Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1901 — Find Asphalt In Michigan. [ARTICLE]

Find Asphalt In Michigan.

Escanaba, Mich., dispatch: The discovery of beds of live asphalt near Rapid river at the head of Little Bay de Noquette, in this county, by experts employed by the Michigan Oil and Improvement Company, which Is prospecting there for oil, has caused a sensation in his vicinity. Professor F Ruschaupt of Milwaukee, who has analyzed the first product, found by C. C, Phelps of Green Bay, pronounces it to be composed of forty parts of pure asphaltum, equal in quality to the famous Trinidad product