ASHLAND î>AlLî TIDINGS Monday, August 14, 1 9 2 2 J b BBHBE b SSS EBHAEBSMaERasB &&&& PAGA Aoy<—ag: ■ ■ iw «111 mu wn I — — ■ wii t b iiw i j«a— WHHMr ■ h HSHBHB a im b b i ggjpi 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- --------------- 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. .1 tmiHWIWIMWMMNMnMMMMMMIMMIIIMIIMMHHHMMMMMM 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