Show ASPHALT AT VERNAL new borr by a yeii kny i n expect the new york tribune libat E C beardsley a well known oil nd expert of Pitt bur was aple gated by booth fh nn R 0 elliott and other capitalists to sit utah with a view to whit wa iu alie report that gre t fields of asphaltum continio con hundres hun res of thousands of tons ft ere to be found in that hesion mr beardsley li is just returned and in peaking seven hundred thousand tos of asphalt seems like a carpe amount yet a field near vernal utah contains fully that quantity it was located and partially owned by thomas a na anc of pa this asphalt was formerly rud petroleum which escaped om natural openings in the ground flowed into ohp plains where it now lies and there dried the field is located some little distance from a railroad but a line Is beins rapidly built the colorado Co orado midland hiah will tap it asphalt is a ton ex senator tabor of colorado is interested in the company about to develop the geld and the capital is in wyoming near fort is another big asphalt field timothy mullen of pittsburg Pitts burs ia interested in the oil producing fields of shift district there is actually a petroleum lake in that region I 1 was there and saw it Mul linand george graff two pennsyl van ians discovered a number of oil springs on poison spider creek they turned the course of the stream and formed a large natural oil tank out of what had once been the bed of poison spider creek they alien turned the oil into the basin and as it has been flowing at a fair rate for many months a lake of petroleum has been formed they have thousands of barrels of the fluid waiting for the railroad to come and haul it to the ocean alie long ex pecked railroad may reach that locality this summer |