The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-11-27

of time at Telluride and in that i'm
mediate vicinity. He Is quite familiar
with the Paradox district Recently
/. he secured some Of this carnotite, va
nadum or radium ore, whichever II
may be properly called and left sew
eral chunks at The Miner office In
general appearance 1t would seem 70
be sandstone, light green, with some
dark shades, and nothing about II
would seem to indicate particular val
tie. The ore and the locality are just
now attracting more or less national
attention.
Local Paper Notes Work.
Mr.. Rose recently received copy
of the San Miguel Examiner, published
at Telluride, containing the following
news items concerning the mining and
shipment of this ore:
shipments of vanadium ores from
the Paradox country continue from
Placerville every week. This week the
Standard Chemical company shipped
two cars; the Galloways loaded one
car of vanadium and the Primes
Chemical company shipped two cars
from Vanadium. Last week A. M.
Wilson shipped one car from Placer
yille
"A recent letter of inquiry was sent
to Ledoux & Co., New York, to ascer-
tain who We're the largest shippers of
carnotite ore in Colorado and the word
came back that the Colorado Carnotitc
company. O. b. Wilmarth, general
manager, was the largest shipper &C.
cordng to their best knowledge. The
Ledoux company handles or knows Of
all the carnotite shipped, most of it go
ing through that firm to the old world
and their word is authentic on the
proposition. @-
Interesting Subject at Philadelphia.
In the proceedings of the American
Mining congress at Philadelphia re-
Gently the subject of radium produce
tion in this district was discussed by
eminent men. An issue of the Phila-
Il
this feature of the proceedings. Fol-
lowing are extracts from the report.
1.-The greatest radium ore deposits
in the world have been bought by two
philanthropists and will be utilized -
the benefit of humanity in the allevia-
ton and cure Of cancer. This an
nouncement was made by DR.. Charles
l.. Parsons, chief of the bureau Of the
division of mineral technology of the
United States bureau of mines The
philanthropists in question are DR.
James Douglas, president of the Phelps
Dodge & Co., of New York City, dean
Of the mining engineering protest. IN
and one of the greatest living author
titles on copper, and DR.. Howard A.
Kelly, noted gynecologist, of Johns
Hopkins university. They furnished
the money for the purchase of q
claims of mining land in the Paradox
valley, Colo.,-the greatest radium-
ore deposit known to science. Furth-
ermore, Doctor Parsons announced:
81 That the National Radiun
institute had been Incorporated for the
purpose of working the carnotite de-
posits on the claims.
"'2. That the entire proposition was
under supervision of the bureau of
mines.
"'3. That not one cent of the radi-
UNI to be extracted would be for sale
"a. That every milligramme of the
precious metal would be used in the
cause Of humanity in the amelioration
and cure of cancer
The Radium Situation.
Although, until recently. the man
ufacture of radum has been carried
on almost wholly in France and Ger
many there appears to be no good
reason why our American carnotite
should not be treated at home" said
DR.. Parsons.
I'm 1912 this country furnished prac-
tically all the carnotite ore used for
the extraction of the radium chloride
supply of the entire world This coun-
try is furnishing three times as much
radium from its Colorado carnotite de-
posts as all of the rest of the world
put together"
Per Pound, $54, 100000
DR.. Parsons referred to the price of
radium, which he quoted at $3.50 per
of radum metal TAX
ing this as basis. radium metal is
worth the triflng sum of about $54,-
100000 a pound. DR. Parsons estim-
ates that the entire carnotite deposits
Of the United States contain less than
250 grammes of radium metal. But.
DR., Parsons said, the value of radum
is not In dollars and cents, but In the
good it can do for humanity.
Value in the Good II Can Do.
ii H. A.