| Show THE discoverer OF IS 13 DEAD la in early days cowboys thought the black stun stuff was coal and tried to buro burn it samuel H gilson who died in salt lake lost last week was the discoverer of the gilsonite of the uintah basin deceased was 77 beirs years old and left a wife md ind 8 children he had been a prominent figure in the development of utah and the west for years prior to gillons Gil sons discovery of gilsonite in this basin most of the he worlds supply came fot from the trinidad islands where it is i known as asphalt and is owned by the barber asphalt company A long time before gilson came into the country the cow boys riding the range had run across this stuff but thought it was coal and tried to burn it for a time instead of burning as they wanted it to burn around the camp fires it melted and spread the boys then knew it was not coal but they had no name for it and they knew no use for it then came gilson who gave it a name and discovered uses this gilsonite belongs to the hydrocarbon hydro carbon family which includes elat erate tabby bitet ozo kente ite argillite argi lite and other ites fifty two products byproducts by can be made from the different members of this family after all the products byproducts by have been i f there is enough h abstance left from which pencils and ink can be made to supply all the schools of the united VS estates states tates different estimates have been made of the value of this material in sight and they run all the way from seven millica to seven hundred billion dollars the government estimates is said baid to be seven billion dollars most of the claims are owned by the st louis asphalt people the e american asphalt association the raven mining company th the e castle peak mining company the argile mining company the pittsburg salt lake oil company and other companies and many individuals have holdings ju iu the basin when the railroads now projected reach this country the hy dro carbon output will be one of the big items of freight |
