Show I OIL lOlL SHALE IS ESTABLISHED INDUSTRY NOW J. J L. L Donahue Tells Tens of Vast VastI Possibilities of San Rafae Rafael Rafael Ra Ra- Ra- Ra fael fae Field One of ot the Salt Lake men who has been giving the oil shale Industry consIderable considerable considerable con con- attention Is J. J L. L Donahue of or the Boston Doston building When asked for his Ideas on the subject for tor The Her Her- nl Republican aid he said yesterday e It looks as if It the oil industry in the United States had reverted to the tho point of or origin While hile it is true that the tho oil oU business as an Industry In the tho United States had Its real historical beginning begin begin- ning with tho the bringing In of ot the first Drake oil well in Pennsylvania In 1859 1359 yet prior to that time oil hales had ro been Imported Into this country from v all ua unu anu anti tHe on iii ex extracted ez- ez I b by the then known I crude process of or destructive 1 tion for Cor illuminating and anti lubricating purposes The production of or crude oil in the I United States tates from oil an arid and gas Sas wells U gasoline asoline Is in extracted from Crom natural gas sas at the wells and is known as casing head gas gas' as' as has amounted to approximately since Drakes Drake's first well vell came caine in in lii 1851 The total world production since that date has hos been ap aJl- ap- ap So tho the United States has furnished about two-thirds two of ot all aU tho the oil produced In the tho world I At t the time the oil wells of the United States are arc producing a little lit littIe little lit lit- I tle tIe In excess of barrels per lIer year rear and considering the domestic and export consumption the total current production Is absorbed and about 2000 barrels per month besides drawn from the excess accumulations of ante ante- bellum da days s Aside from frum the current production thero there is now v on nand In storage In the United States less than thana a six months month's supply If It the requirements require require- ments of ot the tho ensuing twelve months compel an Increasing ing withdrawal from our out Impounded resources then an oil oll famine of even cn more alarming moment moment mo no- ment meat to the United States an and world industry In general will confront us Already the distress cry has gone gono out from Crom the federal government o and ardent ardent ar ar- ar- ar dent patriotic appeals have been sent tent to the oil men mon inca of the nation not only to increase to the utmost maximum the oil production of the thc now well-defined well oil areas of the nation but to seek seel new flOW sources of supply and make malc the production production production pro pro- from these new sources Immediately Immo- Immo fately available for the pressing an and Increasing demands of the nation The Tue exports experts In the employ of or the tue federal government Ho as well as th the scout departments' departments of the tho lar large e and small oil companies of the nation are agreed that there is little likelihood of increasing tho the oil output from wens wells now producing or from wells yet to be drilled In either proven or 01 yet undiscovered undiscovered ered areas in the tho United States State In fact the United State geological colo ical survey sur stir vey has on record to the tho effect that it is not probable that an any yet undiscovered oil fields In the United States can bo tic depended upon to SUPply supply sup sup- ply ph our Increasing ever demands from the output of oC oil wells So tile HIe United States geological S survey l' l Itself In re recent recent recent re- re cent years has made extensive Investigations investigations ns with a view t tp tJ determining If It the oil bearing rocks outcropping over large areas In several of the states of ot the union could be utilized to supplement supplement sup sup- the tho present output of the oil wells velis and and In the tho future to meet all our 11 requirements when tho the supply obtained from oil wells has been exhausted One would think from reading the thc articles appearing from time lime to time Ume In Inthe Inthe inthe the dally daily all press of the country countr t that lal the economic extraction of crude oil fro 1 the tho oil sands and of ot the United States Is In the experimental stages o o I development and t that f fortunes tu must t be bc in iii Ilium 5 II o not the admitted oil content o of th the sands J an-J can mu he profitably cx- cx One reads so much about dif di- ferent erent processes retort et etc that tha one Is likely HItch to conclude that toe of or obtaining oil from flom sands sand an and s on a a commercial basis is yet t to tobe tobe be proven Great rIal Nevertheless e great I at commercIal plants are already alread established in iii man many widely separated le regions lons o of if the world work from rom which crude oil and If itc refined refine products are arc b being ing extracted and have hav been for many ninny years years- so inca n-inca RO BO In Indeed In- In deed deell that the industry Is regarded u ut ur staple as the mining Industry In th the United States State There are arc such plant on the Island of Tasmania near Australia Australla Aus Aus- Australia that earn a net profit of 3 53 i iton aton n a ton on oil extracted from froni shale run through h the plants Besides this nc net profit obtained from rom the oil there Is la an ar additional profit from the spent shale which Is used as a a. fertilizer and the th demand for it is greater than tho the sup sup- ply In New ew Brunswick and Nova o a See Seo tia in Canada there arc are large Invest invest- menta In plants for Cor tho extraction o of oil from Plants are operating In New ew Zealand France and Scotland It may be taken taleen as a fact then that processes of extracting the tho ol oil from rom the sands and have be beer been n abundantly proven Fundamentally tally thc they are all nIl based on the Scotch patents patents patents pat pat- and plants constructed on these basic patents have been successfully operating In ip Scotland for more than half a In Son Sen unfurl Extensive and Intensive investigations investigations a- a lions have recently been made In San Rafael valley Utah 1 by ho one ono of the courageous courageous courageous cour cour- ageous business men of Salt Lake City the results of which have established the conclusion that Utah alone can guarantee gUarante to supply all the crude oil and refined products required to sup- sup pl all the present and future Industrial Indus Indu trial needs of ot the nation for Cor at least r thousand years ears Liberal almost ex extravagant ox- ox expenditures ha have hae e been made h by the tho individual referred to in order that there need b bi bp no guessing about how much oil oB Is actually held In Inthe Inthe inthe the saturated oil sands of the tho San Rafael Ra na- fael valley aliey at nt what cost cyst per barrel It Itcan Itcan Itcan can be extracted and anel what net profit per barrel the product will show ItIs It ItIs ItIs Is an caB cas easy demonstrable fact that there ore thousands of millions o of barrels of oil in these sands that will show a profit proUt so great reat as to test tho the credulity even en of ot experienced business men who sho are accustomed to large net profits What is tho the difference It ma may be asked between thu tho oil sands of or San Rafael valley and tho the oil found in abundance In other sections of ot tho the state The essential difference is not not- one of or oil content There is about tho the same quantity of or crude oil in a ton of or oil shale as in iii a ton of ot oil sand The base haM of the oil Is the same in the Pan nn Rafael oil sands as In the oil oU tal taken en from namely namely paraffin But nut tho the same sort of or a plant will vill extract three times the tho quantity of oil por lor twenty twenty- four hour period of ot operation of a as can be l handled of or oil in the same plant in tho the same Hamo time Consequently Conse Conse- three times the oil output per twenty hour period can cnn be ob- ob obtaIned from San Ran Rafael sands tand as can be be from flom w with tho the same ume Investment In equipment and nd the name Il dC overhead o charges The Tho problem pro o of the modern Industrial plant Is 18 to secure tho maximum of or pro pie with tho th minimum of ot Co cost t Tho The same man i referred of erred to above c who ho has hC client his own mone money to determine the extent of ot the tho oil sand deposits of San Rafael vallo valle valley and to ascertain the tho de degree dere tie tie- gree gret re of saturation per cubic foot has also selected the most economical plant now manufactured to extract the oil from the sand and and refine It at one and nd the s same me time lime So that the tho sand will po 0 in at one end of or tho the plant anti and tho the refined products be bo extracted at atthe the tho theother other othel end crill sl six l hours later read ready for Instant use In all branches of or Indu industry Indus Indus- j try In which the refined pro products of ot I i crude oil UIO nrc utilized only that hut tho the valuable fertilizer sulphate will be bo produced as a n b by product t i In large large- quantities i Besides this the tho excess gas gen gen- crated from tho the A sand nl in the process of or extracting the tho oil In the retorts will be ie stored In large tanks and be ma made o available a for ga gas gaH en engines which in turn will develop electrical ener energy y for tor domestic consumption or for tor the operation operation opera opera- tion of electric smelting ore plants far Car cheaper than the tho same electric power pow is developed de toda today In an any hydroelectric Plant In the United States |