The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01

psny. E. NJ. Felshaw. william Hunt
and others are interested.
The Tioga Mining company is an
Ogden concern, though its properties
are in the Camp Floyd district. T. ].
Moody, W. ]. Shealy. w. NJ. Hanson
and others are the owners. The COM
pany is entirely out of debt, and the
owners are developing their property,
which is in the heart Of the Mercur
district.
GILSONITE.
The year 1898 has witnessed more
actual progress looking towards the
development of the hydro carbonaceous
resources of Carbon county than any
previous one since the great POSSIBLE
ties along this line were first appar-
ent. Capital has come in from the out
side in large volume, and il looks as II
at no distant date Carbon county and
that Of the state to the east and south
of the gold and silver bearing regions
was destined to cut no unimportant
part in the mineral producing wealth
of Utah. There exist here vast beds of
asphaltum, ozokerite, mineral paints
and dyes with the by-productS which
could not be even enumerated in the
space allotted for this article. What is
needed for their development is told in
the story from most of Utah's mining
camps-capital and railroads. From
present indications the capital will not
be long in coming, and the railroads
and development that follows in their
wake will of necessity follow.
Prominent among the companies
that have operated in eastern Utah
during the year are the Gibson AS
phaltum company and the Uintah Gil
Sonite company. Their properties are
n rpGpTKr1 Tinn and
have had an output Of about 500 tons
the tWo-for eighteen months or
more AT present they are temporarily
shut down while the settlement OF
claim lines is pending. This viii neces-
state an examination of the records oil
the United States land office at SAT-
Lake. when work will be resumed and
the output again brought up to and
perhaps ahead of the normal. There
viii be no extended or complicated lit
igation The value of the product OF
these properties, as well as that OF the
Culmers, located in close proximity, is
close to $40 per ton, delivered at the
railroad at Price. In the same section
there are Denver and Salt Lake Oper-
ators at work, who send out the prod
uct to the railroad at Fruita, Colo, and
elsewhere; so that it is difhcult to ap-
proXimate the output or value, but 1t
is safe to say it viii come up to that
of the two companies above referred to.
10 the east of Price, and at or near
4 point where the Rio Grande West
ern begins to climb the Soldier SUM-
nit divide, ]. NJ. Pine and William
Biddig Of Denver are building reduc-
ton works for the treatment of gilSon-
tie and its by-products. They are put
ting in a plant to cost several thou
sands of dollars, and have forty
horse power boiler on the way from the
~
necessary, for the handling in an eco
nomical and profitable manner the min
eral found there in vast quantities.
They expect to be in full operation
within the next three months. The
supervision of work on the reservation
properties, in which one of the parties
is heavily interested, has somewhat re-
tarded operations here.
The recent bonding of seven claims
in Whitmore canyon by Messrs. Kirker,
Whitmore and others to Is. K. McDon-
aid, means the beginning of extensive
operations in ozokerite and gilSonite
beds Of that section. The papers in this
deal were signed up something less
than a month ago, and the time since
then has been employed in building
roads and cabins and making other
necessary arrangements for the hand
ling of the product that is known to
be there in almost limitless quantities.
On one claim, the Chewing Gum, there
is an eighteen-inch vein of oZokerite
that will alone prove a paying PROPOSE
ton, to say nothing of the other ele-
mentS that are now being experimental
with, and thought to be perhaps equally
as valuable. In the same canyon there
IS a, body, said to be eXhaustleSs, of the
best cOking coal in Utah, and on which
the Pleasant Valley Coal company has
had covetous eyes for several years.
The Herald correspondent has been
told by an employee of the company
that the latter would secure control of
this not later than next spring, and
would begin operations there on a gi-
gantic scale. 1t is some thirty miles
from the Rio Grande Western rail-
road, and work there means the build
ing of a branch line to the mines and
the transfer of the main operations of
the Pleasant Valley company to this
point. New and improved methods viii
be adopted that are not now practicable
at Castle Gate or Scofield. Five hun
bred miners on the payroll is the way
it is figured out for a starter. The cox
ing qualities Of the coal are unsur-
passed, so it is stated by those COM
petent to pass upon its qualities.
Aside from the coal and gilsonite in
terests of Carbon county and eastern
Utah, which, of course predominant,
there are great opportunities in the
way of marble, photographers stone
clay and so forth, which are attract
ing favorable attention, not alone from
Utah people, but from the outside. II
is believed the dawn Of a new era is
here.