The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-09
Special to The Herald.i


Washington, D. c., Aug. S-Professor
c. Days Official annual report on the
stone industry of the United States for
the United States geological survey is
completed. From advance proofsheets
the representative of The Herald is
able to furnish information of interest
concerning the industry in Utah 1t
has suffered measure bly, from the hard
times in all branches. Only a small
quantity OF sandstone was produced in
the state, as the demand was very
dull. The value of the produce was
1850, as against $136,462 only four
years ago. Utahs limestone product
had total valuation in the year of
S9,35S, as against s22,50 last year
There are nanv sources of fine mar
BILE in the United States which are not
utilized, says the report, simply be-
cause the product cannot yet be carried
to the consumers. This is the case with
a number of localities in Colorado.
U-ch and other western states. These
new found marbles are handicapped by
difficulties in transportation. 1t is ap-
parently much more difficult to find
WAYS and means OF carrying marble
from known sources hitherto unwoTked
than to find still more new sources
subject to the same limitations in the
way of transportation. Considerable
expense is involved in opening up
marble quarry and in demonstrating
the applicability of the product to one
or another of the various uses to which
marble is applied. A certain amount of
such pioneer work must however, be
done before a railroad company will
extend it's lines to accommodate the
new enterprise, which must be able to
show not only a product of fine quality
but in large quantities as well.
IDAHO MARBLE.
The Idaho marble product during the
year was slightly increased. The
marble comes from Cassia county and
is mostly used for cemetery work.
New discoveries of marble in the
vicinity Of Paris are reported. The de-
post is of large extent, varying in
quality in different localities and also
in color. The colorS are Jet black, black
with streaks of white. black and red.
black and gold, and dark blue with
gold markings. In one place a vein
of onyx 20 feet wide runs through the
mass Blocks of any desirable size
may be obtained and apparently with
out flaw. Abundant water power is at
hand and efforts are being made to
develop the property.
UTAH'S GILSONITE.
The annual report on asphaltun says
that gilsonite "a very pure form OF as
phaltum) is mined in Uintah and Wa
satch counties, Utah, and Just across
the line from the former in Clear Creek
county, Colorado, producers OF gilsonite
have furnished statements of their pro-
duction to the survey, bat they have
done so with the understanding that
the statements shall be maintained as
confidential. AS there was but one COM
pany operating in Colorado and two
in Utah, the production of the two
states in 1896 has been combined.
In addition to the output of gilsonite,
Utah produces a considerable amount
of asphaltic limestone, which is used
in the manufacture of paving and roof
ing material 1t is shipped principally
to Chicago and other central cities. As
to ozocerite the market is stu supplied
by the Gallician product, and the Utah
deposits are not worked.