Show u uTO TWO T WO REDUCTION I PLANTS LJ TS FOR TRI TREATMENT AT SAND AND SHAI SHALE Returning to Salt Lake after I spending pending two tuo weeks in the Uintah Basin country Dr P. P S. S Coke of ot Vernal ernal general manager of the Cedar Cedar Gear Ce- Ce dar ar Butte Oil company the Uintah Development company and the White WhiteRiver WhiteRiver River iver Shale company said yesterday that hat in almost every section of this vast ast region there was to be found I evIdence of the attention which ItIs it itIs its Is s attracting and the fact that capital capital capi- capi tal al and talent is engaged in its development de- de says the Salt Lake Tri Trl- bune une The Uintah Exploration and Development Development De- De company said Dr Coke has as completed the erection of Its Sta Standard d rd rotary rig on its ground near ear Moffat and began drilling five days ays ago This rotary rig Is equipped ed to reach a R depth of feet and the he com company pan management expects to tomake tomake tomake make progress at the rate of fifty feet per day These holdings lie lle fifteen fifteen miles mlles south of the ground of the he Cedar Cedar- Cedar Butte Butte Oil OU company The Uintah Exploration and Development company is largely a Denver concern and nd is managed by R. R J J. J Walter of ot Denver As to progress at the Cedar Butte company's property Dr Coke said that hat he had bad a large force of men busy iuey both at the site of the plant and andin andon andon on in the oil sand holdings crowding the he work as rapidly as possible possible- under the he circumstances Cement for the foundation of the ton ton plant is I. isnow isnow now oh on the ground and the necessary macl machinery Is being shipped as al fast as it can be procured There Is however considerable unavoidable delay because of the fact that railroads railroads rail rail- roads everywhere are giving preference preference preference prefer prefer- ence ence- to war business orders and this makes the time of arrival of some of ot the equipment uncertain But when the big reduction plant Is finally finally finally fin fin- ally completed there will remain no DO question of doubt as to plenty of material material material ma ma- to assure its operation for a along along along long and careful tests have b been en made that seem to justify the assured success of ur tho the process to be Installed Tho The Uta Oil company is reported as pushing the construction of It its ton shale reduction plant on th the tho 5 White river which will cost approximately approximately approximately and is expected to tobe tobe tobe be ready to go Into commission some sometime sometime sometime time next summer This company I I will make use of the Wallace process in the treatment of its o of which it has an an Immense tonnage o of high grade grade oil content A subsidiary of the Standard 01 company has started drilling with a I Standard rig in the Rangeley field o of Colorado on the eastern e edge ge of the Uintah basin This rig Is la equipped to go at least feet if necessary and it is the to thoroughly purpose test thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- the deep sands of the basin The Emerald Oil company has leased a part of Its holdings holdings' In th the Rangely field neld to California interests who are putting In a n. refinery for th the thel l production of gasoline Dr Coke added that ho had nad noted note considerable activity in the Ule development develop develop- meat ment of shale properties in the regions regIons regions reg reg- ions lying around Watson and th the White rivet river adding that the tho general gener gener- al Interest In the basins basin's wealth seemed seemed seemed seem seem- ed to be bo growing daily dally I |