Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-06 | Page 12 | Prospected for Gilsonite Twenty Years Ago

v ; PROSPECTED FOR GILS0NITE H' v' TWENTY YARS AGO H' 'fif-'V Tnc arrIval oC Jon McAndrews, H' ' iwi whore figure has for over twenty years H( VjJJ been, a prominent and an active one in Ht 'i.tni the gllsonlte regions of the Uncompah- H j j I K70- iK clieduled for today, bis detlna- H' , Ittil: j tlon a group of mining claims out of ji jji 'J Pocatello, Ida. Accompanying him Is HH ' ul p O. Baxter, manager of the St. Loula Hnli"Mlii interests in tho field. Mr. McAndrews c - was among tho first to recognize the value of the hydrocarbons, and it was through hlB efforts, largely, that the assets as-sets of the original company were brought together and its? standard raised above one of the greatest domains do-mains of wealth In the Western country. coun-try. He is scheduled to remuin In Zlon a day or two with old friends and former for-mer companions on the reservation.