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Show 2 The Western Mineral Survey, Salt Lake City, Utah July 4, 1947 Western Shale Beds Potential Oil Source Geologists to Inspect Big Horn Basin Iii an address delivered at the dedication of the oil shale demonstration plant of the U. S. Bureau of Mines at Anvil Points, near Rifle, Colo., last month, F. C. Merriell, secretary of the Colorado River Conservation District, said: Many of us have looked for ward to this day during all of the last 25 years, ever since the Utah line where all oil shale is time following ihe first world eroded, the body is continuous, average width of perwar, when we Colorado people with an first found out that we had, haps 20 miles, to where Green cuts a deep canyon thru quite literally in our midst, this River from it north to south; from the is called gigantic .resource that west side of the river it is again oil shale! to its western limit. Before and during that war, continuous Oil shale exists in southalso 'Woodruff, Day, and Dean Win- western Wyoming, extending all the for then chester, working over into extreme northwestern U. S. Geological Survey, had for the first time identified the material in these huge gray cliffs that tower above us as Tertiary oil shale and had tested enough of it to show that it was a rich deposit. We natives had known since the country was settled that there were, in the rocky bed of the Colorado River below this point, rocks that, when ignited by fire, would burn. It was not until Winchesters reports had been published and circulated that we recognized that the whole upper part of the great Roan or Book Cliffs, which begin here, just west of us, was the source of the burnable stones and that the material was called oil shale. You can see from here that these cliffs are no small afwhere we see fair, their tops half-mile above them are over a our heads and maintain that or a somewhat higher level and at relief above the !;reat as they do here for an airline distance of 180 miles to the west, reaching the crest of the Wasatch Mountains, some 40 miles east of Provo, Utah. This demonstration plant, then, Is at the most easterly point of the main body of oil shale that lies in Colorado and Utah. The measure extends from here at least 20 miles to the southwest and about 50 miles to the north, which forms perhaps its greatest width. Except for a smallarea just east of the Colorado. - LEAD SILVER Colorado. The moun- flat-topp- ed ment Mesa, and Grand Mesa, another larger mountain south of it, contain many square miles of oil shale beneath their caps of ba saltic lava. The oil shale measures of Colorado extend over more than 2000 square miles, there is a greater area in Utah and a considerable one in Wyo the deming, over all 500 is at least feet thick. posit Winchester estimated that if 60 of the oil shale present per cent500-foot in this thickness were irocessed the yield would be not ess than 75 billion barrels of liquid fuels and lubricants. Since work was begun on this plant diamond drilling at points well removed from the outcrop of the measure tends to show that this estimate was conservative and might well be raised to 90 billion barrels, because the shale in the interior of the measures is somewhat richer than the outcrops sampled by Winchester. At the latter figure the content of the oil shale measures is just about three times all the petroleum that has come from underground in continental United States. Long ago, perhaps 20 or 30 million years since, the sites of these deposits were the gently sloping foreshores of a fresh or brackish water lake which lay in the country between where the shale deposits of Colorado and Utah and those of Wyoming now are. . Metaline mining interests are. strongly opposing army proposals to construct Boundary Dam on Pend Oreille River several miles down the river from the town of Metaline ' and close to the international boundary. It is contended that the height of the proposed dam, a water storage and power proposition, would inevitably flood out all Metaline mines, including those on the Canadian side of the line. . Metaline district ores have a potential $6 billion value in zinc-lea- d, according to estimates submitted by qualified mining engineers at recent hearings held with regard to the proposed controversial Boundary Dam. WHITE 00X 2-Western Mineral A Survey PHONE Salt Lake City , . FOR SALE -- July 1 to 10th At Black Mountain Mining Company, Five Miles North of Delle, Utah. 1 Ingersol Rand 368 TEL EAST 1ST SOUTH Entered aa Mcond clan mattar at Salt Lake City. Utah under Act cl Match S, 1878. Ratee 12.50 pax yaari Subacrlptloa $1.50 for eix months. Mineral Plaasa. mention r Western Surra? whan witting to advarttaaxai Advertising rotas on application. 22-2- 4 Worthington stoper. 2 ton 8 and 121b. rails. 500 ftu pipe, to 2 in. 1 1 1 1 Natural Gas Potentially Rich Source of Synthetics recent on natural and technoComparatively in use of the logic developments natural gas for purposes other than for direct fuel and energy have uncovered an important potential raw material source for hundreds of synthetic products, the Bureau of Mines reported today in a new publication released, by Dr. R. R. Sayers, Director of the Bureau. In reviewing some of the wartime research on natural gas and other petroleum hydrocarbons. Including refinery gases, the Bureau report points out that natural gas has been used as a fuel and source of energy almost from its discovery. By far the greatest portion still is Being used in this manner, although In recent years an increasing amount has been diverted to the commercial production of synthetic organic chemicals. maSome of the better-know- n terials or raw material stock derived from natural gas during wartime include synthetic rubber; plastics as substitutes for rubber and. silk; ammonia, glycerine, toluene, and nitroparaf-fin- s for use in explosives; and practically pure chemical products for use as anti-knomotor, fuels or additives in aviation gasoline manufacture. .The. number of products obtainable from natural gas already ..is large and the relative cheapness and availability ' of natural gas indicate that .the range of products will continue to grow. As an indication of this further expansion of industries ck . 1 Notices Legal The Western Mineral Survey drawing refinery hydrocarbon gases, for raw materials, many wartime plants and processes were rapidly converted to peacetime activities and new plants were blueprinted for postwar construction. Research dealing with the production of chemical products from natural gas has been in progress for many years and the Bureau periodically, has published available data, Issuing the first such report in 1930, and. a revision in 1940. This latter re- has been revised to Sirt againmore recent developments as well as a selected list of 218 references which give more complete descriptions of various technical processes. Of the more than a dozen methods for converting natural gas to other compounds, decomposition. by pyrolysis, catalysis, or electrical discharge, is considered among the most important, according to the authors of the Bureau report, Harold M. Smith and.W. C. Holliman, petroleum diemlsts at the Bureaus Petroleum Experiment Station at Bartlesville, Okla. Products obtained by this method are shown in chart form, along with similar charts of materials resulting from oxidation, halogenation, nitration, and Additional charts deal with the composition of natural gas, consumption of natural gas and production of some organic chemicals since 1936. composition of petroleum and relationship and sources of petroleum-type hydrocarbons, methods for conversion of petroleum hydrocarbons, and use of nonhydrocarbon constituents of nat. sul-furlzat- ion. ural gas. is qualified as a Newspaper to eublish Legal Notices, Having - in the Third Dis- trict Court of Salt Lake County. Probate & Guardianship Notices For Further Information Consult the Clerk of the District Court or Respective Signers. NOTICZ TO CREDITORS ' Sstste of James A. Alsera, Deceased. Creditors win present claims with vouchers to the underslsned at SIS Kearns Building, Belt Lake City,. Utah, on or before the 10th day of November, A. D. 1947. BIRD A. HUGHB8 end HELEN HUGHES LANCASTER. Kxecutilees of JAMBS A. ALCORN. Deceased. Date of first publication June 27, A. D. 1947. F. Heart Hearlei, Attorney for Exeeu-trlce- NOTICE TO CREDITORS Be tats -- of Jeha Edward Hamee, Deceased. win present elalmi with Creditors vouchers to the undersigned at Traey-Colli- ns Trust Company, 151 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, on or before his 30th day of August, A. D. 1947. TRACT COLLINS TRUST COM- PANT, Executor of Estate of .JOHN EDWARD HUMES, Deceased. By J. PREECE, Trust Officer. Date of first publication June 27, A. D. - 1947. Arthur E. Mereten, Attorney. , NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Annie Hill McBride, Deceased. Creditors wiU present claims .with vouchers to the undersigned at .1501 Walker Bank Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, on or before the 2nd day of A. D. 1947. Sept, MARGUERITE T. BECK, Administratrix of the Estate of ANNIE WTf.T. McBRIDE, Deceased. Date of first publication June 27, A. D. w. t947 Skeen, Tbarmaa A Wenlcy, Attorneys for Administratrix. ... NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Nicholas Pellderakis, Deceased. Creditors wUl present claims with vouchers to the undersigned at 404 Boston Building,- - Salt Lake City, Utah, at or before the 30 tb day of August A. D. . 1947. DORAKI8, Deceased. Date of first publication June 27, A. D. - 1947.- H. FOB SALE SUBSCRIBE HOW . .1 Keep Posted on Mining ond Oil Developments 60 Ton (Gravity. Mill m (utmI : OO . . nd Detailed taionaallMi activity el Mines and Fleldn. . NOTICE TO CREDITORS . Estate of Mathilda CL Andersen, Deceased. Creditors will present elsime with vouchers to the undersigned at No.- - 202 Utah Savings A Trust Building on or before the 23rd day of August, A. D. . 1947 EDLA ReBdbla . o. Metes, Attorney. . of Executrix ANDERSON, the Estate of Mathilda son, Deceased. Date of ' first publication A. D. 1947. Merrill CL Fans, Attorney. C. Ander- June 30, - Complete summary el stocks tradaleck ing en dm Sell Crushing, kls Classifying, Weetom Unlisted Quotations. Two Jig Mills and Four Tables i $2.50 NOTICE TO CREDITOES Estate of Jsha D. Lewis, Deceased. Creditors will present claims with vouchers to the undersigned at 622 Continental Bank Building, Salt Lake. City. Utah, on or before the 15 til day of August, A.D. 1947. v GEORGE A. TATLOR, Administrator of tho Estate of John D. Lewi ' Deceased. Date of first publication, June AJX 1947 Anderses A Csaaea, Attorneys. - 00 Beds, Springs, Matttresses, Cook Stove. WM. W. CHOATE Delle, Utah. Manager . a. ANGELO GIAMALAKIB and A. B. Administrators of FOUNDULAKIS, the Estate of NICHOLAS POLX--- 30x40 1-8- All the news at tho development cl the Intermountain Section, published by The Western Mineral Survey. AD news appearing in the Western is obtained from Mineral Survey sources believed to bo reliable but no responsibility is assumed for accuracy of statements. GENERAL P. E. CONNOR who became known as MFather of Utah Mining, due to aid he gave to early prospecting. i metal covered building. 40 ft headframe, 2 oreblns, metal covered. IV ton Chev. truck, 1938, dump and stake bodies.. drill press and miscellaneous tools., 600 and gal, steel tanks.1 Business Manager HILL, . ff 1 It L It compressor, powered Diesel by Caterpillar 1 36 In. drum Hendry-BolthoHoist, powered H 85 Chrysler gas engine by 1 1500 Watt Kohler light plant. 1 Gardner Denver 1 ton tugger. 2 Gardner Denver 55 lb. Jack Hammer. 1 Gardner Denver 36" Jack Hammers. 70 H SURVEY by-prod- uct SPOKANE, Wash. ment WESTERN MINERAL of-whi- ch New Storage Dam We ate offering a promising silver lead property located In Utah to responsible parties on a contract basis. With some work ore Is available for ship- 4-- tain south of us, called Battle- Miners Oppose PROPERTY The Wyoming Geological association, Yellowstone Big Horn Research association, and University of Wyoming have made final announcement for the field conference through the Big Horn basin from Aug. 8. Itinerary for field trips, with a number of optional trips, will allow participants of the conference opportunity to study geological sections and features of northwestern Wyoming. Registration is at the Irma hotel, Cody, which will be conference headquarters. NOTICE Write Wm W. Choate, , f . f , WESTERN MINERAL , Dell., Utah SURVEY TO. CREDITOES Estate of Leaera J. CerawaU, Deccan w! Creditors will present- claims vouchers to tho undersigned at 13 Walker Bank Building, Salt Lake Ci Utah, an or before the 25th day of C - tobor, A. 8. D. 1947. N. - CORNWALL, Adminlst! tor of tho Estate of Leuera JP A Cornwall, Deceased. of first publication Dto Ml 194 v Jsao i |