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 Oil from Shale Posted by:  brwhiz
N 40° 49.534 W 115° 46.797
11T E 602879 N 4520109
Nevada State Historical Marker No. 229 is located on the south side of Idaho Street across from Elko Regional Airport a short distance west of Mountain City Highway.
Waymark Code: WMF8NP
Location: Nevada, United States
Date Posted: 09/10/2012
Views: 4
This Historic Marker describes an abortive attempt to extract oil from shale at Elko in the 1920s.
Marker Title (required): Oil from Shale
Marker Number (If official State Marker from NV SHPO website above, otherwise leave blank): 229
Marker Text (required):
Directly south of this point and across the valley floor are the remains of a short-lived extraction plant, which reached the peak of its productive capacity in the early twenties. Driving of the main shaft began in 1916. Of several tries at extracting oil from shale, this was the only successful operation in Nevada.
Robert M. Catlin, Sr. spent many years experimenting on the extraction of crude oil from these beds before beginning the commercial production of oil. After a production period of less than two years, the plant was closed in the fall of 1924. Hi-Power Catlin Oil was too expensive to compete with the fossil oils of that day.
Easily 50 years ahead of his time, Catlin gave Elkoans and Nevadans a dream and the community an oil boom in the Roaring Twenties
County (required): Elko
Marker Type (required): Full Size (with blue painted mesh)
Other Marker Type (optional): None
Is Marker Damaged? (required): No
Other Damage Type (optional): None
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