Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 4, Hammond, Lake County, 22 June 1920 — Page 9

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Tuesday, June. 22, 192a THE TEV1ES Pae

Billions of Barrels of Oil Locked in Rocks BY GUY ELLIOT MITCHELL of the United States Geological Survey

Is the United States Ucins a grasoline famine? Shall we be required to for tco automobiung to meet the stern necessities cf war and of utilitarian traffic? Are our petri-leuni fields ibowing signs of exhaustion? The output cf petroleum haj not yet begun to diminish; tatistiis thow that it is sUil increasing; yet the downward trtnd cf production from the present oil fields is plainly in sight . The war has made a sudden and an enormously increasing demand on the oil fields cf America,, and though the indutry 5saj never been so feverishly active as it is now and the output never so larse, th truth ia that the demand has not been entirely met. Many of the host of laxgea vessels that we are now building will be equipped with el-burning furnace and tha vast swarm of airplanes that we are building, as well 6U3 the thousands cf automobiles ar.d trucks that we are turning cut will consume an enormous quantity of gasoline . It is Jast et this Juncture that we have made & discovery that l.aa disclosed what is undoubtedly one of our greatest mineral resources and that for generations to come will enabie the I'ntted States to maintain its supremacy over the rest of the world as a producer of crude oil ar.d gasoline and incidentally of amenia as a hishly valuable by-product. Vt'e have discovered that we posse.ss mountain rangej of rock that wjii yield billions of barrels of oil. For many years travelers g-oing west through the Grand River Valley of Colorado and into the great Uinta Basin of eastern Utah have looked from the windows of their Pullman cars on the far-stretching miles and miles of Book Cliff Mountains, little realizing that in these and adjoining mountains plainly exposed tr view, lay the greatest oil reservoir in the country the oil shales of Colorado, Utah. Wyoming and Nevada. ROCKS THAT DCR.1 FREELY These shalea. It is true, were known to yield oil. Campers and hunters in building flres against pieces of the rack had been surprised to find that they igTsited and burned, and investigation showed that they contain oil, The fact wa looked upon, however, as only another of the natural curioy--t;es of the great West and little or n.attention was paid to it because of the seemingly inexhaustible pools of crude petroleum found elsewhere under great areas. In connection with Its investigations cf the undeveloped mineral resources of the country the United States Geological Survey has recently mad special studies and tests of -thees oil rocks and has brought to lisht two important facts: First, that our western yhales are phenomenally rich in oil, and second, that in foreign countries, particularly Scotland, much inferior shales are today successfully mined and worked aj a source of oil and other commercial products. The in-' dustry In Scotland is seventy years old and is still In a highly fic-urishjng condition. Oil, rROFTTABTr TiSTlXLEI 1ROM SHAI.E l.V SCOTLAM). The Scotch shales run only about Z5 gallons of oil tT the ton; yet the rrincipa! operating companies competing with. the petroleum industry pay annual dividends averaging IS per cent Rock producing even as low as 20 galVns of oil a. ton is yielding good dividends. That shales in tre western United States are far richer in oil than those of Scotland. In the Scotch plants the rock ! heat ed in retorts arranged in banks cf four over a single fire-box and & unique feature of the process is that the gas derived from the shale is the fuel used forobtaining the oil and other products. The retorts' are grouped in benches of S4 and each retort reduces about 4 tons of rock a day. Some 3.flOP.OOO tons are treated annually. The vapora pass from the retorts into condensers in which the crude oil is deposited, and then on Into a chamber in which the ammonia is collected. ni'AJITTTV OF Oil. IN AMERICAS SHALES ENORMOUS The total priduction of petrcieum in the United tSates up to 1918 has b'-n 4 256.000.000 barreU. and the possible future production, or the total reserve in the ground and some of it lies -ery deep is estimated by the Federal Government at about 7, 040,000. wo barrels. Hew dees this petroleum campare with the known oil-shale reserve? The quantity of oil that can be extracted from the shale is so huge that the petroleum reserve becomes almost insignificant by comparison. As a result f only a partial Investigation, ii is estimated that the oil in the shale ranges of Colorado alone amounts to 20.000,000.000 barrels. There are mountain indeed, ranges of mountains which for many miles carry thick beds of rock that yield 30 to 50 gallons of oil to the ton. More recently the State geologist of Cc-iorado has reported that m northwestern Colorado beds of commercially work-rock that average more than 20 feet of thickness and that will yield at leat SS gallons of oil to the ton are found in an area extending over 1.500 square miles. These figures :how a content of 24. DO". 000 barrels of ol to the square mile, or a total of 36.000,000.000 barrels for the area. Either twenty billion or thirty- fix billion is sufficiently impressive. No man who owns a motor-car will tail to rejoice that the United States Geological Survey is pointing the way to supplies of gasoline which can meet any demand that even his children's children for generations to come may maK oi mem. xne norseiess vehicle's threatened dethronement has been definitely averted and the uninviting " prospect of a motor-Jess age Iias ceased to be a ghost stalking in the vista of the future. When you "know" you have a stomach it's time to suscect year liver. You need Ewrham's I'iHs. 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OIL, FORM Ell IY DISTILLED FROM Ml LK IV I'ENNSY. AND ITAH, The Scotch shales occur in irregular bedj which here and there thin out and have been thrown into geologic fault and folds that greatly increase the ci.t of mining. The western shales, on the other hand, are more uniform m thickness and lie in a horizontal petition. Despite their handicaps, the Scotch depo.sits are worked at a large profit .et their average content of oil is only about 25 gallons to the ton, whereas, vist quantities of easily mined American shales that lie in benches 6 to 10 feet thick will average perhaps a hundred per cent more oil. Oil-shale distillation is not new in the United States, yet it is doubtful if there are many people alive who remember anything about the earlier industry. Before petroleum a discovered in Pennsylvania aboit SO small companies in the eastern United States were crudely distilling oil from shales; but after subterranean pools were discovered these companies went out of b u s i n e ss . AMERICA'S IMMTJXSE M I ER A L AVE I LT II

The discovery of these vast deposits of oil-bearing rock in the United States, the petroleum content of which can be estimated in nothing ler"s than hundreds of billions of barrels, is one more evidence of the abounding wealth of the North American Continent. No sooner does one of our resources show limitations in production and the pessimists begin to cry "What shall we do when our reserve is gone?" than immense additional depot its or satisfactory substitutes are discovered. During the lat few years petroleum, with its most valuable constituent, gasoline has become one of our most vital resources, so that even the mo.'t cheerful optimist might well begin tn question the immediate future prospects of the industry: but with thousanrs of square miles of rotk lying above the ground, within sight of the trunk-line railroads and constituting I an unfailing oil reservoir we can feel assurred of a fupply of gasoline for many generations to come. The production of oil In this country, instead of decreasing will continue to grow; it will even, because of the shale resource, greatly Increase its present invmenf outputof 340.00O.OftO barre!.! a year and will keer pace with the enormously increasing demand. No one may be bold enough to fortell just what tremendous figure of production may be reached within the next ten years. By HABJ&T EOUEio 'STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERV1CE1 WASHINGTON. June 21. How are you going to keep her down on the farm after she's seen the city? That, in effect, is the question which prompted the U. S. department of agriculture to undertake the nation wid" farm home survey which It has just completed, and Miss Klorcr.c.e E. Ward, who directed the work, believe fche has found the answer. This survey covers 10.013 typical farm homes in 33 northern and western stae-s, .and in the opinion of Miss Ward .nd other specialists of the department, proves conclusively that the waste of woman power is one of the greatest menaces to the rural life of the nation. With home life on the farm one continual round of drudgery, it is only to re expectr-d that the alert young woman should long for the greater comfort of life in the ctty and the widespread shortage of farm labor is eloejuent proof of the fact that the attractive young woman, city bound, is drawing the capable young man after her. Here are a few of th; reasons, as disclosed by the survey, why women find farm life unattractive: The we.rking day of the average farm woman is 11.3 hours the year round. In summer it is 13.12 hours. Eightvseven out of each 100 women have no regular vacation during the year. Half of the farm women are up and at work at 5 o'clock in the morning. Forty per cent have water in the kitchen, but the other 61 per cent must carry it from the spring or pump. Thirty-six per cent help with the milking. Feventy-nlne rer cent have kerosene lamps to trim and f.ll. Ninety-six per cent do the family washing, about half of them having washing machines and the other half using the old fashioned tub. washboard and boiler. Ninetv-two per cent do some or all of the family sewing. Garden work is done by 5S per cent. 94 per cent make the family hrad and 60 per eent have churning to do. Eight v-on per eent of all poultry flocks are c?rvl for bv women. One fourth of the farm women help to feed and bed the live s'ock and 24 per cent spend more than six weeks in the year assisting with some part of the field work. All of this is 1ft addition to cooking the family meals and raring for the children. EASY, HOME SELF TREATMENT Overstoutness weakens, the liver become slug4ish. fat accumulites, heart jfCTV action becomes weak, f jJTaV energy fails, work ia an V. effort end the beauty of Xsr1 tbe figure ia destroyed. Fat excess is unhealthy, 1 3it shortens lives of many. Dont allow your health to ha ruined through a burden of unhealthy fat. Become tlrnaert Spend ome.time d.iuy in the opea air; breathe derply. Get trora any druagriat a box of Koretn ar,d fol.ow Koreio system auupie directions that come with it WeiRb yourself and take your measuremeat every eceek. Continue reducuia until you arc down to normal. Koreio system is absolutely harmlaae, ia pie&aact. and even a tew days' treatment is likely to ahova m aotii'r'abia reduction. Lewona of testimonials. Korein system (pronounced kortn) has succeeded when other remedies. etc, have failed. It is the delight of those who wih u.ipi u . uill 11 LIJ z auu to acquire a young, acuve aoDearance. SI 00 Of) gruarantee that you reduce siZ!Z,? 10 to60 pounds, (whatever you need to) or cost yo-i not.hinjjl Buy Korein at Anv bu?v pharmacy; follow directions. Sho stout tnencis this atrtumenb

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A large paxt of this wastape of the energy of the nation's rural heme makers-. JJ:ss Ward points out. oouid be prevented by a reasonable amount of planning and well directed investment in modern equipment for farm houfif. Application to modern business principles to the farm home. Miss "Ward believes, would lessen the farm woman's work, shorten hours lighten her labors and add to her contentment. Mrs. Willia mi-mith of Chicago, came last evening for a visit with er s-:ter Mrs. Frank Haden and other relatives here . B. F. Carim hJ the brick wark a'most completed on his business block. Mrs. Nancy Cox. who has h tn vi.-it-ing hr sona in Hammond and Chicago fop some time returned home la.t evening. Mr. arid Mrs. G. P. Eiilv and Mr. and Mrs. V. K. nobert.5 left es'rday morning for Uc du Kiainbeau. Wis. where they go for a w--ek's ri-hmg trip. Born, yesterday morning to Dr. an 1 Mrs, J. A. Tavh-r. a :mn. Mibs Vehna Sheets who has been attending the Universitv of Chicago, was one of the rive hundred irradua'cs thdt graduated last week . she was award-d the degree of pn . H. n . i. naug.vman was in on bus-inesw yesterday. FRESH DISORDERS IN LONDONDERRY f INTERN' A TIONAL NEWS SERVICE' LONDON, June 21 i"ne person was mortally wounded and two others were injured in a f reth o-jt;.rak of ,j;sorders in Londonerrv e.irly today, sfiid a dispatch from tha.t cily. eontinuc-us i nthe stret-i greater part of the nght. 1 sat a standstill as a ieu oting and looting. r i r ; n s; was during the Business t o the riDon't throw your papet a-xa? trithout reedlne the want ad pace. No Internal medicine will cure Ecrenss. Only bt the application of CRANOLENE. the great external remedy, ran the Eczema microbe be destroyed. Prove this sUtment far yourself at our expense. Science has discovered that the acid like juice found under tho sicin ol the common table cranberry quickly destroys tbe tiny skin parasites that csu'e Eczema, aod BKMtoLhftr oirin troubles This mid fcaa now been eotn-y) f. bia'd wttb oothina. cool. 4 k J inr. bosiiDc oua. la r DZ, alt t ia i a m that stamp, nt sum of akin b a I b i no resfursii th :- to nafural health aad ealor. CRANOLENE ia fold by all (ood drat-Riata in 36e and SI jara, or direct by mmtLj postpaid. Im.artant If year iraggft e snoot aopply oa. writ direct to Crer,oieoe Co.. Guard. Kaea.. for free teet treaCment. Meaey Poeittvely Returnee) If Not aC'efleel SoW and Guaranteed by all 0ruists I Most Miles Per Dollar These Firestone words struck us as exactly expressing our ide cf service. "Most miles per dollar" is a plain statement of fact whether you apply it to the tires or to cur work. Ve believe that our business will grow, as your confidence in us grows. In our stock of Firestone tires, tubes and auto accessories, we have chosen carefully, bearing ia mind always the standard most miles per dollar. Cooic ia and let us prova U E. N. Bunnell 5O4-30S Hohman St.. Hammond. Phones: 650651592. Fifth Ave. at Massachusetts St., Gary. Phone 1470.

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for Douzlaa and Wentworth schools, amounting about ru re cr less of tons delivered into pens of tho school bui'.dIcga, not mortj thajj two cars at a timrPricea to state for Franklin coal. XuJ Esg and Lump. Blda to be sealed a-nd delivered to be In hands of the eecretary not later than June 25, 1920. FRED SEIGRIST. Secretary. MARTIN K. n.V.VERA.V. President. 6-12-17-2

-NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION IN THE MATTER OK THE ESTATE OK LUOA S TO It! A, PECKAfc'ED. NO 2273. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Adminis trator of said Esiat.;. by the Judge ff the Eake Superior Court. tiaJd E.-tato is supposed to be. solvent. Citizens Trust A Savings Bank of Indiana. Harbor. Indiana. Administrator. Oat-d June 21. 1D20. 6-22-25-J'y-6 - NOTICE OK ADMINISTRATION IN THE MATTER Or THE ESTATE OF MART ST1RMINSKI. DECEASED NO. 2270. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Adminis trator or said Estate, by the Eake Sunerinr i '-, ir-t the Judge of Said Estate is supposed vent. to be Cituens Trust & Savings Bank, of Indiana Harbor, Indiana. Administrator. Datrd June K. 1020. 6-15-22 S3 "SYRUP OF FIGS" CHILD'S LAXATIVE Look at tongue! Remove poisons from Stomach, Liver and Bowls. accept a:irornia- Syrup of Figs! only look for the name California on ! the package, then you are sure your i child is hasir.K the best n..i i, I 1 - t. uai ' I 5.s laxative or fhy?iC for the little' J stomach. !ner ar.d bowels. Children! 1 love is delirious fruity taste. Full! I directions for child's do on I tie. Oivc it without fear. " ' Mother! -Adw. ou must say California.

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I, data. GEORGE COTTLE. 6-13-3 Main Hotel. LIQUID A liquid Are to bedbugs. snts. machet and firsts is what tin; ,-k-w chemical di.-cuvcrv reailv is, although tliero ia i.o danger or n damac- t.. b dune bv usit'g h to vour springs, furniture or fioihing. This nsvv fhi-miial is k.iuwn aa I'tsky Devils Quietus. I'. l. q. Cohtn joc. but this ffW ir-nts have ihe pwer of ridding your hou.-e of lihugs. atit. roAcht.-, and !! -na if v., a pu r.-iux-1 I'. D. Q. f. D. Q. is Us..'i ar.d r.-vom-ti:endi.d by the luadii:-; Hobpnals and Ra.ilr.iad Companies the yafryt and 'luirkfcst wav of ridding the P-.tK bevibus. nnts. roach' s. f-pecial Hospital sui $2. 50 maks fio giKons your drusgij t lias :t or c.-in procure it for you or .sent pr paid either ize to your address on rec.-ipi of price by the Owl Chemical Co.. Terre H.iutt. Ind. The sucfc of P. H. Q lias ivius-f d imitators to have been prosin-u t-d. rridling an imitation. Genuine P. D. Q. rj never peddled. Adv. rr Cut down the H. C. L. and This is our annual

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With every purchase of $5.00 (not including Flour or Meat) 5 lbs. of Sugar at. . . Sliced Yellow Cling Peaches, good brand, No. 2'2, weight I lb. 12 oz. ; reg. 48c value, at.... Asst. Pure Preserves, 22 oz. ; regular 45c value, at Large can Salmon, regular 35c value, at Large bottle of Libby's Catsup, only Burnham & Morrill brand Fish Flakes, regular 25c value, at Matches, 6 large boxes for Green Mill Coffee, regular 59c, at

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luumuu d ice way. n e( rapidly eliminate the poison, thereby relieving all aymptcma and preventing tKctr retum. No 5 overloading vour system with f 5 drugs. Half a teaspooniul of g Albert's Rheumatic Remedy St g once or twice a day is sufficient, a fnce a I. CO. The KELLS COMPANY 1 Newburgh, N. Y. save money by visiting ns barrain week. RIMBACK. PHONE 161 27 c 39c 39c 29c 29c 19c 35c 49c $2.00 55c week. Come eirly to ?oi i i

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