Show DISCOVERIES A ARE R E IMPORTANT TO Supply of Gasoline Greatly GreatY Great Great- ly 1 Y Increased by New Process Motorists In Salt Lake will be deeply Interested In the word vord from R Washing ashing- Washington ashington ton that the United States bureau of mines has discovered two chemical processes ono of which I it is Ic claimed will be of tremendous importance to the oil industry and greatly increasing the supply of gasoline The other may make the United States absolutely Independent of oC the rest t tot of ot tho world In regard to Important materials materials ma ma- necessary for tho dye industry and the manufacture of oC high explosives explosives- used in warfare and in on engineering op op- op- op The first of these thee processes promises to enable the Independent refiners In Inthis Inthis this country to increase e their output of gasoline from petroleum 00 per pcr percent cent centor With or more ore according to Motor 1 Age an estimated production on the part of the independent refiners of or barrels burels of or gasoline in n a acar year this will mean an output from tho the Independents alone of or barrels greater than the to total 1 production today from all sou sources s. s The second process Includes the manufacture from crude credo petroleum of what is known chemically as S and both of which heretofore have been obtained from coal tar As Germany Germany Germin Ger Ger- min many has specialized far beyond other countries In byproducts from c coal 01 the Unit United States Stales and the rest of the tho world have been dominated b by that country as regards those products of and ben ben- zol iol which are aro the tho Im Important bases for fort forthe stuffs and high t the tho e production of or dye de explosives and especially smokeless powder Important Discoveries The discoverer of these two wo valuable processes S after many years of research I Is Dr Walter alter F. F Rittman chemical en engineer engineer engineer en- en of or the tho bureau u of mines tho the work having ha been don dons at Columbia 81 sky sity New York the facilities of of the the laboratory there having been turned over to the federal government by PresIdent President President dent Nicholas Murray Murra Butler Application has hns been made b by Dr Rittman on behalf of the federal government government government gov gov- to patent these processes in order to prevent ent an any monopoly in their use Ufe the patents patents' to be bo dedicated to the whole American n people peole These Theo processes said Mid Secretary Lane Jane are arc are fraught with the utmost Importance to the people of this countr country coun coup tr try Now the federal government through tho the efforts of Dr Rittman proposes to make free rree for the use of all of the people of this country who wish it a process that Is confidently expected expect expect- ed NI to Increase their yields of gasoline from crude petroleum ful fully per cent and perhaps more such results having ha been obtained repeatedly In the labor labor- atory aton It Is claimed b by Dr Rittman that his process Is safer simpler nd nd Is more economical In time limo than processes now In uS use and ami these are aro economic factors of great t e. Importance Big Prize Offered With Ith a steadily Increasing demand for gasoline oUne for motor cars ars motor boats and engines this fortunate dl discovery eT co com cornea comes at the proper time It Is but two to years ago that the tho motor Industry fearM fearful fearful fear fear- ful M that the supply of gasoline might not be ad adequate Quate for or its rapidly expanding expand expand- expanding ing In business offered through the International International Inter Inter- national A Association Uon o of Recognized d Automobile Automobile Au Au- clubs a I. I prize of for a substitute for or gasoline that would cost costless costless less than gasoline S' Happily the urgency of this situation has pa passed and at the present time there thero Is a plentiful supply of motor fuel to me meet t Immediate de demand de- de mands mand This new process adds to the hope that In spite of the wonderful growth in fn tho the use of J gasoline th there re be bean beany beany an any shortage in tho the future It lC In indicates an Increasing production of gasoline from the present production o of petroleum petrol petrol- eum an sum an output of barrels In Instead instead In- In st stead ct of as under the present methods It will render free ree for use ule to all the results of that efficient and Intelligent in intelligent intelligent In- In research search r which heretofore has been at the command of on only I the th wealthy I am led le leto to believe that It will not only b bo j of Inestimable value tue to the refiners commanding but limited capital as 8 well ell as t to those thoe of wealth but also alsoto alsoto to the hundreds of or thousands thousand of users ulers of ot gasoline When hen It Is realized that the gasoline Industry each year ear in Inthis this country yields products product amounting in value to between and anel J the Importance of this discovery is IR seen Rival of Germany Tho The second process discovered ered b by Dr Rittman ma may prove of much more moro value to the country countr than the first In that It IU suggests ests the tune establishment ests of or nn an industry which Germany heretofore has been beon the pre tho tho dye Industry and also promises s a mCl measure of national safety of or Import Among necessary Ingredients of high o explosives used In mod modern rn warfare ano and 1 are In the first rank Heretofore these products have e been obtained main mainly in Germany on and 1 England Eng Eng- land from coal tar and the explosive manufacturers have o had ht to depend la largely cly op Ot the supply from these sources in fn the making of explosives I understand understand under under- stand that some Bome and h have ne bc been obtained from American coal cool and water water- te gas u tars but this supply does not begin t tp satisfy the present demands The c federal government now proposes to obtain the and from from c crude de petroleum al also o. o r I am 1 further informed that these T products be can produced from cally ly IY any American n petroleum and that the e supply p can be made mad sufficient not on only b for the tho nui onI thi entire American trade but a also I so for other purposes |