Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-09-05
DEPOSITS
DISCOVERED IN
COLORADO
Huge Field Uncovered Con-
tanning Ores With Most
Valuable Mineral Known
Vanadium Also Found.

Denver colo S,u' % There is
reason 10 believe th1. beds off carotito
ore containing yBuluim uranium
ana iJdiuW situated 100 .ho Paradox
valley iu southern Mon u-p ana san
Aiigucl counties. a|r 'U uo developed
On q musst extensive scale Already
there are several mines opened M
that vale, and hundreds of men are
now employed there
Tho companies developing This field
seem tu have rlcnt o' capital ut fuoi.
command ana secrecy has been the
policy hey have adopted State DIN
,inle have sought Too nud what is 20
ing on iu the Paradox valley The
only information thut have been able
90 ger from the men 100 charge ol the
worn nov going on there and nom
the people living iu that region is thar
large tracts of land have been pun
chuscd and that mines have been
opened from which large quantities oi
ore is being shipped ont of The c0uu.
fry iOI treatment
The company thu is uemuG tbc
nov development 10 the American
NdnadIum con PAM which b. ,nOwn
90 be- CLOSELY allied NIth the AMER.
lean steel tumpanN Many vino are
familiar with the situation ia the
Paradox valley AMI the work thar Is
heinz done there declare that the steel
lIus Eus come into fhu state and Is
uuyius zap land win 70 view 20 "a de-.
lopmont on .I.cr scale ol the
DauuuIitv ore beds which are SHOWN
iu exist
The ore now being taHcu uum Para
dos valley is upIua hauled ~ miles
over wagon roads 'u tbr narrow gauge
line ai plaCerNill, tuI tho last
month 90 tDurhur-u teams have been
working steadily mJlu- hundreds ol
tons 90 ore uu' ul .Uo valley The
roofs b. shipped POO mile. o., marrow
gauge. then over broad gaus, go CAT.
weston where % Dr. placed ON vessels
! bound 'oi Liverpool
Th, ore is known to ID, rich in yaua.
dunn which has % market value of
| about s. pound ]. is substance
| used In hardening steel u IS claimed
that Do will lienic the lite OF steel
and The steel trust IL, OF course he
| chici consumer OF this mineral
The same ore tbat contains the
Nanadum is SHOWN 10 contain Ta-
lium and there is reason 10 believe
| that The Colorado ore is being ship
ped 10 Liverpool 10 hc treated by The
new process recently discovered there
which will extract NOT only the yanB
| dunn I'm, The radium as we'll
! Radium rs declared hy scientists &C.
| he the greatest chemical discovery
| made Ia centuries Al present ther,
| is much less than an ounce of ii ~
| the world I, haE a market value al
approNimatcl, SSu.oU0 grain and D.
| In great demand iu every part ~ the
| world u Is necessary 10 treat tons
o. the raw ore before gtain OF this
| substance The most powerful and con
| centratcd form OF energy known of
man. can be- Obtained
So little OF the substance Is now IN
| the world that experimenting with d
! Is most difiicuit There are those who
| assert that once the atomic energy oi
| adium has been halnssscd and pui IA
! use the value OF steam electric and
water power In the world viii he
/ gone
Most of the radlum now in III,
| world came from Austria. but the bed,
% ore there are said 60 be small III
| the Paradox valley OF Colorado there
|
| To contain radium The existence o
this field has been known for year,
| and there have been In the past spas
1 modic attempts 30 develop H.
Now there Is something on a big
scale going on IN secret in that valley
| Thomas X Henahen. state commits
| siOncr OF mines. recently returned
! from trip 10 the valley lie declare.
he found hundreds OF men a. worb
there and signs of great activity or
| all sides but that he could ger nr
| information rom the men In charg,
on from the people OF The neishhor
| hood as to what he plans at the com
4 pany hat had been buying lands an,
lopening mines were.
Alfred patcb. state commissioner o
| Immigration. aas been watching The
development in HE Paradox valley ln.