Show BIG S MADE lADE IN OIL FIELDS Special to The Te Telegram HELENA Mont Mont March 3 News News has reached here that oil 01 and natural gas have been struck In the l lake ke oil 01 fields felds In Flathead county and the excitement which has been growing for tor weeks and months has ha Increased to fever fever fe fe- fe fever ver heat Many who previously had no rio faith In Inthe Inthe inthe the proposition are now eager to take stock In some one of the many companies companies com com- panics that have have been quietly forming foring The discovery has been made on the Canadian side about twenty miles milea mies northwest of the place where the Butte Bute and other Montana oil 01 co comPan companies es are sinking wells wels but the find demonstrates the wealth of the entire entre Flathead district district dis dis- dis- dis as all al of it I is of the same forma forma- tion ton At a depth of only feet the flow fow of gas has been encountered The drill dri had Just penetrated what is technically known as the upper thrust The Te cretaceous cretaceous cre cre- formation where the oil 01 certainly certainly certainly exists in iii 1 large quantities is only a short distance lower The finest thing about this new neW oil oilfield oilfield 01 field feld and the fact fat that will wi secure its Is development Immediately while other fields felds might be left lef idle for the time be e- e I ing is that the oil 01 is of a base and is said to be the finest known in the United States The developers of ot the field feld therefore look to see the I oil 01 placed on the market at once The existence of ot oil 01 was made known first by the discovery of oil 01 seepages I Springs pools and ponds were redolent of it These unmistakable signs sigs have been in evidence for years but the field feld is located on the Flathead forest reserve and has until lately been al almost almost almost al- al most ina inaccessible because of the he lack of roads The best of roads have now now been constructed and development is going on apace The Butte Bute Oil 01 company compan one of the the- principal concerns operating in the field feld has a well wel down feet and is about to begin ano another her although many believe beleve this company Is not developing the right part of its is goUld ground They have hav also be been n hampered by lack of casing which Is now on the ground The Kinta Oil 01 company has has a a complete com i drilling ng apparatus now on the way in in and another company has ha contracted contracted contracted con con- with a Beaumont Tex man to drill diU twenty-eight twenty oil oi wells wels in the KintI Kint- Kint I la district |