Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-01-13 | Page 31 | Additional Mining News

MINING NEWS J I LAKE KAKE MEN TOI TO OIL I LANDS ny fly Is Organized to lo loate ate Extensively in I Rafael Field II organization to lay the thet t 1 nd get ready to operate I h 5 il il ii sands of the San Ra- Ra i d d auth of oJ Green River Utah th lb oming Oil company rein re- re ln in zed In this city b by I e s and financial interests m has acquired a large ong the main oil sand reef of t a searching in- in I pd testing of the sands to lt their commercial value and I ui syndicate s it has tas as subscribed for a large I ts treasury treasur stock and within th Lb thirty thirty- days das it is planned to I I b by the company compan stretch l.-stretch of more than half a 1 Ithe face lace of the oil sand reef iges approximately feet which it is declared can be beI belito I lito to yield more than a barrel ader rad- crude oil to the ton of simple retorting process The Thel l laKs ts the Installation of a 11 plant dally daily capacity of tons tOM tOMI l I pd the driving of a tunnel toJ reef at points where ps' ps out wi with th a view of deter- deter ilet ether er a steady stead flow of oil secured by this method as the retorting of ot the ade de sands pi particular portion portion of the San the process of erosion the oil sands to a depth of rl 2000 feet below the natural of the country surround- surround formation is tilted but the major sand sandl l arles from fifty feet thick exposure to feet or h southwest end the oil has ined and has saturated the uniformly allocation location and immensity of Rafael oil sand reefs were first real roal introduction to the few weeks ago ngo many inquiries S So o 0 have come into Utah from Ca 11 r I and curious and mahy baby oil tile Ilie drilling fields have ex- ex opinion that if the oil bear- bear were exposed in the manner tle x would bleed to death would all run out and lands barren or practically so weyer wever it is declared is not as the great layers of n bared red in ill the canyons made t the sun suz su l. air and drifting fine d to seal the pores of the reefs so 50 that the sur- sur ese ese sand layers tod today y present gray surface a few inches C ch ii for the most part is Im- Im OJ 0 the elements and ard a seal seals s slot of the oil to this rule is found Inous in inous I ous oil seeps seeps' alon along the ledges ledges fractures fractures In the outer shell shell shell- have permitted the oil to flow to to a greater or less extent on only to be 1 absorbed ab- ab again by the underlYing lying sands A few inches back of the outer shell the sands are dark brown to nearly e black C i I Ild ld ou el l and every v f foot into the reefs are s said to show a greater percentage of saturation The Wyoming Utah company also owns acre acres of ot oil land in the Big Piney field near the well weli north of Kemmerer which has been sunk to a a. depth of feet and which has open opened cd two thirty-two feet of oil sands