Show I 1 news taken from front page of 1914 green river dispatch although the current uranium boom here is of very recent origin the words and uranium were familiar in green river as far back as 1914 your editor was fortunate fortuna te in the use of an old green river malcom an old time green river business man As proof that this part of the county was known long ago to be rich in the resources of and uranium the journal now re produces parts of the front page news found in the march 12 1914 lisue issue of the old green river dis patch following is the exact wording of the headlines and story found in the first column on page 1 LEG BROKEN MINER HAULED IN WAGON GREEN RIVER G T halladay of grand junction who was painfully in aured at the mine of the standard chemical co in the henry mountains miles from this city last wednesday was brought here arriving friday the man suffered intense agony during the trip but his nerve was like iron he was immediately put on no 6 and taken to his home in grand junction where he has a family consisting of a wife and three children the accident is described as fol lows A huge rock weighing at last a thousand pounds fell and mr halladay was partially caught beneath it breaking his lus left leg cutting a bad gash in his head mashing his left side and one arm badly rendering the man ancon for fully 15 minutes four men tugged hard to move the rock sufficient to rescue hal laday the broken limb was set by lorenzo hatch who with wm accompanied the injured man to this city also on the front page in an other column these short news items appear we have copied them exactly as first printed E V grant and his sister were in from their uranium camp and attended the ball saturday even ing E V says they are getting along fine with the work but bothered a little by rising water in the san rafael river taking out his foot bridges that are used in going from one claim to another on both sides of the stream 0 P hall and pome roy returned saturday from the henrys where the latter was looking at the claims be longing to hall and associates with a view to buying them pomeroy made no statement be yond acknowledging that he found a good showing he is still looking around sizing up the properties hereabouts and it is likely that before dav ng ig green pomeroy will close a deal fur some properties what a familiar ring all these stories have havel the chief difference between then and now being that science has now solved the secret of loosing the atoms en ergy the uses for uranium are expanding rapidly we are look ing forward to the use of fission able materials to furnish power for industry and for other peace time purposes instead of just as a war time ace in the hole ore is in urgent demand now huge tock piles of it must be avail able before industry can attempt to change over to atomic power |