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Ashland’s Biggest Asset--A New Industry
That Means a Pay Roll and
HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED TO duces the maximum amount of oil and
gas from the Shale at an exceedingly
CONSIDER
1. That the output from OIL WELLS low cost.
THE RETORT is fed a steady
is fast diminishing.
2. That the average production per stream of crushed Shale, through a
well in the United States is 41/> bar trap, which passes down on to the top
deck where it is picked up by a
rels of crude oil per day.
2. That there is “ billions of barrels” traveling agitator and carried round
of the highest grade oil lying on the the complete circumference of the
surface of the ground, saturated in first deck, being then dropped thru
a slot on to the second deck again be
the shales.
.3. That it is a simple manufacturing ing carried round in the same manner
to the point where it is dropped thru
p, .cess to recover such oils.
4. ’That it can he recovered at a small on the third deck, and so on down,
thru the ten (10) decks to the out
percentage of well.drilling cost.
It is perhaps not generally known let, where it comes out in the form of
t ’ it this country is facing a very ser Spent Shale or Fireclay.
As the SHALE passes over the first
ious OIL SHORTAGE. From Gov-
i • ament reports we are informed that deck (where the heat is from 300 to
! rGllT such years as 1920 would con 400 degrees Fahrenheit) to each suc
s’ e as much OIL as has been pro- ceeding deck, it is continually tumb
d. «cd (ami imported from Mexico) led over and over by the traveling
agitator as it progresses from deck to
since its discoverv in 1858.
deck the heat increases until the tenth
deck is reached where the heat is
WHAT IS SHALE
Our Geologists, our Government 1000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Every particle1 of oil and gas has
and our great oil men have known for
several years that there is “ billions been educed off instantly, in the form
of barrels” of OTL locked up in the of vapors by a vaccum, and is pre
rocks and hills of this country. not cipitated by cooling in the condenser,
in the form of PETROLEUM, but in thereby being reduced to litpiid crude
oil and gas.
the ‘SHALE.”
Briefly, SHALE is the same ma
PRECAUTIONS FOR THE
terial from which Mother Earth made
FUTURE
all our Petroleum. It is proposed to
The
action
of strong financial or
treat the Shale in the same way—by
ganizations, such as the Standard Oil
heat DISTILLATION.
SHALE is a rock resembling slate Company, the Pure Oil Company, the
in appearance. Geologists tell us that Carter Oil Company, the Midwest Oil
it is a sediment deposited millions oi Company and the AV. P. Hammon Or
years ago at the bottom of a great ganization in this country; the Anglo-
shallow sea. This was followed bv American and Anglo-Persian Oil
the Iceberg Age, which brought down Companies of London, England, and
an mnorous mass of vegetable matter the Var Coal and Oil Company of
and deposited upon the floor of this France, points unerringly to the fact
shallow sea. With the cooling of the that these companies realize the fu
E arth’s Crust, this sea was ultimate ture supplv of Oil must come down
ly dried up and the millions of tons ot the SHALES.
The Shale Oil industry has been
fish therein were strailded and de
posited upon the vegetable matter carried on in Scotland for over sixty
(60) years on a very profitable basis,
mentioned.
With the interior of the Earth still which proves that it is commercially
hot near the outer crust, there was a economical.
Later on peases or Purchase of Oil
DISTILLATION of this great mass
of vegetable and animal deposit, from Shale lands will he difficult to obtain
which our Petroleum, as we receive to say nothing of the Royalties that
it from the Oil Well, was made. How will have to be paid.
The HARTMAN RETORT is be
ever billions of tons of this deposit
was left intact, having escaped from coming more difficult to obtain every
this distillation by reason of its be day and the day is not very far dis
ing thrown up into high hills or moun tant when it will be impossible to se
tains owing to the bending of the cure except on a high Royalty Basis.
E arth ’s crust. This latter is OIL
SHALE, and this is the material we OBJECT OF THE HARTMAN SYN
must look to for our OIL supply of DICATE OF THE PACIFIC COAST.
This Syndicate has been formed for
the future.
The Rogue River valley is fortu the purpose of:
Acquiring Oil Shale Lands.
nate in having an enormous body of
Extracting Oil and Gas from Shale.
OIL SHALE lving in its mountains,
which is extnemely rich in Oil and Refining Oil for the market.
Cleansing the gas for the markpt.
Gas. The development of this indus
Putting products on the market.
try means a new era of prosperity for
Representative for the HARTMAN
the valley, and the community at
large is fortunate in having millions RETORT AYest of the Mississippi.
The Syndicate has acquired some
of feet of gas waiting to be utilized
3000
acres of Governmant land, on
for domestic purposes, at a cheap
lease, in Jackson county, Oregon;
rate.
which from work done on the prop
RECOVERY OF OILS
erty, by means of Open Cuts, proves
The “ Man of the Hour” appears up a very large tonnage of Shale of
in EMANUEL AV. H A R T M A N , an extremely rich quality.
whose patented Reduction Retort for
AYe have also acquired by purchase
extracting the oil and gas from the other very rich land adjoining the
Shale rock, has startled our Govern above.
ment officials and the far seeing oil
At the present date we have suffi
men of this country, Canada. Scot cient acreage to operate twenty (20)
Hartman Retorts, of 250 tons capac
land and elsewhere.
At least, by this process, the great ity each per day. for one hundred
obstacle in the way of the commercial years.
production of SHALE OIL has been
The yield of oil and gas from these
lands wilt be enormous and of a very
removed.
THE HARTMAN PROCESS is high grade. Tlu* analysis* shown fur
automatic fool proof and continuous ther on will satisfy you as to this
in its operation. It is constructed on statement.
correct scientific principles, and pro- It is the intention to pipe the gas
from the plants so that everyone will point "to either personally sec or
be able to use it for domestic purposes otherwise investigate every apparent
and at such a rate that it will he with- ly worth while retort that has been
in the bounds of economical use.
brought to my attention.
AVe intend to proceed immediately
1 have covered the ground in per-
with the erection of One Retort and son between New York City in the
from profits to continue on with the East and De Beque, Colorado, in the
erection of others until we have a bat- AY est, in the course ot my investiga
tery of from ten (10) to twenty (20) lions, but never until last Friday, did
on the properties; at the same time a I find what 1 considered to he a real,
certain percentage of the profits will practical, commercial Shale Retort,
he set aside for DIVIDENDS.
Aiosi designers seem to entirely lor-
At the present time we are survey- get the theoretical requirements tor
ing a road into the property and oiM the eduction process necessary tor
completion of tliis survey we hope to produce an OIL OF GOOD Ql AL-
start construction immediately.
ITY. As a consequence a gummy,
3Ve are also locating the route over burnt oil full of unsaturated hydro
which the pipe line will come ami the carlmins is produced, which might at
gas main. AVe are fortunate that our the very beat make a good dust layer
system of pipe lines will all be on a for automobile roads, or if by chance
grade* in favor of the flow towards their retort happened to make good
the railroad, thereby doing away with oil, there was a mechanical eomplica-
lion that forever prevented it being
having to pump the oil.
a practical proposition.
Mv recent thorough investigation
OPINIONS ON THE HARTMAN
of the HARTMAN RETORT, convin
RETORT
ces me that it is the ultimate in retort
The following opinions of men well devign and construction. P will un
known in the oil world are worthy of questionably produce an oil ot very
vour attention:
high grade, it will do it easily and
SHERMAN GASOLINE CORPORA rapidly and the mechanical design of
TION, 1630 Broadway, New York. it gives a machine which once started
December 24, 1921.
will run continuously with minimum
Air. H. C. Hetrick,
■attention.
611 Mutual. Life Bldg, Buffalo, N AY Though we have already spent sev
Dear Sir:
eral thousand dollars in the partial
Alv recent visit to Buffiilo to look •construction of a retort ol another
into the possibilities of the IIART
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f t'p e mi our property at < lay t ity, t
MAN RETORT for the extraction ot «hall tomorrow recommend
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to my
oil from Shale and oil hearing sands. Board of Directors that we abandon
leads me to say to .von that I have that retort and adopt the HARTMAN
examined many processes, some di NKOCESS. I believe that 1 will he
rectly and some-, by merely going over able to convince them and if so you
• the plans. I have in the ¡past con may <?xpect Mr. Dean, our Genera!
demned every one of them as either Manager, and myself at your office in
THK HARTMAN RETORT AND ITS INVENTOR
impractical or uneconomical, princi the immediate future to complete nr
pally the latter cause.
rangeimyits whereby we can use your
The extraction of oil from shale
SUMMARY OF PROFITS
is very simple, hut to do it along eco system.
Respectfully yours,
OUTPUT OF RETORT PER DAY, 250 tons of Shale
nomical lines is entirely another mat
(Signed)
S. E. Barnwell,
at two (2) barrels per ton (average of Shale on Syndi ter.
Chief Engineer.
cate holdings)—500 barrels. At 42 gallons per barrel—
The
HARTMAN
PROCESS
from
This company is at present erecting
21,000 gallons of Crude Oil per day.
my knowledge of the oil business, four Hartman Retorts in Kentucky.
Gals Day
Gals. Day
M arket
Per cent
leads me to say that I believe it to
R efined
D ally
Crude
V alue
Oil
be the last word in this industry; by
Oil
Per Gal.
Oil
O utput
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ANALYSIS OF JACKSON ‘
1800
2
1
,0
0
0
9%
Gasoline
this I mean that I do not believe it
8190
.20
2 1 ,0 0 0
39%
K erosene
COUNTY SHALE ON
can be improved upon, other than
1.20
8400
2 1 ,0 0 0
40%
L ubricating
SYNDICATE
HOLDINGS
perhaps in the line of building larger
M aintenance
Net
Gross
O perating
Retorts to get greater capacitv in one
Oil
FALKENBURG & COMPANY
E arnings
E arnings
E xpenses, Ì0%
unit.
Chemists, Engineers
$
5 1 0 .3 0
$
5 0 .7 0
$
5 0 7 .0 0
G asoline
1
cannot
see
anything
but
a
tre
1
,474.20
103.80
1
,038.00
Seattle,
AA’asli, June 28, 1922.
K erosene
9 ,0 7 2 .0 0
1 ,0 0 8 .0 0
1 0 ,0 8 0 .0 0
mendous future for this line of bus
L ubricating
Certificate No. 14319
8 1 1 ,0 5 0 .5 0
8 1 ,2 2 8 .5 0
$ 1 2 ,2 8 5 .0 0
iness with the HARTMAN RETORT Hr. II. AY. Hartman, Ashland, Orc.
properly instaded, and I believe that lk-ar Sii*:
TOTAL NET DAILY PROFIT—$11,056.50
wdl ultimately produce a revolution
AYE HEREBY CERTIFY That wc
However, to be conservative cut this figure in half, in the oil business as we know it to
have analyzed sample of SHALE OIL
which would mean that the profits from one Retort would day.
SUBMITTED TO US BY YOU
he $1,190,170.60 yearly.
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Yours truly,
,AVITI! RESULTS AS FOLLOWS:
AYe are offering the public a limited number of shares, (Signed)
Geo. B. Gifofrd.
DISILLATION
all comornn, par value $10.00 a share, fully paid and non Note:
■Below
150
deg.
9% Gasoline
assessable.
Air. Gifford was with the Standard 150 to 200 deg. i C.—
t . — 14% ,
The proceeds from the sale of stock offered at this Oil Company for thirty years. He was; 200 to 250 deg. r.—12'
t b j Kerosene
39'
t%
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time will he used in paying For the first Hartman Retort General Manager and Chief Engineer
c._5o%*»
oils
)%* Lubricating
Lubri
of 250 tons daily capacity; for the purchase of equip of the Bayonne Refining Plant, of the Above to o deg. c.—12% Coke
ment, building road and installing pipe lines for oil and Standard Oil Company, this is the
Specific Gravity on crude oil- .922
gas.
largest plant of its kind in the world aj f,q
p, which is equivalent to
Should it be necessary to sell any additional stock for having a daily capacity of 100,000 oo.O deg. Baume,
the erection of succeeding units (which is not probable,) barrels. His reputation is world wide
Specific Gravity at 6(1 deg. F of tub
it will unquestionably he sold at a very much higher and this statement can very easily he iricating oils—.944. which is equiva
figure.
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verified.
lent to 18.3 deg. Baume.
Air. Gifford is now bead of the Uni
For further information address,
/
Viscosity on lubricating oils, 35
versal Shale Products Corporation, swteouds Saybolt at 212 deg F.
Respectfully submitted,
New York; also President of the Sher
Falkenburg & Company,
man Gasoline Corporation.
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(Signed
AY. C. Lord.
THE DEVON OIL SHALE PRO-
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DUCTS COMPANY, Cincinnati. Ohio
MANAGEMENT
September 19, 1921.
The vital factor of a suocesful bus-
Alr. D. Laurence Heeter,
iness is the men at the helm. The of-
29 First Street, Ashland, Oregon.
281 Union Arcade Bldg.,
ficers of this Syndicate are men of
Pittsburg, Pa.
* -experience in the Contracting, Engi
Dear Sir:
.
.ueering ami General Merchant indus-
During the last two years and a tries. They have their own money in
half that I have devoted to the Shale vested in the enterprise the same as
industry, I have made it a special any other investor.
Hartman Syndicate of
the Pacific Coast
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