The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-05
STATE NEWS
FIGHT IS ANTICIPATED
ST. Louis Company Getting Ready
to Prevent Sale of GiIsOnits
ClaimS-0ther Notes.

Vernal. March Sc. o. Baxter. presi-
dent OF the ellison Asphaltum company:
Chief Counsel Brown Of New York SUI
perlntendent John McAndrews and Chief
Engineer Ed =. Harmston formed a
party that left here Saturday for the
White river gilsonite fields. The visit
OF the New York attorney 10 the big de-
pOsits at this time Is considered sig
nificant. and is believed 10 have some
connection with the sale of the even
numbered sections Of the UncOmpahgre
reservation, as provided In what is
known as the "UncOmpahgre amend
ment." and which, according TO its pro-
visions, is 20 take place within l20 days
after the passage Of the measure The
prediction is now made that the sale viii
never take place but If &c does the mat
ter viii be fought through the federal
courts with a view TO setting aside the
sale. The company has given out no
word concerning its intentions ln the mat
ter but the wiseacres predict there viii
be something doing In the gilsOnite fields
IN more ways than one lu the near fu-
ture, The ST. Louis company purchased
several hundred claims from the prior To-
Gators, that were located since the year
1891 and were made null and void by the
Uncompahgre amendment. That the big
syndicate will fight 10 prevent any Of
these claims passing by sale 20 other
interests is without question, and lt Is
Just as certain that other interests are
striving Tor a fOOthOld ln the field. The
ST. Louis company has expended a vast
amount OF time and money IN building up
market for gils0nite. and in working
for favorable action by congress, and
as a very natural consequence viii make
a desperate effort TO prevent other inter
ests from stepping in and sharing in the
taking of profits.
Judge J. r. Mcconnell came In Sunday
from salt Lake and at once hit the trail
for White river. IL is presumed In behalf
Of interests outside the ST. Louis COM
pany
That President Baxter expects that the
cOmpany's business viii demand his pres
cnce In this section Il g0Ody share of
the time Is evidenced by the fact that he
purchased q fun city lot just north of the
Johnson block from A. G. Hatch on SAT-
constructing an office building 70 be used
as permanent headquarters FOR the com
pany. A dwelling house VIII also be
erected. and ii is the intention of Mr..
Baxter TO remove here from St. Louis
and take up his residence in Vernal.
Mrs. Baxter accompanied him on the
trip.
The proposition TO establish bank IN
Vernal. which has been talked Of for
some time has materialiZed 20 the extent
that the capital stock has all been sub
scribed. and the proposition is well under
way. One OF the projectors stated today
that the bank VIII be reality by
July !.
From present indications Vernars boom
will be fairly under Wav By the close OF
the coming summer. The establishment
OF permanent headquarters by the gil-
sonite company, an electric light plant,
a bank. a new church which the Congre-
other buildings TO be constructed are a.
/ fair beginning Of what viii result Do "a
general boom for the Queen City Of
northeastern Utah.