Show hydrocarbon HYDRO CARBON FIELDS asphalt deposits valuable asset to the state advocate price utah the asphalt ine deposits of the western states state s particularly those of utah and colorado are likely to become the most valuable assets of those states when they shall be properly developed and transported at moderate rates by the advent of the moffat or denver and northwestern railways these deposits are practically inexhaustible the fissures containing them extending for miles and to unknown depths at present these products are valued in eastern cities at from 30 to 40 per ton this price is partly due to the present cost of transportation but with the advent of the road this w will ill be lowered these deposits are more valuable and reliable than many gold and silver mines W weston who examined all the hydrocarbon hydro carbon fields of colorado and utah for the denver and northwestern or moffat railroad has given a full account of these deposits from which we take the following where othere the coal ends in this utah colo rado region the hydrocarbons hydro carbons begin at the state line of colorado and utah and extend west to fort duchesne and parlette Pa riette and then on to the deposits deposit 5 of indian lake and sams canyon fifty miles southwest of fort duchesne the total hydrocarbon area is estimated at about ten thousand square miles and the tonnage from five gilsonite veins the cowboy black dragon bonanza culmer and duchesne including the middle park colo vein at tons exclusive of the veins bituminous lime stones and lime stones the utah gilsonite is valued at from 32 to 40 and 45 per ton and the at 65 the chief hydrocarbon field along the moffat road is in the uintah basin which is one hundred and fifty miles long by sixty miles wide with an elevation of of six thousand feet the formations are sandstones and and lime stones up to 1909 the shipments were all by wagon to comparatively distant railroads yet with this disadvantage their united value was estimated at per month ahe the american asphalt association quotes gilsonite at 40 a ton at denver the raven mining company quotes at 60 a ton on the cars in utah cost of mining and sicking sacking at the duchesne was three dollars per ton or a total for production and trans por tation of 21 shipments from the cow boy series colorado line cost 22 per ton including wagon haulage to rifle colo the cost of putting this on the market is estimated at 26 per ton so that even with crude ineth methods of mining and long wagon haulage there is a clean profit on the gilnite colitte of 15 to 20 per ton the profits on the which occurs in smaller veins and closer closed to the railroad are estimated at 45 per ton these profits far ex aeed what is commonly realized from an ordinary gold or silver mine the willow creek gilsonite deposits is on a tributary of the grand river in middle park the vein runs north and south and dips 80 degrees to the west or out of the hill at the inte resection of two veins the gilsonite is fifteen feet wide but the average is four feet it is in a vertical fissure in sandstone filled from below with mineral eral pitch the vein is traceable three Vt thousand housand feet on the surface the gilsonite is uniform and pure and fifteen hundred tons have been shipped from the surface one man can down twelve tons per day the cost of production at present would be ten dollars |