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Show It SHALE PLANT TO BE BUILT IN OGDEi Copies of the bill introduced in the senate Aug. 4, and referred to the mines committee providing for $500,00! appropriation for the building of an I oil shale plant in Ogden where ex-1 perimonts for the extraction of oil from Shale may be carried on, have been received in this aty j The bill is No. 2722 and Is as fol ! I lows : j "To authorize the erection of an ex-1 , perimontal oil shale refining plant at j Ogden, Utah, and making an approp j rial ion for such purpose. "Be It enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United' States of America in congress assent , jhled. that there is hereby appropriat led, the sum of $500,000," or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be I .expended under the direction of the' (secretary of the interior for the erection erec-tion of an experimental petroleum shale refining plant at Ogden. in the! State of Utah, for the purpose of in-' Mstigating and developing the methods meth-ods for the extraction of petroleum available for the uses of the United, stales government, the work of in'ses (ligation, experimentation and development develop-ment for such purposes be under the supervision of the bureau of mines in. the department of the interior." |