Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 29 | Ute Oil Shale will be Given New Test

UTE OIL SHALE WILL BE GIVEN NEW TEST The Tte Oil company has Hhinprd a ton of oil shle from its L'intah hasln proTiertv to Salt Ijh .ke for a ' mpetit;'e test with rhe Jenrn l ibiillation process, ac.ordins" to a kt tor received yestenlay hy Xj. II. OiiMnvnn, ronsuhinif onui-tifr onui-tifr for t h I "to -ompar,y. A similar shipmoiit was made som- ttnie ago for a ;o?t wiih the stahlmaii process. The Ule rompany has announced that it plans to crc-t a distillation plant, this summer, pro vi. i nig a talis factory process can Pe discovered. Tests of various process-:' have been malo. vith a vou-to vou-to deiei mining li i i -1 r is the host for the tratmMit of the Uintah basin shap.s, and the .Jensen plant ia to le given a trvout. Mr. Go Ft j veon retunici ye:terda y from a t rip to the Le. Roy and Sprim; 'alle- tV'Ids in soui lvoslern Wyoming. He expressed 1 hn opinion that t here ure crat od oossihili t ins in ihe tield if proper development work is don A number of wells wt-re brought in severa 1 yon rs a s. o, 1 ui t liev w ere small produc J rs. M i CP.;sta. eson i of the opinion t hat liuh.t prodor tion v as doe t Ia--k of experience ex-perience on the pari of the men operating in tl'io liekls.