| Show ENOUGH UTAH ASPUAlIUM TO PAVE IDE WUOLE WORLD Wax Paint and Varnish and Many Other Unique Mineral Forms V Among the industries peculiar to I Utah is the productions of the hydrocarbons hydro-carbons During the year 1599 there has been mine and exported out of the slate 3750 sort ton of these minerals min-erals being an Increase of 1250 ton over lS93 A small amy of employees i supported sup-ported ty the various companies interested in-terested in the mine and man thousands thou-sands ot dollars paid to freighter who place the output upon the cars The value of thIs ears output is variouslY placed at between 20000 or 25000 i when placed upon the market The major portion of the output cme from Ulntah Carbon and Emery counties coun-ties though considerable was shipped from Utah and Waatch during the year The hydrocarbons form the most extensive family know tO mineralogy I and appear in every known form They are generally called asphalt and are divIded up into groups according to the manner of the formation The mst common are known as zlnlte elat erle wurzelte albertie oocerlte and naphtha There is also a series of a phalum rock known as sand asha tum and lime 8haltum Terms and Use GJsrte Is the purest asphalt that appears In a stat of nature and i only found in and around the Uncom pahge Indian reservation almost all of the deposits lying within the state of Utah Sand asphaltum Is scattered over the counties ot Ulntah Vaatch Carbon Emery and Utah in great V bodies and Is most used for street V j = < paving purposes Elaterle and wart zele ae found In Immense bodies in I Ulntah and Wasatch counties and are used for the manufacture of pants and yan I she Ozocerite commonly known a mineral wax Is found near Soldiers Summit on the line of the Rio Grande Western railroad This Is used for making pafne wax and for many other purses Naptha is simply liquid ahaltu and appear in seas in the sand and lime mhalum rocks I The are also veins of thIs liquid bona have many uses and new one are being found daily Besides the manufacturing of paints and varnishes and br street paving they are used for insulating wire as cement for sea walls and to preserve the iron of shIps bottoms The resinous resin-ous and glutnpus forms are used in many instances as a substItute for rubber V I up to a short time ago the great hydrocarbon deposits of Utah were but little prospected < present oweer the are assuming the place in the in dtistrial world they deserve Some of thee beds Or mines are or great extent ex-tent covering miles ot country in blanket blan-ket for or appearing in veins averaging aver-aging from tour to eIghty feet In wIdth and extending over the country for miles I Is stated that the various stted varous hydrocarbons cover fully 10000 hydrocrbons ful 1000 square miles of territory From the first the Industry has been hampered by the dIs I tace of the deposits from the railroads rail-roads but during the rear just paS several lines of road were started in the dIrection of the mines and the hIstory II hIs-tory of ahntun mInIng In Utah will In a measure ate from 1S29 Among the principal mines that are at present taking out the hydrocarbons or which are under deveopment In the St Louis Gisonite ASDhalum corn panys properties near Fort Duchesne the Ulntah cpans glsonle mines also the Parrete mine owned by the Culmer Bros of Salt Lake the Castle Peak mines and the properties o the Raven Mining company Of these the SL Luis Gisonite and the Raven In ing company have been the most a five Judge McConnell the mange ot the Raven Mining company in speaking of hydrocarbon mining in Utah said that the industry wa In its infancy He de cared that the people of Utah and It the country at large as well did not yet realize the dimensions to which this industry was destined to reach in a few years At present the output of the Utah mines Is used most for paint stuffs and paving but Vw uses were being discovered every day His corn pany he sad was engaged In mining elaterite and wurtzele and had not i a property yet touched the gUsnlte upon its I St Luis Company Up to the 1st day ot December of this I I year the SL LouIs Gin Aphalum company had shipped 2500000 pounds of gisnIte ore At present this Is the I only company operating extensively I that Is that has a steady output of glsonie There are others that now and then ship but as a general thing I they arc properties that are only par tany developed and the work so tar done or now In progress is largely In the nature ot development The mines of the company are situated situ-ated about a mile and a half est of Fort Duchene and have eight claIms i or 1500 feet along the vein The ore I occurs in fissure form lg width froislx inches to four feet The depth of the vein is unknown a the mining Is done in an open cut and there is I s much 0 the oe in sIght that it has never ben necessary to So deeper I tan i could be conveniently handled At VthC mine al ore Is gotten out by contract and put into sacks and then hauled 10 Price consigned to the om I c 0 pany at its factory in Illinois where it is again packed into barrels and much agn exported to Germany France and Belgium where i goes into aaieh of fine paints and varnishes Much of i is used in a cruder pant and manufactured up at a point jut out of Chicago Raven Hining Company Something like a year ago the Raven Mining company at the head of which are a number of Chicago men of money closed up a lease with the interior department de-partment with the consent 9t the Indians In-dians of all the drocarbon mineral bearing lands on the Ulnta reena ton Judge J T McConnell of Veal was installed as manager and at once a most systematic series of development develop-ment was begun Under this lease the Indians are giw en a royalty on all ores mined and the company has ten years in which to work the properte and two year to make their locations of the gUn the are to work and develop No time has been lost but naturally it has ten some money and more or less delay has ben incurred In getting things in running run-ning order At first thetompany ben the de olopment of the deposits in Indian Canyon where the Q1 were most pre alent and from which shipments were made in a very short time after the papers were signed The deposits here I are known as elaterie a superior grade of mineral war to asphaltum but ot the same family The ore was at first brought into Price by wagon at a cot of 16 the ton but the company discovered that it could be handled cheaper by build in a road to the a spur of the Rio Grnde Western railway whIch brnhes off just above Castle Gate ThH was decided upon and now all tho product ot the company goes to Willow Creel spur After opening up the Indian Canyon deposits the compdny brapche out in other directions and have located 6ev eral hunds of deposits which they have signIfied a Intenton under the stipulations of the lese to work Soar So-ar theoutput habeen under 500 tons 31 < > V < > < > than but the treble coming year will see this more The product is 01 very superior quality qual-ity and it is thought It will soon be use as a substitute for hard rubber Its qualities as a material for paints and varnishes is already established but if the use as indicated can be made of It then the product becomes the more valuable The company has a laboratry at or near Chicago where it has bn making tests of the material for two years or more and some sen rational developments are looked forward for-ward to S D Ferron an expert in hydrocarbon hydro-carbon ores and who was at one time the right hand man or Sam GUson the discoverer of gilsonle is superintendent superintend-ent of the Raven cQmpany and all work is really under his personal direction di-rection recton V So tar the entire product of the R yen company has ben taken by the I Chicago Paint Varnish company which uses ever pound in the manufacture manu-facture of fine pant and varnish such as is consumed in fine interior work on vehicle and furniture Another company is negotiating for a lease on the deposits not taken under the twoyear clause of the Raven lease and It is thought the coming year will se some Important deals made with other parties who have an I eye on a good thing I Other Property I CrnA PPn mlp On thp mirth Ad east of Sunnyside Messrs B A Kirk er D R McDonald George C Whit more and others are developing a group of hydrocarbon claims that promIse wen They have wendefined veins of asphatum glsonic dater le and albertte The other properties I are being worked on a large scale and by summer tIme there Is expected to I be a large 1 output The giisonite and other mInerals are known to be therein there-in paying quantities and now that a railroad Is to be built practically across the claims the properties w1 soon come into the producIng class V Adjoining and lying between thee clams D G Sharp of the Pleasant Valley Coal company and others have lately located 700 acrsof round and 1 t < now have a big force ot men at work I on them These properties bear much the same class of ores as the ones above referred to and are already considered among the most valuable in this section sec-tion ot Utah by reason of the fact that the rairoadthe Sunnyside coal branchwU In the early spring be buIlt up to and across them I Is the intention of the promoters to build here large reduction works to put these I hydrocarbon materials under a process proc-ess of refinement before they are shipped out There are In the same neighborhood I many other properties equally promising promis-ing in the main held by poor prospectors I prospect-ors which will now no doubt be eagerly V sought after since the railroad to build V in there will cheapen the cost of trans portaton and bring the materials nearer I near-er to market There Is today no more promising field In America for the investment of capital on a moderate or even a big scale than In this part of Carbon I county During the past year Joseph Leier through his Utah representative Mr Irving F Greene of Salt Lake City has become heavily interested in Carbon Waatch and Utah county hydrocar bon fields having acquired some forty claim in the section named Deel opment work is being done on a large scale and the ground prepared for patent pat-ent I is expected that several of these will become shippers during the year 11100 Te oe is there in endless quantity ana only awaits toe arraal of the man wji money to putiem In the shipping fist I About a year ago a Denver company headed byUtam Bedding and a man named Smith shipped in machinery to work some gisonlte mines aboe Colton Col-ton but litigation got the upper hand and the machinery which is or the finest and which cost many thousand of dollars is now idle I Emery and Uith Coates Throughout Emery county on the south ad Jleon down to the Arizona II linethere are great beds of all the h dt carbon ores found In Carbon county The country is without railroad rail-road facilities the owners of hundreds I ot clams staked out are poor and for c < this reason there i9 nothing more than the annual assessment work being done until such time as the building of a j railroad will bring these properties near enough to market to warrant the working of the cams The deposits occur in both blanket and fissure formation for-mation and are among the most promising prom-Ising for the future of any in the state In Grand and the adjoining counties I the same may be sad as ot Emery county I These hydrocarbon veins are numerous i nu-merous in Uintah and Watch counties coun-ties on the two IndIan reservatons V and extend well Into Colorado along the White river and tributary streams several companies There are working across the Colorado tine also in Wa I stch and Uintah counties Near Vernal Ver-nal there are practically inside the town limits hundreds of acres 01 the finest ot sand asphaltum beswhole mountaIns of iand ot which there many miles of the streets and country coun-try roads are paved Until lately John Beck has owned some fifty to sventyfie claims not over a mile from Vernal but when financial reverses overtook him he was I forced to give up these holdings and they are now among the assets of a company of Chicago arid ater people who are doing the work for patent and V when titles are cleared up there will be an output but on a small scale however as the product is too far at present from a rairoad o me the working oC them profitable On the stage road from Prle to Veal anti yet acclaimed by prospector or cap iait are great beds of mineral ot the h drocarbonerous family that I are only awaiting thq coming of cap V ial to make mlU ms for those who I will take hQld and eelap along the right lines VV VV j |
