| Show Recent cent Rubber t ti tit I 11 TT H f f TT Uinta Basin T c l 3 B u l to r if tL- tL a fv 9 i Likely tO Play 1 lay ail an Important tant Pat Pail in the tIle VV Worlds World's oriel 5 Future Supply I Colonial Company Commences Extensive De 1 Development De- De N Work ork SOl Some Sotie ie big thin things 5 in hydro carbon matters hatters have developed within the thc pa past t few weeks Vh which ich bid hid fair to re revolutionize revolutionise not only oily the rubber industry of the country but also alfo mean the expenditure of millions of dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars within the thc immediate future future future fu fu- ture in the Uinta basin The information HI that comes to the I Record e is that R H. B. B Martin chemist for the Arguile hydrocarbon Hydrocarbon Hydro I carbon com company r puny after several se years of close clos application has succeeded in producing from a aconite onite and by hy the thc employment of less than one per cent ca ca- a a. a prod product that in quality duality surpasses surp S para Heretofore heretofore Here Iere the better hydrocarbons have ha been almost valueless in rubber manufacture for the re reason that they could be used only as a filler where fro from frol l fifteen fifteen t teen en to twenty per cent of ca ca- was vas employed employ l and as IS other material that would answer answer ans ans- the same purpose could be he mined trained a great deal cheaper their manufacture in rubber products was neither practicable practicable able nor economical Chemist Martins Martin's claim for his product is that by the us use of one per cent of with some sonic of the better hydro hydro- carbo carbons ls he has produced rubber rubber rubber rub rub- ber au an inch strip of which will stretch eight inches while an aninch aninch aninch inch strip of iut para a a rubber under the same conditions will stretch but five in incites inches without break break- ing l Mr Ir 1 Martin 1 is well known here ha having hang ng spent this spring One of the A Arguile guile s Veins j 5 i I nt ti 1 I. I in tl the I basin in In examining an ant 1 1 securing securing- samples from many manly of the hydrocarbon Il properties here Recently there was or organized organised b by hy Pittsburg capitalists the thc National Hydrocarbon com com- l pany Auxiliary companies to the National the the Colonial Exploration company Geo II 1 Mulvey luh ey president and H.-F. H. Alwine secretary and treasurer treasur treasur- er and aid the Arguile I Hydrocarbon bon company H. H C C. Means president and Chas L. L Bailey secretary Several weeks a ago o the Colonial Colon Colon- ial Explorations Exploration on company i in installed installed tl- tl stalled offices here and during luring the past ten days lays has rece received ed eda a large amount of ma machinery and to tools ls for the de development of their claims Several Se thousand thousand and dollars worth of equipment has already ar arrived iY ll As much more is on the road These facts together tog with ith the recent purchasing of big teams and other paraphernalia lea leaves es but little room for doubt that the company menus means to go ahead on ona a bi big scale It was at first believed that gilsonite and contained contain contain- ed the only properties to be betaken betaken taken cn into consideration on Prospecting Prospecting Pros Prospecting however during during- the past post few years has di closed the fact that there are arc other hydrocarbon products which have ha properties ies wholly distinct from those in and gilsonite gilsonite gil gil- iI- iI and it is from these more recent di discoveries eries that the thc best success s' s sIn in rubber experiments ex ex- experiments p are being obtained Good results have ha been secured from front both and Still recently the thc more promoters cr ers of the Colonial Exploration co company 11 pany have ha brought to light two other products of the hy hy- hydrocarbon hydrocarbon family and which are arc geologically known as ar- ar and 1111 In hi ite the company compan belie believes believes be be- lie liet t s it has disco discovered the thc most perfect hydrocarbon in existence for the manufacture of rubber and samples exhibited exhibit exhibit- ed cd here in Myton lyton show it to be indestructible when placed in a astron stron strong solution of acid Para rubber r placed alon alongside alongside along along- side ice of it in the same e acid add showed im immediate mediate signs of ot de de- de- de This aconite pr property perty i it is located located located lo lo- lo- lo near Smiths Smith's wells and a horse four-horse outfit t with Hh Ca camp III equipment left here this morning morning morn morn- ing jug for that place A twenty horsepower gasoline gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line hoisting machine much inc which arr arrived ed Monday l will vill be t taken ken kento to the Emerald vein 20 miles east of Green river On the Big Meadow vein rein on Strawberry an In electric compressor corn com com I and anti dynamo will b be in installed in- in stalled One cam camp p is ri ilk eddy working work ork I ing ng on Tabby mountain and nud two other camps will begin op op- I on ou Willow creek and near Ouray The Thc announces that it not only intends t to devote ote its attention to rubber products I but also to asphaltum and 1111 gilsonite gil gilt In the immediate future a ii party of prominent Pittsburg capitalists w will ll arr arrive e in the basin and look over beer over the field Held A son of A. A C. C Frick the Pittsburg Pittsburg Pitts- Pitts bur burg millionaire and who is interested in the parent company company com coal pany patty the National Hydrocarbon bon company Dr Ir Curry Curn a wealthy physician of P Pittsburg alro a member r of the company J J. J H H. l Matthes he 1 one ne of the frost most st prominent chemists in the East Last the consulting chemist of the company will be among the party |
