| Show hundred seventy elgin hl on oil loca E ti gorse and associates have filed notices with recorder more said to be coming up E C H CORSE of at mid and ML so clates have made do oil locations and it la is reported they as x pact to locate 00 claim before they finish notices of location bay arv been filed with county recorder He Ite corder cordar mable hacking who with mrs mr minerva to Is busy recording it to vs der denwood stood that the charges charged for the recording will be one dollar ewa ach when the work began some ome ume time ago it 9 WM was shrouded in more or low lew mystery and there WM was much lation as a to just juat what the large larce num ber bar ot of men weri vert doing out on an the old uncompahgre reservation in utah at first it was wa declared that the burlington railroad ami making ft A survey jurvey but that idea was waa soon oon din dl then CUB cam the information that the american asphalt ams la tion had decided to open up the famous bandana claim but when the camps were established several everal milea from that that idea was w like wise abandoned was wa still ull rite but in ur mon mea kept ati work tente tov stoven lenty of crute were i conveyed to i the its scene cne vt cc activity t amr mr ame and a judged mcconnell frequently fisit ad town to gardn ou outputs Puts but had bad nothing to say ay for one day last week it was wa suggested ufKa ted that an order was waa about to be lulled issued or that there would tee be congressional aelton providing tot for the mooing oe up of the gilsonite gil clakins cl atins which have 0 so o lope loft beb be withhold withheld from entry or if that be not true there was w to bo be another sale ale ordered of the alternate see eo eions at the sale ale a few years yeara as aco there wu was tut but little of this land du dis posed of in order to be able to give the public all abe information possible poel tle upon the abject the vernal express publishing company lait INK saturday sent bent a telegram to united states senator reed smoot asking him if any congressional conre action to Is pending or it if any haw has been taken recently to that telegram senator smoot re replied p 11 0 d as aa follows follow there is ie no bill before eon greas opening to entry gils gilsonite land on former uncompahgre reservation nor have I 1 heard beard cat one Js i to be introduced I 1 am informed by the lenoral ten cral land office that no sale dale la is contemplated have heard beard nothing of any movement of interior department looking towards opening or of lands 11 there to la no gils gilsonite land in that tbt part of abe country open for entry and it if none i is to be thrown open thoro there woe was no good reason to believe such locations were being made then the only safe con conclusion clunion to reach was that the ibo men were local lug ing oil land wise ones said ald they know knew lit it all the time who evor ever heard of oll oil over olver there some one ODO asked these locations are being made in townships four south mouth to nine nice south goutal ranges twenty ono to twenty five find and sections two to thirty one tte the work will entail ex x turee tures of thousands ouanda th of dollars and corse and tola his associates are not im the haba of throwing money away it 1 to the general scientific belief that oil flows alowa under the abe sit bonite la in the trinidad Ja lands the harbour barbour people have oceans of oll oil located under the asphaltum or gal 11 onate as aa the same lame kind of stuff to Is called here bre of course there are scientists clent iuta who insist that this gils gilsonite wan at one time oil MW and that there Is nothing beyond it the names ot of about twelve people have been signed to location no atea filed with the ro recorder corder each notice am afi a 6 rule containing eight names name A aa one person la is entitled to file upon twenty acres that would mean that very every claim na ures are making a total of already filed upon it if the people decide to take up claims that would mean acres bore the filing to f alone would amount to taj ejk continued on page 4 HUNDRED SEVENTY EIGHT OIL LOCATIONS wit continued from page 1 names lainca of some of at the locators are rd fd Fac hitz J J 0 3 kobusch F w Wr loden A K St ewait julian W gorse margaret farron 8 P dacron A 11 alakel ai selecting names lor for i all these claims was a job in itself and the man who had that part of it in hand could casily secure se cure the position of cf giving names namee to purman pullman sleepers elee pera it la is taid aad that u pullman laughter daught Lr used to recene a salary of 10 pir lear ear just for naming tile sleeping CUTS cars when they came out of tho the factor ithe idie bierner of these claims la 13 a person of literary attainments and LIB his favorule favor lle authar Is the honorable william shakespeare the brines include peare hamlet Eliy loik othello Ot liello etutus lago mac beth cleoptra Clec patra dickens visa a aa favorite and oliver talut and copper lold were not forgotten howard toft taft Is in not supposed bup posed to b ir the public rye eye so much now since lie went tia as professor to yale so uie the claim nod for him la Is just called lall 1111 lart woodrow wilson tedy it BIcKl Alc Kinley nley lincoln are remember td wien when ho be maed one of thorn thom tile the filist call he was doutt doubtless less of the dining car on the 1 D R 0 and when allien minnie 8 I una cna C and julia A popped into ins his mil d could he have been think fig li g of the lua laist time he saw a horse lace tit nt eay but when ho he named that one the ibe red onrod abat hat could he ame lia ie lioen been thinking about titre la IS still more guessing go arg on what would they do with he be oil it they did find it they E arely have some inside inaldo information abolt abai it tho the coming of the railroad though they say eay not there to is some talk about a pipe line but just where to t has not been figured out |
