Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-19
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but maintains a width of from to 10
feet for three or four miles, and about
four feet for nearly SIX miles. It's total
length is between seven and eight
miles.
MILLIONS OF TONS.
The estimated available tonnage Of
this vein is 14.O69,25o It is necessary
that the reader understand that in
speaking OF the width OF these veins
only the actual width of the glsonite
from wall to wall is considered There
are no rocks between, as is the case
with metalliferous ores; and all that
is necessary is to pick it out, sack it,
and sell 1t. The worked vein as it
stretches across the country looks like
Il timbered city sewer trench.
Years ago cattle rangers thought the
conspicuous black streaks to be coal in
some form: but upon attempting to
burn it, 1t merely melted and spread
like rubber. sam ellison. after whom
the mineral was named, first appreciate
ed It's value and interested c. O. Bax-
ter and others of St. Louis. Except
ing the Trinidad islands, no other por-
ton Of tho world produces gilsonlte or
elataritc; and eor that reason the value
of tho properties III Uintuh valley is es-
timated to be billions of dollars!
In Salt Lake City already there Is a
factory built to convert these hydro
rs paints, varnishas and rubber goods;
and it IS thought that the annual out
put will exceed Sl,0000Q in value.
COPPER IN. ABUNDANCE.
Uintah county has an abundance OF
copper. iron, silver and gold ore; but
little development work has been done
on account of the difficulty in trans
porting the product. Some day some
one will wake up and make q huge for.
tune by building 4 railroad that viii
tap the overlooking resources of this
magic country.
The most important copper producer
Is the Dyer mine. 50 mieso north OF
Nernal, from which $500. 900 has been
taken. over 100 carloads recently av-
erased 90 per cent copper. leaving q
handsome profit even after paying tho
expense of hauling 1t by team 90 mi-s
to the Y. p. railroad at Carter, Wye
The Colorado Fuel & Iron compare,
has recently discovered III this regin1j
81 manganese iron suitable for use Il
the manufacture of.5E@ssemer steel. Ira
Burton recently found a vein II TO IA
feet wide at q point 10 miles up the
canyon from the Whiterocks agency.
This vein has been opened in seven
different places. The hanging wall is
quartzite With four inches of tale below
the ore. The ore runs from 10 70 10
per cent manganese iron, much silver
and gold, but little sulphur and silica.
Abo!.t 1908 acres of copper claims
have been located near Ouray In wnat
is known as the bad lands This is
a sand copper of blanket formation.
OIL FOR THE TAPPING.
The theory has long been that the
Uintah basin is undarlaid with a lake
Of oil, a number of oil men from the
famous Bakersfield Cal. oil fields have
visited Fcrnai for the purpose of in
speeting the Indications here, and tie.
declare that the sand asphaltum which
is located four miles west OF Eernal is
simply q strata of common sand and
that the oil underneath oozes up
through the sand. thus forming the as
phaltum. They claim there is oil there
for the digging. In The early days the
cowboys discovered a spring OF water
near Dragon which was unfit for drink
ing; but they bottled some OF 1t and
used it to grease their wagons. the eN-
pertinent proving most satisfactory.
The Tunnel OH company has located
the ground around this spring, and n
Very fine lubrcating oil is being taken
out of o tunnel 200 feet deep
What u glorious country this isl Its
needs are few-a railroad to Vernal .
direct mail route through the Uintah
reservation ana the making of Green
river nayigable. How truly it Is tbs
honeseeker's Arcadia! ssss