Show Great potential jj New oil industry making pilot run in Whiterocks asphalt will expand A new industry is very def- in the making for the Uintah Basin as Western Industries of Las Nevada announce the establishment of a modern pilot plant at the mouth of Whiterocks Canyon to extract light oil from the bitu- men contained In the vast asphalt sands In that ACCORDING to W. J. the pilot plant which has been operating since 4 on a trial the forerunner of a proposed million extraction plant for the near The operation is located near the Bob Marimon across the Whiterocks River and east of the Cedar Bute Oil The company has leased 2400 acres of rock asphalt property from Roosevelt and Salt Lake A CREW OF 30 men havo been employed the past two or more months helping to get the pilot plant set Considerable excavating and core drilling has been required to get the building site MASON indicated a to- tal of has been ex- to date on the project 1 and completion date for the en- j i tire million plant is antic- In IS The larger plant will include a cracking Company officials are J with the Moon Lake Electric Association for power and with the Utah Gas Service for gas supplies and reported to tho Standard his company 13 plan- ning for four units with a capacity of barrels per When In full production it Is estimated approximately 50 men will bc with the plant operating three I i- Another idea the company officials are toying with is the possibility of constructing their i own hydro-power for alternate The terrain is ideal for constructing such a power j unit with a fall of feet in j three miles and a drop of t feet to the Negotiations are underway with water j the forest service and others t who have some control over the j water of the OVER TWO years of planning and preparing have been expended for this Actual p work began this The pilot plant which has a capacity of 25 barrells operated the first OcL 4 for three hours and the next day for four A high-grade white sand Is one of the by-products coming from the which gives possibility of a glass factory at a later Officials of Western Industries arc already ex- j this field as jr MACHINERY AND equip- j ment Is being built and in- stalled by Hack Engineering J of Designing en- on the project is W. R. An important by-product of i the oil extraction will be n sand used in manufacture of plate j THE plant Is to bo housed in a large steel building k being shipped by Buttes Steel 8 Sec pago 8 2 Industry from page Current plans call for the heavy oil recovered into gasoline and coke similar to the method used at the American Gilsonite plant at |