Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-04-28 | Page 26 | Italy Discovers Rich Oil Supply

n ITALY Al Y DISCOVERS RICH OIL ml SUPPLY Engineers Seek Method of Tapping Petroleum F Found und in Rocks ROME ROTE April 20 AP AP Italian engineers and government bureaus are stud studying the possibility of turning turning turn turn- ing rich deposits of bituminous rock in the provinces of Ragusa and Abruzzi into oil in an effort to tomake tomake tomake make Italy more independent of other countries for petroleum and gasoline At present Italy imports about tons of oil a 3 year ear She produces only but her engineers engineers engineers engi engi- say there is a wealth of tons of oil per year jear in Ragusa E-agusa alone and more in Abruzzi enough to last at least years Engineer La Porta a national authority authority au au- au thorit on minerals calculates that there are tons of rock in Ragusa which contain about 20 per cent oil The fascist government is Interested interested interested inter Inter- ested in the extraction of ot this oil oilin in iii the same way that it is interested interested inter inter- ested in converting water power into electricity Mussolini would like to make Italy independent of America and Russia for her oil just justas as he is successfully mal making ing Italy independent of ot England France Germany and America for coal