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Show MUCH CARNOTITE ORE IN HENRY MOUNTAINS O. P. Hall returned Monday from tho Henry mountains, where he Is Interested In raro mctala mining, says tho Green River Dispatch. Hall, together with J. W. Hitch and Josoph Germain, owns nineteen claims of rich oarnotlto ore on the cast slopo of North mountain. Tho property is known as the Crescent mlno, and tho vein:? and deposits, running for several hundred foot, aro four feet thick. According to assays made, tho ore runs from 2 per cent- to 8 per cent, somo of it much higher. "Wo havo a mllo of car-notlte," car-notlte," says Mr. Hall, "and I bollevo that It Is the richest discovery of car-notlto car-notlto tho world has over known." It Is understood that the Crescent owners own-ers aro preparing to market their ore. At tho office of tho Dispatch thero are some exceptionally line specimens of radium, brought In by local mining men from Ihclr claims. These specimens nro attracting much attention. General Manager E. V. Grant of the United States Radium corporatlo'n of Douvor. owning fifteen claims on both sides of the San Rafael river, west of this city hns contributed Homo of the finest of these ore samples, one lot In particular particu-lar calling forth many expressions of surprise sur-prise from mining men. Mr. Grant says these samples assayed 11.41 per cent uranium, which nt present prices would be worth SS00 per ton, as ?5 per pound Is now paid for all radium ores running run-ning over 10 per cent. |