Show RAS CONTROL OF St Louis Gilson Co Has a f NO CHANCE FOR OUTSIDERS SCHEME WAS WORKED BY C 0 i t Vernal Gilson I company has closed its mines at the strip near Fort Duehesne I and will confine to the White river country This ac of the company Is due to building of the from Crevasse which will he completed by July 1 and will in ina a Position to market at greatly reduced cost The iong wagon from the strip to Price has been the heaviest item of ht the production of the or and the of tIlls out a revolution iii tile business a Ever since the St Loui company under time of 0 i of a commercial l there has bee a rivalry for the business which of late years luts reached a cutting competition point from the American Asphalt association tion and the operating the mInes at Castle Peak This competition time resulted Iii the St Louis placing ore oreOn I On the market at very little above cost in es helow the ac tuni cost of This action while perhaps in a tempo temporary loss to tIme company was really a business proposition and Was tile purpose of holdIng the the completion of the Uintah railroad across the Book cliffs when the corn panl will be lii i tO put a tight against all competitors Competition Scented Ever since President Baxter demon that could be put to uses Which done only after years of experimenting and the ox of considerable money and perseverance prospecting for the ore became a popular and Interesting husi ness The company found in or dec to reap the benefit of and enterprise It would be necessary to take some action to protect its interests rout competition and the idea was conceIved of controlling the output by purchasing all claims that would form the basis for a competing business Time very extensive deposits extending oret time whole made of this a proposition of no lIttle magni ture as frequent and important cries were made The fact that the great deposits of tile White river fields were within the lines of the old Un reservation simplified mat mattern tern and file fact that they were hot Open to location the company a spell and mci dentally an opportunity to so shape matters as to control the field later Control of Field Secured The action of In Ing these deposIts from entry under tIle States done for Of pre preventIng ventIng them from being monopolized by actually brought this very thIng about and altogether the ownership Hat these claims been open tO loa tion at the time the lands of reservation were opened to set there would bit a dozen In the field But the action that was taken which r served the deposits or the future ar tion of congress furnIshed the that hater resulted In the con of these valuable fields by the asphalt trust of which the Gilson As Asphaltum company is a branch The discoverers and prior locators of these claims on the were rather agreeably surprised when Pres ident Baxter of tile company appeared as the champion of their after having secured options on a number If claims It is a of history how time matter dragged along through several congresses until Baxter had tile rights of the prior ho eaton to the bulk of the the field and then came the amendment to the Indian bill which validated all claims located prior to the year 1801 By a coincidence this gave the asphalt trust it is now proceeding to patent and In Invalidated validated only a portion of claim the Bandanna which s by outside interests The balance of these claims still remain for some future ac action tion of which now seems very remote Railroad DecIded Upon Immediately upon df eon grese these claim for forthe the asphalt people they to devise meang of taking or the great opportunities them and the railroad from Crevasse olo t what as Camp Guieb ill the Black vein Is the result and the closing down of tIle mines at the strip is only one of the logical steps in inthe the plan to be out Tile building of the road will have no material influence on the sit situation Its matter routt is there will be or less of a I wagon haul outside interests can I not furnish live competition against the trust its tie posits and a railroad of Its own or at least in It Ia Interested as there Is a strong belief that the Rio system and the asphalt trust haic formed an defensive alliance There are very strong grouns for the belief that the Moffat line will get very little of the gilsonite business and that the Gould hIne has be busi cor railed for the present The of the Crevasse branch all probability of a spur from the line as the business of outside inter would not justify it One by one the steps are beIng taken will complete the formation of another breath of a great Industrial and the completion of th branch and the closing of the strip mines are but one of them |