Show passage of gilsonite bill would bring boom booms that the bill introduced in con gross gress by representative don D 11 cotton Colton end slid recently passed by the house opening to entry tr tracts of western colorado vast land in northeastern utah and vrest em ern colorado containing vast deposits of gilsonite Is attracting atton alon from men in various sections s of the country is 1 proven by letters of inquiry received here the united states senate to date haj has not acted act on this measure and n indication has been given when the senate will take action as is necessary to pass the bill and present it to Preel Pre alLent tent for his approval the colton bill opens open to entry gilsonite gils onte lands for many years with drawn from entry including ian lands situated on indian representative colton who for several e ral terms has had this bill before the house until A few weeks ago was unable to oser overcome come the tion of representative dyer of misa aurl when recently the measure again ain came before the house mr mon colton aas ready for the representative senta tive from missouri and his trite objections and when mr colton insisted on a vote to pass the measure mr der found himself without support and mel met with oyer overwhelming defeat it Is 13 now up to the senate nate to take favorable action on ithe the measure and then its rests with president hoover uintah county 11 interested in he the to so called bill far nore more han than any other section ot of utah or colorado far on and beneath the surface of uintah county rest vast deposits of gilsonite lt until now untouched on account of the lands containing these deposits being withdrawn from entry only a minimum cf ef the deposits have been de cle for commercial use thi this mineral k 3 residue of petroleum deposited in rock fissures millen ago Is exported to europe and asia and australia and consid erable tonnages ces an are manufactured into commercial commodities in the united states the annual output of 0 mines now in operation Is between forty and itty fifty thousand tons the gilsonite industry is a factor tn the development of uintah county it has created a permanent pay oil it created the uintah railway milway he narrow guage line which cromes the book cliff 11 mountains and which was built and arid Is operated despite I 1 the statement of some engineers that II 11 could not be built and if U built could not be operated the town ot of owes its existence to the gilsonite industry eminent emine nt geologists who made a thorough survey of the aresi of uintah county havo have in official reports that in these not less than tons of the unique mineral await conversion into commercial commodities if the senate passes the colon gilso rute bit and president hoover approves proves it then it is readily seen a revival of mining in uintah county I 1 Is not far in the distance the adverse conditions with the rest of the united states win will ultimately come to an end when the requiem la is chanted over the passing of the vu vil and the thing thine eo so deeply burled ithac hat the oft quoted cycle ol 01 hard times on its next nert journey will be unable to locate the ten remains ains nt of its moet most recent predecessor the hum of the mining industry and the click clack of the whis of the uintah railway equipment hauling out gui mite will be one of the songs of the revival of industry in uintah coun ty |