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Show J OIL SHALES TQ I BE EXPLOITED English, Belgium and French Capital Look Over I ,' Ground SrH SASbT L.AKI0. Dec. 27 OH slial(f ' ' J? lands of L'lntrih basin, totalinc; -10.000 i?5fi acres, hr.vc attracted English, French " , and Belpian capitnl, nccordlns to an i . ' jg announcnmfnt ni:idc last nlriht by ft. L S Cpllett, formerly of Koos've-it. A I representative ot an English syndicate, irfrfesk ift two 'rorn a Belgian company and no -j-.oP from a French syndicate, operating i''i35tfl Jointly, are In Salt Lake and have r - returned but recently from a visit to ' rVi'S to I'lntah hasln with Mr Collctl. , (E phe foreign In teres ta are already II committed to tb. titurc, as i early as '? 1 conbl be learned lasl nighl having . taken the si'-i' "iion the advice ot We' J York experts on geology, " were! - I some time ago scr.t into the territory! ! !uj to investigate and make report The T upshot of the proposition is thnt tilings , are looking u. for the Ijiitah country, r'.rjll it is pointed out that the interesting I V ''tj of foreign capitnl to ro great an extent j , JB in oil ahala lands of the valley cannot D but Insure the prospect for early butld- jl lng of a railroad Into the I'intah. that ;. , such Interests cannot well' put money SOlLBj into the oil shale industry of the great I v empire In th eastern part ot thi Btate TOMMl ;,n ;iv,a 'ave It until such i . j time as transportation would be cstab- Bf in lished in the natural course of events, i hjjr STS n anv' evc,lt- 'l IS understood thut not ,t?':l onl will definite development work tot the oil shale prospects be begun j with the opening of spring, but that' drilling by the foreign concerns that are taking over the lands in which Mr. Colleit has been for so many years? interested. j |