Show RADIUM FROM UTAH ORES Some time ago we made mention In these columns of the efforts of a Buffalo Buf-falo man to produce the exceedingly rare metal radium from Utah carno lite said to he the richest In radium of any substance yet found It seems that a company Ions been formed In Buffalo to extract radium from Utah ores and that the company proposes to make that metal n marketable commodity com-modity whereas it Is now only a chemical chem-ical marvel obtained at Immense pains and cost The lion Age gives this account of the venture A few years ago Stephen T Loclcwood of Buffalo while In the West met two nmsnontnrs who in pfifirihtnir for rook nrul silver had il11CC with some ptcullnr ore de Jiosltn hi Grand county Utah They went the ore to an nssnyur who reported not a traco of the precious metals There was much uranium however and Mr Lock wood knowing Its commercial value urged the Importance of the discovery on the prospectors with whom he hud become be-come associated and claims were staked out upon tho whole deposit The Utah biHTwas caruollte a combination of uranium urani-um vanadium Iron copper and barium and as later researches showed radium and polonium Affr cntnbllshlng title to tho claim Mr Lockwood hiut returned East and subsequently hocumc Interested In the discovoiy of Professor and Madame Curio and Professor Bocaucrcls an jiouriccmcnt of tho radioactivity of uranium urani-um followed as it was by the discovery of radium This suggested to Mr Lockwood that tho uranium from Utah would yield i radium as well as the uranium extracted from the flinty pitchblende Tho carnolllc from Utah was much easier to work than the pitchblende Mr 1 Lockwooil with tho aid of George Banta a young mining engineer also of Buffalo began the search and at last a sample of radiumbarium compound was produced which showed a potentiality of Stn on the delicate electroscope in Columbia university A testing plant will soon be built at or near Buffalo with a capacity for tho re duction of two tons of ore a day Such a plant would turn out dally 100 pounds of uranium oxld worth 2 per pound 10000 grammes of crude radiumbarium compound com-pound of 10 unit activity duo to the radium radi-um worth about 2 cents a gram and 100 Rounds of othdr motnlHr t 3lilno trnmvn to contain another radiant metal polonium j polo-nium Tho crude radiumbarium product will bo converted Into a chlorld salt I and the process of eliminating the barium chlorld begun When the mass of 10000 grams has boon reduced to 100 grams the compound com-pound will have an activity of 1000 units and If properly dried and sealed In a tuba will glow Upon being still further concentrated con-centrated to 10 grams of 1000 units activity It would bo unsafe to carry on ones person per-son except In a lead case A final concert tratlou of the ID grams to 1 gram of 100 000 unitsncllvlly will provide a compound SO per cent barium and 10 per cent radium chlorld Such a compound placed In a lit tie t aluminum shell and fitted Into a lead tube of suitable thickness will provide an instrument which may be carried about by a physician In his instrument cane along with a iluoroscope and will servo the functions of a roomful of Xray gen orating apparatus and fixtures it no con nf onomtlnn maliitonnnro rnm oi I nr n n pair Such an Instrument Is Immediately con vertible Into a perpetual lamp of several candle power by removing the lead stop per from the tube and Inserting In Its placu H hollow cylinder of cardboard or thin aluminum heavily coated on the outslilo with ft zinc nulphld preparation Tho ra dium rays which emerge only from tho opening of the tulib must nil encounter this I sulphid compound nnd will cause It to phosphoresce Mr Lockwood stales that he thinks that In the not distant future radium ulll bo made as a commercial article for light producing purposes Under the systini of progressive reductions In the cxliatlon of radium from the rarnollto which It IK proposed to use at the testing plant which the company will build hoe uyproducts of Iron and copper which will be obtained will themselves be valuable The Tribune had an account of that I uranium find In Grand county at the time It was made and commented on its singularity but of course wIth no idea of Its radiumproducing qualities in fact radium was then unknown |