Show LOCATING CLAIMS ON BLUE MOUNTAIN eight or ten miles allies of hound staked out by colorado Color iilo people man steven hyrum and will mantle and charles faucett have been over in the blue mountain country looking after their uranium and vanadium claims they have aboul twelve claims which thi th located so bething lir tu tuy years ago the boye say are V lateen 4 to twenty mn front from dener ner and other parts of ollio do in that part of the country locating claims ana that they have staked off eight or ten miles of ground in addi tion to uranium and nadin va um there is said to be lead copter zinc and gold in these mountains colorado people have made such a protest against th withdrawal of uranium and vanadium lands that the chances are favorable that the plan of secretary of the interior lane will be defeated senator john of colorado in speaking against the withdrawal of these lands said if the government wants to go into the mining business let it go into it on the same basis as the private individual probably no other mi mineral nral is mined which has so large continued on 2 CLAIMS ON illum continued from froidl page 1 a hold on public attention und and at the same iame time has so small a total monetary value as the uranium minerals minei als tah interest is of couie cot tise due not to the minerals as such nor to tile the titanium eliy contain but to the accompanying radium which Is found only with uranium hitherto the interest in radium lively has been laidely nead academic emle on account of the n ittes which it displays when complied with known tle le ments towai toward d the end of 1913 however hoever public interest intel Inte est iest became almost feverish owing to the apparent cures of cancel wrought avi ought by the application of tile the ganima gamma rays given off by minerals beio produced in commercial quantity in the united states in ili 1913 as shown by sta ata tibal s gathered by L hc aa of the united states 10 to logical aulvey only in colorado and utah and alt although houll dining the some pitchblende was malmd in colorado Col loi ado in III the belchou calhoun mines only a ann fo sold though 60 50 di daiy diy y tona toils ot ol low giado mate ilal cai lying 1 49 per cent uranium oxide aas ds shipped to fiance Iii ince giom the klik kiik mine blits had been mined in a pi previous evious deal cai Caino tite a yellow powdery oi 01 waxy mancial found in ili the sandstones of tile the high plateau b between tween the rocky mountains of Col colliado ColoiA do and the san ra ila fael swell of utah south of 0 the book cliffy cliffs furni furnished blied tho the whole production pio |