Show director holmes of the U S department of mines calls attention to the discovery of a process by the chemists chemis s of the bureau whereby radium which is sought for its supposed curative qualities can be produced at one third of its present cost with radium now selling at a gram its reduction in price to will it is said result in many hospitals throughout the country being able to purchase a supply the process devised by the bureau s chemists has already been tested with success in the plant of the national radium institute which is under the supervision of the technical staff of the bureau of mines |