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Show BEAVERHEAD OIL MAKES BIG STRIKE Rich Black Product at a Depth of 865; Petroleum 1 Believed to Lie Below. According to tho Dillon, Mont.. Tribune of March 2. rich-looking black oil has commenced to appear in tho hole being sunk by the Beaverhead Oil & Gas company com-pany on its 12So-acre tract nine miles south of the city. This significant Indication Indi-cation of the anticipated striking of a huge pool of petroleum at a lower depth has further advanced tho probabilities of success of their undertaking, and officials of the company as well as many Dillon stockholders are naturally feeling Jubilant and confident. Daily confirmation of tho belief of the drillers that the great steel bit is cutting through the formations Immediately Im-mediately overlying the first oil sands is anticipated, and in the meantime the rig is kept in operation day and night. The favorable indications recounted above were preceded by increasing odors of natural gas emanating from t he hole throughout last week. -'She is looking fine," explained Head Driller F. C. Greene in his messages to company chiefs. I In joyous, hopeful moods a delegation journeyed out to the well Sunday. The I party included President Nels Nelson, Director G. T. Paul, Secretary-Treasurer T. A. Grigg and Colonel John h,. blup-man, blup-man, otherwise locally and familiarly known as "the oil man." All were prepared pre-pared to be shown. "You won't he disappointed In the least," explained Greene, whose confidence confi-dence in the likelihood of getting oil in that vicinity began upon his first visual survey of the region and which has never wavered, his friends say. His record includes, in-cludes, according to reports, the drilling of sixty wells, and Greene's Judgment in this, his slxty-lirst hole (which he forecast fore-cast from the beginning a,s "a winner in a winning new oil field") stands many chances Just now of soon having unequivocal une-quivocal vindication by disclosure of oil actualities. As the drillers proceeded with the process of "showing" the recently developed devel-oped "fine" points of this hole It was tiie .bailer part of the outfit which supplied sup-plied the information that carried gratification grati-fication in its trail for not only members of the company, but all Beaverhead county coun-ty and Dillon especially. |