The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-10-18
GREAT PREDICTIONS
FOR NEVADA SHALE

A. G. Crane, who was accompanied
to Washington by Banker ]. T. Good
in of Lovelock, to perfect and patent
title to the Crane shale oil and BIZ
products extraction process, returned
to Winnemucca from the East this
morning, accompanied by his son
Burnett. Crane brings with him pat
ents for his process of treating shale.
This process will extract oil, paraffine
wax, ammonia, and produces a fertil-
izer and harnesses the gas contained
in the vast shale beds of Nevada, af-
fording cheap power and service for
the development of Nevada resources
now dormant and Improbable
The scientific end of the Depart
ment of the Interior of the govern
ment verifies the success of the Crane
shale refining process. Crane has
with him these authentic credentials.
This process means untold new
wealth production for Nevada and for
the world as a whole. The possibili-
ties of this process, as verified by
government agents, are so far-reach-
ing that the imagination is baked in
perceiving the utility value contained
therein
Here is what the Crane process will
do, by actual tests made in the gov
ernment laboratories at Washington:
The Nevada shale yields from the ton
90 gallons of oil, 25 pounds of paraffin
wax. Is to 27 pounds ammonia, large
quantities of fertilizer, and harnessed
gas for heat and power. Each ton of
shale reduced yields from 4,500 to
5000 cubic feet of gas.
What does the success of this pro-
cess convey to Nevada-to the world?
Calculate and figure it, and a revolu-
tionary process is at the threshold of
home energy and enterprise. What
does that mean? The answer comes
with the query Mills will be erected
in Nevada and other shale points in
the shale products. In the language
of DR.. Day, the foremost scientist of
the government laboratory: Zone of
the great benefits of the Crane process
will be that cheap fuel is now in sight
for Nevada, for there is no state in
the Union that has such an abund-
ance of shale with higher utility quail
ity than Nevada has"
This cheap power applied to lift the
undercurrent water of Nevada, to give
moisture to the millions of unused
acres means greater wealth for the
State than all the wealth-producing
forces now at work in the mountain
states. This cheap power means re-
clamation, crops and contented homes
over plains and valleys and mountain
sides now out of useful reach.
When Crane and Goodin left the
United States laboratory. in bidding
goodbye to Director Manning of the
Interior Department, Manning said:
with all the oil now flowing, the
world must seek an additional 400,-
100000 barrels annually to meet re-
quirements" And he added that from
tests made with the Crane process, he
looked to that method for a larger
supply of oil. Not only this, but that
the United States must furnish oil to
Europe for forty years to come.
In generalizing. Manning remarked
that the shale rock of Nevada was free
from asphaltum and that the oil ex-
tracted from it is, for that reason, the
best oil for aeroplanes, because it best
meets all the varied climatic condi-
tions which are encountered in flying.
Among those associated with Crane
in the perfection of his enterprise are
United States Attorneys Woodburn
and Bartlett, ]. T. Goodin and Harry
Hunter, besides Eastern capitalists.
While in Washington, Crane and Good
in were greeted with every courtesy
that the officials could bestow. Sena-
tor Pittman who specially favorable,
and is enthusiastic over the possibili-
| ties of the Crane process. The mining
bureau of the Department of the IN
terror gave them open house and
everything claimed for the process
was verified by government scientist;
and thus upon the threshold of new
worlds dawn there breaks into the
forefront Nevada with its men.