The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1916-12-01

Utah Paraffine oil and wax COM
pany. which was incorporated at Salt
Lake city last week with capital
stock OF $4,000. will begin the de-
velopmcnt Of the oil shale beds near
Soldier Summit a. soon as reports
concerning the action Of the Scott
process are received from Detroit.
The company has filed ON ten thous-
and acres OF oil shalc land and Il is
said by officers OF the company that
there are millions OF tons vf shalc In
the vicinity which will produce oil and
paraffinc wax. Experiments show
that thirty-fiye gallons OF oil and fif-
teen pounds of paraffine wax can he
secured from ton Of shalc.
The Scott process, which " to Ice
used 90 extract oil and wax from the
shaic. u distillation method owned
by the General deduction company
Of New York. In which Spencer PEN
rose and Charles NJ. MCNEIL. presi-
dent of the Utah Copper company, are
heavily Interested. q. W. Ewing. a
member OF the board OF directors of
the company. aud W. II. Wallace, vice
president. declare that one of the big
gest industries OF the state will bc de-
veiopcd In the Hhaic beds " matters
come w 10 expectations. The shalc
has been experimental on FOR two
years In secret Three carloads have
been sent To- Detroit. Mich. FOR final
experiment with lhe Scott process,
aud the report H. expected In n few
weeks.
The lncirporators OF the company
are Lawrence Green. W. ~. Wallace.
James tngcbrctsen. NJ. u. Evans. =.
\. Murphy NJ. A. Kuyser and q. w.
Ewing The proposition has been
under way Tor several months said
Wallace. but ~ I ann not familiar
with what has been done lately Ewing
will give an outline 81 the work. The
company expects TO do a great deal "
the Scott process does all that IN
claimed for H."
Discovered By Accident.
Ewing said that II was discovered
by accident that the shalc contained
oil aud wax which could be extracted.
Tie snid that experiments Tor the past
two years had shown that the distil-
lation process would return thirty-fivc
gallons of oil and fifteen pounds OF
wax. The Scott process, which was
invented In Salt Lake city several
years aEo. was only put into operation
when the Pcnrosc- Mcneil syndicate
bought H. We have closed the deal
for the rights OF the Scott process In
the state OF Utah said Ewing The
inventor OF the process sold the rights
to this state Ca Denver man and We
bought IL from him. The Penrosc-
McNclii people own 10 por cent OF the
rights In Utah and We own the other
90 per cent The purchase of this
right has kept back the filing Of thu
papers for months.
we have ten thousand acres of
shale near soldier summit. Engineers
have not az yet completed the csti-
mate OF the tonnage. but there are
millions OF tons OF oil nhaic. We cX-
pect 10 get byproductH worth three
dollars from every ton OF Hhalc, as
that IL the amount We have secured
50 far. with the Scott process we ex-
pect 10 get "A greater amount Than this
and In addition 20 be able To operate
the plant cheaper. We cannot tell
when the plant win bo built. as We
want 10 get our experimental work
over with before we go into the mar
ket with our products.
There Is no stock FOR sale 90 any
one The men who have started the
work OF getting oil and wax from the
shales In the vicinity OF Soldier sum
nit are well known 60 the people OF
the state. As soon as We are ready 20
operate the capital stock OF the COM
pany viii be increased"
The holdings OF the corporation lie
on the south side OF the Denver ana
pta nrauaa tracks betWeeu Cotton