The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-12-07
BUREAU OF MINES
SEEKS SAVING Of
WASTE MATERIAL
Cooperating With Actual
Needs of Industries De-
partment Aids in Race
for Trade Supremacy
OKLAHOMA INCLUDED
CONSERVATION TESTS
EXPERIMENT STATION LOCATED
AT BARTLEsvILLE TO WORK
OUT PLANS FOR SAVING
PETROLEUM BY-PRODUCTS


Washington, Dec. IAN innovation
in federal government bureau methods.
involving practical cooperative as
sistance. metallurgical and certain
other industries Of the country in
solving many of the intricate and
complex problems in manufacture, is
outlined in the annual report of Dr.
+. G. Cottrell, director Of the bureau,
made public today.
This new policy, is described as a
direct outgrowth of the world war.
II is declared that not only has the
Bureau of Mines adopted this ad-
vanced cooperation with the actual
needs Of the industries, but that the
leading nations Of the world are fol-
lowing suit, determined not to be
left behind in the coming race for
supremacy in the industrial trade OF
the world. Great Britain, it is said,
is especially alive to this movement.
For this new work the Bureau Of
Mines has - well organized expert
ment stations located in the differ
ent mining and metallurgical fields
of the country, all fitted, Director
Cottrel says, with the necessary
chemical and laboratory apparatus as
to enable it to take up with the
industries peculiar to its districts
where he stations are located the
most pressing problems that have baf-
fled them, especially those involving
the treatment Of low-grade ores.
many Of them heretofore useless. and
turn them into commercial processes
of value TO the nation.
so successful have these mcthods
Of solving commercial problems been.
according 10 the Bureau Of Mines, that
at present the bureau has agreements
for experimental work with nineteen
Industrial concerns. - different uni
yersties, and with state agencies in
IL states.
These cooperative agreements with
the bureau embrace many different
activities. For instance, there Is an
experiment station at Bartlesville.
Okla. devoted entirely TO the work
Of the petroleum. industry. Already
in one Of the oil fields Of Oklahoma
the Investigations Of the engineers
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indicate that the production of this
field may be materially increased be-
cause certain OF the productive sands
had no. been recognized by the oper-
ators.
Seeking to find additional sources
of motor fuel for the rapidly increas-
ing number of automobiles, the bu-
reau has entered into cooperative
agreements with the states of Utah
and Colorado TO develop the oil shale
industry. A. Boulder, Colo. an eX-
perlmental oil shale rctort has been
installed and tests have been begun on
shnles Of that district. At salt Lake
CITY, Utah. similar Investigations are
being made. Cooperative oil shae
work n also being conducted with the
Southern Pacific Company at Elko'
Nevada.
General investigations Of the waste
of gasoline through evaporation alone
will result, the bureau says, In the
saving OF sufficient gasoline to run
100000 additional automobiles each
year
At the Golden, Colo. station of the
bureau, since removed 10 Reno, Ne
vadn, in cooperation with company
ENGAGED in the manufacture OF gas
nantes, the bureau has developed that
n substance known MS meso-thorium
can bc used as substitute for ra-
dlum In the manufacture Of luminous
paints, thus saving the radium for It's
more important therapeutic uses. as
in cases Of cancer.
At the Berkeley, Calf. station 4
cooperative agreement with the North
west Magnositc Company of WASH
ington has resulted in the solving OF
certain problems in the manufacture
of caustic magnosa that are said
10 mako American mngncsite products
compare favorably with those i'm
ported.
At tho Ceramic station OF the bureau
ut Columbus. Ohio the bureau says
it has established that American bond
clnys can be used with rs good ef-
feet In tho manufacture Of cruclbles
as imported clays. The lack OF this
knowledge during the war was said
TO have been serious handicap To
the industries manufacturing war ma
terials.
In cooperation with the University
Of Minnesota, tho station at Minnc-
npolis, IA investigating tho low-grado
iron reserves OF the state to obtain
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