Show NEW W SOURCE OF Oli GASOLINE In view of the ever increasing domand demand demand de do mand for for- gasoline and the increase se in price of the tho cr crude oil from which lich it is obtained it is important to know lenow that an almost inexhaustible supply of oil may maybe be obtained from the shale of northwestern rn Colorado northeastern northeast northeast- ern Utah and southwestern Wyom Wyom- ing This shale contains materials which when heated may be converted convert convert- ed into crude oil oi gas and ammonia Th The high higl cost of Or distilling oil from shale has thus f far r prevented prevent d the development development development de de- in this country but sooner soone or later this great source of supply will b be u utilized to supplement the decreasing decreasing decreasing de de- creasing production from the regular oil fields The Tho oil derived from the is I similar to that that which is being produced produced pro pro- d ced from froni wells in in the United States at the rate of more than barrels a year When refined b by Y ordinary methods the shale oil yields an average of about 10 per cent g gasoline gas gas- gas gasoline soline s- s oline 35 per cent kerosene and a large amount of paraffin The yield of pf gasoline from the shale may probably be largely increased by hy- hythe the use of refining methods especially designed for that purpose Some b beds ds of or shale that are several feet thick will wil yield more than han a barrel of t oil to the ton of f shale and one bed 6 3 3 inches thick will vill yield more than two barrels of f cr crude de oil to the ton tonof of f shale One ton of this shale should therefore yield nearly 10 gallons of gasoline asoline by the present commercial methods of gasoline extraction extraction extraction- and I arger larger yields may be made po possible sible t l ty by y new methods I IFor I For more than an 50 years the oil shale hale industry of Scotland has been Veen a 1 t very important one In a recent recent I I year rear ear more moxe than men were em- em Toyed in the industry in that coun- coun countr I em-I tr ry yet the average yield of oil oU per peron peron ton on of shale was much less than that h appears possible p from the shale at f Colorado and Utah It is estimated ed ed d that in Colorado alone there is sufficient shale in beds 3 feet or more hick thick and richer than the shale being mined in Scotland tp yield yi ld twenty tw nty illion barrels of crude oil from Wh at least two billion barrels of asoline gasoline may be extracted by ordin- ordin aty ry refining processes The development of or this enormous re erve simply awaits the time when I he the price prise e of gasoline or the demand I Ifor for or other distillation products war 1 ants rants the utilization of this substitute I j ute tute source I I I |