Show I r I GILSONITEv i I = Price Utah Doc 275Tho output ort or-t GII loii Asphaltum company could be Increased to HHIO tons every i day of the year In 1U01 said Arthur J Lec local ananagcr and agent for the company com-pany at Price but you understand there is not always a market for the 7 material and we have to depend a great deal upon demand as do people with other commodities to sell Eastern Utah the country around Foil Duchesne more properly speak ing furnishes all the gllsonlte pro dticud In the Rocky mountain region hirh is hauled haultd Into Prjce by wagon and from here shipped to Its final destination des-tination Madison JI where the company I com-pany 1ms a refinery There It Ielner lhcre goes I through various processes of treatment and assorting and then finds its way i to the several markets of the world a great percentage of it more than half we are told being consumed in the I countries of Europe where it goes into line varnlslies buggy and furniture j palms I t I At the mines of the company on what I I W I may be termed No Plans Land there I mi two grades of the product produced srlects and seconds Wo have told of the USe of the firsts and now we come tf the seconds which arc also sent to thr Illinois factory where roof pitch is I made of It cor paints and the like The demand for the material is all the time increasing and tho output will next year bo materially inpjjjfcsod so the olficers of the company belIeve The ore bodies occur In true llssurc veins and the method of mining the ptnducl is by trenching the extraction of ores all being by contract and under I the direction of a superintendent for 1 the company Mr j Burchell The output I out-put of gllsonite for the twelve months I ending December 1 1000 as per actual figures taken by Tho Tribune from the i s books of the company was 1587030 I pounds 01 more than 2 D tons an increase over the production of the prc ious year of 1500000 pounds or some ToOO tons The company Is very close niouthod as to the value of the product but from information obtainable It is sate to ray it will net them on board the cars here at Price not less than f 511 1 per ton Tin > lost of mining is 0 i Mnnll consideration In fact hardly worth thementioning as compared with r I gold silver lead and copper The company has boon operating the V rri w nt workings now fOI thirteen 5 < irs and there irf i more ore In sight than at any time in the history of the 9 property H looks to be simply Inex aii tlblc The greatest drawback to the bank account of the company Is the mode and eXIense of transportation it beIng in round numbers and even 100 y milrB from the mines to the nearest railroad atalion which Is I Price This freight costs the company CO cents per 100 pounds Inc they would not be able to handle It at this figure were it not for the fact that its agent and manager man-ager here Mr Arthur J r Lee has con i in arts for loading out the merchandise 1 1 for the Ashley valley mei chants and 4i the Government pout at Fort Du ii chcsns A freighter bringing in a load t of ore is assured a load of merchandise merchan-dise back The total output of the company for the time 1 has worked the gilsonllc deposits thirteen years has been n l I tlc over 20000000 pounds or a tonnage of 30000 which at say 510 a ton runs up to 100000 Thousands of dollars are paid out annually to freighters who speKil their money at both ends of the road and among the settlers along the way for merchandise and farm products and is a source of revenue rev-enue which the people here at Price Vernal and the valleys between look forward to at all times as ready money mon-ey The amounts paid the Rio Grande Railroad company and other lines for freights each year arc simply enormous enor-mous While the company Is actually pro dncjng only from this ono property it r js Its policy to acquire more territory I and dUng the rca of IUD it has picked up several pieces of known i value in Utah and across the Colorado line where at the present time tho pfiysldent of the company Mr C O Baxter of St Louis and Mr Arthur J Lee local manager are establishing II boundaries and perfecting titles to valuable val-uable claims They are accompanied by a corps of surveyors and miners The company has valuable Interests in the Castle Peak district but these have been worked on n small scale only for years The property o the Culmer Bios gilsonlte and asphaltuhi situated In the Castle Peak district have been tied up in litigation for some time and did I nothing In the shipping line during this nolhln1 yea A small I I consignment was stopped iirrc by l the Government officials It be Inj alleged it I came from the Ulntah reservation Some two and a half miles from fnslle Peak L V Shearer I has I beon doing some worlc and a shipment or 70000 pounds was brought out a few days ago I Is a fine quality of gil I i sonllc and is said to bo as good grade 0 as that nnr produced by i the St Louis jieo pie near Fort Duchesne There are t others working In a small way In the mo fi hinmtrlct but as yet they have not 1 entered the shipping list but confidently I confi-dently expect to during the coming year Over in Whitmore canyon some seven sev-en miles above the coal camp of Sun nysjde George C Whltmore the Neivhl ii banker B R McDonald and R A 1 I Klrker and associates have been dee de-e i eloping a number of sand asphaltum t f claims and have plenty of the ore insight in-sight if it would stand tho freight S II charges During the year these mines J of the product J 1 shipped out some six cars f I uct which went to Denver and further n r I fur-ther on East for paving and linIng in tho r eoivolt After charges reservoirs i Afer paying charhcs I stuff netted them somewhere in the 3r neighborhood of 21 I a ton but they J onnot sallsfieu with this claiming VCI 111 to f le 10t athfe ahhlne that there were some 1750 paraffine 1Ce vuliiw ivastid lo each ton Their Idea 1Col capital to take hold and Induce JH lo I CILJial 010 1 erect a plant that will nave these wi irt General Manage Dodge and other of sA Iplals of the Hln Cnmdt1 A estun raIl sij Hrali 01 with the o wuy and people iduiitlfied l 1r1 Pleasant anl Valley coal company are Iii i aT Pllnmr Valey big toi astcd here and H Is believed a l unr of deal will be made before the parsing 31 the first year mare the twentieth ccntuiy hereby the great values undoubtedly ic xitnt1mg her > will be treated by a plant t1 wl Some Idea of 1 tt ercitjt1i on the ground or t thctdhormlly jf of the I ve1ns may be had m51 tO when it Is stated tint In one claim here ItJ referred to the ore Is i by actual W9af is tb shot Ii urcmrnt eighty feet thick One known to 4lght have broken down over eIght hol 1 cell tons of the material which hJ of that It may be put in n such consistency 1 fit the mouth and Is n splendid substitute 1 fitto 1 for chewing gum I has been said that or the ralront company was serious v fig orutJ paving many of the railroad tmm1 i lng on pulnl n1ln IUui yard along the line with this material d I make many places more a as It would 1n s 11 I attractive and at the same time tend atracl and make I It baler the lies o Pll I I I to preserve lw te I Sr of trains lrS I I for men In the handling trains 1ti millions of tons of I There are I ir t Jhcrc arc milols reservation where I Out on the Ulntah rC eralon whpre nl i the I Raven Mining company Is opcrut clO c llg the H iterlte deposits on a tenyear twelvemonths cP h f hore l IhV work of the past e tleVn months has been largely I of the development tbt nfnlhs devel-opment kind but as many as fifteen to plU opJint the product has gone to or t cars Jone twenty i 1 ll 1 11S at Chicago of the company at the ratlory COnJHU i rtlol termed a lurl where It IB made Into what la I rgti 11 i l hard ruuuer iiiienii > a t BiibstiCut1 for luhher Hcent1 5Ih n1d waeonroad has been built from u point on HIP Rio Grande Veslern SPur 1111 bilow 01 Col ton and a commodious war Iol crcct l whoro ores will he stored ln J hnuxe iicclji hrIc wi rthi1 ret Kblnpftf lIme dpniand may crOt i anI I slmlpiI aw III dCltant ia 5Ill IK such as to pro qulro Tlif country JIO tImi j cOI Iuln t t n 0 lilhh the kccDlng of the roads open the lthlt roiJiui being very heavy fl year rouJJ the wtovr hcavy Oierdf I a greater portion of the year mm tlIft Ilel bar progressed fairly well r around Colton on what Is known as the rS ICI r ozokerite claims but there has not as r it oZIel1e Claims or yet been a shipper recorded ornWj y are held high and until there is more f In t hiC material reduction f Ir sight and a reducton jnJhl I prices asked capitalists arc not KOlns les I H In there to take chances on an uncer tainty I m m I Only assessment work is reported for the year on the claims of gilsonlte elaterlto asplmltuni and other minerals throughout Emery county which is as rich pirhaps In these products as is I Carbon county Down there everything Is waiting on the coming of a railroad I R W CROCKI5TT |