Show RADIUM IN emary COUNTY castle dale progress if it is radium and uran iun the world wants it need look no further than emery county about every known precious mineral in this world can be found in limited quantities in this section and many of the baser metals in greater quantity than almost any other place radium and uranium however are very rare aar e metals and are never found in great quantities any place and then always so associated with other metals that their presence is hard to determine recently there appeared a scare head article in a st louis paper stating that radium existed in the southeastern part of emery county in greater quantity than known to elsewhere the man that made that statement however was largely drawing upon the imagination but it seems seem s to I 1 be a fact as later developments prove for several years oscar beebe of bemry has known of the presence of a queer look ing mineral in the south end of the san rafael swell this county mr beebe ran onto the stuff while looking after his stock in in that vicinity the agitation over radium and uranium set him to thinking that perhaps his queer looking stuff might be of some value and fetching some of it up to ira R browning of Cast ledale the latter sent a sample of it off to prof hildebrand of the united states geographical survey at washington and some of dr otto kuntze state mineralogist miner of iowa at iowa city the analysis made by prof hildebrand 0 was apparently a very complete one who pronounced the rock sent him carnacite carna tite anti and containing among several other minerals named per cent of uranium oxide and 1780 per cent of vanadium oxide some idea of the value of this ore may be gained when you know that uranium oxide is worth 4 per pound As radium like uranium can be found only in carnacite carna tite and that these twin metals are as closely associated as the letters q and u the certainty of radium is established other samples ples have been sent to various places to find competent an ah to test them for the wonderful metal radium beebe beeb e bro browning aning and symour seymour olsen have staked off two claims and are ard I 1 preparing to develop the property which lies about 40 miles southeast of the town of emery the carnacite carna tite is fou found nd in a fissure vein the width of which is close to 20 1 I 1 feet the sample sent to prof Hilde brend was of course a choice one hence it it is not fiot contended by the lo 10 locators cato s that they have a 20 foot body bo dy 1 of carnacite carna carn atit tite d running 62 52 per cent ceci in uranium the vein matter shows pitchblende pitch blende and aswell as well thode two desirable associates with carnacite carna tite when tho the presence of radium is presumed |