Show the emery beds A company has boon recently formed in this city says the grand junction bol democrat for the purpose of developing the asphaltum recently discovered by E C hale and T II 11 thatcher in emery county utah the company has been established with a capital of divided into shares of 10 each the following gentlemen are the ancor pora tors 0 hale A A miller F E thatcher jos crosby G M johnson dan P Stetzel burger john edwin shaw and wm foster of pueblo the company is to be known as the hale asphaltum mining co the claims of the company aro located in emery and uintah counties of eastern utah and are about sixty five miles west of grand junction and twenty six miles from westwater a station on the D K G ry the claims cover a thousand acres and several kinds of material are found most abundant is a sandrock saturated with asphalt and petroleum but the most valuable is the asphalt that bubbles out of springs in the ledge or vein of saturated sand rock the quantity is inexhaustible join ing are by benton canon the carroll bros and others A correspondent of the salt lake journal of commerce refers to these asphaltum beds in a lengthy communication muni cation he states that nearly all the asphaltum used in the united states is imported from the west indies the fields of southern california and these of eastern utah are all the deposits found in this country the quality found here is of the best and when these mines are developed will be ry valuable grand junction may congratulate itself in having this valuable mineral located so near and under the control of her business men |