| Show Humble Clay Valued by Refiners of Oil To most people mud Is to be tie de du but certain light und tend avoided a gray mud mild known as fullers fuller's has proven so valuable a as an on oil re refiner the last few years yeara that It t Is sough the world over So great Is la the demand for tor this clay In the petroleum Industry of ot zae that two tWI lending oil companies there opened large fullers fuller's earth plants near Dear Midland where here the time clay Is mined milled In enormous quantities The qualities of fullers fuller's earth lire are truce able to tn Its high absorbent properties The fhe old method employed to allow the oil to t percolate through n a tied ted of clay which absorbed UPS ties This slow method however pr lift tai been replaced by hy the time present present-da process of mixing the tie oil and clay chay which can ao be quickly separated by means of huge hugl filter presses The eo earliest use of fullers fuller's earth eart h known to science was In 1801 when the cloth factories of ot England employed em played It for fulling or cleansing woolen cloth whence hEnre came rame Its name |
