Show UTAH OIL SHALE DEPOSITS LARGE LARDE Wyoming and and Colorado Contain Extensive Resources DENVER Aug 13 By By The As- As Associated Associated Press Oil Oil a shale rising In rocky ode ranges In western Colorado and stretching north and westward Into Ino WyomIng and Utah offers man a mammoth oil supply when he has ex- ex exhausted exhausted hausted lausted the natural oil fields of tb the world orld Exploitation of this source federal and private experts are convinced awaits waits only the waning of the nations nation s soil oil supply to a a. point where some new nev method of oil derivation Is necessary and the tho development of a commer commer- commercially lally feasible method of converting Into oil aU the hydrogen drogen h and carbon atoms at atoms at- at atoms oms with which the shale teems EXPERIMENTAL L PLANT So 50 sure arc are those concerned with the he future oil supply that the fields of shale will yield it that the United States government already has established shed fished an experimental plant at Hull Rull- Rulison Rullson son Colo for conversion of oC shale into oil and has set act aside in the region a naval shale reserve while private companies have hae obtained rights to al almost al- al almost almost most all aU the ranges not embraced In Jn government reserves re erves In the Immediate area of or western Colorado are some 2000 square miles known to contain oil shale the shale the le-the tho heart of the tha largest shale hale deposits in the world Government and private stu stu- students students students dents of the field estimate that it will yield a barrel to a barrel and a I Ihal half hal of crude oil from each ton of shale treated Victor C C. Alderson former fonner president of or the Colorado School of or Mines places the productive value of the Uie fields at between 50 and 80 bil bil- billon billion bil- bil billion lion lon gallons of oil oll oil enough enough nough to last the States for a tI century at the present annual rate of consumption which Is to million barrels MOUNTAINS OF SHALE The The deposits are most extensive in inthe Inthe inthe the vicinity of Grand Junction De De- DeBeque DeBeque Beque and Palisades Some of the shale mountains moun rise to feet The oil strata range in thickness from a afew afew few cw inches to several feet and in color from rom light tan Un to a a. dark mahogany The do not contain oil oil oil- merely the elements necessary to ro oil all The oil Is manufactured from the rocks Patents for hundreds of pro pro- production production processes processes' have been granted most of them to and sev sev- several several eral small plants are now in opera opera- operation operation tion seeking to prove economic feasibility feasibility of or the process A similar con con- conversion conversion conversion version of shale Into oil all is practiced In n Scotland but it is not deemed practical practical practical for handling the Colorado shale Some authorities hold that oil can be produced from the shale when the need arises at a Do commercial cost of 1 81 a barrel VALUABLE FERTILIZER The shale mountains exploited for oil all may also ako yield a a. product by-product of or fertilizer Farmers near DeBeque say |