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  • Introduction
  • Rockwood Brown
    • The Early Years
    • On To Billings
    • Becoming an Entrepreneur
    • Spanning The Decades
  • Bentonite Defined
  • Growth of Wyo-Ben
    • The Keith Brown Years
    • The David Auer Years
    • The David Brown Years
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Betting On Oil

Click the icon below for a Google Earth tour of the general or specific areas where (according to newspaper accounts) oil wells were drilled with optimism. Some were successful, but most were not. The articles listed below detail those efforts.

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1920-02-29 Oil_Discovery Rejuvenates_Roundup

1912-12-15 Montana Oil Leases Grow Rapidly

1921-04-02 Soap_Creek_Oil

1921-06-15 Judd_Tract_Leased For_Drilling
1921-06-17 Soap_Creek_Oil_Field
1921-07-01 Soap_Creek_Oil Land_Leased
1921-07-20 Soap_Creek Leases_Sold
1921-07-27 Abandoned_Oil_Well
1921-07-28 Soap_Creek Shows_Activity
1921-08-16 More_Drilling_at Soap_Creek
1921-08-21 Operator_Agrees_to Drill_Soap_Creek on_Percentage
1921-09-11 (Photo)_Soap_Creek Oil_Search
1921-09-20 Soap_Creek_Search Goes_On
1921-11-19 Drilling_Leases Transferred
1922-01-07 Federal_Trade Board_Complaint
1924-05-09 Second_Test_Drilling Planned_for_Toluca
1924-12-20 Allen_Co_Finds_Gas_in Old_RB_Grimstad_Well