Show IN PHOM DUGWAY Work on St George Copper Com paiiys Property Manager 1 L Cutler Is In for a few days from the 51 George Copper com panys property in the Dugwuy mountains moun-tains He says thai his company Is working the largest 1 force In that region re-gion five men They are down seventy feet iff a shaft and arc still sinking The vein that is being followed fol-lowed is from four to live feet In thickness thick-ness Its mineral contents are copper and Iron From f to 40 per cent copper cop-per is indicated by the assays The hoisting In done by a whip which IIr I Cutler finds to be the most economical method at that depth The building of the Leamington cutoff cut-off has reduced the distance to railroad by fifteen or twenty miles the present distance being forty miles Theie Is a good road for the entire distance Mr Cuter makes no predictions as to the time when shipments will begin He says that Charles Scheu has been doing do-ing a good deal of work in the vicinity employing four mel while Angus Cannon Can-non has had three working The 81 George Copper company deserves de-serves credit for an act Qf benevolence hardly to be expected from a soulless corporation At considerable expense a well was driven to a depth o fifty feet close by the moral to Fish Springs A fairly good quality of water was secured se-cured md the St George well has become be-come one of the most popular resorts In the whole country Travelers prospector pros-pector teamsters and Indians tine It constantly There is no other water on the road nearer than twelve miles Radium in Utah In Utah according to the Mining and Engineering Tleviow there are large deposits de-posits of radioactive uranium ores and compounds that are about to be opened up and by analysis it has been shown that the radium contents of these ores are about one gram to each ton of ore The details of the chemical reduction of these ore are being perfected per-fected when metallic uranium will be produced and radium as a byproduct at a very slight increase in the first cost ofreduction When some such a process as thin Is l available or a now substance found in which radium abounds in larger quanti ties than in pltchblend the exact amount of radium required to produce results equal to an xray machine of standard size will be necessary to llx the commercial values of the product I is believed that the radiumbarium of the highest activity can be produced at the rate of 200 per gram or 5100000 for COO grams which equals one and threct wen Het hs pounds |