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Show I OZOKERITE DEPOSITS AROUND II SOLDIER SUMMIT AND COLTON B J One of Two Localities In lf the World Producing H On Profitable Scale I European War Is Help f1! to This Local Industry. Hilt ' HY WILL C. HIGGINS. B U In Salt Lake Mining Review. H Ever Hinco the beginning of the grcnt Euro- H i s pcan wnr nt least one commodity, or substance, H ; & stands out pre-eminently in the mnttcr of sup- HIM piy nnd demand because of the fact that there H fljl nre only two localities in the world where it H, iJm nbounds in commercial quantities. This com- H Ua mcKlity, or substance, is known ns ozokerite, nnd ' jM it exists, only, in the province of Boryslnu, Gall- Hitf u cin, Austria, nnd at Soldier Summit nnd Colton, H' J ' Utah county, Utah, U. S. A. K ; Before the great and destructive war began Hj jl ih tho whole world, practically, derived its ozokerite fM z W supply from Austrian sources, but now, how- Hr fl ever, since grim strife has devastated and prob- I and issued bj the department of the interior, I much valuable infoi mation is given relative to "Ozokerite In Central Utah." In giving the com-j com-j position and properties of ozokerite the author ' says: "Ozokerite is a mixture of hydrocarbons I in various proportions, the exact nature of which I Is a subject of dispute. Some authors consider that it is composed of members of the paraffin series. Others place its chief constituents in the olefin series." Redwood snys: "The natural inference Is that in addition to crystalline paraf-fin paraf-fin ozokerite contains certain colloidal sub-stances sub-stances (amorphous paraffin), the presence of which hinders the crystallization of the paraffin." paraf-fin." "In color," Robinson continues, "ozokerite varies from black or dark brown to light yellow, but some specimens have a greenish color. It may be as soft as tallow or as hard ns gypsum. The light colored varieties yield the largest amount of cercsln, the refined product. The melting point of ozokerite ranges, In general, from G8 to GO degrees C. Although paraffin , with a melting point as high as that of ozokerite may be extracted from petroleum, it is not n commercial product, and the paraffin that is put on the market has a melting point considerably lower. Ozokerite is soluble in ether, petroleum, benzine, turcntinc and carbon bisulphide." THE USES OF OZOKERITE. Ozokerite is a substance that is plastic without being soft, nnd hard without being brittle. Alkalies Al-kalies and the strongest of acids make no im- Hirfl - inilTIM - "V- r- Hil lli'iiilfrnini' t .New Miufl. .Milling I'linit In tit Weill. Viiotili OtoLrrlti Company. Subtler Miiiimlt. BfR flkly rume(l the industry in that part in BjH the world, and as it is now impossible for the HjfH balance of Europe, and the United States, as HRnH well, to secure this much needed commodity H- jB from the old country, It is iilte natural and KifH right that those utilizing ozokerite in various K iH branches of trade nnd industry should turn their H tfll eyes to the United States nnd to Utah in order HH that their requirements in this line should be H complied with, and it inflicts no strain upon the HsH imagination to prophecy or predict that this dc- HMfl mand will be so insistent, the market so exten- HHH "ive nnd the local supply of this commodity so HHD great that within the course of a few years tho H99 ozokerite industry of Utah will assume such HlHH proportions and importance that the mineral jHEkg wax deposits of Soldier Summit and Colton will HSM receive the recognition and appreciation so long Hfl denied them. H ozokerite fields of utaii. HKfl The substance now known ns ozokerite was HH flt found in America near Soldier Summit in HB Utah county, along the lino of the Denver HH n,ul Kl Grande, as early as 187!), but the value HlflH or imirartancu of the discovery was not then HjH realized and it has been only during tho last ten HjfH ' or twelve years that any earnest effort has been HrflH made to make a marketable product of the great fl deposits ho easily accessible and so easily treat- HjHfl able. And, even then, the productive costs, though seemingly light, were too grent to allow Bl of competition with the Austrian product, so Hh that it has been only of late years, on account of SS the Euroncan wm' tnat the American product HjHn W'matili Ozokerite Ciiiiiiniii), Solillir Summit. lUmnlliiR llouo to Ix-ft. Milling Want to Itlglit. Main l.liic of Hf Ikmrr mill lilu driimli' llullnmil n Short UUliuuv txi v tho Hoarding Houjh'. vS has appealed to the trade, and to such an extent Httpl that a great deal of interest, is now being taken H$i in the ozokerite bearing zones of this western Kij country, Un OZOKERITE A RARE SUBSTANCE. Hpfk Throughout th? western portion of the United Bgl States there nre numerous deposits of nsphalt, Hk elaterite nnd kindred substances, but none of HHD9 them can boast of the peculiar qualities possess- BHHl ed by ozokerite which, because of its rarity and HH its limited scope of production, is especially vnlu- WH able. In Bulletin 6-11-A, by Heath M. Robinson (ukrrlli (hvuririiiv In fin. nression on it. When refined it is odorless. Ue-ing Ue-ing an excellent non-conductor It Is used extensively exten-sively in tho insulation of electric wires and in the manufacture of insulators. For waterproofing waterproof-ing purposes it cannot be excelled, and it is in common use in the lining of tanks in which powerful pow-erful acids nre to be held or mixed. It is also a ceitain proportion of ozokerite, hnve n much stronger illuminating power than is tho case used in the manufacture of candles, nnd it is stated that candles, whose ingredients embrace with ordinary cnndles. All wnx figures nnd wax dolls are made of ozokerite. The largest consumers con-sumers of ozokerite in this country, however, are thoso engaged in the electrical industry and who employ this commodity for insulnting purposes. Ozokerite is used in compounds for the manufacture manufac-ture of hard rubber which ia utilized in tho mak- (Contlnued on pvco alx.) Mi OZOKERITE DEPOSITS OF SOLDIER AND COLTON Hift (Continued from pago two ) iXpf Jng of telephone transmittere and recoivcra. It Bj is hIho used in electrotypinK and in the manufac- H'j&r ture of phonograph cylinders, and in the manu- HjKj factuie of buttona, hIioc polish, waterproof cray- t'-C ons and innumerable other purposes while ccre- HJr sin, the refined product, i.s employed in making Hjlfff article which must otherwise he made from Hp4 animal or vegetable waxes. H'. Coreiln, the refined product of ozokerite, is Hjfsp used, very successfully, for n reat variety of HVB purposes. It is a substitute for carnauba wax, H?v ' and is used in the manufacture of floor polish, Bjj wax pastes, shoe and leather polishes, moulding Hl J mass for copper and silver plating, wax for in- H c , sulntim; electric cables, and composition for wa- I, ! terproof cartridges. It is also used as a scaling I j wax, in the manufacture of ccrcsinc marking pencils, vnselcne, cosmolene, moulded cereslne ' ' candles and for such a variety of other products 1 k that space will hardly admit of their enumcra- i FORMATION AND GEOLOGY. Heyontl a question of doubt the ozokerite dc- Hl j, posits of UUih arc more extensive than has been HL 'J generally believed, while development indicates BjLli great depth and permanency. The ozokerite HlgijM field covers an aiea of approximately two miles Hjnw in width and twelve miles in length with the Hijy3 greatest zone of enrichment, so far as demon- HijrH strntcd, being located on the property of the Htrfl Wasatch Ozokerite company within a few liun- Hij! dred yards from the tracks of the Denver and Hjh m Rio Grande railroad at Soldier Summit. The Hp M ozokerite is found in fissures and brecciated HK m zones caused by the fracturing of rocks. Thin Hi&fl fracturing has formed joints, crevices and small Hc'vfl faults, most of which are nearly vertical. The BkVw strike of this Assuring is northwesterly and Hhfl southeasterly, and the fissure environed by the ifVtl holdings of the Wasatch company contains the Hifl largest deposit)) of ozokerite, or mineral wax, in Hlu the field. From mere films of ozokerite in the H W&fr joints and cleavages of the Assuring, the de- H" rJI posits enlarge to six or eight inches, and even i im three feet of pure wax have been found. So far H IH ns developed it has been demonstrated that both H H the width of the fissure or fractured zone and H IH the occurrence of ozokerite are found to be vari- Hj H able. The country rock, as a general thing, is HJ MM sandstone, while the fractured zone ranges from Hjffl ten to two hundred feet in width, the brecciated .'1 scope being permeated with seams, gashes, B'lH bunches ami even bodies of virtually pure wax Hl JH which needs only the application of water and HflB heat to be separated from whatever ganguc mat- HgiH tcr it may contain or carry with it. In lei, tain HH sections of the field the ozokerite product Is HH comparatively soft. In other portions it is hard- H cr, while colors differ according to locality. H OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT. HH The ozokerite deposits at Soldier Summit and HH in the near vicinity of Colton have been worked HIH . nnd developed, in a desultory manner, for a score HH r more of years, and as many failures as there JH huvc been operators have been recorded, but HIH these were not due, in any degree, to lack of sup- fH ply or Inability to produce, but because the BjH American commodity could in no way compete, Hl in the matter of sale price, with the product fB shipped Into this country from Austria. And B MM yet, under these adverse market conditions ozo- Mm pH kcrite operators had marketed in the neighbor- m mM hood of four hundred and fifty tons of refined ' H wax before the greater portion of the known B bB field was taken over by mining men wlto pro- MM H duced at least a hundred and twenty thousand MM 9B pounds, which was absorbed in New York, be- B HHJ fore operations were discontinued because of prohibitive competition from Austria. Compe- HbBJ tition with Austria, however, in nil probability, HapBJ will never again be inflicted upon the United BaVJ States, and for two or throe reasons, one of H which is that the Galacian deposits, which have HIHI . worked for a great many years, have be- I come practically exhausted and may never pay HftVJ to work again because of the excessive cost that DPJ will be required to rehabilitate the surface equip- HBBJ merit and to clean out the underground workings, JIBE U)th of which have been destroyed and flooded HSB a result of the war already spoken of in this Jkra article. And then, too, the demand caused by Hfl (he scarcity of supply has caused an investiga- tion into the availability of the home product HPI nd tn,H H8 d to the greatest interest being BBK tnken i the Utah deimsits of ozokerite with the HHH result that science and skill have been united in H ticvlslng more perfect methods of production and HHH ultimate treatment so that, at the present time, I pure ozokerite and its refined product can be HHf produced in such quantities, in such purity and J at such a low cost that no fear need ever be ex- J perienccd that our home industry would bo com- n polled to bow down to foreign competition, even Jlffl though the Austrian fields were again placed on Hi it producing basis. HBtf l LOCATION OF OZOKERITE ITEM). BRH The ozokerite field of Central Utah is located I about ninety-four miles south and a little east of KS Salt Lake City. It is within, only a short dis- H tance, along its entire length, from the main line I of the Denver and Rio Grande. Tiic Midland HH automobile trail, also, passes along its southern II boundary. The town of Colton, which is quite a Hflu thrifty little trading center, as well as a railroad HHfl junction, is the principal business point of that JM h The property of the Wasatch Ozokerite com- H pany is located at the crest of the range, or, to JB be more exact, within a few hundred yards of Jfl Soldier Summit, which has an elevation of eight HH thousand feet. At this point the company owns Hwjfl hundred and sixty acres of patented ozokerite mi bearing land, and eighty acres which are still tin- HHU patented. This ground is easily accessible and HflHj is believed to embrace the best of the ozokerite HHH land in the entire belt. It has been worked, off Bftn and on, by previous owners, for years, and great HHS. masses of pure wax have been exposed in under- HHq ground workings which have been virtually lost y again by neglect und caving. Hflft The Wasatch Ozokerite company, however, with cery thing leaning in its favor at the present pres-ent time, is bending every energy towards placing plac-ing its property upon a big producing basis, fully satisfied that with the inauguration of improved methods for treatment, now under wny, it will not be long before returns will be so satisfactory that a new dividend paj ing enterprise will have been launched in Utah. TREATMENT OF CRUDE WAX. It has been a year, now, since the Wasatch Ozokerite company began operations at Soldier Summit. During this time, however, a lnrge amount of work has been accomplished and needed equipment installed. The treatment required re-quired in the reduction of ozokerite to a pure state is extremely simple, and yet some problems have been encountered in its application. In the beginning great vats or pans were utilized in which the crushed o'zokcrite material was placed and treated to an application of hot water, the heat releasing the ozokerite from any waste with which it might be connected, the ozokerite raising rais-ing to the surface of the water, and the waste and dirt going to the bottom. In a crude way the ozokerite was skimmed off and conveyed to moulds to cool and so form a finished product. By this method the capacity was necessarily limited, but, improvements have gradually been made so that pure ozokerite can now be produced upon a much larger and more economical scale. For the past few months the company has been using steam jacketed tanks in the milling of its crude output, and at the present time Is treating about ten tons daily with a net result of four hundred pounds of ozokerite wax that is finding a ready market in the East at from thirty to sixty cents a pound. Within a short time, however, how-ever, the company will have installed the first unit of its cold water process. This unit will handle sixty tons of crude dally, and In the very near future it is expected that additional units will be added until the plant will have a capacity of at least a thousand pounds daily of marketable market-able ozokerite. The milling plant, as will be seen by the accomnanylng photograph, is substantial-l substantial-l constructed. MINE EQUIPMENT AND OPERATION. During the present year the Wasatch dzokcr-ite dzokcr-ite company has constructed an up-to-date hoisting hoist-ing plant at Its Soldier Summit property. This hoist has a sinking capacity of from five hundred hun-dred to a thousand feet and it is the intention of the company to develop its property at a considerable con-siderable depth. At the present time, however, this main working shaft will be sunk only to the hundred-foot level, from which drifts will be run to the known ore bodies exposed in the hundred and hundred and fifty levels from the old two hundred and fifty-foot shaft. The new shaft was started away from the fissuie for the purpose pur-pose of keeping it in solid ground, but before it had attained a depth of forty-four feet a new vein, six feet in width, was exposed, and this lias been followed down to a depth of eighty-eight feet, the present depth of the shaft. The average aver-age of this six feet of material is G per cent ozokerite, ozo-kerite, while in the vein there are occurrences or streaks of pure wax from two to four inches in width. In the main working tunnel, at a point equivalent equiv-alent to the forty-four level in the new shaft, a lxnly of pure wax twenty-two inches in width has been developed and drifted upon for a distance dis-tance of forty feet. Tills same lense of ozokerite extends through to the surface, as indicated by the old workings. Assuming this to be the case, this would give sixty feet of backs above the collar col-lar of the new shaft. Crosscuttlng to the east, on the tunnel level on the main vein of the company's property for a distance of thirty-seven feet, a parallel fissure has been encountered. This fissure has not been cut from wall to wall, but it is believed by the management that it will develop into a large zone that will be productive of a good commercial commer-cial product. The company is giving employment employ-ment to a regular forco and expects to make many improvements in its mining and milling practice before the first of the coming year, an Important feature of which will be the manu-facture manu-facture of ichtyol, an antiseptic and alternative medicament that is greatly in favor in surgical and medical circles. Ichtyol, heretofore, has been manufactured almost exclusively in foreign countries, but hereafter, unless all plans fall, It will bo one of the important products to be turned turn-ed out by the Wasatch Ozokerite company, which, in order to fully and successfully carry out the scheme, has associated with it a competent com-petent and experienced chemist who is thoroughly thor-oughly familiar with the ozokerite business in Austria and Germany, and who knows the foreign for-eign trade and its requirements both theoretically theoretic-ally and practically. The company, in effecting this combination, will be the only manufacturers of ichtyol in America, this important pharmaceutical compound com-pound having heretofore been Imported from Germany, excluaively. The company will also manufacture urious compounds from its mine product, and 'from this source, It is confidently believed, a greater revenue will bo recorded than could be derived from the sale of ozokerite or ceresin only. The plant for the manufacture of ichtyol and various compounds will probably bo located in Chicago. ORGANIZATION AND CAPITALIZATION. The Wasatch Ozokerite company was incorporated incor-porated with a capitalization of a hundred thousand thou-sand shares of a par value of one dollar each, but, at a meeting of company stockholders on the 23c' (September) inst. the capitalization was Increased In-creased to five hundred thousand shares of the same par value, this for Hie purpose of raising additional capital for the further development and equipment of its property. The officers and directors of the company are L. V. Shearer, president and general manager; J. D. Pardee, vice president; Stanley C. Sears, treasurer; R. B. Anderson and W- F Snyder, . L. V. Shearer, the president of the company, Is now in the East closing arrangements for the final financing of this attractive mining enterprise, enter-prise, and for the purpose of making preparation prepara-tion of the establishment of the manufacturing concern which is to take cate of the chemical side of the company's business, as already outlined. out-lined. .... i The company feels that it is on the high road to ultimate success and that the Utah ozokerite industry, which hns been menaced for many j ears because of Austria's special knowledge of advanced chemistry in the treatment of ozokerite ozoker-ite products, will be most emphatically and permanently per-manently established in the ery near future. H. Hartwell, vice president of the Pearson Engineering En-gineering corporation, with New York offices at 115 Broadway, and representing Pearson wl Is the largest stockholder in the Wasatch' ol kerite company, with Shearer, recently made visit of inspection to tin company s pronert and is reported to be highly pleased with dev. opments nnd results to date. Stanley C. Sears of Salt Lake City is cuiisu '-Z cngi.-.L.r fjr the company, as well as Irei iitei, and R. B. Anderson, a graduate of the Ci orado School of Mines, is in charge of the ccr pany's mines nnd works nt Soldier Summit T. Eddy, formerly with the Guggenheim is charge of underground operations, the personr of the company's operating staff being, fn'it a sort of guarantee that the affairs of the ct poration will be carried on success! ulK n, profitably. S nr |