Show FIRST RA RADIUM IUM FACTORY I it was possible to bu buy ONE I radium at 2 I a now the price is 90 O a equal to an mInce n l rids was s ono one of HI the striking striking state monts II Iti 1 a very cry do de Iverel by Sir Wilam Ramsay at the tho of ofa a lew factory II us an suburb or of London To The British Radium corporation which hi a going to extract flOI pich pitch blonde blende found In the Trenwith mine Cornwall Is belIeved to bo be the first compan In the world to thu tho of the tho on Oil ona Oila a commercial basl basi baslA basiA A secret process discovered b by SIt Sir William Ramsay himself who II Is chlor consulting chemIst to lo the corporation wil will reduce the perIod perlo of manufacture from nine to six or seven weeks week rk In the factory wi will at the end of this his year eRI and n a plant has been beon er ted at SI S Ives Ies Cornwall where the pitch ole ore wi will ho bo crushed so that the tot fa I t treatment ma may be scat sont up to London In the tho moro more portable ferns Corm Cormor or of 01 or ore are Evel Even EvenIn In UtIs crude state stute makes It its presence fel felt ad and hO hoary rubber slave gloves havo to bo worn by I It At the cere m moisy n Si Sir William Ramsay traced the tise progress or knowledge con coit concerning earning the iho now element from the In of to the themora themore more mora definite discoveries of M Id and Mme CUlle Curio lie He then spoke of that dIscovery concernIng ra lef left alone alono It giveR a a of the tho Into Ise he Hum lIum taking taking place spontaneously R R lum Iso said Is always changing into In the carl early days the tho ani only available sources of radium were In Austria Titans was some land In Sweden which a smal small amount of oC radium hut not In sufficient quantity to lOPa tite tho cost caNt of extraction When the possibilIties of at the Cornwall mines wele frt firSt mentioned Sir 1111 confessed Iso ho discouraged the tho Idea idea thinking that tho demand would not ho be great But things have changed since then theis The Tho Royal socIety bell very anxIous to get et souse SOme radium tried to toot get ot It from Austria but the Austrian germent placed a ass embargo on the tho of 01 and The he Prince or of lent his o the wih with the result that the Austrian agreed to give It half a ton of resl resi duC dues which was sent to Paris to ho be worked up Thou hen King Ing E Edward war took tooka a great Interest In the mat matter r and the tho Institute was by Sir Enet Ernest Cassel and Lord rd Iveagh The of which ha has ben been reco recovered rel for scientific ur use I throughout the tho world Is estimate estImated not notto notto to exceed a quarter of a pound of tho 1 uses 8 of l tu I Sir WIlliam ld said I It Is known alread already that that the dlIN rodent ulel ulcer ha has hen been cured b by radium compounds I it has been trie trIed for can ean cancel cel cor but so fat ral the are arc not fn en Oe Otso c Cace b by radium shows improvement That U i a as far Car a as asI I c can g go RadIum h has been n round found useful In skin Of cou Course the whole Is just at the antI and tile tho object ef the In Institute In London antI ami r Institutes thron h hout out the world wIll 11 bo be to the tho curative power of at radIum more macro thor wi tho ho increased output of b be more appreciated than In the tha i London hospital where the total tock stock i I Is only 16 It I looks like a few Cew grains Ins of I I sand In the tho little apparatus used In the tho light pre process Is radium worth h OO rh rhe folk of St he In n thell theli picturesque huts of weathered granite Ie lew the tIm con coming ng Chan cs wih wills no friendly 00 I It Is cor hO ol St lc Ivea wi wIll In the near future it a bu busy Industrial center and Q as the water which passes I I through through the tho pitchblende ore oro al also o ps pea 1 IS curative Powers It Is quio bie Ie that may yet see Heo the lots of for tor the ere ton V treatment of oC certain York Sun |