| Show great wealth for uintah basin george M Bl mulvey ulvey a well known hydrocarbon operator in ill the uintah basin is in salt lake tor for a few days and while his personal interests are almost entirely confined to the rich gilsonite and asphaltum do deposits posits of that region he is not unmindful of 0 the tact fact that the basin possesses a vast amount of other mineral wealth yet undeveloped even yet discussing the situation mr BIT tuesday said despite the long wagon haul to the railroad we can handle the rich hydrocarbons hydro carbons at a good margin of 0 profit which of course hlll be e largely arge y increased when we get fet a railroad the other mineral rg resources sources of the country are virtu ply aily untouched for instance in ite jesse ewing canyon country a region that takes in the corners of 0 atah colorado and wyoming where atre t h e three states join Is a deposit of 0 copper capper A ore which I 1 am confident is 1 larger and richer than that which he has s made the utah copper mine at bingham world famous it Is too low grade to be worked on a small scale or without adequate transportation facilities but I 1 am confident that within a few years after tile the coming of a railroad and it will not be long until the needs of 0 tho the basin will make a railroad imperative we will have a mine in the jesse ewing canyon that will vill rival tile the utah copper in its output and in the margin of profit to be ba attali attained led herald republican |
