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Show o Large Supply of Oil Found In Utah Coal SALT LAKE CITY Utah has in its coal one of the largest potential oil supplies in the United States, according ac-cording to Lewis C. Karrick of Salt Lake City. Mr. Karrick has been working on the processing of coal at the Utah Research Foundation at the University of Utah. The large scale processing of Utah coal from which commercial scale data can be obtained will begin within with-in a few weeks. Up to the present time, University of Utah students have studied the economic, chemical, and mechanical and civil engineering engineer-ing phases of the problem, and all tests seem to indicate that the processing pro-cessing of Utah coal is feasible, Mr. Karrick stated. The coal would be processed not only for the purpose, of obtaining the oil which it contains, but the extraction ex-traction of the oil would, also provide pro-vide a smokeless fuel, as it is the oil in the coal that produces the smoke during combustion. A gas, which is of higher quality than natural nat-ural gas, and some less important by-products would be obtained. "Since there are many different kinds of coal," Mr. Karrick said, "the process would not be adaptable to all coals. However, the process is suitable suit-able to practically all of the coals in the state of Utah. We have the largest present day commercial source of oil in our coal." With the purpose of finding a larger supply of oil, work on Utah coal was originally started by the Intermountain Experiment Station of the U. S. Bureau of Mines located at the University of Utah. In addition addi-tion to showing that the oil could be removed from the coal, the experiments experi-ments also showed that by removing the oil a smokeless fuel remained. The work has been carried on since by various departments of the state university. The processing cost is nominal, and the processed fuel could be sold at the same price as ordinary coal, Mr. Karrick stated. |