Gilpin observer., 1914-03-19
URANIUM ORES
. ADVERTISE COUNTY
BY e. Zimmerman

me dnOunt OF puDllclty which has
Deen given the county of Gilpin with
IN the past six or eight months
should be sufficient to advertise this
section throughout the world as a
pitchblende producer.
Ihere has never been period in
G1lpin's history when the world was
more ready to recognize its resources
than now. The mere fact that the
majority of the mines are closed, not
only because of weather conditions
and also because many of the produc-
ing properties may be supposed to
have produced their full quota of sill
yer, gold and other metals should not
deter the people of this section from
taking in the significance of the pres
0nt situation. In fact, this situation
mas been created by outside capital,
outside people and there is not a for
e1gn scientist who fails to appreciate
the Importance of this section at the
Present time when the subject of ra-
dhm is foremost in the public mind.
Ihus the local people should appre-
ctate this remarkable situation and
endeavor to get together, as it were,
ON common basis and boost for
the general good of the entire Sec
ton.
In some years of publicity work,
when it has been difficult, in the
terms of the fraternity, to put over
good copy, no matter how interest
ing the theme, / have never seen a
time nor situation which produced
its own copy and where the editors
were so eager for Stories Gilpin
has now its great opportunity. If the
feeling of fraternity and general COM
radship which is the basis on which
empires are built, can be flared into
q flame sufficient to light the torch
Of greater interest in this place, the
people Of this section have no need
to- bother over the future. Capital
will find its way into community
which promises returns and where
people seem to be imbued with an
idea of the common good. Every help
and influence possible to command
should be given those who are en-
deavoring to secure capital for tie
development of the radium properties.
Il seems impossible to dwell amidst
Z place so blest by the Greater Pow
er and not feel the stirring Of an i'm
pulse to further its development. Gil
ep1n is, indeed, q wonderful place and
it does not depend on its glorious
past record to make it wonderful, as
great and as marvellous as that has
been. In fact, this sections most
miraculous successes are still for the
future Contemplate the possibilities
of radium and then pause to consid-
er that here the ore which contains
this most beautiful of all elements,
is mined!
1t seems beyond belief that the ore
which has engaged the attention of
the entire scientific world should be
produced right here in our midst.
When we think of Madame Curie,
working in her laboratory. of BeT-
tram Boltwood at Yale, experiment
ing with Gilpin county ore, of the
foreign governments sending their
finest experts here to study the for
nation of pitchblende and of every
scientist in the entire country look
ing to Gilpin for the production of
an element which makes possible a
revolution in medicine and a great
step in progress, we should 6el the
advantage of being in proximity to
such a developm ent. Every man who
has a claim in the pitchblende belt
should use every effort to work that
claim-to help in the development OF
such a rare ore. In word, we
should be as brothers and one, at
least, in an effort to put Gilpin on
the map"
For. after all, the old fable of the
bundle of sticks is applicable to ev-
cry situation where cooperation Is
the main element to success. Divid-
ed by any local dissension or feeling
Of rivalry little can be accomplished.
Denver today is the greatest monu-
mental city to the truth of the say
ing that "a people divided are peo-
Pile weakened, that exists. Separate
ly, the sticks were easily broken: :
when they were bound together, they
were strong enough to resist a giant,s S
hands. This is not a political arti-
Gle or the reason for Denver's weak
ness at present could be easily ex-
planned This has solely to do with
Gilpin, the smallest and the most elo-
quent county in the state. For Gil
pin has spoken with gold and silver
and precious metals and now 1t cries
to the world for recognition OF its ra-
dunn. And its cry shall reach across
the seas that lie between us and the
other worlds which produce radium
bearing ore. Eventually we shall be
bound together with them and every
scientist shall know OF Gilpin.
The greatest of all the foreign sci
entists who visited this section. re-
marked as he drove up Quartz hill:
Years ago / studied at Vienna. at
Perlin, at Paris and always my great
ambition was to walk up this hill
which learned was known as the
most mineralized hill in the world. II
was my one dream and 1t grew with
the years. l have waited and now II
is realized"
So saying he threw out his arms
and with his head back looked ovel
the hills, his attitude prayer OF
thankfulness for an ambition realiz
ed.
Do we, who always dwell here, ap
preciate. as did this man OF interim
tional reputation, the wonders o
Quartz hill?