Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-01-18 | Page 30 | Plans of American Radium Company

US OF AMERICAN UDnHOMnW Contemplate Building Reduction Reduc-tion Works Here for the World's Newest Industry. Dr. A. Brodbeck of this city, penoral maunper of the American Kndium company, com-pany, reports substantial progress iu tho company's work, Ho says this concern con-cern owns a number of radium mines in Utah and Colorado, and hns lately acquired ac-quired several valuable carnotito claims. Until a comparatively recent dato it wuh thought radium could bo extracted only from pitchblende, but. it is now an ascertained fact that tho uranium ore, also known as enrnotito. found in Utah and Colorado, contains onough radium ra-dium to miihc it commercially protit-1 protit-1 able, and it is Jikeh' these two suites soon will bceomo the chief sources ot tho world 's Supply. ( The American .Radium company was organized si.v months ago by Utah, Colorado and Wyoming mon, and within tho last fow weeks, according to Dr. Brodbeck, Pittsburg capitalists havo entered en-tered tho companv, and about February t one of them will cnler tho directorate to represent the interests of his Pittsburg Pitts-burg friends. Jt is said Salt Lake will be made tho center of tho company's operations, nnd that a concentration plant and radium extraction works will bo built hero and a largo number of men cmplovcd iu the mines nnd mills. Dr. 'Brodbeck says favorable contracts havo been made with a firm in Hamburg, Ham-burg, (Jcrmany, so that tho company not only has llio natural material, but a market for its goods. Another fen-turo fen-turo of this industry soldoui touched upon, is that because of their radio activity, ac-tivity, these ores, or their residue after milling, constitute an excellent fertilizer, fertil-izer, for which the market is' practically unlimited. In addition to tjio Amorican Radium company, thcro are several others in tho field. Dr. Brodbeck says his investigations investiga-tions havo convinced him that the United States has enough radium oro to slippy- tho world.