The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-27
RAVEN MINES
ARE +" JUMPED"
Title to GilSonite Properties of
Raven Mining Company
to Be Tested.
DEPOSITS WORTH MILLIONS
AND MILLIONAIRES WILL FIGHT
FOR POSSESSION OF THEM.
Especial to The HeraldO

Price, Utah, April 26.-Former Con-
gresham John d. Shafroth is not the
only distinguished lawyer OF the coun-
try that has taken up a fight against
the Raven Mining company, which was
by congressional action of last year
given special concessions on the former
Uintah reservation for mining elaterite
and gilsonite, and for which there is
at this time a steadily increasing mar
ket at profitable prices Frederick
Aver, the Massachusetts manufacturer
of hair restorer and many times mil
llonaire, has become interested in these
products and to state it plainly has
jumped most of the property of the
Raven company included in it's grant
OF 100 claims from congress. This fact
has just become public here through
one of the men interested with Aver
and who holds a fourth interest with
the Massachusetts man after title has
been acquired to what they are after,
which is claimed by the Raven folks.
How Raven Company Got In.
Persons familiar with the doings of
the Raven will call to mind that this
company made a lease with the Indians
for what would be about ten or twelve
claims in the locality known as Indian
canyon Later and on the strength of
this deal, congress conceded the COM
pany a hundred claims to be preferen-
tial rights before the Uintah reserva-
ton opening. OF the hundred claims
to be allotted the Raven, this company
was content to locate but seVenty-four
These were surveyed and placed on
record with the interior department at
Washington.
Raven Mines Are Jumped.
Later others began to prospect the
country Aver sent men in there and
now these have staked off the claims
of the Raven, all but ten or twelve in
the Indian Canyon country, and it is
claimed these ten or more have been
worked out and that there is no more
ore there One and the only producing
mine of the Raven near Fort Duchesne
has been jumped, as it were, and no
more gilsonite is being shipped from
there until an ownership has been es-
tabliShed before the interior depart
ment- This mine has four feet of gill
sonite at a depth of fifty feet and would
continue as an indefinite producer.
Case Comes Up in May.
The Aver interests are keeping a
check on what has been shipped to
market from this property, and if their
ownership, is finally established will
come on to the Raven for damages.
The case of the Aver people is based
on the original lease with the Indians
anu Hduu upon fraud IS 10 De alleged
in their pleadingS before the depart
ment of the interior. The case is TO be
heard on the Sth of May at Washington
and the Aver crowd is confident of win
ming out with their array of evidence
TO be presented.
Deposits Worth Millions.
The Aver people are represented nv
Nathaniel Wilson, an eminent attorney
before the department at Washington.
He is working in harmony with former
Congressman Shafroth of Colorado tina
latter representing the Shearer and 9TH
er interests The property involved rep
resents many millions of dollars in
value, as the deposits of both ma
terials are vast and comprise all there
of 1T in the United States 50 far dis
covered. The litigation will be watched
with interest, most people believing
the Ravens rights to have been fra1d-
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