Show washington NEWS LETTER by congressman COI GRESSMAN GRANGER t 4 y GASOLINE FROM COAL A new outlet for the vast resources of coal in utah may be forthcoming eventually from the plan of interior secretary ickes to ask congress for authority to construct a sizeable plant for extracting petroleum products from coal Seere secretary tary ickes informed the house appropriations committee that extensive s tests have been made of the extraction process and the results have proved successful he insists that such a development Is essential at this time to avoid an experience similar to that in the tle development of synthetic rubber while the proposed petroleum extraction plant would be constructed at pittsburgh there Is no doubt but that there would be merit in efforts to develop similar plants in other coal pro areas utah Is particularly attractive in this field in that its coal supplies are enormous and in addition it has vast resources of low grade coal and heavy oil bearing shale such a development in utah would serve to supplement the gradually diminishing supplies of oil secretary ickes pointed out that new discoveries of natural petroleum reserves in the united states lost last year were only 57 per cent of the depletion of such reserves one hundred tons of high grade bituminous tu coal should yield about gallons of gasoline and two hundred tons of lignite or low grade coal should yield about gallons |