Show AL 10 IO paid 01 1 I low aal lied 0 lr information la Is received in this city to the effect that boyle and ralston have purchased the holdings of shale lands landa near watson owned by the utah shale and oil corporation cayl and ralston perfected the crane process of distillation and reduction of oil shale and intend erecting a plant at watson to treat their shale being the crane process the price paid la Is sa said id to be 22 an acre or tor for the entire set of claims the utah shale oil corporation Is a company ma made de up of utah and wyoming capitalists and in addition I 1 to the above land they own several oil drilling land claims near vernal and price utah C W sparr is 3 general manager of the company with offices in casper wyoming the california concern is headed by betle boyle and caliston Rali Ra aton liston and la Is known as the he crane oil shale corporation and have made endeavors to close a deal with mith the sparr people tor for sometime local stockholders in the sparr concern are N J meagher Alea gher and mrs avon girard ibbil evl MUCH IMPRESSED 99 ED ian ai I 1 ri 1 1 11 ITE it n SHALE dr david T day chief of the federal bureau of mines paid a recent visit to tho the shale deposits on white river stopping off while to san francisco ile he was particularly pleased with the inspection and declared that the deposits of shale along white river were of the best beat lie he had ever seen both in thickness of deposit ald in n oil richness dr diy daiy predicted a great future tor for this particular section dr day and other members of the federal bureau of mines will devote their entire time in assisting with the development of any shale property of the country ilester mcrae general manager of the ute oil co of st loula louia made a special trip to white river to go oyer the held field with dr day and er his advice adie aa a to the most advantageous vant ageous point at which to build a reduction plant the ute co has several claims along white river while no information is given as to the exact location of the plant it Is understood that thai k I 1 will be erected either along white river or on evacuation creek on the first of april several S sa s1 louis oil men and capitalists who are interested in the company will a trip and go over the prop eity pit and will make a decision re gadding tho location of the plant the uto oil co is n u strong concern and hoa proved its faith in eat eastern t utah as aa EL a oming coming oil 11 center by spending pending thousands of dollars in development worl work they own oil drilling land at little bonanza which bicia they have been working on oil for borne bome time now |