Show editorial comment colorado has formed its mining mens association when may we expect some action looking towards the long delayed culmination mi of similar plans for utah several mines are now closed down 11 ap cause lead has gone to four cents a pound less than twenty years ago in 1896 lead ranged for many months between and cents per pound why this present wail the british columbia legislature has already passed bills regulating the production of radium the provincial government is to share in any discovery of radium in the province to the extent of fifty per cent the discoverer gets on proof of discovery and the mining laws are amended to separate radium ores from their application considering that nothing has been heard of commercial radium ore in british columbia the government certainly is forehanded the provision for a reward to the discoverer is a better incentive to prospecting than the attempted withdrawals in this country would have been one of the colorado daily papers bewails the fact that in a mining magazine published Publish edat bat denver there is more utah and nevada news than there is colorado the editor cannot fathom the reason perhaps there is more actual mining news in the states of utah and nevada than there is in colorado one fact is certain that the utah and nevada dailies are not cursed with th dearth of news as are the colorado dailies which themselves print more news from foreign exchanges than they do from their own camps the fact that colorado dailies pay little attention to mining is one reason for colorados present stagnation radium is not alone in its curative qualities we noted recently in the daily press great claims for a vanadium preparation as a blood tonic it was also stated that it acts as a of stock and some remarkable figures are given in this connection furthermore ther more vanadium fed chickens will keep indefinitely after death without the necessity of cold storage still other press dispatches mention the use of vanadium in giving greater life to rubber tires and similar products if some genius will ascertain that uranium will make gasoline give a higher duty and will make tough chickens tender the problem of the steadily accumulating uranium residues will be solved |