OCR Text |
Show w BIG DEPOSITS OF UTAH ASPHALTUM Salt Lake, June 17 C. N Need-ham, Need-ham, an engineer from Thistle, was in town yesterday showing some excellent ex-cellent samples of a great 'deposit of asphaltum located two miles east of Thistle, and within a few thousand feet of the D. & R, G. railroad. He and J. C Benedict of the same place own 360 acres, covering an outcrop over a mile In etxent, exposed by river riv-er gashes. It has been held under the placer mining act since 190S. This asphaltum is in an extensive banket vein off a whitish limestone. It runs from four feet to eighteen feet in width. A tunnel fifty feet in depth has been driven In on the vein, which for this distance shows a uniform thickness. thick-ness. It shows four feet of shipping quality. The vein is capped with a sand asphaltum. with lme beneath. An analysis recently made in Salt Lake showed 13.GG per cent soluble hydrocorbonates. Mr. Needham says experts who have examined it declare this one of the largest deposits of fine grade asphaltum as-phaltum they ever saw. "Why, we have sufficient to pave all Salt Lako and tho automobile road to Ogden, and then some," he declared yesterday afternoon "This is tho Identical material ma-terial with which the streets around the city and county building and other parts of your city are paved. Some of this Utah asphalt had had eight years hard usage and has proven far superior to any of the Imported material used on the streets alongside along-side of It. As far as our ground has been prospected, It would seem we have practically an unlimited quantity quanti-ty within easy reach, and could lay It down at prices to show a saving on the Salt Lake-Ogdcn road of 45,000." |