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Show OGDEN BOOSTED POD OIL CENTER DF WEST Ogden is being boosted for the oil center of the west The government : plans on building an oil shale experi-j mental station here, according to word; received in this city from the east Oil in L'tah. Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Colorado could be handled here, as railroads reach this ciay from all, , of the points in consideration. Fol- lowing is a bulletin concerning the! Dillon and Idaho deposits: "One of the few places where a plant ha.s already been installed for the distillation of oil from shale is near Dillon, Mont. The shale at the! , site selected for the operations is a part of the phosphoria formation, j which contains the beds of rock phoa-i phoa-i phate that are mined at several places 1 near Bear Lake, in southeastern Idaho, ' for the mnufacture of fertilizer. Phos-j Phos-j phate beds are also associated with ! this shale in the vicinity of Dillon, and although they are neither 60 thick nor so rich as the beds in southeastern Idaho, they have some prospective aluc. Soon after it became known that, there was a shale in the Dillon repion from which oil could be distilled dis-tilled certain promoters began to or-canize or-canize companies to drill for oil in that region, and the search has been carried on persistently in spite of the fact that the geologic conditions there are almost wholly unfavorable to the occurrence of oil. The character of these oil shale bed5; was first brought to attention of the public in a report by C F. Bowen, published pub-lished in 1918 as bulletin 661 of the United States geological survey, department de-partment of the interior. A more detailed de-tailed examination of these phosphatic I shales and of beds of other forma - inons that may contain oil shale was made late in 1918 by D. Dale Condit. ! whose report has Just been published by the survey as bulletin 711 -B, which is entitled "Oil shale in western Montana, Mon-tana, southeastern Idaho, and adjacent adja-cent parts of Wyoming and Utah." Copies of this report my be obtained on application to the director of the United States geological survey, Washington, Wash-ington, D. C. u j |