Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-17

4 deposits are reported in the province OF
| Aranco, in the Andes mountains. New
companies have been formed to treat
the oil shales in Tasmania as well as
in the Transval Argentina contains
extensive beds of commercial rich
shales which are being studied by an
American mining engineer, Lyman
Chatfield.
In Esthonia, a newsstate of old Rus
sia, on the gulf of Finland, the most
valuable natural resource is the ex-
tensive oil shale deposits. These ex-
tend over an area five miles wide and
forty miles long along the coast line
of the Gulf of Finland: also on the
railroad line between Johwi and Rak-
were. Tho Immediately available sup
ply of oil shale is estimated by the
Esthonian government at l,6oO.oooeVo
tons; government analysis gives
volatile matter 70.0S per cent; coke Hos
per cent; ash. 1886 per cent; total
10000 per cent. Tho use of oil ehale as
raw fuel is common and is increasing.
The ministry of commerce sells sew
| eral thousand pools Ia pood equals 36
pounds) n day. Not only is oil shale
used as a domestic fuel but factories
and other large industrial concerns are
adopting it as permanent fuel. An
English company is erecting n COM
plete plant for the production of crude
oil and expects to have it in operation
early in 1921
In Canada the most important activ-
| ity is in New Brunswick where the
Darcy Exploration company, a sub
sidiary of the Anglo-Persia Oil com
pany of London, is erecting near Mono
ton full sized retorting plant of the
Wallace type, to be finished by March
1. The retorts will be made of silica
instead of iron. An appropriation of &c.
$4,000 has been made for the work 1t
| is to be regretted that large financial
| interests in the United States do not
SunnoYf the industry in the 1ihpr-
al manner. The Acadia Oil e. Shale Co,
Ltd. of College Bridge, New
Brunswick has been incorporated re-
Gently and will develop the deposits in
Albert and Westmoreland counties.
| The New Brunswick shales have long
been known and have been tested on n
commercial scale by the late Sir
Boverton Redwood who reported a
yield Of thirty-three gallons of oil
and sixty pounds of ammonium sui
phate. Matthew Lodge of Moncton has
for many years been an advocate of
the development of the New Bruins
wick shales. His hopes bid fair to be
realized in 1921. In the province of
Saskatchewan two hundred leases on
oil shale land covering an area of iS0,-
s4I.sl acres have been issued. The oil
shale deposits of the Pasquia hills are
reported to be of commercial value
both in oil and ammonium sulphate
Along the valleys of the Matagami,
Moose. and the Abbitibi rivers. in
northern Canada, the discovery of oil
shaics in commercial quantities is an
nounced by the Canadian government.
Shalo from the Abbitibi river gave
s1.36 gallons of oil to the ton. Other
samples yielded as much as 1892 gal
Ions to the ton. Samples of shalc from
Newport Islands, county of Gaspe.
Quebec. submitted by X. L. Lenthal
were tested at the Colorado School of
Mines and yielded c2.2I and 5iia gal
| Ions of oil to the ton.
In Tasmania the AnSlo-Persian oil
| Co. Ltd, is investigating tho oil shale
| deposits at Latrobe in connection with
| the government. Efforts to buy out
| the local company. that has been OPP
| Grating in a small way. havo failed.
DR.. Arthur Wade. a British technolo-
gist. reports that the seams arc well
defined and vary from five to seven
feet in thickness, and that II would
take 100 years to exhaust tho deposit.
In Australia the deposits at Ncwnes
have been known and worked for many
years, but the results of tho Com
monwealth Oil Corporation wero dis
astrous and a receiver appointed. John
Fell has revived the company. in
stalled new rctorts. and put the COM
pany on a commercial basis. The trou-
Bile seems to have been not a supply
of shalc nor i method of treatment,
but inability to secure labor OF the
proper type. These troubles are now
over and success for 1921 'secms as
sured. y new mine with eight forkinG
faces has recently been opened. The
shalc yields on an average of so gal
Ions to tho ton. During the year ending
juno 30, 1920, the company received
ssi.46o.oo as bounty on oil produced.
The resources of Brazil are notable
for the absence of coal and petroleum
yet oil .shale is found in abundance in
several places. especially hlong tho