Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-09-15 | Page 35 | Utah Contains 42,800,000,000 Barrels Oil in Shale With Half Billion Tons of By-Products

UTAH CONTAINS 1 F BARRELS OIL IN SHALE WITH HALF BILLION TONS OF PRODUCTS BY-PRODUCTS Recent bulletins on th the oil aU shale possibilities pos pos- of or tho the state credit Utah with sufficient shale to produce I barrels of ot crude shale oil with perhaps tons of or ammonium sulphate as aa a a. by product This Is I twice the amount credited to Colorado This Is Bulletin B B. entitled Oil Shale of or the Uinta Basin in Northeastern Northeast Northeast- ern Utah and Results of at Dry Distillation Distillation tion of ot Miscellaneous Shale Shalo Samples by Dean E. E Winchester of the tho United States geological survey Tho The valuable pamphlet has 65 pages with Illustrations illustrations illustrations an and J maps Last week the tho following story was given Iven out at Washington on Utah and Colorado oil shale Th Tho Tito fuel tuel administrations administration's ban on Sunday gasoline use In tho the states cast east of oC the tho Mississippi has hns drawn attention anew to possibilities of or gasoline production production production pro pro- from tho the vast ast fields s of at oil shale In portions of ot the west Some 04 54 oil companies are now operating in the oil shale shalo districts principally In Colorado and Utah according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to latest st advices received by bythe bythe bytho the tho geological survey Many of or these It Is indicated J. J represent bona fide Clde activities ac activities ac- ac while others may be promotion promotion promo promo- tion lion schemes As to the possibilities the tho estimates of geologists who ha have hare studied the situation are mo most t favorable provided provided provided pro pro- vided commercially successful means of or mining and distillation are satisfactorily satisfactorily demonstrated Much experimentation tation In distilling processes Is now going on both b by the government g and under private auspices Some Idea of or orthe the possibilities ma may be bo gained from official estimates which place the tho re recovery recovery re- re covery from Colorado Colora o sh les lone alone at barrels of or crude oil from Crom which barrels of ot gasoline may subsequently be refined Surveys In Utah lead to tho the belief beller that the in that state will be found equally rich Other promising sections have o been mapped In southwestern Wyoming and Northern Nevada Novada and andI I surveys are going on In parts of California Call Cali fornia and other states I For tho the entire oil shale regions tho the figures reached by the geological survoy surey survey sur sur- vey voy are aro stupendous enough shale In beds three feet teet In thickness being known to exist to yield ld on conservative conserva conserva- tive estimates no less than barrels of ot petroleum When this Is compared with the tho natural petroleum petroleum petroleum petrol petrol- eum output for the United States of or barrels since 1858 and an I assumed fl amount of ot only barrels left in the ground round the Imp importance Importance 01 tance of this possible new now source of or supply becomes manifest the official experts of oC tho the geological survey survey survey sur sur- vey are arc chary of or prophecy hedging their statements with many provisos ar ns- asto to mining costs oil prices relations with Mexico the tho question of tho the value of ot products by obtainable and the outcome outcome outcome out out- come of ot efforts to develop successful and comparatively inexpensive distillation tion processes it Is no secret that their ther interest in the tho developments low V eo eoln going go- go ln ing on Is of oC the most Intense character all an the more accentuated b by tho the expressed expressed ex ex- pressed belief belier of ot many oil operators that the thc peak of or production of ot natural n a turn petroleum has about been reached In Inthis Inthis inthis this country