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Show BIG DEAL IN UTAH SHALE LAND CLOSED A draft for $100,000 on New. York through one of the local banks lias rloaed ;i flea! by which the new $2.500,000 'Crane Shale Oil company of Ueno, New. buy? outright from its Salt Lake City and New York owners 200 arres of shale rock deposits at Watson, Utah, which have an average height of eighty feet and which mining engineers like Alexander Boyle of Reno and Lr. D. P. Day of Washington. Washing-ton. D. C. deem the best of their kind in the United States, aH the San Francisco Fran-cisco Bulletin. The sliale is to be treated by the new Crane process for extracting gasoline and by-products, an invention of A. Q. Crane of Reno, which has been approved by Secretary of the Interior ane and the bureau of mines experts. |