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Show lilGfKlQSES ; IMPORTANT COIfMCl i Arranges for Use of Six Jcnson Machines for Dis-; Dis-; tillation of Oil. i Annoiinceineut was m;ido ye? tenia y i by rbe Wyoming Consolidated Oil com-ynny com-ynny that it liad closed a contract for perpetual use of six of the ,7. B. Jensou machines lr the distillation of oil from oil shales. The company plans to erect immediately a one-unit tost plant on the property of the Mount Xeho MarWe company in Salt Lake. . In addition to oil lands controlled in the Spring Valley district the Wyoming j Consolidated has acquired tracts of oil ! shale land in the vicinity of Tucker. T'tah, and in Pint:: county, Wyoming. The shales from I hose facts will be ..riven a thorough tost at the test plant which is to be erected and the first complete plant is to be built on the tract containir. the richest shales. The Wyoming Consolidated is made ii p arrcl y of local men. anion yrhom are. ttishop Georue Romney. C. B. Stewart Stew-art and J. F. Bowman. The company i now drilling a well on its Spring ; Valley property. The well is down a little" more than SdO foot, but drilling operations have been interrupted temporarily tem-porarily while water is bein cemented cut. A i500-ioot string of twelve-inch pipe and a ToO-foot string of ten -in eh pire already has been put into the Well. The typo machine which the company ;uims to use in the ditillation of oil from shales was devised by J. B. Jen--on, a Salt Lake mining engineer, and used successfully in test operations fifteen fif-teen years 3 ". Mr. Jcnson is now contracting for the erection of the test rlsnt at the Mount Nebo Marble plant. |