News Advocate | 1918-07-11 | Page 8 | Prominent Citizens Inspect Shale Beds

PROMINENT CITIZENS INSPECT SHALE BE BEDS DS A crowd of well known carbon county citizens and nd others went ent out to the shale beds of the rocky majr tain refining company sunday sunda on a trip of inspection A stop for din ner was made a at t I 1 he lie lol Whit whitmore mote ic ranch and the way the bunzo put the chicken out of sight was a tribute to mr ir whitmore Whit mores s cooking after eating the shale beds ete inspect ed all those who had not before visited them weri greatly at the immensity of the deposits at aid d the unmistakable eL evidence dence of oil presidents president 3 A mock of the compan who was in the crowd stated that tha contracts would be let in a few days for the first unit of the retort and that operations would start abely for installation those making the trip in addition to president mock and vice president J M whitmore were W V N wetzel superintendent at sunn sirl sir it R R KA kirkpatick patrick superintendent of coke ovens oens at sun ri giside side C it R fahring dentist of sun nisida A D hadley manager of the WaSi store at sunn side noe aubert pro prommel minet E it black local lee whitmore and W V G stott of first national bank and thomas duma ne