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Show 816 THINGS ARE DOING IN SUNNYS1DE OIL SHALES PLANT ON GROUND FOR ACTUAL OPERATIONS. Deposits to Bo Utilized Immedlatly Cover Very Large Area In the Eastern East-ern Portion of Carbon County Salt Lako City Inventor Is Said to Have Perfected Extracting Process. Oil in rpinntides Hint enn lie com puled only in hundreds of millions of iinrrvls nnd eontnincd in tho mountains moun-tains of sandstone which, centuries ago, were forced upward by the eon-Milsions eon-Milsions of nature or exjKwed by kw crfnl erosive agencies, soon will be flowing into the channels of trade, and n new nnd important industry for Utnh will liavo been Riven its birth, sfl)s Irn C. Tirhncr in n special sign-cd sign-cd story in last Katurdnv's Salt Lnke Telegram. Kvcn now the necessary machinery m the way, workmen nro engnged in constructing the cnini)-houses cnini)-houses ami other buildings, nnd within the next few weeks this stnte will have the distinction of producing n high grade of paraffin petroleum from : "wells" hewn and shoveled out of sand domes lowering ntmvc the level of tho surrounding country. Tlicso daman, which stretch for mile in scv-oral scv-oral southeastern counties of tho stnte, have been known to enntnin nn nlimml inconceivable nuiottnt of petroleum, pe-troleum, but, as in the case of the oil shnle, wluoli abound in Utnh to n greater extent than in nnv oilier lo-ealit) lo-ealit) in the world, it has been neeos-Mr) neeos-Mr) to nwnit the diseovcr)' "f liro ces by menus of which I ho oil could profitably be separated from tho sand. Iliis problem, it is declared, has been successfully solved by n Halt Inko City mnii, nnd arrangement practically have been completed by n eotnimny phiiiiom.m1 prineimlly or local lo-cal husinc men anil investor to put (lie process into operation. Process Quito Simple. Tho process, which is the invention of I'm nk N'eviu, is declared to b quite simple, railing merely for tho crushing of the rock and the applied enlion of gasoline nnd water, which an allowed to settle after being thoroughly ngitntcd for n minute or two, with thu result Hint the sand goes to tho iMittnm nnd tho oil tn tho top of tho water. Hoth tho water and the gasoline may bo used over nnd over for tho production of mora oil. Tho coniwny, which will be the pioneer pio-neer in I'tnli's newest industry. ' known as the I'tssli Oil nnd Wnx com-pan), com-pan), while ('HrlHin county will In tho'secne of inillnl operations. Of finnU of the eoneern now are super intending the construction of Hie camp mid plant on the property hihI whiih comprise! HMir tlmu eleven hundred nearen, located in the unwell-1 Hideout iiiiiiuiK district, eleven miles north of Knniiyside, in the left hand! fork of Whilnwrc Canyon. The prop- crlv eonsisl ot seven placer inining claims, two of which lire mteulcd ? round, while location have beeii( lied on (he other five. Two of the claim were located prolmlil) thirty jwiw ngo by Milwido Pratt nnd others, wh'o incoriiorwted what was known us the Suit bike As phnlt eoiiipany, on the theory that tho uintoniil to be mined wits iisphiil-turn iisphiil-turn mid would make good pnvemciit Test showed, however, that tho material ma-terial dlstintegrated with tho application appli-cation of bent, so after toiibidcrnble cost nnd experimenting the eoniHin quit. After the luud had been sur e.ved for patent 1'. M. L.Mimn, Jr., I (onductcd un investigation tor the ' government. Ho kept in touch with thu onguuil incorporators, us he believed be-lieved tho proHirty would bit valuable us nn oil producer, und in 1IU8 entered en-tered into an agreement with thu Salt bike Asphalt company to iiiirthusc its proKtrty for ten thousand dollars, to bo paid at tho rate of twent-five routs a ton of nil umtennl mined. In aft much, however, us the parent com jinny was dead in tho e)u of thu law. it was nciOMoary to obtain u court order resurrecting thu eorMiratlou in order to wind up its affairs. After am h un order had been obtained, the contract for purchase was used us the basis for the ineoriHiriitiou of the Utah Oil and Wax company, and ex porimcnts wore, started to determini the rpinlit) nnd extent of tho oil win : tnined in the proiierty, Tho addit onal " claims wore iu tho meantime proper ly located. Company Declaration. In discussing the projtot, William Holmes, one of tho official of the company, sa)s; "Wo nro now prepared pre-pared to eonimemo operations. The (pinntlty of material in sight is mi largo that absolutely no prospecting will bo necessary. Wo will simpl) set up our mnchtnery and commence to extract crude oil. Tito quantity in sight is almost inconcelvnble in its vnstnoss. Tiicro is ono blanket vein entirely covering the two patented claims nr)ing in thickness from n hundred (o u hundred nnd fifty fcot, which lias been estimated to contain three hundred million Imrrels of oil, nnd this vein is but a fraction of the total proiierty. The hill is nothing mora or loss thnn n great hig oil dome, and now that the process of extraction lias ,bccn solved, wo feci -wo are in possession of one of tho big industries of the state. All of the V experiments thus far have been con- dhclcd with material which lies been ftllly oxoed to the weather for twwi- . ty or t went) -five ,ears, jet enleuln- ' t.Jms show it to contain twtntj-two glillons of oil per Ion of sand. ' It is ; ciinfidcntlj expected that as soon ns the work has progrewcd hcjnnil the weathered surface of the hill the pro- duct will increase immeasurably in ', richness and value." |