Show Vast Shale Deposits ti IL c J 1 t L i j. j e e q j. j el J. J In Uintah Basin Give 44 a 4 4 k I Pr Promise mise of Oil for Utah A A 11 lUCil UCH mistaken impression n prevailed for a 8 time Lime to tik effect that tho tim war had hUcl materially depleted the oil reser cs o pt of this country nn anti and that since since the suspension of hostilities normal conditions would soon re rl rc turn This idea is wrong based cd upon assumptions rather than facts The oil situation to today ny in the thc States Stales is no better than titan it was at the time of the signing sig-ning of the armistice and the thc prospects are arc arci I i emote for foi betterment in he near future The only solution to the thc oil problem of this country is the discovery of new oil fields un and the interesting inter inter- esting of capital in the time development of the vast oil shale deposits in in the i j I I Nott tho the great reat new oil oilfields I fields bids that have been developed during durin the past Prist year especially In Texas the shrinkage of oC oil pro production In the states slates of oC Kansas ant and Oklahoma has boon been so great as to more than offset tho new discoveries orles I During 1918 It was found necessary to draw upon the reserve storage of oC oil In the United I St States tes In or order or to meet fleet tho the demand Automobile The Tho main reason for this ha heavy In Increase Increase increase In- In crease In the oil consumption is found In th the Invention of the Internal combustion com corn bustion hustion and Delsel type of oC en engines These have been tile tho real factors that had given hon such great Impetus to the petroleum petroleum Industry The fact that there ar arg over O automobiles In the fhe United States alone with an average aver aver- a ago age o dall dally daily consumption of or six gallons of gasoline making a yearly carl tion of over oer barrels of gas Jas for these alone alono shows how necessary It Is that more oil fields be opened up land and more petroleum h ho be I In calculating tho the iR gasoline 1 consumption tion for automobiles It must bo be reI ro- ro I that no consideration Is 11 made I made of the tho great amount of oC oil used In other lines Jines nor does It cover tho the top and bottom oil used In tho the Deiseh an and other like types of ot en engines Every ery twenty five gallons of or gasoline s used In an en engine lne requires about one ono gallon allon of lubricating oil Because of or this acute situation In tho the oil all Industry today the Industrial world has turned an T ea eager er eye Ce upon cr c every fr field M or fit TT U 1 h. h l.- l. I because of C the i mn imn many favorable b e indications indications indica indica- di J entered tho the rank of at possible oil producing states stateR Oil Oh In Geologists have mined dote that some som sometime sometime time during the cretaceous period va vast t I pools of oC oil have been burled buried beneath I the tho surface of oC the tho state Ever Every Indication indication Indica indica- tion has been found to provo prove the accuracy accuracy ac ac- ac- ac curacy of or this determination and In Inmany Inmany many localities oil bearing sand I erosions have havo been discovered an and Inthe Inthe In Inthe the Dixie fields near St. St George Gears oil productions on a small scale are arc actually actually actu actu- ally being carried on In tho the Uintah basin such promising sl signs ns of or oil have been discovered as to encourage development devel el work and this Is Js being prO prosecuted prosecuted prose prose- at this time Millard county and Utah count county have been explored and drilling drilling- for tor oil has been commenced with every over promise of ot success while in Davis count county prospects for Cor the tho discovery discovery dis ills covery of oC oil have havo been so promising as to warrant the expenditure of or large sums of or money In development work worle One of oC the greatest and Rond most promising promising promis promis- ing oil fields In the tho state toda today Is tho territory Just north of the Great Salt SaIt lake Inke It Is 13 no wonder that such strenuous I efforts are being put forward to make malto old discoveries as largo large fortunes await who arc lucky It I Is possible that the real solution to tho crisis In the oil situation Inthis Inthis In Inthis this country will be he tho development of or tho the shale oil fields s Thero There Is no doubt but that these vast fields would havo o b been en cn developed In pa past t years had It not been for the fact that from Crom limo to time new petroleum leum pools had hat been discovered and that the tho large oil Interests of oC tho the country had been under tho the Impression that the process s processor or of distilling oil from Crom American shale was WaR HO so o expensive c as ns tr to be prohibitive and that thul the resultant product would be of or such poor grade as t to make It Il Incomparable with petroleum Dut flut Investigations atlon on the mining and distillation of oC oil from shale found here In America an and particularly the tho deposits of Colorado Utah and WyomIng Wyoming Wyom Wyom- omIng om ing have been of or such nature as to satisfy the experts employed In the work stork that oil can be pro produced to sue sue- ce as t u 11 corn compete p e t C with v I th p petroleum e t ro I c urn produced from Crom wells OH oil rom Prom Shale Mining lIning engineers and oil experts throughout hout the countr country have havo become Interested In the tha prospect of ot producIng producing ing lug oil from Crom shale ant and the first impetus Impetus Im Im- im- im petus was given Iven t to the shale Industry Industry industry Indus Indus- try when tho United States geological sune survey bc began an a II field Investigation atlon In 1913 which resulted In the first pub- pub JI nf of n o t lr In In 1 nn nn I i sh Shale In N Northwestern rth t 8 n C Colorado i ad n and d Northwestern Utah In the Uintah Basin Each year ear since that time ex extensive ex- ex c tests tents and mappings 8 have been made of oC the vast deposits until these have havo been vcr very well defined Tho The richest shale deposits have ha been found Cound In iii Colorado Utah and Wyoming and It Is estimated that In these three states there jiro ro more than 2500 square miles of territory well wen an and uniformly uniformly uni uni- un with Rich deposits lie In Central Utah as well as aa asIn asin In the northwest section In the Strawberry Strawberry Straw Straw- berry canyon canon near Price Utah at Tucker In Spanish Fork canyon canon are arc shale beds that run from tort forty to to sixty gallons r o of c oil to the ton of ot shale shalo I as well wells ns s producing from fifteen to twenty pounds of ot wax Should the proposed Moffatt railroad be extended from Steamboat Springs to Salt Lake City through the Uintah Basin a n vast field of oC oil shale running running- over forty forty- two gallons g-allons to the ton would be opened up Thero There Is IR little doubt that In the ver very near future Utah's oil shale deposits will be developed dc and nd oil will bo be pro pro- And there Is no question re regarding regarding re- re garding the tho value of the Utah deposits de deposits deposits de- de posits both in quantity and It ity |