Times Independent | 1955-02-24 | Page 59 | Uranium Discovery in U. S. Made by Boy While Hunting

Uranium Discovery In US U.S. M Made de By Boy While Hunting The man who gets the credit for lor forthe forthe the first uranium discovery on the i Colorado Plateau is J. J L. L Wade now living at Long Beach Calif He Ile made his find in October 1888 at the mouth of Disappointment Disappoint Disappoint- ment creek in Colorado Later he be found more uranium deposits in in Paradox Valley and in hi the Four I Corners area where Colorado Utah New Mexico and Arizona come together Wade was 13 years old In in 1888 when he and his grandfather went wenton on a hunting trip At the mouth of Disappointment Creek where it empties into the Dolores River he be found a piece of queer appearing greenish ore He Ile thought it was was' some strange kind of copper and gave it to his bis father at home John James Wade a mining man at Mancos Colo The elder Wade couldn't the metal and sent it to an assayer in Denver who in turn sent it to Louis Giroux Gir- Gir our famous geologist in the Bishop Bishop Bish Bish- op district Two other French scientists and had bad known the ore in Austria where it was known as i iThe The Frenchmen and Giroux found other deposits in the Paradox Paradox Paradox Para Para- dox country in Colorado and named named nam name I ed it for Carnot who then was president of France At about this same time the Standard Chemical Co of Pitts Pitts- burgh Pa started extracting salts salta from uranium ore and in the Dr Howard A. A Ke Kelly 1 of Johns Johna Hopkins began uS using Jg radium salts salta in ia treatment of cancer But it took World War II to bring the uranium Industry to the forefront forefront forefront-as as a killer and aDd not Dot as asa asa asa a healer Now the reverse revera U Is ogre oare mare lON true a