Show oil shale holds riches in to several ot of the hundreds of baigh and almost inaccessible ledges that form part of the high canyon walls waits ot of the colorado river and its tributaries tributa ries as they bow through the colorado plateau lies a source of energy that te 8 just now coming nto full lecog atlon for its true potential aa fl shale hie government for the past several aeral years has operated a pilot plant pt at rifle colo to remove 04 U from the shale in that district several large private oil companies banies have indicated a willing new to establish similar plants on he plateau in order to exploit oe he known oil OR shale deposits but many of them are not talking much about their plans for fear of t arousing unexpected competition but it is well known that at ome some future date should the oil shale land between glenwood enwood GI springs and grand junction for instance nc tance be fully utilized to re over its energy potential the output would be sufficient to support a population ot of more than a million people oil shale has been described in one of the easiest of the plateau us many resources to develop fully because of the systems of or ta covery developed at the government plant and because of the methods developed to bring the ibale shale to the plant now america only for private indus industry fr or the government to decide whether rh ether private or public capital will au be used to bring oil shale jo t the forefront as one of the rations nations greatest resources of energy |