Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-03
Planning to Get Vast Wealth
From An Old Rubbish Heap

! drinking water passed through two
other abandoned mines on behalf Of
which no claims to- radio activity have
vet been advanced. That. there is much
pitch blendes still in the mine itself
is certain Above the water level a
virgin lode Of it has been struck and.
considerable quantities of it have been.
brought to the surface @
- { hose Il who are exploiting the old
mine have other projects in view he
sides the production OF radium, They
talk OF building a big hotel and start y
Jig hydrps and radium baths and simi-
lar esta bllshments such as have bios 4
somed forth at Erzgebirge in Bohemia
whence is obtained the pitch. hlende on
(which the world is principally depend
ent for its present supply of radium,
In short. they expect to &.'ina ke''e ST..
Ives--make lit fashionable resort
And then its unique charms will DO
lost.
LITTLE SIGN OF MATERIAL1z.A-
TON. ~
Happily there was little evidence of
the NATURALIZATION of these various
money-naking schemes when Il climbed
THE rubbish-crowned hill at the, back
3of the town. Some half dozen little
raw, corrugated iron structures;
score of !aborers. paid something like
for the stuff t1at yields radium worth
.sT50,tU0 an ounce, where all the indi-
cations above! ground or the realiza-
.tions of itheadreanls of wealth begotten
by, the discovery of :radium,t Close at
hand a. couple of donl1eys We're brows-
ing contentedly. Rosy checked children
We're playing before some old stone
cottages, From the base of the hill
stretched the quaint old town beyond
that lay the Atlantic, as blue as tho
stHediteIransa can; overhead IAN azure sky
behind, gorsselads noors,isapd steyery-s
where an air. as. invigorating as. new
Vine Any: spot less fitted for the 'cui.
5ofss the Golden Call than that hilltlt
would, be, difficuit$to iInag ine.3= d
4 Or course 1t is the discovery OF ra-
dunn that makes st. Ives sof news ir,-8
terest !. to- America. iheref fore Z Il have
had TO give first place to the story OF
=the rubbish heap. But this WESTERN
most boEous hi4+ OF England has riches
fars5surl1as sing itnose:s Of the old nine
ito offer the Transatlantic wa yfarer--.l
banquet o + rare 'beauty2of mature own
Providing; quaint scenes: f5man's max
ing! solnellowed~ and. coloret1s BY time
thai artists rave over them. and Il
climate that both in summer and win
ter has rare tonic properties There
,are- few places -H,-tlsisS old land that
provide. in more generous measure that
.cptIlpiciet CildilSesSoIS!lles and environ 4
Inerit cfaved by Americans who have 1
grown tired of the strenuous life.
i There6is nothlng remotely strenuous
about Ives=z-olds ST. Ives 1T should
perhaps bsfcalied to distinguish it 7froil,
the; new st. Ives thai iinS recent years
has grown up on the hillyj slope back
of q the ancient village for the. accom-
modal ton Of surn IN visi tors. Old St.
Ives is still much as Iit was \ 800 or 400
years al go. Its ancient builders knew
nothing about art and as little about
town planning. Nothing was. probab
furthersfrorn their thoughts than PRO-
ducing picturesque effects. Their pur-
pose seems to have been to jumbo their
dwellings rs close together, as possible.
narrower cobble-payed alleys ato twist
and turn in any direction so
long as they never nleandered
more than a few yards In a |
straight line. Part of the old town is
well called the Warren 1T is as de-
void of anything approaching system
as the burrows of rabbits
4 Having built their town IN this hig-
gledy-piggledy fashion the st. Ives folk |
settled down to fishing, ship-building,
privateering and such more |
or less reputable Industries as the times |
afforded And for a long time the rest |
Of England knew nonght of St.sIves.
MECCA FOR ARTISTS.
8 But they had builded their houses of
stone which endured and time added |
touches of color TO them. And |
enc day there came along an artist chap
and he said .Eureka!'' or something |
thereto, and started paint /
ing for all he was worth. Then he told
an artist friend of the good thing he
/ had found, and that friend told another
friend and more artists came And
hen, TO its aniazement. old ST. Ives
discovered that it was beautiful-or