Show NEW PROMISED UTAH the utah oil shale mining company has been organized in a very unostentatious manner as though the organizers knew perfectly well what they intended to do the articles of this company cite that among other things their principal business will be to develop operate and work oil shalo shale deposits and other hydro carbonaceous substances and it now develops that for the past four or five those responsible for this oi organization have in a quiet wa way J made much in vesti gation of ut utah ab s shale bale deposits and have had many samples sent to new york and elsewhere and tested and that their tests were satisfactory is evidenced by their organization it may be of interest lor Tor our readers to know that the treatment of shale was commenced in scotland as early as 1862 and has continued ever since and that between 1873 and 1904 there was nearly fifty one million tons of shale treated in iii scotland to be exact the amount was tons australia and canada aro are now large producers of oil shale the byproducts by products from oil shale vary somewhat depending up on 0 n tho the nature of the shale but are P principally 1 burning oil naptha gas 01 oil 1 lubricating oil paraffin way wax as and sulphate ae of am ammonia naonia continued on pago alx NEW INDUSTRY n r ROM SIR UTA H continued from pago one by a very close comparison it has been determined that the average grade of oil shalo shale of utah is a much higher grado grade than that found in scotland and the deposits are in many cases much larger there are many grades of coal in utah that are susceptible to the samo same treatment used in reducing oil shale and this coal as a rule has little or no value as a fuel coal emery and carbon counties have many thousand acres of oil shale which will be made valuable under the process of used by the oil shale mining company which is an invention of john A scott of detroit michigan and which has been approved and demonstrated by the eminent oil chemist mr john A sparks of no nea york city mr sparks holds the degree of bachelor of science from the london university he is a fellow of the chemical society is retained by the united states government to superintend water supplies is a consulting chemist of the subsistence department of the panama canal consulting engineer for the city and tate state of new york for the illuminating gas pro cee cc edinge dingis a member of the american society of refrigerating engineers Engine eis j and is chemical engineer for all the is of refrigerating machinery and is official chemist for the national refrigerating assoria j tion mr john A sparks for one and one half years consecutively f i demonstrated with the john D scott apparatus for the treatment of hy dro carbonaceous substances compared the results of i its 1 1 ts treatment with the scotch process and assisted in its improvements and went before the united states patent office and was instrumental in having many of the inventors claims allowed in the office of the utah shale company there are a number of very interesting reports from mr sparks worthy of the attention of an anyone one interested in what appears to bo bu one of coming industries this company owns the exclusive rights for the state of utah and will at an early date construct a plant for the purpose of demonstrating and testing on a large scale shale from all parts of utah so that the public can be made acquainted v with ith the possibilities of the treatment of inhale shale by the process of for the benefit of our readers we will state that by the method of i all byproducts by products are secured in their natural form without any chemical change taking place daring the process the process is dished by specially constructed a apparatus p pa ratus which allowed the actual control of heat units throughout the enair body of shale being educed deduced hence bence there is no loss from over heating hit ipg and consequent ble vapors as is now the case with all methods of shale treatment this fon treatment also allows allos of a cleaner and higher grade of byproducts being obtained the plant construction is very ery reasonable and owing to the fact that the shale being ti dated acts as it heat medium no other fuel being needed the op crating expenses are cut to a minimum the company will open in price as boonas soon as it can find suitable headquarters headIn arters the officers of the tile company are andrew 11 II northrop pies A C EAren ren sMi sern vice pres henry wade treasurer 0 0 nelson secretary louis frickson director |