Show I t I I BILLION BARRELS Oil lOCKED UP liP IN SHALE Secretary Wilbur U. U S S. S X Navy Says SUS l tah and Colorado posits Deposits will viii Solve Soho Problem or of Naval Fuel Reserve There are forty billion barrels or of oil locked up in the shale of the United States largely largel in Utah and andI Colorado Released this oU oil will solve olve the of the naval tuc reserve This was a statement made mado in Salt Lake last last week b by Curtis D D. Wilbur Wllbur duning a stop while to W. W He much regretted that he had not the time to seo some of the shale deposits I particularly wanted to look over some ot of the acre acro navai oil shale reserves in Utah and Colorado Colorado Colo- Colo rado he said and to investigate the pro progress ress which has been made in extracting the oil JOU I saw a process pro pro- cess ess in Alhambra for extracting the the oil and I regret very muck much that governmental experiments along this line were forestalled b by the filibuster ter which defeated the Ithe deficiency appropriation bin bill The of the oil shale reserve re- re serve ds of particular value to the nav navy because unlike oil shale bale cannot cannot can can- not run Tun away awa- Iu In fact it will solve the naval 11 oil re reserve erve problem some something thing which is of tremendous importance tance to th tho nation I |