Show Fi > 0 TUNGSTATE Li 8JttBlKxrg Has a Corner on the Precious V cious Chemical 1 < 0JTTSBURG April OSJ HttElbnrs V 0 bas cohered the lungstate market by s 0 0 a deal that brought three drams of this precious chemical to this city and the price has gone up from 288 a pound to 576 within the last month Tungstate is the substance used in a combination with calcium to make Xrays visible The man who cornered the market is a wealthy Pittsburger interested in scientific sci-entific discoveries When the discovery of tungstate of calcium as a medium to make the rays visible was announced the young man went to Professor TIngley of the Allegheny Al-legheny High school to see the experiment experi-ment with this chemical The professor profes-sor explained that the high school was just out of tungstate and that it might be some time before any would be furnished for such experiments The young man pondered a moment and then asked Professor Tingley if he would accent some from him and goon go-on with the experiments Professor Tingley gave his assent and the young man went out to hunt some up It w snot s-not to be found in Plttsburg but he was given an address in New York which he took home with him He ordered a pound of tungstate In two days the reply was received stat ing the house had not that much in stock but had sent all over New York City and would forward as much as they could get Shortly afterwards came a aackaere with three drams and a bill for 9 The experiments were entirely successful suc-cessful and then a letter was received from Chicago asking if he would sell part of his stock Then a letter came next day from New England asking the same thing and following them came requests from all over the coun try for some of the valuable stuff Even New York dealers sent on and now the price has crept up from 53 to 56 a dram |