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THE HARTMAN RETORT PRODUCES 100 GALLONS-OVER TWQ BARRELS OF OIL
FROM ONE TON OF DEAD, INDIAN SHALE
Cost of Extraction 40c per Barrel :-: x :-: Market Price $3.36 per JBarrel F. O. B. Ashland
Public Demonstration Every Day at 3 p. m. at Mac's Garage on Pioneer Avenue, Ashland
Soon of poopta every afleriHKni luivo
w it nested n praclii-itl tlrmoiiM ration
of lite llnrliimu Kelort (Vir the en
tnietloii f-'oll from shale takeu from
tlie Syndiuite holdings in the Dend
Intliiin country ut the lieiid of Ante
liM alley.
. A iiuiintity of crushed shale wan
put through the maehlue, the net re
sults of which showed tlit 100 Bul
lous of oil mora than two harrels '
was extracted at a eost of 40 cento
ii barrel.. The prudo of oil, iK'httt
wholly iiarnfiii husc, l.s higher than
, that taken front ground wells and
him a iiuirketublc valuu f. o, h.t Ash- ;
land of S3. 38 a barrel.. The produc
tion from one ton of shale was 16
gnllomt more than two barrels.
I'lKiirci oiit the prof tot for yourself.
There, will' be a " demonstration
every day at 3 o'clock, to which the
public Is Invited. You are at liberty .
to examine every detail. Kverythhijc
. Is oK'ii and above hoard and Invites
the most minute Inspection.
A special Inviluttojt Is extended to
''Doubting Thomases."
HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED
TO CONSIDER
.1. That the output from OIL
WELLS is fast diminishing.
2. That tho average production
per well in the United States is
; i'j barrels of crude oil per day.
, .2. Tliat there is "billionsof
barrels" of the highest grade oil
' lying on the surface of the
ground,; saturated in the shales.
3. That it is a simple manufac
turing process to recover such
oils.
4. , That it can be recovered at
a small-percentage of well drill
ing C08t. :
WHAT IS SHALE
J Our Geologists, our Govern
ment and our great oil men have
known for several years that
there is "billions of barrels" of
OIL locked up in the rocks and
hills of this countrv, not in the
form of PETROLEUM, but in
the "SHALE."
: Briefly, SHALE is the same
material from which Mother
Earth made all our Petroleum.
It is proposed to treat the Shale
in the same way by heat DIS
TILLATION. ,
SHALE is a rock resembling
. slate in appearance. Geologists
tell us that it is a sediment de
posited millions of 3'ears' ago at
the bottom of a great shallow
sea. This was followed by the
Iceberg Age, which brought
down an enormous mass of vege
table matter and deposited upon
, the floor of this shallow sea.
With the cooling of the Earth's
Crust, this sea was ultimately
dried up and the millions of tons
of fish therein were stranded and
deposited upon the vegetable
matter mentioned.
"With the interior of the Earth
still hot near the outer crust,
there was a DISTILLATION of
this gr(;at mass of vegetable and
animal deposit, from which our
Petroleum, as we receive it from
the Oil Well, was made. However
billions of Ions of this deposit
was left intact,' having escaped
from this distillation by reason
of its being thrown up into high
hills or mountains owing to the
bending of the Earth's crust.
This latter is OIL SHALE, and
tins is the material we must look
to for our OIL supply of the fu
ture. The Rogue River valley is for
tunate in having an enormous
body of OIL SHALE lying in its
mountains, which is extremely
rich in Oil and Gas. The devel
opment of this industry means a
new era of prosperity for the al
ley, and the community at larye
is fortunate in having inillio: of
feet of gas waiting to be utilized
for domestic purposes, at a cheap
rate.
RECOVERY OF OILS
The "Man of the Hour" ap
pears in EMANUEL W, HART
MAN, whose patented Induction
Retort for extracting the oil and
gas from the Shale rock, has
startled our Government officials
and the far seeing oil men of this
country, Canada, Scotland and
elsewhere.
At least, , by this process, the
great obstacle in the way of the
commercial roduction of
SHALE OIL has been removed.
THE HARTMAN PROCESS
is automatic, fool-proof and con
tinuous in its operation. It is
constructed on correct scientific,
principles, and produces the max
imum amount of oil and gas from
the Shale at an exceedingly low
cost. .
THE RETORT is fed a steady
stream of. crushed Shale through
a trap, which yiasscs down on to
the top deck where it is picked up
by a traveling agitator and car
ried round the complete circum
ference of the first deck, being
then dropped through a slot on
to the second deck, again being
carried round in the same, man
ner to the point Avhere it is drop
ped through on the third deck,
and so on down through the ten
(10) decks to the outlet, where it
conies out in the form of Spent
Shale, or Fireclay.
As the SHALE passes over the
first deck (where the heat is from
300 to 400 degrees Fahrenheit)
to each succeeding deck, it is con
tinually tumbling over and over
by the traveling agitator as it
progresses from deck to deck the
heat increases until the tenth
deck is reached where" the heat is
11X10 degrees Fahrenheit.
Every particle- of oil and gas
has been educed off instantly, in
the form of vapors bv a vacuum,
and is precipitated by cooling in
the condenser, thereby being re
duced to liquid crude oil and gas.
OBJECT OF THE HARTMAN
SYNDICATE ON THE
; PACIFIC COAST.
'This' Syndicate has been form
ed for the purpose of:
Acquring Oil Shale Lands.
Extracting Oil and Gas from
Shale.
Refining Oil for the market.
Cleansing gas for the market.
Putting product on the market.
Representative for the HART
MAN RETORT West of the Mis
sissippi. The Syndicate has acquired
some 3000 acres of Government
land, on lease, in Jackson county,
Oregon; which from work done
on t lie property, by means of
Open Cut.-;, proves up a v en
large tonnage of Shale of an ex
tremely rich quality.
We have also acquired by pur
chase other very rich land adjoin
ing the above.
At the present date we have
sufficient acreage to operate'
twenty (20) Hartman Retorts, of
2."0 tons capacity each per day,
for one hundred years.
The yield of oil and gas from
these lauds will be enormous and
of a very high grade. The analy
sis shown further on will satisfy
you as to this statement.
It is the intention to pipe the
gas from the plants so that every
one will be able to use it for do
mestic purposes and at such a
rate that it will be within the
bounds of economical use.
We intend to pnceed immedi
ately with the erection of One
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SUMMARY OF PROFITS
OUTPUT OF RETORT PER DAY, '250 tons of
Shale at two (2) barrels er ton (average of Shale on
Syndicate holdings) 500 barrels. At 42 gallons per
barrel 21,000 gallons of Crude Oil per day. '
Oil
Rnsnllne
Kt'rosonr
Liihrii-iitiiiK
Oil
..Fer cent.. Gals. Day Gala. Day Market
Daily Crude Kefined Value
Ontput Oil Oil Per Gal
I) 2l,oM) isitn ' $ .an
:to Ul.ooo si no .20
II) 21,0K) 8-100 1.20
G 1-033
Karnings
$ .KI7.H0
I.OHN.OO
lO.OKO.OO
Maintenance
Operatiuc
Expenses. 10
5(1.70
l(l:t.KO
1,008.00
Net
Earnings
510.30
1,474.20
0,072.00
(nsolino
Kerosene
l-llll-ll-atlli I $12,285.00 1,228.50 ) $11,05(1.50
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 be if 1.1!)0,170.(i() yearly.
We are offering the-pubile a limited number of
shares of common par value $10.00 a share, fully paid
and non-assessable.
The proceeds from the sale of stock offered at this .
time will be used in paying for the 'first Hartman lie
tort of 250 tons daily capacity; for the purchase of
equipment, building road and installing pipe lines
for oil and gas.
Should it be necessary to sell any additional stock
for the erection of succeeding units (which is not
probable,)' it will unquestionably he sold at a very
niuch higher figure.
For further information address,
Hartman Syndicate of the Pacific Coast
29 First Street, Ashland, Oregon.
MANAGEMENT
The vital factor of a successful business is
the men at the helm. The officers of this Syn
dicate are men of experience in the Contracting,
Engineering and General Merchant industries.
They have their own money invested in the en
terprise the same as any other investor.
SUBSCRIBE NOW!
Get in on the Ground Floor
Retort and from profits to' con
tinue on with the erection of oth
ers until wc have a battery of
from ten (10) to twenty (20) on
the properties; at the 'same time
a certain percentage of the
profits will be set aside for DIV
IDENDS. At the present time we are sur
vaying a road into the property
and on completion of this survey
we hope to start construction
immediately. '
We are also Joeating the route
over' which the pipe line will
come and the gas main. We are
fortunate that our system of pipe
lines will all be on a grade in fa
vor of the flow towards the rail-,
road, thereby doing away with
having to pump the oil. ,.
ANALYSIS OF JACKSON
COUNTY SHALE ON
SYNDICATE HOLDINGS
FALKENBURG & COMPANY
' ' Chemists, Engineers
' Seattle, Wash';, June '28, 1922.
Certificate No. 14319
Mr. W. H. Hartman,
Ashland, Ore.
Dear Sir:
WE HEREBY CERTIFY
That we have analvzed sample of
SHALE OIL SUBMITTED TO
US BY YOU WITH RESULTS
AS FOLLOWS: . X.
DISTILLATION
- fiellow ISO deg.'C. 9 Gasoline ' ' '-:'
130 to 200 deg. C. i7, 1
300 to 250 deg. C. 12 f Kerosine 397p
250 to 300 deg. C 137r( '
300 to 400 deg. C 40'( VLubricating Oils
Above 400 deg. C. 12Coke
, Specific Gravitv oir crude oil
.922 at' 60 deg." rF., which is
equivalent to 22.0 deg. Baume.
Specific Gravity at 60 deg. F
of lubricating oils .944, which is
equivalent to 1S.3 deg: Baume.
Yiscositv on lubricating oils,
35 seconds" Say bolt at 212 deg. F.
Respectfully submitted,
Falkenburg & Company,
.Signed) ; W. C. Lord
OPINIONS ON THE HART
MAN RETORT
The following opinions of men
well known hi the oil world are
worthy of your attention:
SHERMAN GASOLINE COR
PORATION, 1630 Broadway
New York. ,
'-December 24, 1921.
Mr. II. C. Herrick,
611 Mutual Life Bldg., -Buffalo,
N. Y.
Dear Sir;
My recent visit to Buffalo to
look into the possibilities of the
HARTMAN RETORT for the
extraction of oil from shale and
oil bearing sands leads me to say
to you. that I have examined
n any processes, some directly
and some by merely going over
the plans. I have in the past con
demned every one of them as
either impractical or uneconomi
cal, principally the latter cause.
The extraction of oil from
shale is very simple, but to do it
along economical lines is entirely
another matter.
The HARTMAN PROCESS
from my . knowledge of the oil
business, leads me to sav that I
believe it ,to be the last word in
.this industry; by this I mean
that I do not believe it can be im
proved upon other than perhaps
in the line of building larger Re
toils to get greater capacity in
one unit.
I cannot see anything but a
tremendous future for this line
of business with the HARTMAN
RETORT properly installed, and
1 believe that will ultimately
produce a revolution-in the oil
business as we know it today.
Yours truly, ,
(Signed) Geo. B. Clifford.
Note:
Mr. Gifford was with the
Standard Oil Company for thirty
years. He was General Manager
and Chief Engineer of the Bay
onnq Refining Plant, of the
Standard Oil Company, this is
the largest plant of its kind in
the world, having a dailv capac
ity of 100,000 barrels. His repu-.
tation is world wide and this
statement can very easily be
verified.
Mr. Gifford is now head of the
Universal Shale Products Cor
poration, New York; also President-of
the Sherman Gasoline
Corporation. '
THE DEVON OIL SHALE
PRODUCTS COMPANY,
Cincinnati, Ohio
" Septeriiber 19, .1921.
Mr. D. Laurence Heeter,
281 Union Arcade Bldg.,
Pittsburg, Pa.
Dear Sir:
During the last two years and
a half that I have devoted to the
Shale industry, I have made it a
special point to either personally
see or" otherwise investigate
every apparently worth while
retort that has been brought to
my attention.
I have covered the ground in
person between New York City
in the East and De Deque, Colo
rado, in the West, in the course
of mv investigations, but never
until last Friday, did I find what
I considered to be a real, practi
cal, commercial Shale Retort.
Most designers seem to entire
ly forget the theoretical require
ments for the education process
necessary to produce an OIL OF
GOOD QUALITY. Asa conse
quence a gummy, burnt oil full of
unsaturated hydro-carbons is '
produced, whicli might at the
very best make a good dust layer
for automobile roads, or if" by
chance their retort happened to
make good oil, there was a me
chanical complication that for
ever prevented it being a practi
cal proposition
My recent thorough investiga
tion of . the HARTMAN IiE
TORT, convinces me that it is
the ultimate in retort design and
construction. It will unques
tionably produce an oil of verv
high grade, it will do it easily
and rapidly and the mechanical
design of it gives a machine
which once started will run con
tinuously 1 with minimum atten
tion, Though we have already spent
several thousand dolalrs'in the
partial construction of a retort of
another type on our proyerty at
Clay City, I shall tomorrow rec
ommend to my Board of Direc
tors that we abandon that retort
and adopt the HARTMAN PRO
CESS.' I believe that I will be
able to convince them and if so
you may expect Mr. Dean, our
General Manager, and mvself at
your office in the immediate fu
ture to complete arrangements
whereby we can use vour sys
tem. Respectfully vours.
(Signed) S. E. Barnwell,
Chief Engineer.
Thi? company is at, present
erecting four Hartman Retorts
in Kentucky. ' - '