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...Colorado's Parachute Canyon not far from Grand Junction, the seed of an oil revolution was planted. Union Oil Co. of California last week fired up a $7,000,000 prototype retort to produce oil from shale rock, the biggest such attempt by private enterprise. As 400 top oilmen and Government officials gathered for the dedication, Colorado's Governor Steve McNichols put their dream into words: "All around us is one of the greatest potential sources of energy materials ever to be found on this earth...
...Colorado's Piceance Creek Basin alone, geologists estimate there is an oil shale reserve of a trillion barrels, enough to supply the U.S. for perhaps a century. And the Piceance Creek Basin is only a small part of far vaster shale beds throughout Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. The problem is how to get out the oil on a paying basis. The U.S. Bureau of Mines worked on the problem in an experimental Colorado plant, finally perfected a process that promised some day to supply gasoline competitively to the West Coast. But when Congress last year refused to allocate more...
...SHALE OIL EXPERIMENT by the Government at Rifle, Colo, will be closed down, because private research has made so much progress on getting oil from shale. Union Oil Co., which has 50,000 acres of shale land near Rifle, has just allocated $5,000,000 to increase capacity to 1,000 tons daily, estimates there are 5 billion bbls. of oil on its land...
...Shale & Possums. Trouble came soon and often. As the 249 competing cars (including 30 different makes) streamed out of Sydney toward Brisbane early this month, small boys stoned them from the roadside. Drivers got lost when wise guys switched highway markers around. A New Zealand entrant burned his hands beating out an engine fire, and 20 cars bogged down in mud. By the time the pack passed the first check point, drivers and officials were already wrangling over penalties...
North past Rockhampton, the cars churned up clouds of dust and ran down dozens of blinded kangaroos and possums. From tropical Townsville west to Mount Isa, on one of the worst stretches of road in Australia, they wallowed in talcum-fine sand or crunched across sharp shale that ripped tires to ribbons. Rocks tore into gas tanks and crumpled fenders. Two cars turned over. A Ford Zephyr plowed into a cow, tossed the animal into the air and caught it on the motor hood. Zephyr and cow were flattened beyond repair...