Show OIL refineries FOR ELKO with the advent of spring and suitable weather conditions says the nevada mining press of reno the distillation of gasoline and products byproducts by from the immense shale deposits of elko county will be undertaken and a new industry created that promises to occupy an important place in the business of nevada during the winter work has been under way on two refineries the catlin financed by officials of the new jersey zinc company and a smaller experimentation plant which is being constructed by the research department of the bureau of mines under the direction of dr david T day both refineries fin eries should be in operation within sixty days the catlin refinery probably early in april R M catlin who has experimented exhaustively on the oil of this locality has perfected a process of his own the government refinery will employ the pum pherson process which originated in scotland the catlin refinery is located within a mile of elko on land purchased by the owners of the venture and will have a capacity of tons of shale per day the government refinery is on southern pacific railroad land and will be able to handle about twenty five tons a day elko and reno men have organized the nevada shale oil fuel company and plan the construction of a refinery to work a huge deposit of rich shale north of palisade analyses of the of this locality show an average content of sixty two gallons of crude oil per ton which yields in distillation 11 gallons of gasoline 16 gallons of lubricants 16 pounds of wax and 15 pounds ammonium sulphate all the por ducts being of high grade the market value of products is about 8 and operating costs are estimated at per ton 0 |