Show OIL SHALE BEDS for many years before the discovery of ground petroleum in drake well in pennsylvania about 62 years ago oil was made from shale in america and refined 1 an fn burning oils tor for illumination says an eastern writer the worked out at that time were of such a low oil content and the then only known process was at encanto with such heavy oil loss the the industry died a competitive death the pro producing and refining of oil froza i shale has been carried on lor for over fifty years in scotland new south wales and germany prior to the world war one ot of the largest shale oil plants in scotland paid a yearly dividend on its outstanding stock up to forty per cent per year and this in the face of the fact that scotch seldom run no higher in oil content than twenty four gallons to the ton of shale or about one third the of utah and colorado while many strata in the fields of utah and colorado run as high agh as one hundred gallons of 0 oil per ton of shale thousands of acres ot of these rich oil bearing hundreds of feet in thickness have been lying at our very feet awaiting the ingenuity of man to develop it is well recognized by scientific authority that the methods used in scotland and ather parts of the world in ili extracting the oil content of shale are not applicable to the treatment of american continental were differently laid down and contain somewhat different farent dlf from utah and colorado they are more lean that Is oil content while the practice of extraction there entails t the e saving of the ammonium sulphate sulp p late in order to make its treatment pro profitable table the rule generally recognized abroad is that the leaner the oil content ot of shale the higher its ita ammonium sulphate content and likewise vice versa this condition exists largely with utah and colorado but on account of their richness and the length of lim time and the equipment necessary tor for the extraction of the ammonium sulphate content which is valuable only as a fertilizer no effort has been or will vill be made tor for some time at least to save this product the successful operation of retorts in colorado for the past two weeks conclusively demonstrate that commercial reduction ot of shale oil Is not twenty years away as alleged experts would have us beleve this being so and the production of shale oil a manufacturing enterprise all that is missing to 10 make the infant industry no only one of the greatest in utah and colorado but a real factor in the industrial adus life of america Is the ate and continuous support of the people of afie great oil shale states 0 |