Show NEW NE IDEA ADOPTED IN REDUCTION OF SHALE I Salt Lake Railroad Man I Invents Invents In- In vents Process for Extrac Extrac- ji bon Liquid Gold from a crudely constructed retort I home made in every respect In the back yard of a r residence s dence on on Hampton 1 avenue Just of oft off South Fourth East Kast there I flows at the will of Ihei he operator a a. tin I stream of ot liquid sold gold a as at petroleum of often e Is called v I This liquid Rd comprising in In part art gasoline gasoline gaso gas I line kerosene and ammonia water comes from shale as dry dryas as the proverbial bone bonef and WI without h the slightest e sign of moisture mois lt I oi f ture e. e The eU r results are ae obtained bt b by the transformation with heat of the shale Into vapor which then Is condensed This i process of course d Is employed wg OY rk in all shale afo reduction c l or education work vork but the simplicity of the mechanism of nf the retort makes the operation border on the miraculous Instead of multitudinous lines of f pipes coils t condensers n and wheels sel t there is merely lY a cast Iron n pot suspended In a firebox an and l a a. single pipe pipea a a. few feet In length and In which Is lo located lo io- a a small condenser In the cast Iron pot there is an an Idea that seemingly Is accountable for the simplicity l of the mechanism This Jelt Idea was evolved while I the one who gave it birth was waiting In a a. roundhouse for his next run and white his his' companions companion were loafing or or tell telling ng stories of railroad life This Idea which Is Is original with G G. W. W I McCall an old time resident of Salt Lake I 1 consists simply of a flue running perpendicularly per perpendicularly through the center of the cast Iron pot and resulting In an even distribution of the heat employed In leo transforming the shale content into vapor and which prevents the shale from clogging clogging clogging clog clog- ging and the contents from burning durIng during during dur dur- ing the process of reduction The result Is the recovery of what seems to be every particle of ot the shale shalo content leaving an ash that Is as dry dryas dryas dryas as powder and which is not affected when submitted to even a greater heat than that employed In the reduction of the the shale This fact leads the Inventor to believe that the shale can be used In the manufacture of ot firebrick used as a a. a lining for the firebox As the result of a test run made yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- afternoon a In the presence of a number of Salt Lake men interested III In tho the shale Industry seven ounces of oil 11 was extracted from five pounds of shale that came from an outcropping and ls is considered An d analysis to be bit at of the a very University low gradeAn grade of Utah of the oil made at a previous run gave the following results Gasoline 14 per percent percent percent cent kerosene 15 per cent gas oil IG 16 per cent lubricating oil 01 40 per pel cent fuel oil fuel and coke 10 per cent Th The time necessary for the the complete complete re reduction reduction re- re ducton of the shale Is two tt hours homs The Inventor now nos Is completing arrangements arrangements arrangements ar ar- ar- ar for tor the construction of a re retort retort retort re- re tort with a capacity of a ton of shale at each run and which will wilt be used as a demonstrating plant |