The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1917-11-30
|lMANCE OF UTAH
| OIL SHALES IS
RECITED
.oxrFRs HAD RIcToRTs BE-
FORE PENNSYLVANIA.
IL Mormons, According To United
ssics Geological Survey. Produced
mall Quantity In Juab County
rodcsn Methods In Eastern Utah
,ud Colorado Being introduced.

Mar not generally known, but II Ii
"A At that oil was retorted from shalc
The Utah pioneers prior TO the dis
&|usry of oil In Pennsylvania In 1859.
- is acknowledged In n bulletin Is
q hast year by the department OF
Interior. No. sti-F. In which this
,aars. Before petroleum was dis
4 rtred in Pennsylvania the Mormons
snled oil from shaic near Juab.
4 here the ruins Of an old still can yet
Il seen" The new Crane process OF
raction has an interesting romance
. ssrhcd 60 IL. This same bulletin cs-
|rates that Utah has upwards OF 40
900. 900 barrels OF crude oil tied
II IN IL shaics. from which 1000
900 barrels OF gasoline may be ex-
hesed by ordinary methods OF rcfln-
Ia In addition TO the oil there In
.Ained in these vast stretches 81
|ale lands. 10000. 10000 tons OF
Armonlum sulphatc. compound
tecially valuable as n fertilizer The
Fnctin ayA that In the investigation
y the bcds In Utah and Colorado that
LraNimum OF ninety gallons OF oil 90
II ton was taken from n thin bed OF
||Ale located near Watson on the Tim
u railway. Here IL where the re-
n,ly organized Crane shaio oil COM
<.ny proposes 20 erect rctorta and n
|.nning plant probably early next
|rinE by It's own new process.
\ When w. &. Ralston and Alex NJ.
syis. managing directors OF the COM
has. were In Salt Lake City last week
b. said that the Utah plant TO begin
|. M will be small. but they expect 20
,crcaso u 10 two hundred tons OF
BALES daily. Following the erection
i rctortinR plant viii como n re-
berry TO crack" the oils and extract
Dir numerous valuable byproducts.
b. lowest heat steam process will
|quirc but two hours TO the charge.
'Assc will be called sweat plant"
u are very simple. II IN proposed
have thcm manufactured on a large
Bile and sold or leased To the small
orator In the oil shalc business. IL
estimated that average Utah shalcH
'ntnin about fourteen dollars In gas
me and other easily extracted by
.oducts. Then II " expected 10 ca
krt dyes. WAKES and lubricants. The
'siduc H. said Co show good brick
',aiitics. and o. be- excellent road ma
'rinl ~ looks like another ease oi
y chicago packer who saves every
.ng IA the hog but the squoal-and
J. modern phonograph gets that.
There IN quite "A romance connected
IN the Crane process which the now
|mpany has secured. II seems that
a.. Crane was drawn into one 81
osr unfortunate insurance schemes.
'ad FINALLY when the goats were cap
bed Il landed him In the Nevada
|hic pcnitentiary. There he thought
ID his invention, later he Snug
Id ont letter and II reached the
|sfeau OF mines. ThvHo heads have
|ssn feyerishly looking for a simple
|roccsS of extracting the oila and the
|.solinc from these vast dormant
ID In the West which contain bill
m in wealth. The continual short
~ OF oh and gasoline and the now
Extraordinary war demands had put
belle Sam az against II.
So at once ON receipt of this letter.
syid T. Day probably the dean of
shnlc men OF the world, was sent
Nevada 10 look into the Crane
aims OF n simple process OF oil eX-
action. The result was that Crane
"a first gotten out ON parole. and