Show supply eilf almin 11 DUI TO tj TATIOS TATION III INO IM CUT OIT the following fo tot lowing interesting item rel athe atie to utah az tt rat mat appeared recently in the BP c lake tribune kor the purpose of determining whether atals asphalt mn supply the constantly co increasing ncr easing demand for o io derito the price of which material ie in ad advancing rapidly due to ita its thon being cut off dr dald T da rohlf caf c the united staten geological geological geologic ai aime sunt department haa has had the utah asphalt analyzed dr day Is 1 pro ceding on the theory that there may be enough in the utah As r ahalt to supply the astro ot of that rot mt terdal in making up their gooda goods the european war aps h mopped stopped the pro ducolon of e in Gall gallela cla aua aull tria said to be the th only other place in the world where the product t la il fou found nd in commercial ouan quantities accompanied nied ly 1 T robinson of fie cie urvey survey dr dr day visited the depoe depos Us t at colton and summit and n spanish fork rork canyon and other point points in sanpete and carbon toun coun ties tie they report that the government la Is anxious to hawe the deposits deNa developed loped and wilt will do much to encourage production dr day returned to wes arston Sr ston but mr sir ie Is still engaged in investigating the utah fields prom irom tour four ti to ten milea miles in a northerly direction from Sunn side in carbon county the mineral appears in a OL blanket formation A layer of a ahalt sand will be comred a laer of hale shale and in turn covered by another layer of 0 axiph OL fume of three these dep der if ats are A thousand thoua and feet in dipti and an o tau more than a billion ton A t ili h material in might the I 1 sandstone an deione arala carries approximately 9 to 1211 per cent bitumen the metallurgical engineers hae bale placed the content at 10 pr cent A large number of ei l have bass been carried on for the of acme method of rapidly and cheaply extracting the bitumen froin the gangue kiperts say nay that there ie in a fortune awaiting the mechanical genius that linetta nuch much a process somo lika idia of the demand for the bitumen to eay say nothing cf of the ozo and the it contain ma a be had when he it 1 la remembered that the city of chucalo alone resurfaces each year approximately miles of streets the resurfacing re q quires tona tons of pure bitumen per ear the product Is olmi alro gaining an n increasing au use in roofing ma te ter lalA rials preer vatie paints and as aban an insulation for electrical v th tho united states urve murve ghee gie 4 fifty uw uses for or the miter tal the pure natural bitumen in now old sold at d 24 pr ton the egyptian am orphan however la Is eold sold at a mini mint mum pric of ISO 30 per ton in ew tew york the rhe utah asphalt id Is dirr rent from any other brodu produced col 1 li 1 thu tile wj ri I 1 due to the fact it contains a small proportion of either gilsonite or ozo kolte or botti both in such proportion proportions a ae jl to make it more valuable for or paving pain g and other utah wasatch waatch grand U uintah atah and duchenne duchesne coun court ties albl contain deposits nf of this mg aerial |