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Show 3& EXPERIMENTAL STATION FOR OGDEN. H On a day last week Senator William H. King introduced a bill in congress calling for the erection of an experimental oil shale refining plant at Ogden and asking for an appropriation of $500,000. The measuie is as follows: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That there is hereby appropriated, out of the mdneys of the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $500,000, or so much thereof there-of as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the secretary of the interior, for the erection of an experimental petroleum shale refining plant at Ogden, in the State of Utah, for the purpose of investigating and developing the methods for the extraction of petroleum from oil shale, in order to mciease the supply of petroleum available for the uses of the United States government, the work of investigation, experimentation, 'i and development for such purposes to be under the supervision of the Bureau of Mines in the Department of the Interior. There are extensive oil shale bodies in Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado in which is locked up a greater body of oil than if known to have existed in the oil pools since the days of Coal Oil Johnny. But up to the present no highly successful method of extraction ex-traction of the oil from the shale has been worked out. Our government would do a great thing to follow the proposal 11 i i iiwi mm iim ii i im made by Senator King and thereby give to the West the key to the unlocking of resources more vast than the mines of gold. Ogden is favorably situated in relation to the known oil shale bodies and would be an ideal experimental point. The. Standard urges our commercial bodies to get back of Senatoi King in impressing on congress the merit of this measure. |