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Show Mineral Uncovered in Wasatch ! ! - County That Will Rcvoluf ion- L ize Great Industry. - I TABBYITE IS THE NAME ! GIVEN THIS LATEST FIND Lj Not Substitute for Rubber, but m Real Article, as Has Been iU Demonstrated. i?, " You did not know i.bat Utah prodxiecd jj! rubber, did .you? Well, it. docs. And J its rubber field is practically inexbausti- !(f ble. Utah may have to solvo the rubber 1:( problem of the -world, for tho demand ;, is far greater Mian the supply, and tho ! supply is constantly groiviujj loss. ' Rubber, ns it is commonly t known, .India rubber or caoutchouc, as it reall' is, derives its name from Dr. Pricstle', jiijj' who in 1770 gave it tho name. Some fh specimens, the first, by the Avay, had been brought to Europo by La Conda-Hp Conda-Hp mine thirty-live years before, in 1735, 'M, but nothing was made of them. Then in 3770 Dr. Priestley called attention (jpt to the public that the product was of :B valuo for erasing pencil marks, hence 't the name India-rubber, as the specimens Jl were from India, lit, Wicro Supply Is Obtained. Crude rubber is obtained as an exu-elation exu-elation from three orders of trees, viz.: JH Apocynuccac, Artocarpaceao and Eu- ) phorbiacoac, which grow in tropical cli- I mates, both wild and under cultivation, ''j "The present chief source of supply, is M South America, although tho cultivation iV of rubber trees is spreading very rapid- h ly in the East and West Indies, and in h ' Africa. . H i h Although it was given a name in 1 ,0, K no further advance was made until the M beginning of the nineteenth century, when Charles Macintosh and others , J J utilized a thick varnish of rubber for waterproofinc cloth, honco 1 ho ltamo I "Macint.osli " for rubber isivmonts to- i diiy, but the original .Macintoshes wore E o:irly afl'octeil by temperature hard iu H colli and soft in warm weather and I there was a bad odor about them. 1 Goodyear Father of Industry. 1 It remained for an American, a Yan- B Uoc, a native of Connecticut, Charles I Gooilyonr, to devise and patent a pro- I cess thrtt. appeared succcsstul and on- rne in the manufacture of India-rub- Oer coods. The material proved not to I be lasting, he failodand was reduced 0 to poverty. One of his employees had noticed the effect of sulphur sprinkled upon rubber when loft in the sun. He g patented the process. Goodyear pur- fl chafed the patent, continued cxperi- I inentinfT and accidentally discovered the process of vulcnnizinpr rubber by I hcatinix it with sulphur at a moderate 1 temporature. This was in IS-H, and i from that time dates the production ot rubber Roods and the demand has grown continuously. . There havo been many substitutes for rubber, over 300 patents havinp been issued by the British patent office of-fice to inventors of these substitutes, and a number to American inventors. Nont? havo thus far proved a complete success. Rubber Found in Range. Tn the mountain regions discoveries of various substances which it was thought could not, or did not, exist in the earth arc being mndc, and in the mountain fastnesses of Wasatch county rubber is found and mined from the earth. Tt is somethiug strango, but it is true. It is a mineral, and is known as tabbyite. in honor of the old Ute, Chief Tabby, who revealed the whereabouts of this mineral, which will revolutionize tho rubber industry. This tabbvite belongs to the hydrocarbon hydro-carbon family, is a. closo relative ol elaterite, but, unlike tho latter, is 1 found nowhere else in the world. It is not a substitute for rubber, but is almost whollv rubber, chemical an-:ilvsis an-:ilvsis having determined no difference hetweeu the rubber from the trees and tabbyite. When it is realized that this mineral, this tabbyite, is not a substitute for rubber, but is the gen- M nine article, the possibilities of the g find in Wasatch county can scarcely be B appreciated. 1 In the one vein so far discovered h and partially developed, one million g tons of the mineral are in sight. Tho magnitude of such a deposit can best bo conceived after reading a few facts relative to rubber and the rubber situation sit-uation in the United States. Donald Pearson, an expert from the east, recently re-cently paid a visit, to this rubber field of Utah, this new wonder of the mountains. moun-tains. n a rcientific magazine he presented pre-sented his ' .ows. us follows: What the Field Is. "Tabbyite cannot be distinguished by any ordinary test, from the crude genuine gen-uine rubber. All the requisite characteristics charac-teristics arc there. The texture is the same, as is also the bounce, Jgnited. a piece of the tabbyite-elatcrito substance gives off the peculiarly pungent, odor of burning caoutchouc. Chemical analysis reveals about the proper proportions pro-portions of constituents for rubber. S7.12 per ccut carbon; 12.SS per cent livdrorren. ""In J907 the United States imported fifty million pounds of crude rubber, at a purchase price of $1 a pound, al- most irrespective of quality. Yet this amount hardly half supplied the national na-tional demand. Annually, beginning ! many years back, tho shortage has in- ; creased, until the long-prophesied rub her famine begins to loom ominously near. Worst of all, the situation is not i improved with the scientific culiiva- j tion of the rubber tree. The new uses for rubber aro multiplying too rapidly for tho professional planter to keep apace. "The growing of rubber is a slow process. It takes twelve 3ears from the planting of a tree to the (hiy when the cultivator may hope to tap it. Moreover, More-over, at the first tapping not more, than two ounces of the gum should be extracted, ex-tracted, if the plant is to flourish. To produce a ton of rubber by this method requires the product of sixteen thou sand young trees and a period of twelve years Thus if. for the year 1021, we should wish to mako provision for the fifty million pounds wo use at. the pres-ent'time, pres-ent'time, we should be obliged to plant in the year 1000 four hundred million rubber plants. But, some of them would not come to maturity. Moreover, un-suppliod un-suppliod as we are now with tho clastic substance, and compelled to eko out the comparatively scanty quantity with various adulterants, in all probabiht3' twice fifty million pounds, in twelve years' time, would hardly suffice. If one-fifth of tho trees planted die, that would mean the planting out. this spring of perhaps one billion rubber trees." Means Much for Utah. Tn view of these conditions, it is apparent, ap-parent, that a state that has one million mil-lion tons of rubber for immediate use is to be envied by the world, and that for Utah it is incalculable, both from an industrial and financial standpoint. Prom this tabbyite, samples of floor matting, desk pads, garden hose, interlocked inter-locked tile, etc., have been manufactured, manufac-tured, of a quality and durability -that put most similar articles made elsewhere- completely in the background. Tabbyite makes one of tho best insulators insula-tors known to the electrical world, and the big concerns of the country are looking with anxious eyes for tho further development of the industry here. Paint made from tabbyite is proof against tho corrosion of salt water wa-ter and acid, or tho ravages of tho elements. ele-ments. It stands the heat, of locomotive engines several times longer than other paints made for that purpose. In a word, most articles that can bo made from tree rubber arc possible from tab-I tab-I byite, and by the addition of a small 1 per cent of tho former to tho latter, the making of rubber bands and tho outside out-side of automobiles tires can bo accomplished. |