PAG« TURKS ASHLAflrn PALOT WDIWQ8 Saturday, August 12, 1022 • . i*. 4> -X * -' '■ - - 1 F 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 , r t p;*v i A( e ii . f t'p e mi our property at < lay t ity, t MAN RETORT for the extraction ot «hall tomorrow recommend ........ . j *.......... ... 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