The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1899-11-11
OpcAiug Up Lower white.

Last Saturdays Denver Republican
contained the following relative to the
late asphaltum deal on lower White:
Bert Seaboldt of Salt Lake left for the
west last evening accompanied by
representative of the Boston company
to whom the gilsonite fields of western
Colorado have been sold, to whom the
property will be formally turned over.
| Mr.. Seaboldt didn't care to talk about
the little episode in Boston in which lie
figured as defendant in a suit for COM
missions An that l will say about
that" said he, lis that the more than
three hundt.d letters and kilograms
that received from Utah and Colorado
were the cource of much qualification
to me es coming from the men amoBG
| whom i have worked for twenty 1--we
years, and that the plaintiff In the case
has not succeeded in holding me up. 1t
is one of those things that promoters OF
|
mining properties are thoroughly famil-
lar with.
the new owner of the property Is
one of the strongest paving companies
in the United States, and has bought
the property for its own use and not Tor
the general market. am not at liberty
at present to say anything about our
plans for the future as they are not yet
thoroughly matured. l will say this,
however, that we no not propose to let
any grass grow under our feet in the
development and operation of the prop
erty. The company is large consumer
of gilsonite, and will naturally desire to
utilize its own material as soon as pos
sible. l leave tonight for the field with
Gentleman who will accept the prop
erty for the company, and We will make
thorough examination of the ground
with view of determining the best
plan of working, and in less than q
month our engineers will be at work
making the necessary surveys.
1.-The veins of gilsonite which We will
work are upward of five miles long, and
the material is the best ever found in
the world, being particularly pure. the
residuum after burning being unworthy.
Of calculation. It is vastly superior 10
the celebrated Trinidad asphalt, from
which it is entirely distinct In charac-
ter, as is shown by the name given 1t by
the Smithsonian institution, after my
friend and business associate, Mr. Gil
son, who took the first samples to Wash
ington for analysis. This is the only
deposit of gilsonite known to exist in
Colorado, being an extension of the big
veins found in the Uintah reservation
in Utah.
1T took me long time, and l made
hundreds of experiments, before 1 de-
termined what had found, and since
then have been working for years to
secure the titles, but everything is now
secure in compact form. and before
many months we will have the heaviest
production of gilsonite in the country
ut is possible that we will erect works
on the ground for the preparation of the
material for immediate use, but that
has not yet been determined. In any
event this is not important, as the gil
sonite is so nearly pure that the extra
freight on the crude material will not
cut much figure, and the matter OF
works will therefore have to be deter
mined on the relative cost of prepara-
tion on the ground and in the east.
Even IL we do not construct works, how
ever, we will give employment to
large number of men. For the present
we will have to haul the product to the
railroads, distance of about fifty miles.
The exact point at which we will reach
the railroad has not yet been decided
upon, and will be determined by the
surveys. The building of the road will
be commenced as soon as possible. We
may use traction engines-that depends
upon the matter of cost which has not
yet been accurately figured. OF course
railroad will be ultimately built and
our surveys will be made with view OF
using our road for the railroad grade.
II cannot give the price paid for the
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