| Show compani TUTI FOR RUBBER quarry race asphalt ledge at sunnyside Sunny side apt IVA 4 A 4 9 L 6 A 1 4 N t old chief tabby of the uintah indians gave the name to tabb the new substitute for rubber it is predicted will take a large part in the future industrial development of salt lake the pittsburg salt lake oil company has already established c a plant at salt lake city for the manufacture of waterproof paints from the tabb and it is expected that by fall the necessary machinery will be installed for the manufacture of certain classes of rubber goods from the material the company owns fifteen tabby ite claims in wasatch and uintah counties and twentythree twenty three ela tente claims the ela tente bemp being a better known mineral rubber than the tab ayite A V taylor of the pitts burg salt lake company states that tabbita tab bite can be put to evey eve y use in which rubber tubber is now employed except in the manufacture of rubber bands and other articles in which extreme elasticity are required taylor declares that tabb will eventually add greatly to the industrial activity of if salt lake and utah it is iole not only to manufacture paints rubber mats rubber flooring and rubber roofing from the material but to put it to many other uses A california man maii of roofing he said had endeavored deavo red to contract for the entire output of tibb tabb during the next ten beard eard on discovering its useful ness nes in the manufacture of roofing J 11 richards of the company shows a tabb rubber mat that vv was as made two years ago it t was still soft and pliable and did not betray the effects of wear he also had a piece of an ordin arr rubber mat that ha had d been upon the floor of the commercial club for two years this had cracked and become brittle old chief tabby discovered the beds of tabb in 1895 lie ile marked the place and picked up all of the scattered pieces pie cs of float hiding them and craftily keeping silent concerning what he had found he died before the reservation was opened and his passed to another indian the tabb claims later became the property pio plo perty of the pittsburg salt lake company the deposits of tabb are practically inexhaustible youcan you can walk malk upon our vein for ahr three ee miles richards the tabb paint has been used upon the roof of the latter day saints hospital ill and b the rio grande railroad it is said to make A OV I 1 an excellent preservative coating for structural steel iron and wood it is damp poof p bof it is said and is used in painting i cellars ellars As it is also aho acid proof it is used in cyanide and other plants upon boilen boilers and stacks it is said the paint will stand a ghigli higher er test than any other the pittsburg salt lake company has had bad plans prepared for a refinery for its carbon grand and uintah county naph asphaltum altum beds the refinery nery will be built on the rio grande railroad either at sunnyside Sunny side or at westwater sunnyside Sunny side 14 five miles from the asphaltum beds and westwater is sixty five miles away in one of the beds it is estimated that alere are tons of asphaltum the carbon county deposits are said to be the largest in the wol world rid and the utah asphaltum is also said to be of the highest grade when the proposed prop obed refinery is completed the utah asphaltum will be placed upon the market at as low loul a price as the california CA asphaltum u v vi i richardi richards |
