Show TESTS ESTS ON VIRGIN CITY OIL R 13 martin of salt lake chemist for the the pitsburg pittsburg salt lake oil company has corple completed ted tests on oil supplied by the minin e review and taken by a representative of this paper from the first well drilled by I 1 lr ngin in river oil development company and has submitted the following the sample of virgin city oil you submitted has a specific gravity of 20 B at 60 P F the different grades of oil comes off at the following temperatures water 18 03 i 6 1 I kerosene ie rosene 36 3 6 to 20 i 1 42 t 39 heavy illuminating 5 27 to 14 3 light lubricating to i 1 heavy lubricating 11 with ti traces aces of to dry dryness 32 8 f asphaltum pa par afline ratline cake 16 sulphide bul acetylene ace tyline 25 ino inorganic inor matter such as fine sil licon and lime bilt silt this oil is chiefly composed of the higher homologous homolo gons of hydrocarbons beginning with kerosene and ending with asphaltum hydrogen sulphide and acetylene 0 gases are quite high for illuminating purposes the amount of inorganic matter present no doubt is due to the gravity of the oil and the recent completion of the wells as the casing has a tendency to shear the wells edges which causes fine particles of sand and and other matters to drop necessitating the use of the oil for fuel purposes without refining this oil in comparison with its neighbor spring 1 valley wo is mate materially materiale riall y different as the wyoming oil has a high percentage of gasoline and illuminating oil with a base the basis of an oil is no doubt due to the condition in which it has been subjected to while under compression A country like wyoming is in the colorado which is of a later formation than that in which the oil of the virgin river field is found yet asphaltum basis has been found in nearly all colorado formations mat ions and the formation does not always alter the base when there is an upheaval or a dyke is shot up through an oil country there is nearly always an base to be found varying in asphaltum and gradually changing into according to the range of activity in such locality |