Show gasoline Ga ioline from shale in anticipation of the day when on account of the advancing cost coat of gasoline and other products obtained from petroleum it might be found commercially profitable to utilize some mine of the enormous supply of f petroleum to be derived from fram the dis til lalion lation of the vait deposits of so BO called hydrocarbon of the un cited states geological survey has for three years been making field in tiona of these deposits the examinations have been accompanied by mapping of the various areas of hydrocarbon and by such field measurements of the thickness of the shades in wo wor kaba beds and such rude tie field distillation tests a as wi will bof af ford primary information concerning the amount and richness of the shale of different parts of the region rough but cautious calculations of the contents of the shale in parts of a f the he area untamed indicate that the distillation of shale fir from am beds over three feet thick in colorado alone will yield more than 20 barrels of crude oil from fro at which wh in more than 2000 barrels of gas gasoline line can be extracted by elrd ordinary methods A report giving the result of these explorations and tests and ad an account of experiments exper ments as to possible gasoline production both by the ordinary commercial processes and by the rittman process is now in press preas |