Show dsi ua lii I I I PAGE two THE MOAB TIMES-INDEPENDENT assayed for gold and tests that are applied substance were made cculd be learned about tt Among the men working on the la Sa) mines for James McBride & in CoLpany Charles Poulet was one the renchman from University of Pans The finders of the ore turned him help but like the for other first he Goal nu-d from pagei aayers was unable to determine character iriven a week's work in a carnotite mam trank of the carnotite tree In this dilemma Poulet sent some mining camp and any miner will The portion of the ore left toward of the ore to the University of Paris it Given a month's work in the bottom of the tree had occupied where it was classified as uranium a carnotite camp and a gocri and an area about four feet in diameter oxide and The color was new will be able miner closely showing that in its day the tree had of this distinctionof color it to estimate the value of the ore So been a large me At very a later was classified separately and named day much for ease of identifying the ore there had been rich in of then very body Carnotite h'nor Carnot Painted yellow and black as it is of carnotite ore lying across this presiient of There rance was the carnotite advertises itself to stream-bed but the miners of today then no market for this material seeker had thousand yean and although of it come several too much located late to mine that "tree" brought by the prospectors these was abandoned Carnotite "Tree" men with of is said me to Salt take samples their claims It that Carnotite ore lies in the horizontal carnotite ore showing the rings of Gordon Kimball took out a few tons of the sandstone bed McElmo forgrowth the tree the of thi structure and Rock Creek ore from the Prospector Awaits Wealth suit It the all lut Carnotite Moab JULY 22 ls20 wa uaual unknown an 'm THURSDAY UTAH We thing ield a Are t Headquarters it- recognize observant because or I ‘ir 'o a -? 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TTWEJwfT x: Oats A Main Carnotite Camp Parties are Sent Wheat Chopped a Standard Chemical Co Small Prospecting Here to Search the Sandtone "Veins'' Belonging (Jul from Bran and to Wheat mation During the time the Mc-Elmo evidences of vegetable origin of this claims and some of this was shipped down a ore which replaced the vegetation of to Paris were being laid Of this ore a portion forest trees covered the present much earlier tim found its way to the laboratory of carnotite area These trees toppled M and Mme Curie About 1897 they Area to Prospect in the over duly burled sands were this made the discovery of the presence and later vegetable matter was The McElmo sandstones have of radium and of the quality of the replaced by mineralization we thickness of about 100 feet and so This of course at once The various far as now recognize as carnotite known it is only nrofi made this element of immense metallurgical processes involved hie to now make the search in this hori- importance new and the developmentof in the treatment of the carnotite zcn The sandstone is white and the uranium field began until ore radium is recovered have easily distinguished from the In red these early days the carnotite the demonstrated conclusively that sandstones above and below it In ore was sought only for its uranium and trees other forms of vegetation fact it would that guides to this content from which radium is of the McElmo period were directly ore had been seem painted by Nature as if the of Recently importance the to say "Look in the white sandstone vanadium in steel-hardening causes of the precipitation of the processes beds uranium and vanadium values and take the yellow and has black made the vanadium oxide's frirtitna " In fact the richest deposits of carnotite nrn Thom ItAt urmr most desirable m fc' u& constituent an and ci uuoiigiLHt:tunsiuuen now ore "trees" Most of the ore now being mined the carnotite occur as rom ore is bought and paid such one tree $25000 was recovered comes from the sandstone ledger in' for on the basis of its content of in gulches The rocks are bare both a comparatively short time another the uranium and vanadium oxides tree this a small ont - easily examineci ana once tne evi-deuce - and of a tree is recently yielded $6000 found mining proImportance of Radium saw fifteen twls till the sacks of ore weighing all told about deposit is worked out) ton of A ordinary carnotite ore 1500 pounds which were shipped a Exploration and development has' assaying about 2 per cent uranium! oxide contains only 125 milligrams or radium or recoverable radium in beds of A a I radio-activity derived : 1 - ' j v 1 1 i Moab l i I I i ' 1 part out of one hun-! Practice has shown necessary to handle and 1000000 pounds of to a radium recover gram atuhority figures that including coal water and chemicals the must handle more than of tons raw material to produce of an ounce radium No such effort has ever before been reqtfired to produce a spoonful of any single ele- somethinglike treat of ore One producers 50-000 ypical Carnotitte Dump Illustrates horizontal andtnne the on ? beds of Ore the the Zrt I'' and ment The in a tablespoon is in the neighborhood total of $3000000 The supply of radium in the hopeful side world today is estimated to be six of the picture lies in the indestructibility an hardly of radium seven ounces the amount Every gram that sufficient to fill - is to added what we already have cup from which is in the morning coffee The nature of a permanent you drink your total annual production of the metal urthermore only radium throughout the world is now about loses its power at the rate of about one and comes chiefly of one ounce a year per cent each of Colorado In from the carnotite ores other words it takes year and Utah The present value of 1690 years for the metal this annual output which can be held to lose one-half of its potency Then after a second period of 1690 of eyars we still have radium energy we startedwith one-quarter the Uses or addition one-thirty-third ap-praximately j"""! - Radium of The medical fraternity of the world has come to accept radiumas treatment for cancer beenPermanent said to have accomplished cures are large and practically everythat is city hospital as at least one a (Continuedon three) nage - - the ratio of one dred million that it is Jyl - BBNLjr BOB Garage Co - Iri show kat J I? sparse vegetation the outcrop s' irV nJ A 4 V® W -d dr i z7 A ul i z - L n m jm v-r" -(?s DIHHESE J Longthwi ooking Through from which "tree" has the a -s or SiiIeComfori and Good Service PETERS "DIAMOND BRAND" SHOPS e Cavity carnotite been mined out Every BssCWm Our ) AZ Low Styles Shoe Pair Are Solid Now I Leather Special on Styles Are the Newest the Values the Best I The Throughout Display 1 ago and brought the miner been and is now an unknown quantity between $2500 and $3000 or nearly small producers among the $200 per sack Therefore the object They only seek a new deposit after of they search is a "tree" have exhausted their present Often a bit of a branch or a root find side of the even ancient trunk or a Discovery of Carnotite Ore is exposed in the sides of the gulch With this small indication to go on The discovery of carnotite ore the is tree steadily uncovered and came as such things often do wholly the At by In 1895 ore mined times the process accident there was of erosion has entirely removed discovered on Rock Creek in Montrose the of overlying sandstone and exposed county Colorado a body tree to rapid and lemon-colored a easy mining ore At first the find-! of In my recent examination of the ers thought it might be a form in just southeast of of gold Utah form chloride or again carnotite area of Moab I gulch in the that it might be merely yellow ochre saw a sandstone which was about fifty feet The Indians had long used this yellow lain to wide A carnotite tree had ore color their buckskin garments the gulch and to paint their faces and decorate crossways of this top branches had Iain in their trappings? In appearance roots and the it the gulch but either bank of was so much like sulphur that an tho erosion that developed attempt was made to burn it but same stream-bed had eroded wholly the of course with onfy a negative re- few days 1 HI ‘1 ill & Our Prices Are Especially Moderate 1 t A Big Shipment of Just T Summer ootwear Arrived t : You Will COOPER Be Pleased With the MARTIN Many Beautiful & Numbers COMPANY |