Show I i TAH OIL HOLD VAST POWER FOR MINE FARM Promise Cheap Electricity Electricity the Dream of a Civil Civil- Much has haiJ been een said regarding oil oile 1 ns as an Industry with great e pos pos- and such a future can be ho counted on as a certainty hut but like the metal and coal mining mining- Industry the commercial success of ot oil oU shale depends largely larsel on economic conditions High Illch grade Wee like high hiSh sra grade e ores win will pa pay a good profit under profit under el conditions that would prove financial loss los on low I grade grade- material Therefore Therdore In In ng tho the success of ot the oil shale IndusI indus- indus industry I 11 try one must take into consideration the products from the tho shale and their values alues facilities the for tor economic mh ruin ing Ing- physical condition of th the shale d deposit de- de c. c posit transportation of the products lets to railroad t n and tho the transportation of ot equipment and supplies to the seat scat of operations These subjects must all nil b he bp taken Into consideration for Cor successful and Intelligent development de of oC the o oil shale Industry and where these matters matters mat mat- are properly weighed there should be M IU-M no such uch thing aa as allure re In nn any n IndIvIdual individual In- In oil shale enterprise said AnI An An- Andrew I drew H. H Northrop of oC the Utah Oil Shale Reduction company compan when requested for tor his ideas on Utah oil shale possibilities In estimating values one should base baso figures not on present war prices p because these thes prices are abnormal and will only continue during tho the war or for a period of ot not more than a 3 year ear after the tho war Therefore business In intelligence In- In dictates that wo wu base estimates esti estl mates matos on a a. normal markt and consider tho abnormal war prices simply as a temporary condition of ot excess profits It must be remembered that the qualIty quality ity of or oil all governs its value and the tho quality of oil taken taleen from Is much hl higher than the quality of at oil from the well and the value I Is about three times I as great an and even ven higher on account of thi this oil having hn been purified b by beIng be be- he- he ing lug filtered through h the shale a as 13 well aa as the fact tact that the methods used in time the treatment of ot the tho shale for tor the tho extraction extraction ex ex- ex traction of oil partially refines the oil Tho The statement of ot an eminent chemIst chemist chem chem- who has for tho the past two years de devoted de- de voted much time to the extraction of ot oil from shale is that the tho oil ho recovered recovered re recovered re- re covered has values values of oC from U 1 I to 7 7 per ban barrel el r Shale gad nd EIl Electric Electric- Io Power A subject in conjunction with oil shale which has attracted the tho attention of or man many not particularly interested in all oil all or perhaps more Interested in power power pow pow- er is the u usage age of or oil shale shall In the generation generation generation gen gen- of gas to be used In the gas engine for tho the purpose of or generating s electric energy It Is an established cst fact that when oil or tho the volatile vapors produced from oil all or 01 oil hales Is lIS subjected to a temperature higher than that necessary T to reduce th the volatile vapors a n physical change occurs which transforms the volatile vapors Into an aas thereby sacrificing tho the oil for Cor gas gns This gas cas as produced from the volatile vapors from From oil shale Is 15 a I natural ga gas ag a n. commercial commercial gas carrying er very hl high highgas h percentage of ot B. B T T. T Us In sacrificing sacrificing the oil to Increase the gas product thero would still remain a L large c percentage of ot paraffin wax ammonia I and tar sufficiently so 80 to pa pay all expenses ex ex- pe t. t s of or mining and amid treatment nt leaving baying leav bay ing gas s-as or the tho energy or power lower produced produced pro pro- produced by 11 the gas as a a net profit In man many localities in the western states statts where thousands of oC acres of ot fertile fertile fertile fer fer- tile lands now lie uncultivated and ond idle because the cost of oC transporting fuel v I I for tor pumping purposes are prohibitive and whore water can be bo obtained within with with- in ten to twenty five feet reet from surface there are extensive deposits of ot oil shale within cas easy distance These shale into gas gns for tor the purpose of at generating electric energy would give an unlimited supply of or power for Cor pumpIng pump- pump In lug Ing water for Irrigating The oil of ot Utah more particularly particularly partle- partle those of or the famous Wax Vax Belt Bell district will produce from to cubic feet Ceet of gas Xe fo o the ton This gas after atter washing the ammonia from tram It Is vcr very high In B. B T. T Us U.'s as high as ns from to Of the tho ordinary coal gas aR carrying about B. B B T. T Us U.'s U s it re requires requires requires re- re quires from 35 to toto 40 to cubic feet teet per brake horsepower and antI one and one one- third horsepower from a gas engine will produce one kilowatt of or electricity From these figures it can be seen the great gleat value alue to which oil shale can be utilized In generating electricity for tor power or domestic use This should suggest sest an early carly introduction of cheap el electricity the dream of or civilization The large deposits of at oil such as prevail in Utah lItah with beds In some instances from 10 to to 50 feet thick such as all exist in the famous Wax Belt district dis dis- district In Utah county within a few miles of the tho Denver Rio Klo Grande railroad where millions of ot tons are exposed and ana ready for the tho steam shovel will produce produce produce pro pro- duce not only unlimited fortunes In byproduct byproducts byproducts by by- products product but unlimited electric energy for tor power and domestic use It is not beyond the tho possibility that this enormous supply of natural gas as from these will be the means of or establishing many manufacturing plants in Utah in the near future and why not save the freight haul on Utah zinc ores to tho the eastern zinc smelters b by the installation of ot zinc smelters In In Utah where the natural gas supply from these can be made mado Itell The benefits to accrue to tho the State of ot Utah through the development o or orth th these se won wonderful shale deposits aro are almost ul ul- ul most Inestimable Aside o from the tho profits profIts prof- prof Its to be directly secured b by those Interested In Interested In- In the subject should be universally universally I sally Interesting to the Utahn from a patriotic viewpoint It should be In the tho I I 4 heart henrt of ot everybody to be patriotic In s In-s- behalf of or the advancement of their reS- reS Ident dent state and in this particular Instance instance In In-f. stance where largo large profits accompany their patriotism the action should h be universal and a general Interest should be bo taken In to the development of Utah oil |