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Show EASTERN UTAH IS RICH J SHALES soMi mu: ro 111: m vniori i ON mo 1 IMX 111111011ln Mol nl1111btc ItjprtNlott of the Itl-tlllntlon nml Ma) He Mnn-iifniiurtil Mnn-iifniiurtil Into ( oiiuiu n Inl Itrtll-lrr Itrtll-lrr Oil Dirlviil I roni Irrntinint Muillnr to 'I lint IVcmIiiciiI It) Well III view of the now InrrpaHtiR tie mnnd for gnollne nnd the Inrrenee In prlci of crude oil from which It I obtained It I Important to know that nn almost Inexhaustible Mippl) of oil ma) be obtained from the hale of Norlhweiitprn Colorado Kantern t'tnli nnd Houthweetern omlng In fact, In Carbon count) ulone nre thoumnd upon thouMhd or acre or dcpnmlt or halp mountain or It In almost ever) direction from I'rlce Thl hate contain con-tain material which when healed inn) be converted into crude oil gn or ammonia The high coot of tlkt-tilling tlkt-tilling nil from ehnle n compnred to the cost or producing oil from well Im thux fnr prevented the development develop-ment In thl countr) or uch nn Indu-tr) Indu-tr) nnd mn) continue to privent It ror ome time but eooner or Inter thl great eourcc or euppl) will be utlllied to eupplcmetit the deirenslnic production produc-tion from the regular oil fit Id The oil ttirlvitl from the fhnle I nlmllnr to that whlih I being produced pro-duced from well In the t'nltid Htnte ut the rnte of more thnn two hundred nnd firt) million barrel n )ear When refined b) ordluar) method the nhale oil )letd an nvernRe of about 10 per cent gnrollne, 35 per cent kiroxenc nnd a large amount of pnrnfflnc The ) It M nt golltte from (lie Miute nln) probiibt) be Iftrgel) lntrenttl b the uc of refining method epeilall tie-lgnetl tie-lgnetl for lhal ilriio). The ga Which U it Wr kooiI llluinlimtlng ri Will lierhnp be uffUlclit to furnish nil the heat required to distill the i rude oil from the slinle The ninmonln I n mont vnlunble I v product or the dlstlllntlon nnd mn 1 1 utlllied In the manufacture of mm menial fertlllir or other nltrigcii romitotind a the innrki t demand The I'nlteil Htate geologltnl loirvn lin exmlnl large nren of the Minle In Colorado I tnh nnd Wyoming und Im made man) distillation test. Koiut lied of shall that nre vevrral fiet thlik will )leld more than n bar re I of "II to tin tun of shale and one bed six ln In- thhk will yield in ire than two barrel of irude oil to tin Ion of slmle One ton of thl shale Nlliillld therefoie )letd lleiirl) tell gallon of gasoline l) the ptesenl eommenlal method or gasoline ex-truillon, ex-truillon, und larger leld mn) be made MVslble b) new method Little attention hits) been paid to till shale because the iUimtlt) of pelroWum produced from well In the Culled Htate ha bun sufficient to Mtlsf) nil dema' t tint ror more than fifl) )ear the oil shale Industr) or Hcotlaud hit, bet n it ver) Important one In n rcctnt er more limn eight thousand men were empboed In the Industr) In thnt countr) yet the average )leld or oil per Ion or shale wa muth le than that which appear ap-pear poMtble from the slmle of Colorado Colo-rado und I'tuh It I estimated that in Colorado uliine there I uf blent hule In hid three riet or more thkk nnd rli hi r than the slmle being mined III Hcotktnd to )leld 20 000 000 000 barrel of crude oil from whlih at least t 000 OOli ooo barn I or gasoline tun) ht ixtraited l ordlitar) refining refin-ing processe. A wn state.1 In the rctent n pi) or Hetrctnr) Ijiiic to n eimte resolution on the ubjeit nt gasoline. The development de-velopment or thl i norm ill reserve slmpl) nvvnll the time when the price or gasoline or the demand ror other distillation product warrant the utilisation or thl substitute eourte ThU mn) happen In the future At nil ivent these shall are llkil) to be drawn upon long before the i xhuu-tlon xhuu-tlon of the petroleum fields," II might be udded that oil Hint shale of the highest ipmllt) has been found nnd tested In vnrliu part of I'tuh Down near Juab Mutlon retort re-tort have proven that the slmle hold the hlgheet iiuallt) Hirnfflne oil. For 111 puiHHe uf working un Immense Im-mense dt poult, engineer estimate It to lontulii mini thing like nine billion Ion of oil shale the I'tnh Oil Hhule I' rod ml ioiiiwii) ownlHg shale land near Coltou Im recently been organised Preparation are Im Iii made anorilllig to off dial of the comiHtu) to begin work on the proper!) prop-er!) In the near future The iomwii) I controlled b i'tnh mining men |