Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-11-23
MONAITE.
A Mysterious Etpral Fossil IN
North Olina,
A demand by Illuminating
Company Crektes a Boom.


"What is monazte2" to
F;ftv times the cbestion was put by a
. Now York Sun rNorter to as many .,
of those shrewd New Workers VINO Il
make handsome tdtunes IN al oiIlces a,
N Maiden land aid Burling SIP and h
codor street. and The regions round r,
shout, and fifty times, with more or t,
less variation of s&ent, came the an
swer: r
Never heard ~.
yat monazite IA commercial fact
of inheritance Is being talked OF
learnedly in learn ID societies it is be-
inc ouietlv handed in New York,
while down in NE b Carolina there is
monazite boom / veiled and Sc
cret sort.
Quiet, mysterious references nave
been made to it ~ quiet, sedate busi-
ness men, but tie limit oil lnioriha-
ton, says the Sn, has seemed TO DC
soon reached. bne Pearl street mil
lionaire, who his handled OILS lot hi'1
years, informeds his bookKeePer iaS'
Monday that h@was going down to
North Carolinat to buy few square
nilos Of land. 'sWhat for?" asked |
the bookkeepef "Monazites re-
y 81 Ill
piled the millikaire, and that IS al
be could or wohd say. Another old
gentleman i,M around the corner
On Pine street has sent his son-in-law
% Germanv. Were the inner secrets
of monsz;te III TO be gathered. An
AGENT for a CO Emission firm has been
Slipping arou1h from point to point
in North can ina buying up all the
monazite in sight.
Monazite is strange, rare mineral
found in that rich metallic heart oil
the Appalachian Mountains that lie IN
North Carolina. Some year or so ago
one of the gold mining companies
down there discovered in their placer'
" deposit OF small, brown crystalline
sand which was quite unfamiliar t.
anv Of the miners. They sent sample
T. to their agEnt in New York. Th
= - agent sent to fam Pus Germal
,i of analytical emist, by ya9% a it it wa wa
Ss : I'M ily been fouH d in sm,
j. time it hadX deposits in such wide
- and seattle f Dcalities as Finland al
separated orway and Bohemia, an
Cornwall quantities that only IL
in such 81 atories had any specimen
at richer lal like anything else undt
tn 1t was nd SO the few brown octah,
IL the sun, Ii Is that had been bottled Il
ax dron crys Id monazite, or the '1on'
ey we're labe itary" mineral The con
Sc w." or =" the mineral was even MOI
b. position dMIr it was found to contai
of curious, Those undefinable produc
n six of tfrare earths" and all endin
" known as which is popularity,
elk in ''ium, II these imperishable dust
an seems, odl dusts had gone throug
e- What diving at the catalogued stat
before arH and ''ites" can only |
r, Of YiumH, but the inference is tn,
he guessed N been born in period
they have 4smic energy, for they prove
It. intense c.! most refractory" things q
ed to be thd
n. record It's call things refractoi
e. ChemiH can neither melt nor bur
- when thdbk any further toward IL
a them bd elementary origin, and the'
ot point of ouldn't go back at all. \
no earth's W ow great the heat, they ju
no matter b hjncandescent, and glowed vii
bo became hess that was like that of IL
ne a bright when the flame was turnC
NJ sun; buiwere just rare earths, und
bs off they ''iums" as before,
,b stroyed opened about this time that
. It hat illuminating company W
90 certain for just such material
bo looking ge, and in correspondent
oh monazi ifit. Investigations were mad
,r heard were despatched to Nor
bv expertAa, and monazite was found
nd CaroliS Along the river banks al
r. the to liver beds, in the clefts of aul
m in the krocks, and at the bottom
n. ferrous the brown crystalline sand "
gullieN and bought and shipped
foundUny. But it took lot of sol
t. Germ lsh the imperishable materi
W. to fun shape that was needed, and IL
of in thd vent up until it reached $50
ef price d from that up to 5000 and owe
ed ton, al hthe search for monazite was
il Thank earnest, and now in Alexandt
er gun on, Mitchell, Vancey, Burl
.as Mad4 Mcdowell, and Rutherfo
inf Polk les there is a monazite boon.