Ashland daily tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1970, August 14, 1922, Page 3, Image 3

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The Hartman Retort Yesterday Produced 100 Gallons - Over
Two Barrels ol Oil-from One Ton of Dead Indian Shale
Cost of Extraction 40c per Barrel.
Market Price $3.36 per Barrel F. 0. B.
Public Demonlralion Every Day at 3 p. m. at Mac’s Garage on Pioneer Ave.
Nearly on e hundred people yes­
terday aftern oon
w itn essed
a
pi actu al deinoiisti a:ion o f th e
H artm an R etort for th e extracion
o f oil from sh ale taken from the
S yndicate h old in gs in th e Dead
Indian country at th e tiead of
A n telop e valley.
A q u an tity o f crush ed sh ale
was put through th e hi tchine, th e
net resu lts of w h ich show ed that
lOO gallon s o f o il— m ore than
tw o barrels— w as extracted at a
cost of 40 cen ts a barrel. The
grade of o il, b eing w holly parafin
base, is h igh er than th at taken
from ground w ells, and has a
m arketab le valu e f. «>. b. A shland
o f $ 3 .3 6 a barrel. T he produc­
tion from on e ton o f sh a le was
16 g i>’ ^s nit <* than tw o barrels.
F igu re out th e p rofits for you r­
self.
T here w ill b e a dem onstration
every «lay a t 3 o ’clock, to w hich
th e public is invited . You are at
liberty to exam in e every d etail.
E v civ th in g is open and above
beard and invite# th e m ost m in ­
u te insp ection.
A sp ecial invitation is extended
to “ D oubting T hom ases.’’
must look to for our OTL supply of
the future.
The Rogue River valley is fortu
mite in having an enormous body of
OIL SHALE lying in its mountains,
which is extremely rich in Oil and
Gas. The development of this indus­
try means a new era of prosperity for
the valley, and the community at
large is fortunate in having millions
of .feet of gas waiting to be utilized
for domestic purposes, at a cheap
rate.
RECOVERY OF OILS
The “ Man of the Hour” appears
in EMANUEL W. H A R T M A N,
whose patented Reduction Retort for
extracting the oil and gas from the
Shale rock, lias startled our Govern­
ment officials and the far seeing oil
men of this country, Canada, Scot­
land and elsewhere.
At least, by this process, the great
obstacle in the way of the commercial
production of SHALE 01L has been
removed.
THE HARTMAN PROCESS is
automatic fool-proof and continuous
in its operation. It is constructed on
correct* scientific principles, and pro­
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
rels of crude oil per day.
deck where it is picked up by a
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
the shales.
a slot on to the second deck again be-
3. That it is a simple manufacturing ing carried round in the same manner
process to recover such oils.
to the point where it is dropped thru
4. That it can he recovered at a small on the third deck, and so on down
percentage of well drilling cost.
thru the ten (10) decks to the out-
!t is perhaps not generally known let, where it comes out in the form of
that this country is facing a very ser- Spent Shale or Fireclay,
ions OIL SHORTAGE. From Gov-
As the SHALE passes over the first
eminent reports we are informed that deck (where the heat is from 300 to
EIGHT such years as 1920 would con- 400 degrees Fahrenheit) to each sue-
snme as much OIL as has been pro- ceeding deck, it is continually tumb-
duced (and imported from Mexico) led over and over by the traveling
since its discovery in 1858.
agitator as it progresses from deck to
--------------- deck the heat increases until the tenth
WHAT IS SHALE
deck is reached where the heat is
Our Geologists, our Government 1000 degrees Fahrenheit,
ami our great oil men have known for
Every particle of oil and gas has
several years that there is “ billions been educed off instantly, in the form
of barrels” of OTL locked up in the ,,f vapors hv a vaccum, and is pre­
rocks and hills of this country, not eipitated by cooling in the condenser,
in the form of PETROLEI M, but in thereby being reduced to liquid crude
the ‘SHALE.”
oil and gas.
Briefly, SHALE is the same ma-
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terial from which Mother Earth made OBJECT OF THE HARTMAN SYN-
all our Petroleum. It is proposed to DICATE OF THE PACIFIC COAST.
This Syndicate has been formed for
treat the Shale in the same way—by
the purpose of:
heat DTSTILLATTON.
Acquiring Oil Shale Lands.
SHALE is a rock resembling slate
Extracting Oil and Gas from Shale.
in appearance. Geologists tell us that
it is a sediment deposited millions of Refining Oil for the market.
Cleansing the gas for the market.
years ago at the bottom of a great
shallow sea. This was followed by Putting products on the market.
the Iceberg Age, which brought down
Representative for the HARTMAN
an emorous mass of vegetable matter RETORT West of the Mississippi,
and deposited upor^ the floor of this
The Syndicate lias acquired some
shallow sea. With the cooling of the 3000 acres of Governmant land, on
E arth ’s Crust, this sea was ultimate- lease, in Jackson county, Oregon;
ly dried up ami the millions of tons of which from work done on the prop-
fish therein were strailded and de- erty, by means of Open Cuts, proves
posited upon the vegetable matter up a very large tonnage of Shale of
mentioned.
an extremely rich quality.
With the interior of the Earth still
We have also acquired by purchase
hot near the outer crust, there was a other very rich land adjoining the
DISTILLATION of this great mass above.
of vegetable and animal deposit, from
At the present date we have suffi-
wliich our Petroleum, as we receive cient acreage to operate twenty (20)
it from the Oil Well, was made. How- Hartman Retorts, of 250 tons capac-
ever billions of tons of this deposit ity each per day, for one hundred
was left intact, having escaped from years.
this distillation by reason of its he-
The yield of oil and gas from these
ing thrown up into high hills or mown- lands will be enormous and of a very
tains owing to the bending of the high grade. The analysis shown fur-
Ea.-th’s crust. This latter is OIL ther on will satisfy you as to this
SHALE, and this is the material we statement.
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THE HARTMAN RETORT AND ITS INVENTOR
SUMMARY OF PROFITS
OUTPUT OF RETORT PER DAY, 250 tons of Shale
at two (2) barrels per ton (average of Shale on Syndi­
cate holdings)—500 barrels. At 42 gallons per barrel—
21,000 gallons of Crude Oil per day.
Oil
G asoline
K erosene
Rubricati ng
P e r cent
Daily-
O u tp u t
9%
39%
40%
Gross
E arn in g s
Oil
G asoline
K erosene
L ubricating
$
5 6 7 .0 6
1 ,6 3 8 .0 0
1 0 ,0 8 0 .0 0
$ 1 2 ,2 8 5 .0 0
Gals. Day
Crude
Oil
2 1 ,0 0 0
2 1 ,0 0 0
2 1 ,0 0 0
Gals Day
Refined
Oil
M arket
Value
P e r Gal.
$ .30
.20
1.20
1800
8190
8400
M aintenance
O perating
E xpenses, 10%
$
5 6 .7 0
163.80
1 ,0 0 8 .0 0
$ 1 ,228.50
Net
E arn in g s
$
510.30
1,4 7 4 .2 0
9,072.00
$ 1 1 ,0 5 6 .5 0
TOTAL NET DAILY PROFIT—$11,056.50
However, to be conservative cut this figure in half,
which would mean that the profits from one Retort would
he $1,190,170.60 yearly.
We are offering the public a limited number of shares,
all comomn, par value $10.00 a share, fully paid and non­
assessable.
The proceeds from the sale of stock offered at this
time will he used in paying for the first Hartman Retort
of 250 tons daily capacity; for the purchase‘of equip­
ment, building road and installing pipe lines for oil and
gas.
Should it he necessary to sell any additional stock for
the erection of succeeding units (which is not probable,)
it will unquestionably he sold at a very much higher
figure.
For further information address,
Hartman Syndicate of
the Pacitic Coast
29 First Street, Ashland, Oregon.
SUBSCRIBE NOW !
It is the intention to pipe the gas point to either personally see or
from the plants so that everyone will otherwise investigate every apparent-
be able to use it for domestic purposes ly worth while retort that has been
and at such a rate that it will he with- brought to my attention.
in the bounds of economical use.
1 have covered the ground in p<*r-
We intend to proceed immediately son between New York City in the
with the erection of One Retort and East ami De- Beque, Colorado, in the
from profits to continue on with the West, in the course of my invest iga-
erection of others until we have a hat- tions, hut never until last Friday, did
tery of from ten (10) to twenty (20) 1 find what 1 considered to he a real,
on the properties; at the same time a practical, commercial Shale Retort.
certain percentage of the profits will
Most designers seem to entirely for­
be set aside for DIVIDENDS.
get the theoretical requirements’ for
At the present time we are survev- the eduction process necessary for
ing a road into the property and on produce an OIL OF GOOD QUAL-
completion of this survey we hope to ITY. As a consequence a gummy,
start construction immediately.
burnt oil full of unsaturated hydro-
We are also locating the route over carbons is produced, which might at
which the pipe line will come ami the ihe very best make a good dust layer
gas main. We are fortunate that our for automobile roads, or if by chance
system of pipe lines will all he on a their retort happened to make good
grade in favor of the flnv- towards <¿1, there was a mechanical complica-
the railroad, thereby doing away Avith tion that forever prevented it being
having to pump the oil.
a practical proposition.
Mv recent thorough investigation
OPINIONS ON THE HARTMAN of tlie HARTMAN RETORT, convin­
RETORT
ces me that it is the ultimate in retort
The following opinions of men well design and construction. It will un-
known in the oil world are worthy of questionably produce an oil of very
your 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 startl'd
December 24, 1921.
will run continuously with minimum
Mr. H. C. Herrick,
attention.
611 Mutual Life Bldg, Buffalo, N.Y..
Though we have already spent sev­
Dear Sir:
eral thousand dollars in U p partial
My recent visit to Buffalo to look construction of a retort of another
into the possibilities of the HART type on our property at Clay City, I
MAN RETORT for the extraction of shall tomorrow recommend to my
oil from Shale and oil bearing sand's, Board of Directors that we abandon
leads me to say to you that I have that retort and adopt the HARTMAN
examined many processes, some di­ PROCESS. 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 expect Mr. Dean, our General
demned everv one of them as either Manager, and myself at your office in
impractical or uneconomical, princi- the immediate future to complete ar
pally the latter cause.
rangements whereby we can use your
The extraction of oil from shale» •system.
is very simple, but to do it along eco­
Respectfully yours,
nomical lines is entirely another m at­ (Signed)
S. E. Barnwell,
ter.
Chief Engineer.
The HARTMAN PROCESS from
This company is at present erecting
my knowledge of the oil business,, four Hartman Retorts in Kentucky.
leads me to say that I believe it to
he the last word in this industry; by
ANALYSIS OF JACKSON
this I mean that I do not believe it1
COUNTY SHALE ON
can be improved upon, other than
SYNDICATE HOLDINGS
perhaps in the line of building larger
FALKENBURG & COMPANY
Retorts to get greater capacity in one»
Chemists, Engineers
unit,
Seattle, Wash, June 28, 1922.
I cannot see anything hut a tre­
Certificate No. 14319
mendous future for this line of bus­
'Mr.
H.
W. Hartman, Ashland. Ore.
iness with the HARTMAN RETORT*
properly installed, and I believe that Dear Sir:
Wft HEREBY CERTIFY That we
will ultimately produce a revolution,
have
analyzed sample of SHALE OIL
in the oil business as we know it to­
SUBMITTED TO US BY YOU
day.
WITH RESULTS AS FOLLOWS:
Yours truly,
(Signed)
Geo. B. Gifofrd.
DISILLATI0N
Note:
Below ISO deg. C.— 9% Gasoline
150 to 200 deg.
ï. C.— 14%,
14%
Mr. Gifford was with the Standard 200
Í. Ç.— 12CÍ I K erosene-
to 250 deg.
Oil Company for thirty years. He was 250 to 300 deg. ;. C . _ 13% I
L ubricati!
General Manager and Chief Engineer
«•» ç. C.— 40%J £“£
‘c,tlne ° " ’
of the Bavonne Refining Plant, of the
Standard Oil Company,
Comnanv. this
Specific Gravity on crude oil—.922
this is
is the
the
at
60 deg. F, which is equivalent to
largest plant of its kind in the world
having a daily capacity of 100.000
/ e^. 5nnne4‘
,
r P1 i
barrels. His reputation is world wide- . ‘ peeific Giaxitx a » eg. <» m>
and this statement can very easily lie!r,eatin^ o^ s“ _” ’
1 1S e‘linv<l
lent to 18.3 deg. Baume.
verified.
Viscosity on lubricating oils, 35
Mr. Gifford is now head of the Uni
versai Shale Products Corporation, seconds Savholt at 212 deg F. .
New York; also President of the Sher- !
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’
Fal ken burg & Company.
man Gasoline Corporation.
C. Lord.
(Signed
THE DEVON OIL SHALE PRO
MANAGEMENT
DUCTS COMPANY, Cincinnati, Ohio
The vital factor of a succqgful bus­
September 19, 1921.
iness
is the men at the helm. The of­
Mr. D. Laurence Heeter,
ficers of this Syndicate are men of
281 Union Arcade Bldg.,
experience
in the Contracting, Engi­
Pittsburg, Pa.
neering and General Merchant indus­
Dear Sir:
During the last two years and a tries. Thev 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.
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