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Show EXPECTATIONS BUILT ON VANADIUM Colorado is looming up big 'in the future of stool manufacture and steel manufacture is the ' Nation's greatest industry. Five to ten pounds of vanadium to tho ton greatly increases the toughness tough-ness and trengtli and doubles the life of steel. Vanadium is used now for the material employed in the construction con-struction of automobile parts, lopomo-tlvo lopomo-tlvo frames and many other things in which steel of a high quality Is required. If tho quantity produced can be made great enough, and '" cost of production low enough, it cai be used generally for rails and for structural steel. Vanadium is mined from sandstone beds that outcrop in the canvons of San Miguel and Montrose counties. If is occurs throughout the beds, as well as in the outcrops, the Supply will bo practically inexhaustible Kirby Thomas, in a recent issue of tho Mining Min-ing and Scientific Press, expresses tho opinion that tho ore will bo found throughout the beds. In this he agrees with other engineers familiar with the field. Given a supply of ore, the general uso of vanadium In steel manufacture depends upon reducing the cost of extracting the metal from the ore. During the past year the price has ranged from $3 to $5 a pound This means a limited market. Metallurg-' Metallurg-' ists who have been working qn tho problem say that the cost of production produc-tion per pound can be cut to GO cents or less. If this can bo done, tho market mar-ket will be limited only by thq steel output of the world. It will take vanadium van-adium out of the rare-metal class and make it a staple in steel manufacture. So encouragoing is the outlook that well-posted men are predicting that within ten yeJ.rs vanadium will be '' the most Important mining industry of tho State. And well-posted capital whenever the opportunity occurs. Is picking up vanadium property. Denver Den-ver Times. An eastern wife carries into court considerable grievance. She says that her husband bedecks her in costly dress and jowols and puts her on dls-plav dls-plav in hotel corridors,RV part of his plan to "put UP a Bood front' That fellow should have botignt a modisto's dummy and hired window tpa'ce. Historians" who Base dates upon their relation to tho blrj wind in Ire- . land will have to provo that that breeze beat New York's 110 miles an hour. |