Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-04-21 | Page 31 | Oil Shale Deposits Will be Developed

I lOll OIL SHALE DEPOSITS I I WILL BE DEVELOPED With the opening of spring pp-Int Colorado Utah Wyoming and anel Nevada will begin In a n practical and substantial wa way the development de of ot their Immense oil shale Rhale deposits Production of oil and various byproducts byproducts from front this source promises to rove ro tho limo oil Industry and create creato one of or tine the biggest Industries not only In the West cat but In the thc world Its possible I profit making poten potentialities arc figured In the billions rather than tho the millions of dollars says the Mining and Financial 1 Record Awaiting the advent of ot mild weather cather capital already la is marking time limo Impatiently Impatiently walling waiting to enter the shale fields Companies and syndicates have havo been heen formed some Rome to use mist Q the tho time lime tried Scottish Scottish Scot Scot- tish process of distilling the volatiles from Crom tho the rocks while others other contemplate the time use ule of new patented methods Other companies are conducting experiments In Inthe Inthe inthe the treatment of and anel each and ever every one appears I determined to secure the time most efficient equipment obtainable before starting permanent operations It Is remarkable rem that these valuable oil shale deposits ha have been heen permitted to tolie tolie lie He Idle through h the limo centuries when thc they might have been worked ar and made mado to o yield I lri annually a n sum sufficient to make millionaires galore But Dut now that science has pointed out the richness of the shale beds Investors and capitalists ar are awakening to the fact fad that they have failed to grasp wealth we lying at their very doors wealth that does doe not have to bo be with uncertain results or foreboding but hut exposed ex x posed po to view with known n contents All 11 elements of a n. speculative nature pro eliminated tetI and all nn o operating 1 ra ting companies mi that are properly and aid Intelligently 1 Intelli- i gently conducted become at once manufacturing manufacturing manu manu- enterprises and nothing les less Not ot only this but the they aro are assured of or ofa ofa ora a profitable market for their lr output no noI I matter how largo large It ft may b be