Show IM immeasurable WEALTH d CONTAINED IN VAST DEPOSITS OF COALS AND OTHER OBER hydrocarbons itts the iw ensa quantities of shalese nite ela and lad other hydrocarbons that underlie the he state of latsh the eastern halt half of the itro r shown hawn in the survey re recently autly prepared by J B jeneen jenson shale specialist this st arvey also contains interesting matter relative to the for alna mitra in which the hydrocarbons are found annd aud aul tl ha manner of their extraction te part of the story that relates is to the resources of eastern utah is as follows ol lows i when the wery and footsore plo leea nee lee a gated for the first time on vu the un tavi ting alkali salt lake valley they tittle d earned that surrounding this litak bleak locality was the greatest wealth t f jig miami taral resources to be found in any state some day to become the center of one of tho the creates sections sec tlona of the world the varied wealth of oar our metals agriculture ri ol and natural scenery la is too well dwell known to require comment at this time but there are few of the citizens ef of thie this state who are familiar with the abounded wealth of hydro cr bone principally those of coal elatrice ela trite gilsonite asphalt rock and oil shale thera uee jim at our very doors some of the greatest known deposits of these in the world and if but 5 3 per cent of the acreage containing these products were bield by utah citizens she would become within the next twenty years roars one of the wealthiest states in the union As an it is however we in the west have become to the light eight of the undeveloped natural resources that we do not appreciate their value and as a consequence are permitting men with broad vision from all portions of the world to come in and acquire the ream eream of our possessions sione in these products the effect this will have on the futua of our state is not fully realized by our people or there would bo be a eon con carti effort made to retain some of these theme enormous assets at borne home and not let the major portion be acquired at the criminally low prices at which they are being fought bought at this time ly by out elder elders it is true we are a comparatively new ecate and that we need outside help principally in opening up the most haz ardans ventures in connection with mn mining or even in the pioneering of come some of t our more certain industries but this hould should not be permitted to ga on to the extent of sacrificing practically all of our vur best known hydrocarbon deposits so that our own people later can only obtain and shall be compelled to ate on less advantageous property proper tr bein inz thus put at an unalterable lage tage Critic criticism lam imminent wo we are going to be severely cratl alsed and justly co by the younger generation era tion either now growing up or who hall shall come after for our lack of tore fore eight and activity la in the protection of these resource resources to our own people and state and a thought occurs to me which I 1 venture here to give can we not make it a slogan that shall appeal to every red blooded utahn to set aside at least 10 per cent or at even 25 per cent of his annual profits for investment in new now enterprises that shall give employ ment and create new production in this state t if this slogan is properly taken cp up and a concerted drive made in getting it into the minds of our utah people it will eventually do more toward milking ik utah a wealthy state than them all the advertising we cam do to bring either people or capital into the state for the capital brought in from outside is mere ly draining our resources while giving employment to our citizens but divi bends from money invested by 0 our ur people will not only give employ employment mn t to 0 our citizens bat but will hold permanently and forever within our bounds the wealth which we need to create new industries and support added tion and until this is done utah can never come into her or reach her place in the sisterhood of states there is no true western spirited utahn who is making his money here who will re to fuse to invest some of his surplus surp lusin ln industries dus tries for the development of the state in which he is making his money coal resources vast the pioneers had lad not been in the val ley two years before they discovered coal in utah of which it is at present estimated that we have more than IS 15 square miles of workable grade sufficient fici ent if all of it were mined to sup ply the entire united states for more than tham years inasmuch as coal can be commercial ly recovered for a distance of about four miles back of the outcrop we have I 1 may safely say between and acres of coal workable under present methods and giving us a ton nage in excess of three billion millon tone tons which can be recovered by present min ing methods or at the present rate of extraction enough to last us for some thing like years it is estimated that of some seventy four different interests in carbon coun ly ty and one in emery county they have in their acreage nearly tons of coal which will last for about years under their present rate of extraction in addition to coal utah T possesses ses among her hydrocarbons the greatest deposits of gilsonite also known as in the united states in fact it is the only portion of the united states in la which this very important by dro earbon carbon is found there are smaller veins of and numerous intermediate hydrocarbons also but by far the greatest deposits are those of the aln which is being mined and marketed by a number of corporations the product finding a ready market at 32 50 per ton for first firsts and VI 21 to 23 for second seconds these prices f a 0 b ears cars at t mack colo A narrow gauge railroad has been built and has been in orera tion for some year years between watson utah ala mack colo which was built by the uintah Rall ros main ly for the transportation of gi from the uintah basin to the denver sc bio rio grande grand western railway mineral round in veins these hydrocarbons occur in fissure veins running ff parallel to each other and are vertical wit with fairly smooth walls on each ilde side and reaching a depth usually of about feet with the exception of oto these hydrocarbons are asphalt ites or in other words have an asphalt base basel while the oto is of paraffin base and may be considered a natural paraffin from the fact that these hydrocarbons are considered to be a petroleum residue from which the lighter fractions baic volatilized some geologists beh belve ve them to be a certain indication of free petroleum which they believe exist underground throughout the uintah ba sin in and that this will eventually h come one of car cut greatest oil fields after an intimate study of oil I 1 sa am personally of the opinion how ever that the asphalt ites of the uintah buala are not an indication of an oil field but that they are the result of I 1 local I 1 occurrences of earth heat at some atza 1 time in the earth earths history which have retorted a portion of the oil of that region thereby producing petrol which has subsequently given off it its lighter fractions leaving the re sidie sidne or heavy portions in the fissures which through partial decomposition and oxidization have finally been eon ton into our present deposits of solid hydrocarbons it should be noted that the or the paraffin hydrocarbon is found only in veins that cut rocks of the wa satch batch formation and which are older than the oil shale and immediately un der lying the green biver river formation in which all the oil ii shale occurs but the asphalt ites are found chiefly in velha that cut beds younger than the oil shale and which are those in the over lying portion of the green biver river for mation such as the uintah formation one thick vein of gilsonite west of 0 watson is known to cut rocks bod both above and below the oil shale beds al though the oil shale itself shows no ae veins and no traces of gilson gilsonite its in line with the vein above and below production large this vein ha has been mined very ex ten at the rainbow and temple mines where the fissure was formed in heavy sandstone and atone beds above the oil oi shalet shale and also at the old black dragon mine where the vein cuts beds of sand stone below the oil shale the depth to which the veins extend in the black dragon mine has never been fully test cd ed as workings had not gone much below the level of the canyon when a fire in the mine prevented further develop meat ment the lowest point reached in the workings is still in the green biver river formation practically all of the gilson gilsonite its is mined in the basin at the junction of green river and white river south of fort duchesne duehesne utah from four to five miles within the colorado boundary line and extending west about sixty miles into utah As previously stated there are many veins located in this area these extending in a northwesterly and southeasterly direction these theme veins vary in width from a fraction of an inch to aa as much eighteen feet some of the longest long eit nuch such an as the cow boy aid bonante vely veins have been traced eight uiles miles although they ara ATO usually continuous hey any may in certain eases cases become slightly altered in lit direction and at times un expand very frequently branch 1 ciao ioli join the maio ina I 1 n one ow it a shap an gle when the outcrop conta containing irAne gil bonito has tas been exposed to tin weather it loses its brilliant luster and changes to a dull black looking very much like air slacked coal along the walls it forms a colu asar structure extending at right angles to the wall which Is a of tho the the rock vails walls are us bally impregnated with gl from eix six inches ta t to feet so 0 o there is no visible line of between the impregnated and son portions where the vein cuts the shale formation it ii Is smaller than where it is found ia in the porous sandstone mining a simple the methods of mining gilsonite gih onite are simple the work being done mostly by pick and shovel and the ordinary hoisting apparatus owing to th fact that the walls consist of hard rock little timbering ia Is essary and balting is comparatively inexpensive the gilion tte te Is of shining black color and breaks with a 1 1 I fracture it is a little lighter in weight than coal it is to shipped in sacks holding about one man can and tick on the average two tons per day of ten hours it Is call esti mated that there is still available in the uintah basin not it less than fifty million tons of gilsoul te most of which is owned by the general Aspli asphalt alt company among the shipper shippers are the follow I 1 ins the gilson asphalt company lanag from the general asphalt corn eom pany shipped tons 1922 tons american asphalt aiom company tons leasing country boy and sector rector min mines utah company estimated between and tois tons to is in 1922 total shipments from if mirk ark colt col 1020 tons 1021 tone tons 1132 1122 1002 tons first eight months or 0 13 ton is one of the most valuable asphalts we have for the manufacture of paints and varnishes it forms a most excellent paint for the preserve tin of 0 metallic surfaces and ia Is need used largely largel jr in the making of paint for battleships tle ships and other vessels with steel i alls it also may mar be used to addan tag tage in the painting of wood surfaces and is used ia in large quantities in thi manufacture of csc print is to eu aj rooting fing materials it ia Is capable ol 01 holding ia Is combinations large ties of mineral fillers as a well as eg stable and mineral fiber asbestos fiber and permitting therefore the manufacture of a large assortment of building and roofing materials it makes a fine grade of bituminous varnish as well af as bituminous japan enamels and even cements which aro are capolli of tro and well adapted for re repairing palting metal or composition roof ing for damp an of ing the inside of 0 masonry wall ant ald to a certain extent for or the outside of foun dation walls below ground round the uses for or bituminous pig pigment menta and ma erial are growing dally daily au tie he market for this valuable hydrocarbon biot al most unlimited value manifold alile utah has her share of its te and ane only important deposits in the he united states these are by no means meant as extensive is sa the tbs gilsonite deposits and the uses for elate ite are now being very verr largely supplied from gilsonite gilso gils niti owing to the inability of man s to obtain this hydrocarbon dro carbon 14 I 1 often referred to as arti facial rubber or rubber substitute some of the products manufactured from it serving very well the purposes of rub bei bar or natural paraffin Is somewhat limited in its extent it va ties from a very soft substance ube taneo stance to a hard black shiny material when rubbed it becomes negatively electra fled fied when heated it becomes plastic and melta melts at about the refined of commerce is known as oer eat esine desine like gilso gilsonite alte is a valuable waterproofing paint mate material riall and when it 16 ia Is obtainable is used largely for the painting of 02 battleships from the fact that it has the qualities of preventing the formation format loa of barim bazat cles on the hulls bulls making it sary to dock and sarale the hulls once or twice anna annually ally as is necessary when other balut ate are need used like gilsonite however Is becoming hard to t obtain in sufficient quantities to sup ply the demand in consequence sub statutes utes are being adopted very often these products are adul paul aerated by paraffin wax war rosin tallow with mineral filler such each as talc tale knolin gypsum etc ete the most important de posit in the united slates states are thoe those near colton in utah county where the th veins dotur in a bed of oil shale the th veins stend from about two mile miles west wes of colton to within a few low hundred yard yards west of the railroad station at soldier sur amit a total distance di stanco of abou about twelve files formation unique the oil overlie a bed of aholo shi in which the oo occurs A pecullar feature of tao deposit 1 la the currence eur reace of fail bhuli with other an I 1 almal arnal remains it has his been discover discovered that a paraffin product quite similar to an be manufactured from fro ter oil shale and it is quite probable that the deposits are a resultant product tf if local hale shale distillation caused th ovah OB h ancient occurrence of erelli belt helit the bituminous or of asab L sand rock AS fauna quite largely ij U utah la Is among the high st grade to rock ek asphalt to be found anywhere asphalt roel rock uch such as Is used in paving paying generally consists con ests of limestone saturn saturated ted with petro petrol lium tum res due idue is almost always free from solid pi paraffin raffin the grabus forming asphalt rock ar are almost invariably to tally except for the bitu minous matter and abdi rock rocks fall to powder whoa ll 11 li Is removed by a solvent ol vent although when retort iii C ie Is tho the method used the fixed carbon which li Is left in retorting serves rj to r binder to nab malu tala tatu the original true tare of the rock owing to the fact that our asphalt rock contains largo large percentages of limestone it forms a eill natural road making material IN ilch weh among tte important depo le posits alta in utah may le oo 00 mentioned which oe oc cur cuts in Tim Im eatone estone in the right hand branch ti i the tib 14 pork fork ra etayo running 0 1 the town of clear aea creet thia this deposit contain contains between 6 ani aul 15 per cent of asphalt with at time i as high aa as 75 per cent ani and scarce ly any fixed carbon A series of deposits depo alts obeira in argyll argyle erek a tributary of the mianie minnie maud ednk which in turn tum |