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History of the Gilsonite Industry, A by Newell C. Remington Hard cover
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A History of the Gilsonite Industry
Newell C. Remington
Hard Cover
338 Pages
Copyright 1959
Contents
I. INTRODUCTION: THE UINTA BASIN PRIOR TO THE
DISCOVERY OF GILSONITE 1
Escalante and Spanish Traders 1
Missouri and Kentucky Men 4
Indians Annihilate Trading Posts 9
Geographical Isolation, Indians, and Attempted
Settlement 10
Uintah Indian Reservation 15
Settlement of Ashley Valley 19
Indian Troubles 22
Roads and Communications 27
II. DISCOVERY AND NAMING OF GILSONITE AND THE ST.
LOUIS MINE 29
Discovery 29
Sam Gilson and Naming 35
Bert Seaboldt, The Gilsonite Manufacturing
Company, and The Carbon Vein 40
Gilson Asphaltum Company and The St. Louis
Mine 48
The Strip 52
Ore Production and C. O. Baxter 54
Explosions 57
III. OTHER MINING OPERATIONS ON THE PERIPHERY OF
THE UNCOMPAHGRE INDIAN RESERVATION 65
Black Diamond Vein and Mine 65
Culmer-Seaboldt Vein System 72
Culmer Vein and Pariette Mine 76
Dalton Area 87
Seaboldt Vein and Castle Peak Mine 88
Duchesne Vein and The Raven Mining Company . 92
Miscellaneous Operations on the Duchesne
Vein 102
IV. OPENING OF THE UNCOMPAHGRE INDIAN RESERVATION AND
THE WHITE RIVER GILSONITE VEINS 104
Discovery of Veins and Early Locators . . . 104
Prospective Opening of the Reservation . . . 105
Indian Unrest and Protests 112
The Act of 1903 118
Arguments as to Rightful Ownership 119
Struggle for Control 123
Execution of the Act of 1903 126
V. OPERATIONS OF THE GILSON ASPHALTUM COMPANY
SOUTH OF THE WHITE RIVER 129
Gilson Asphaltum Company 129
Black Dragon Vein 132
Black Dragon Mine 138
Country Boy, Temple, and Thimble Rock Mines 148
Dragon, Utah 151
Rainbow and Watson 176
VI. BONANZA AND MISCELLANEOUS OPERATIONS ON THE
UNCOMPAHGRE 183
Bonanza and Eureka Mines 183
American Asphalt Association 201
Utah Gilsonite Company 212
Gordon S. Ziegler 215
Miscellaneous Operations 220
VII. TRANSPORTATION: THE KEY TO A PROSPEROUS
GILSONITE INDUSTRY 222
Needs and Optimism 222
Wagons and Wagon Roads 227
The Uintah Railway 235
The Uintah Toll Road Company 261
Mack-Vernal v. Price-Myton 279
Gilsonite Pipeline 281
VIII. GILSONITE: ITS CHARACTERISTICS, ORIGIN, AND
USES 283
Characteristics and Geographic Location . . 283
Origin 289
Uses 302
BIBLIOGRAPHY 310
LIST OF FIGURES
1. General Characteristics of Gilsonite 284
2. Classification of Natural Hydrocarbons 286
3. Major Stratigraphic and Time Divisions in Use by
the U. S. Geological Survey 295
4. Change in Composition of Hydrocarbons and
Minerals with Environment 297
In 1957 the American Gilsonite Company opened a revolutionary refinery near Grand Junction, Colorado, which had cost them $16,000,000 to build, and began reducing the gilsonite--a solid hydrocarbon--to high-grade gasoline and pure carbon-coke at the rate of about 700 tons per day. Just as incredible is the fact that gilsonite was and is conveyed from Bonanza, Utah, aross the precipitous Book Cliffs to the refinery through a pipeline. The opening of this magnificent plant was eighty-eight years removed from the year 1869 when the blacksmith of the Whiterocks Indian Agency attempted to burn gilsonite as coal in his forge with rather dreadful results. During the interval so many human events occurred in relation to gilsonite--a rare bitumen closely related to grahamite and glance pitch--that it was felt to be an adequate and deserving topic for thorough historical treatment.
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