Name: Gilsonite Country (en Inglés)
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Author: Uintah County Regional History Center
ISBN: 9781634991124

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Amer Through Time

Autor

Uintah County Regional History Center

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

144

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781634991124

Categorías

Ee. uu. región del oeste
Historia de américa
Historia local

Gilsonite Country (en Inglés)

Uintah County Regional History Center (Autor) · Amer Through Time · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Gilsonite Country (en Inglés)"

Gilsonite is a solid hydrocarbon mined in vertical veins in southern Uintah County, Utah. It is found in veins anywhere from a foot to twenty-two feet in width, and a depth of a few feet up to 2,000 feet. The black shiny mineral is not commercially mined anywhere else in the world and only found in a few other places. Following discovery, miners began working the gilsonite mines in the late 1800s. With the remoteness and distance to the mines, mining camps were set up at the various mine sites. The Uintah Railway was built from Mack, Colorado, over Baxter Pass, to transport gilsonite and eventually passengers and freight to and from the mining communities. Families joined their husbands and fathers at the camps. Communities sprang up, namely the communities of Dragon, Rainbow, Watson, and Bonanza, along with others. Stores and boarding houses were opened to accommodate the miners and their families and schools were built for the children to attend. The rich history left behind from the gilsonite mining communities gives an understanding of those that worked and lived there and certainly deserves its place in history.