The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-13
GREEN RIVER TO THE FRONT.
Discoveries of Oil. Iron and Coal
Beds.

Discoveries of Oil. Iron and Coal
Beds.
For number of days past there
have been rumors floating about rela-
tive to great things going on down
about Green river station, Utah. on the
line of the Rio Grande Western rail-
way. The rumors grew apace, and yet
nothing definite could be learned in
the premises beyond the bare fact that
of late there was being ticketed to that
station a greater number of people
than usual, and there was something
ION"
With the view singly of going upon
the ground in person and getting
Facts as they have developed up to
date, we left this city a couple of days
! ago.
Cass Hite accompanied us-every-
| body knows Cass, a man who is right
at home in the Green river country,
as well as in divers other districts of
the great west where the footprints
of white men are not numerous. AS a
| guide he is indispensable. and as a
boon companion he is superb. He is
fruitful of resources when in the des-
ert and the parched tongue is given
over to the horrors OF an arid waste
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then he shines!
Now for my own plain, unvarnished
narrative:
Some couple of months ago we stated
through The Herald that the Rio
Grande Western people would again
open the Palmer house. that elegant
hotel that has been for so long closed.
A gang of workmen have now all but
finished papering, painting and remod-
cling it from the ground up, and new
furniture, carpets, etc, are already upon
the spot to make it a first-class hosiery
in every respect. NJ. H. Beardsley will
run the hotel a guarantee of its future
excellence It will be but very few
days now until it is opened up. The
/ r G.. w. people are not combining i'm
proYements to the house alone-the
grounds are being touched UP, and the
reservoir on the hill close by is being
put in shape for the storage of water
required in keeping the lawn and gar
den sprinkled. Nothing is being left
undone.
We drove down the river seven miles
to where the Bennett amalgamating
| plant is located, and clouds of smoke
may be seen issuing from the sixty
seven foot smoke stack, heralding the
future life Of a new and daring indus
try that will make that Green River
country pulsate and hum when the
great plant gets under way.
Nearly ten days ago the public some
how was given to understand that ii
was in operation. 1t was not. nor is it
now. Furthermore, it will not be for
some time The preparatory labor is
not yet complete. When the time comes
The Herald will so announce and give
returns that are so anxiously awaited
] a Nv he Of
but those in foreign lands who are in
terested in placer mining. There are
mining people coming from South
America, from Africa and from Rus
STA to witness the workings of this
machine-the greatest machine ever
constructed for handling placer dirt
when it is remembered that it will dig
UP and feed to it's Unsuitable NAV 1000
cubic yards in every tWenty-four hours.
Great is that Green River country.
for K holds more than gold along its
rich bars.
Would you believe it? They have
struck OIL down there And it's A /
lubricating oil. On direct line it's
not more than four miles from the sta
ton, in dry canyon known as the
| 'Saleratus Wash To travel the route
I'D the river from the crossing below
takes nerve and determination I'M
known TO fatigue. Probably it's the
worst road in the country But we
! got there. The oil shaft is being sunk
in a narrow box CANYON off the main,
and the outlook is all that could be
desired by anyone conversant with the
| oil regions where ,gushers" are to be
| found
The shaft is being sunk in rock and
between the seams, the oil is continu-
ally seeming out. They are down only
sixteen feet, but work is going stead
/ lily on. There are four men engaged on
it. and they have a tent rugged UP to-
gether with ali the necessaries to a
miners life out in the hills. One of