The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-13

the promoters, and who is personally
attending operations, is A. E. Garnes,
who has had much experience in the
oil regions of Ohio. Mr.. Garnes is very
modest and unassuming, and urged
that no mention at all be made of OPP
erationS
The surface of the ground all about
is thoroughly saturated with the oil
that exudes, and when chunks of the
earth are pried up and match touch
ed to them, they burn with a yigor
and fame betokening oil and plenty of
it. From a tub of the oil we filed
bottle, and the same can be seen at
The Herald counting room.
The oil region, as it may now proper
ly be termed, is being located, and
quite a number of locations will be
made. Locations may be made under
our placer mining laws, they being
the same for Utah. People will ask,
ARE there gushers to be found there?"
1t will take sinking to determine that
question. The logical inference to be
drawn is, that the oil now flowing has
source. Having a source it must be
in goodly quantity to force its way up
and out through the fine seams in the
rock. If this be true, then why must
there not be a great quantity of it? If
in quantity. then it is again safe to as
sumo that it is not confined to a small
area, but is underlying many square
miies of that country throughout. How
ever, development work now going on
will solve the question, and in the
meantime there are number Staunch
in the belief that oil in abundance is
there, and that it is another industry
added to Utah's many and varied
ones.
DENVER CAPITALISTS LEAD OUT.
Within the past few days there has
been discovered vast deposits of man
ganese of iron, and only six miles from
the station. Here again Denver CAPT
tallStS showed superior Intelligence
they came over and brought with them
a surveyor and located in short order
We followed for miles their winding
course among the hills as they drove
about in d light wagon, and at last
we lit upon the fruits of their quest
it was three-foot ledge cropping out
that runs 6S per cent manganese of
iron, and carries with it six ounces of
silver and something more than So in
gold. What a find What is that stuff
used for? Well, it's used extensively
for fuxing, and all the steel and iron
mills of the country use it in large
quantities. They need it. in their bust
ness, and have to have it. To date,
Arkansas has been the base of sup
ply, while some OF it has been import
ed. 1t must be said that 45 per cent
fine is regarded good and marketable,
and the superior fineness of the Green
River product makes it at once gilt
edge. The vein, unlike other mineral,
does not slope under the hill, but goes
nearly straight down. with only a per-
ceptible dip in. 1t is said that this
lie -nJ,<11
the Denver capitalists have indeed a
bonanza, and they are people who will
not let it lie dormant. Names are with
held, but one of the parties is so we'll
known to Utah people that his name
is a household word"
Some couple of miles south there has
also been made another loca ton that
is equally as good, or better. and by a
Green River resident who knows good
thing when it confronts him.
A NEW COAL FIND.
Splendid coal has been found only
ten miles from the station, and is
opened up for about fifty feet. 1t is of
the Castle Gate kind and the same
thickness of vein. 1t is being hauled
in by wagon and sells at the station
for 81 per ton, delivered.
y REAL ESTATE rs GOOD.
Real estate is good just now about
Green River. and almost any kind of a.
( lot will bring 5000. Farm lands about
there under ditch are worth $500 per
acre. And when it comes to raising
! crops, sthere is where they grow They
raise 10 bushels of oats and 40 bushels
of wheat to the acre, and the fruit
that is raised there is net excelled, and
seldom equaled. It's thesclimata. No
snow falls there, or if it does it fades
away as rapidly as it comes.
In conclusion. and mark it we'll, the
town of Green River is on the high
road to prosperity. and once again will
it know the busy hum of industry and
become Shipping point on a scale
commensurate with the wonderful re-
sources all about it. Another thing,
the railway people will see that every
facility is given it that may be re-
quired-it will not again go backward.
RAY. RAYMOND.