Show the Prosperity of Gilsonite Miners loaners f x D c r yF SC Iy Sf Sfa f a k I P Pr y r r I L Li i i 4 v 4 r q A tp 2 S J x AM p tZ iii fix 1 I GIB y f T q f fr fuw r r 1 1 uw a aa aview S a t VW view OF loot GS 1 c S Si i T was beak baek In te the fall of 1314 seven seventeen seventeen IT teen years s ago age and before there the theWl Wl w s any of Price that Samuel H IT l Gilson the prospector and trail blazer blaser with Bert left eft the point which wl has lias since seen the growth of the prosperous pro town of Price on it for what was wag then known mown a ail as the reservation country There vas wu W no wagon w road then simply an Indian trail leading ending leadiR to beyond the Duchesne Duchene river They TIley were looking for oz which they theT had been told was plentiful In large veins beyond Fort Port Duchesne the army post built on the Uintah river In going through with a light wagon it was wu necessary nece ary in ir many places especially In Soldier S car yon to take the wagon apart and get it above the precipitous places piece and wheel at a time by means of ropes rope Arriving at their destination four or five fi ve miles mUes beyond the Ducheane Duchesne river on what has hu since become known as The Strip they took sample of the vein which they at once nce discovered war R as a something new under the sun They in the meantime located along alonge bp e vein line like lI e S feet teet with the names of at the late ate R It C Chambers Chamber ChambersS ChamberS S H U Gilson on Bert George Georae GeorgeG G fi iss Sg and the late Richard McIntosh on iv stakes Gilson and d went back to towards towards wards ards Salt Loke ke Clay City from whence they came through Strawberry valley and one night when around the camp tire lire they threw a sa piece of the mineral wax In the frying fry lug pan with bacon grease The grease grea acted as a fluxing material ma and the tha th prospectors became more than ever cony iced aced they had found something of value The follow following following following ing spring was sent back there with a pack outfit to bring out a larger quantity of the material mat This Thi l lne ne did and it was 91 on the depot j pot form torm at Salt Lake City that O O 0 Bax Baxter Ba Bater c ter now president of the St Louis Gilson Asphaltum company first saw i h IL The following year Baxter went wen t there in person and took a lease and afterward bought bot it for the Anheuser Busch syndicate which has sin since ln e owned and operated the properties nt not however until a bill was gotten up and pu through brough congress congre s cutting on oft off these theae mineral hinds IMs s from the Uin Uintah Uintah tah reservation re The lands so cut off oft have sin since e been known as The Tha Strip Stripa a rendezvous for outlaws ws whisky with the Indians and the scene See in later ve yeara of fit all aU kind of ot outlawry and anil deviltry devi try The St Louis people gave for forthe he the property Gilson did not want to sell 5 11 but bm was as practically y forced to toso toso toso so by the balance of his associates Clates who cor contended tended there was just as good ground at other places on the reserva reservation reservation tion but up to tt this time be it said itis it itIs t is still to be found The Th Columbia college col college lege at New York got samples amples and made an analysis from the lot brought out by pack train by It was and anil tested by bv Professor Fristo t f that institution In who vho discovering dl it to fc be a new thing at that time gave ne it ithe r the he name of in honor of the theold theold theold old old prospector pro Sach is I the early h hs his history s story tory cory and ard discovery of d f gilsonite as re related related aced by Mr Gilson himself t to The Herald and or o 0 the mines which hive have ha e ee every e ery year ear si ce their actual w working paid the th company owning them a i net n t profit undoubtedly equal to the o oi ig inal purchase prier price Considering the money invested an and anil i the cost o of oper operating operating there is 18 not a i gold old mine hi In Utah that has bas made its 10 it owners the money that this WI wax proposition pr has ha netted the St Louis gentlemen pt How JIow Product is Handled i Ii What is gilsonite Simply a grade of that thatIs in Is I M Ie 6 J per fr pr cent pure On the properties o e th tM the company above referred to there are t n grades mined and Ind nd see sec 8 seconds rho The first t I is sorted at the mine and fc Ib ked i as 1 Is also aiM the tn u second s ond grade f is ii kaui hul ul d 1 J in m t Price the nearest n arest aresti arestI i I C I t railroad station ninetysix mites miles Jilt dig dis distant teat tant t at where it Is 1 stored ed in three large targe warehouses and later shipped to Madi Madison Madison son BOn DJ Ills Here the first grade e is bar j and forwarded to the Atlantic i coast Later it Is transported to Eu Europe Europe Europe rope n to Germany where It is 18 made up Into fine varnishes paints shoe blacking and the like Europe consumes con umes about of the first Brat grade output The seconds are for the greater part used in the United States for tor roof paints box car paints and a considerable part of it for street paving paving pavIng ing in the cities clUes of the th east The veins on The Strip and elsewhere in the Indian country are true tnIe fissure and those worked at greatest profit by the Gilson Asphaltum company are from six inches to ids ate t feet in width They crop out at the surface and thousands of dollars worth of the product has been shipped from the grassroots where to mine it only a scraper craper and team was wu necessary to remove a few inches of top earth to find pay dirt The mining is 8 done by contract at 4 per ton loaded on wagons Then there is a charge of 15 a ton for freighting it to Price ninetysix miles mites The resi reel resident resident dent agent rent and superintendent BU for tor the at Price is Arthur J Lee LeeThe LeeThe LeeThe The Output The Th output this thi year has baa been pounds poun or 2560 2600 26 tons ton about larger large ar than for the previous year By y of the t t Louis Worlds fair r paving contracts the company expects to Increase next years output over this year YeAl at least one third and possibly pore All AU of this comes from the original J mines located by Sam Gilson and Bert in 1884 The Deposits are an practically practically tl ly inexhaustible but to protect its interests and perhaps to do 40 away awaT with competition it has hu bought up p many ma y desirable claims on the Colorado side of the line which are in process of patent at the present time Among Aug this lot tot lotare lotare are about lOo 10 acres of good ground in Rio Blanco county Colorado formerly belonging to Judge McConnell Gus GusI Henline McCaslin McCa Un and others The product of the St Louis company on onboard onboard onboard I board the cars at Price is admitted to tobe tobe tobe be worth 40 the Ule ton by representatives of the company Others who ought to tobe tobe be posted say gay II 10 fl Figure the output as given deduct the mining charges and transportation by wagon and the net revenues of the company at either fig lie figure figure ure less office expenses s are enor enormous enormous enormous Others in the th Field The immense profits made de by the St StLouis StLouis StLouis Louis crowd have stimulated others to action and last year Judge McConnell I Licked by Henry C Payne of Wiscon Wisconsin sin in and the Chicago Paint Varnish company secured a lease on r certain n lands of ot the Uintah Indians in Indian canyon anyon Work has baa gone o ahead in a halfhearted way few shipments of the be of which they say lay there is an abundance have made their way I to the i railroad and aboard thE cars The Raven Rd en Mining company under which he the th leasers easers enser are conduct conducting conductIng conducting ing operations has built a large lare ware walf warehouse warehouse house at the tM end of ot the spur of the Willow Willo creek branch of the UIe Rio Grande Western railway and from lr this point built a wagon road to the die mines miRes over which it had been expected large ship shipments shipments shipments ments w would Quill come long ago Th The char character acter of the stun stuff found round here is better than the first grade of ot k farther east on the reservation and is I distin distinguished d from gilsonite by the term The manager malt of the com corn compan company I pany pan when wh n asked ask a d why shipments are not coming to the railroad explains that t ha t the Ow laboratory Ja bora tor in Chicago ChI ao is ex fX I I rth th the product as an a a It substitute for f r India lada rubber The com corn company pany has a ten years yeara lease t town les Down own Around Sunnyside For the past ten years yean R A Kirker I George t Whitmore and associates I I have haye peen been n working Corking a group of claims seven en miles mil above this great peat coal col camp 1 ct and have each year r been expecting to interest eastern capital in the en enterprise enterprise enterprise They had just gotten Colonel D C Dodge of the th Rio Grande Western railway with them when hen he sold his in interests Interests in the road ana anc went to Europe Now Major W H Bird the Salt Lake City attorney has bas taken a lease and bond on the claims with R A Kirker and anti hopes to get some Washington and New York men In hi with him The properties are held at li to OO OO and there is a fair prospect of a adeal adeal adeal deal being made The big Veins of ot ore here are of as good grade and as great width and depth as the mines on The strip In fact there is one vein of sand nd asphaltum asphaltum asphaltum tum good for street paving po ving purposes which by actual measurement goes eighty feet in width The paving con for tor the streets of Salt Lake City might m ht have been made by parties in interested interested Interested here and a home product used but the men in control in Zion preferred giving up the money to toa toc toa a c foreign concern The products here as shown by analysis are so varied that a half dozen doses elements might be worked with profit and the establish establishment establishment establishment ment of great refining w works be under good headway in the time of readers of The Herald The Utah Fuel company has figured on the manufacture of In connection with a now wasted product of ot their coking ovens out of this asphaltum In Argyle Canyon For a year or more a number r of ot poor prospectors have been working a group of gilsonite and claims in inthis Inthis inthis this part of Carbon county Lately such mich well known men as L M Y Olson Ol on John B MUlburn and B R McDonald took an interest and the result is that something substantial is to be done in the near future They have eighty live five claims upon which there is a good grade of asphaltum gilsonite and an that runs as high as 98 M I Iper per c cent nt on analysis analysts The veins are are from four inches to six feet and if the properties come up to expectations In Inthe Inthe the matter of width and permanency ot of veins the St Louis people will have havea a rival in the field of operations worthy of their steel teel The fact that the lands are sixty miles nearer a railroad than are those on The Strip will III cut a considerable figure in the matter of ot transportation charges The properties have lately been incorporated under the title of the t e Eastern Utah Asphaltum Asphaltum Asphaltum tum company There are something like other outer claims in the same neigh neighborhood neighborhood owned by various persons which may be brought into the corpor corporation corporation corporation It is the purpose of the com company pany parry to do extensive exten ve development work and the character of the country is such that winter storms will ill not Interfere with operations there Up Tip Around Colton Captain J A Bade e who is still sun rep representing representing representing resenting Joe Loiter Letter and a man named Richardson back in Illinois continues to pick up a good thing for his people whenever it presents itself During the th past year some 00 0 claims were bought at bargain counter figures aid as soon as the deal Is clinched and the necessary work done a patent is to tobe tobe tobe be put through the Salt Lake City land laRd office for thee claim Clear cleat title has boa thus been obtained during the past pUt year for a very considerable acreage According to those who are close to this crowd they have but made a starter tArter The grade prade of or the stuff found here and around Summit is better than anywhere else el e in eastern e tern Utah But like almost everything else that is good it comes or rather is found in small packages or veins Numerous small sales ranging raD i in price from to 2000 1000 the claim have been made during dur during during ing the year Denver parties are also interested in this district as well as Provo Prove folks The Southern Country All through Emery Emer county to the and Ad Grand county to the east 6 tI 4 MINER RT AT 1 K H Tic 1 l ONT ToN NG 1 t there are re great deposits de t of 0 gilsonite 1 and other members of the asphaltum family but the remoteness from railroad and a desire the past DUlt year for oil lands has bas kept keut the same me mein in the background Eastern Utah on the whole presents an Inviting field for forthe forthe forthe the prospector pro Gold silver sliver copper or orI lead of other districts do not present I the tile allurements of these wax propositions propositions The man mn who puts off will get left When the Uintah and Uncompahgre Un Uncompahgre com pah reservations are opened to white settlement and the time seems not far away the opportunity for for fortunes fortunes tunes will m be still greater gr ter There yet remains rem in these hil hills more than has ever been located and many times the quantity taken out and marketed 11 |