Show RETORTING OIL FROM SHALE salt lake herald republican with a strongly financed company putting down holes over 2000 feet in search of oil with more or less success while another company is steadily retorting a high grade paraffin oil from heavily charged lime shale oil matters in the juab oil field are attracting more than usual attention these days according to H L driver an experienced perien ced old oil man and E russell officers of the butte oil and shale company who have just returned from an inspection trip to the lands below nephi the butte oil company has 1760 acres located nine miles southeast of juab station it is now running a tunnel into the lime shale the shale from the tunnel is being retorted producing from forty to sixty gallons of a superior paraffin oil to tile the ton shipments of as much as fifteen barrels of the oil have been sent to salt lake city another small consignment is now on its way by freight mr driver is distributing small bottled samples of this product to anyone interested in this district or utah oil fields in general tile the butte oil company is now figuring on oil putting in a diamond drilling outfit to prospect its large domain at depth the ground runs way up on the anticline where it has an old well feet deep this shows a little water with an oil coating gas still exudes from the well it is said that the first oil well drilled in utah was this one on oil the butte oil ground the company used a light drill boring a six inch hole for feet then a four inch down to the foot point the well was too small to give results in flowing oil and was never shot but served to prove existing oil strata and sand the entire depth the log follows feet shale sixteen feet sandstone four feet shale fifteen feet sandstone thirty three feet shale three feet sandstone thirty four feet shale seven feet sandstone thirty four feet shale seven feet sandstone thirty eight feet shale twenty four feet sandstone sixty three feet shale six feet sandstone sixty two feet shale feet sandstone when the drillen dr drilling illin was discontinued in the last sandstone oil came up with the water the company then was dealing only with the shale with a view of distilling the oils az as is done in scotland and elsewhere the methods of distillation were crude yet the results have been satisfactory laboratory tests show the presence of eighty gallons of oil to a ton of shale it is claimed that the products byproducts by are illuminating and fuel gas paraffin ammonia and tar residua re Te these when chemically treated produce abaline dyes saccharine and other products some of the newly retorted oil will be sent to the salt lake refinery for a test years ago prof J E clayton in the engineering and mining journal in reference to this field said in my opinion the distillation of the must be relied upon for the production of any large supply of paraffin dr charles J eames of new york also examined the shale and by the method of distillation extracted twenty five per cent of paraffin from it several years ago the juab oil company put down a well feet near the juab station an am immense flow of fresh water stopped drilling at that point the san sail pedro company now has three deep wells in the field the one on the west side of the valley is down about 1000 feet this is now being bored to depth near this well is an abandoned hole 2200 feet deep the bending of the pipe ended that well but the indications were so good that the second well is going down in practically the same place up on the east side near the mouth of chris creek canyon another hole is down 2000 feet it is reported that this well struck both salt water and oil the losing of the tools has caused trouble there but the work is being vigorously pushed |