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Show UTAH ORES FOUND TO BE RICH WITH RADIUM. ? H H New York, Jan. 22. Announcement recently made at a meeting of the Technology club that radium had been extracted from American ores has brought from Professor Alexander H. Phillips of Princeton university, who conducted the experiment, the statement state-ment that this latest discovery by scientists sci-entists will soon be so plentifully produced pro-duced in the United Statea aa to be within the reach of all branches of science. The ore used In the experiments experi-ments came from Utah. "The specimen was between twenty-five twenty-five and fifty pounds In weight," said Professor Phillips. "It was not the pitch blend used by the Curies In the manufacture of the French radium. It was carnotlte. an ore of canary color, containing, as I found, after experimenting experi-menting -lth It, oxide of uranium nnd -4 vanadium, combined with other oxide H that produce radium. "In extracting the radium, T used H the Curie method, which I took from H their paper, and I claim no credit. H "As a result of this first extraction H of American radium, arrangements ' have been made by certain persons In H Buffalo, who have soveral mines of H carnotlte, 'to manufacture radio-active H agents on a large scale; and, in my, 1 H opinion, it will soon be so plentiful that .iH j it will easily be within the reach of all j ; I branches of science. The Increased ( H production will naturally decrease if H cost, and there need be no fear of ex- ! ' H haustlng the American source of sup- , H plv, for T nm Informed that it is prac- B tlcally Utilities. : H "There is not the slightest doubt but j'H American radium can be made as , ;B strong as the Curie product, and equal- , . H y available for all scientific pUrposaO . H |