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Pay For Oil The application of Nadeau Brothers to lease the tract of land of the Farmers State Bank of Cut Bank, Clifford Coover, receiver, was approved Oct. Judge Hattersley. Essential provisions of the lease are the payment of $16,000 in cash and the drilling of five wells between now and May 1938. The first well is to be commenced within 30 days of the approval of the lease. The land now considered proven oil area, adjoins the VanOrmer well, brought in by Montana Power Company, one of the best ducers in the field. To date this the largest sum paid for an oil lease of this size, 160 of record. acres, The land lies in Section