fields discovered to the device used to record earthquakes rotaries successfully used in this state, lowed by the "reflection” system, For further Information apply to; and the earthquake principle is applied. although that is a development still NANITA B. SHERLOCK. in the last decade. Geophysical methods wihereby the instruments are set up Secretary, State Board of lend have found oil fields in areas in Cali­ When a shot is fired, the vibrations trav­ in its infancy. closer to the shot holes and repeat­ Commissioners. Helena, Montana. fornia, the Midcontinent and the Gulf el downward until they strike a hard They told us that whereas every other ed man-made "quakes” are measur­ 1st Publication June 2ß Coast where ordinary methods of ge­ surface from which they are reflected developed oil state finds its greatest 2nd Publication July 3 ed at relatively short distances 3rd Publication July 10 ology could find no evidence of struc­ upward. oil pools BELOW the lime, that such which are accurately surveyed out IN THE MONTANA OIL JOURNAL ture. Just as Montana watched other The recording instruments register the could not hapen in Montana. Yet we so as to "cross section’’ a given states bring in the greatest oil pools in instant of the explosion and thereafter have lived long enough to see some oil area. the world by deep drilling so has Mon­ measure the speed with which the vibra­ taken from the Devonian—BELOW the Many Crews Working tana watched other states profiting by tions are reflected to the surface of the Madison lime. And that is something There are some six geophysical FREDRICK C. PLATT the use of geophysics and until now has earth. The speed of wav© transmission for the future. crews at work in Wyoming at the done nothing about it. None of the major is proportional to the density of the For years they have been telling ns present time. The crew now at MINING ENGINEER companies, who could afford geophysical various earth strata, as well as the that geophysical methods would not work Conrad recently completed an ex­ surveys, which cost from $5,000 to depth. The rate of travel through gran­ in Montana. Again, It is the consolida­ haustive survey of southern Al­ 910,0000 per month, were Interested in ite and solid limestone is very rapid; ted masses which barred rotary drilling, making surveys in this state and the In­ through shales and sandstones it Is very that allegedly stand in the way of suc­ berta. Another crew is no(w em­ PETROLEUM ployed along the east border of dependents had so much (proven ground slow: not much faster than the travel cessful use of geophysics. A big com­ Montana, in North Dakota, check­ Geology—Lease Management available that they have not taken time of sound through the air. pany geologist told ns less than 10 days ing the Nesson wthdeh Is to look into the possibilities of geophys­ A telemeter illustrates the principle: ago that geophysical methods won’t work under lease to The California com­ MINING ical prospecting. If a stop watch is started at the instant in Montana, They work in Colorado; pany. An independent concern has brought of a flash of lightning and stopped when have been eminlently successful in Wyom­ Reports—Management the crash of thunder sounds, it will Shell Oil omipany had planned to in this crew, we understand, with the ing, sooth of Montana; are being used show how far away the lightning flash make a geophysical survey of Wil­ possibility that there may grow tup In in the Dakotas, east of Montana, and are SHELBY. MONTANA occurred. The speed of light is Instan­ low Creek structure, but its crew Montana another great oil company con­ being used extensively in Alberta, north trolling vast reserves of Petroleum. taneous, to all intents and purposes. It of Montana BUT THEY WON’T WORK Our organization issued a bulletin takes about four and four-fifths seconds IN MONTANA, we were told. on geophysical prospecting threw years for sound to travel a mile. At the time of this conversation re­ ago, suggesting that geophysics might Scientists know how long ft takes for ferred to, when we were advised by the some day solve the enigma of such vast a vibration to travel through different geologist that geophysical prospecting NEW PIPE USED FOR EVERY PURPOSE domes as Bowdoin, Porcupine and the geologic formations. By "electrical cor­ isn’t what it ought to be, we did not Sweetgrass Arch. There isn’t enough oil ing” they determine a great deal about know that a big geophysical crew was OUR ODEE FOB HIGH PRESSURE in the world to fill Bowdoin dome, al­ the formations of a given district. With en route to Montana RETURNING FROM OIL AND GAS LINES though It is a completely enclosed struc­ modern Instruments they can lower a AN EXTENSIVE SURVEY IN SOUTH­ ture, capable of trapping a vast amount device Into a drilled well and measure ERN ALBERTA, where formations are 1 of oil. Shallow wells have found gas— (a) resistivity of the -rocks (b) rock precisely the same as those in Montana ALSO WELL CASING the telltale signboard which points to porosity (c) location of faults (d) direc­ and similar to those In Wyoming and IF IN URGENT NEED OF A oil In lower horizons—but some operators tion of dip of strata and (e) water in­ Colorado. cursion. Thus, modern geophysical crews QUOTATION, WIRE COLLECT have not been disappointed that deep wells So perhaps we will live long enough to have not found oil in formations above take advantage of all known data through dispel another chilling bit of propaganda drilled wells and thereby learn how to the Madison lime. regarding the “impossibilities” in Mon­ interpret the vibrations set up on the JOS. GREENSPON’S SON PIPE CORP. The same is true of the Sweetgrass tana oil industry. At any rate, we who recording instruments. Arch, which Is a three-sided structure indulge In the occasional purchase of a National Stock Yards (St. Clair Co.) IIaL. The recording instrument works on the large enough to trap trillions of barrels piece of land on a suspected oil structure principle of radio. The vibrations are of oil. But the trap is not filled. In part of the landowner’s share of very slight, but they are transmitted or a the Arch It is determined that the oil is the oll in such a farm, need not worry. through radio tubes which amplify them, trapped in local pools—“wrinkles” on the We can enjoy the settlement of the ar­ Just as radio vibrations are amplified to greater uplift. But these localised struc­ gument from the sidelines. If geophysi­ tures are not defined on the surface of provide volume, Th© signais so am­ cal methods succeed in Montana, we may plified by the seismograph, as a record­ the ground so that a ft can be able to pick up a royalty here and ing instrument is known, are recorded on ACIDIZING measure the dips and map We there, before a well la drlled. If geo­ photographic paper by a tiny electric suggested that some day, geophysics physical methods do not succeed, we will beam which swings back and forth at a might find these local oil traps and thus continue to pin oar faith in the “rock greater or lesser rate of speed, depending DOWELL INCORPORATED simplify the search for oil in vast areas hounds’” who have done pretty well by where oil is known to exist, but can’t on the rate of the vibrations. ns in the past. SHELBY, MONTANA be located by old methods. As we understand the Sweetgrass Arch Every member of this organization has the started to come For the present we need not venture Telephone 133 a good working knowledge of geology . up in this Arch, before the surface of the outside °f proven ground for our roy­ He could not map a structure, perhaps, earth gave way over In Idaho and created alty investments, if we do not want to. but he knows the principle of the bend­ the great lewis overthrust and the main The science of acidlzatlon has given us ing of the earth’s surface In Nature's range of the Rockies. Had Idaho held the greatest opportunities of this life­ CODY. WYOMING—Telephone 434 business of mountain making, to form ont a few million years longer, there time, in Kevin-Snnbnrst. We were for­ traps into which oil migrates, floating might have been a mountain sticking its tunate In that we knew something about acidlzatlon before it arrived. We had on the top of water. He knows that an head up where Kevln-Sunburst Is now t I been watching results obtained in Michi­ anticline is revealed like the root of a located. Another mountain would have house, the shingles representing the shale appeared at Pondera and another moun­ gan for a long time before the first gal­ • I • strata dipping down on either side of the tain at Bannatyne. There would have lon of acid was alpplied to a well In crest. He knows that one end of this been other mountains throughout the Montana. We heralded the use of acid anticline may be sealed with a fault, Sweetgras Arch, hnt the relief of the In Michigan and we believe that this which is a break in the earth’s surface: strain on the earth’s surface provided by column contained the first comment on where the formations have actually brok­ the uprising of the Rockies halted the *e possibilities of acid application ever en, rather than bended. Thus when an uprising granitic masses in the Arch at printed in this state. oil-bearing sandstone is so displaced considerable depth, but some of the We are going to issue bulletins from that it rests against impervious shale, “bumps” now show on the surface of the time to time, reporting progress on the THE NEW a trap Is formed. Likewise, when lime ground, as at Kevln; geophysical prospecting for those of our Pf'i is folded It more frequently cracks than So it is possible * today for the geo­ members who are particularly Interested. It bends, so oil frequently migrates up­ physicist to cause vibrations which will As is customary, these publications will ward through limestone fractures, from bounce off the tops of these granite be sent only to those wlio request that lower oil-bearing formations. Bat there masses—these unborn mountains—and their names be placed on a Special list is no way of recognizing limestone frac­ reveal a structural condition. Whether to receive publications pertaining to geo- ARRO tures from the surface of the ground, a break in the lime, known as a fault, physical prospecting. A lot of the "horse under present geological methods. will be recorded on these delicate instru­ and buggy” members will be content to The geophysicist has arrived at a ment, remains to be seen. The old idea stick to the old-fashioned principles. method of “looking” below the surface on which we have been fed for the last Others will want to prepare for future of the ground, by measurement of the 20 years is: "It won’t work In Montana.” Investments by keeping abreast of this GASOLINE rate of vibrations. Our former publica- W© talked with a geologist of the newest method of prospecting for oil. DUBBS CRACKED » LANDOWNER’S ROYALTIES COMPANY AND STABILIZED FOR Landowners Greet Falls, Montana. CLIMATIC CONDITIONS Please place my name on the list to receive publications on geophysical prospecting in Montana. 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