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Show COLHCCiW mm office Pitchblende Producer Located Lo-cated in Boulder County Has Utah Backing. The Colombo ritehhle'.f.e aon-pany of Denver, in which rt':ih capital is heavily in vest oil. opens its .att Lake offices today to-day iii the K earns building. The Utah ufiiccs will bo in id or tho direct ion. oi I. i- 1 him, iec rotary and treasurer of the company. The Colorado Pithblondo oompnny fwes it:- heinni!,.p to the g.H'ernment regulation reg-ulation that put a t a x o f 1 0 per cent o n all -.-old producing proportion, according to ilr. limn. In 1 01 . tins- company was operating the Co.dt-n A:e mine, a .sold proper! y. in T'onlii-'r eounly. just 2 milos north-u north-u est of Denver. When the government regulation was put into effect, the ooin-p;i ooin-p;i ny felt that they could better operate on one r f the properties that had lat ne d.-po:ts ot f inorTar. So thev ceased op- era lions v the t.;hlen Ac, "and went to work to fill at S-J.uo" per ton a lri.oO ton contract for fluorspar, which is used to harden steel. When the company had filled "00 tons of this contract they" discovered laree de-1'OslI de-1'OslI of pitchblende, which is constituted of ura niutn, K'O'd. silver and other minerals. min-erals. From uranium, radium is made. Willi all possible expediency, tlie company com-pany hfiran to develop its rich deposits of pitchblende. A mill of loO ton capacity was leased from the Golden Ago company at a royalty roy-alty of per ton. In this mill, the ore is be in pc refined until the company can put into operation its bi new mill, purchased pur-chased recently. This mill, which ha? a lO'i ton capacity and which with the addition ad-dition of a few tables can he increased to a .d ton capacity, will be ready to operate in thirty days, states Mr. Ilrim. When this mill is installed, it will be the largest mill in lioukler county. The offict-rs of this company are as follows: J. F. Ha rn hi 11 of Denver, president presi-dent and manager; J. II. Hardv, of Salt Lake, vice pieshient; I. F. Ihim of gait Lake, secretary and treasurer. Tho directors di-rectors are: J. F. Kmnhhl J. H. Hardv; 1, F. r.rim; L'utrene T. Woollev of Grants-ville. Grants-ville. I'tah: Walter Lone, of Bmlcv, Idaho: and William liavnes mith of Vernal, Ver-nal, Utah. |