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Show UTAH OZOKERITE MAY SUPPLY WORLD Federal Officials Investigating Investiga-ting Large Deposits and Analyzing Asphalt. For the purpose of determining whether Utah asphalt can supply the constantly increasing demand for ozokerite, ozo-kerite, the price of which material is advancing rapidly, duo to its importa-1 tion being cut off, Dr. David T. Day,! chief of the "United States geological survey department, is having the Utah asphalt analyzed. Dr. Day is proceeding proceed-ing on the theory that there may be enough ozokerite in the Utah 'asphalt to supply the users of that material in making up their goods. The European war has stopped the production of ozokerite ozo-kerite in G-alicia, Austria, said to be the only other lpace in the world where the product is found in commercial quantities. Accompanied by T. Robinson of the survev, Dr. Day visited the deposits at Co"! ton and Soldier Summit iu Spanish Span-ish Fork canyon and other points in Sanpete and Carbon counties. They report re-port that the government is anxious to have the deposits developed and will co much to encourage production. Dr. Day returned to Washington, but Mr. Robinson is still engaged in investigating investigat-ing the Utah fields. From four to ten miles in a northerly direction from Sunnyside, Carbon county, coun-ty, the miueral occurs in a blanket formation. for-mation. A layer of asphalt sand will be covered with a layer of shale and in turn covered by another layer of asphalt. Some of these deposits are 1000 feet in depth and engineers have estimated more than a billion tons of the material in sight. ihe bitumen sandstone carries approximately ap-proximately from 92 per cent to 12 per cent bitumen. Conservative metallurgical metal-lurgical engineers have placed the content con-tent at 10 per cent. A large number of experiments have been carried on for the purpose? of discovering some method of rapidly and cheaply extracting extract-ing ihe bitumen "from tho gangue. Experts Ex-perts say that there rs a fortune awaiting await-ing the mechanical genius that invents sue h a process. Some idea of the demand for the bitumen, to say nothing of the ox-kerite ox-kerite and the gilsonite it contains, may i be bad when it is remembered that the city of Chicago alone resurfaces each vear approximately 100 miles of 6treets. :?rhis resurfacing requires approximately 40,333 tons of pure bitumen per year. The produrt is also gaining an increasing increas-ing use in rooting materials, preserva-1 preserva-1 tive paint?, and ns an insulation for electrical equipment. The United States survey gives nftv uses for the material. The pure natural hitnmen is now Fold at per ton. Thi; Egyptian asphalt, however, is hold at a minimum price of $80 per ton in New Vork. The Utah asphalt is different from any other produced in the world, due to the fact that it contains a small proportion of either gilsonite or ozokerite, ozo-kerite, or both, in purh proportions as to make it more valuable for pavin g and other purposes. Utah, Wasatch, Grand and L'inta counties also contaiD deposits of this material. |