Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-11-28 | Page 7 | Colorado Radium Mine Closes Down

COLORADO RADIUM MINE i CLOSES DOWN DEWER Nov Radium haa dropped 150,000 a gram in price, and the Standard Chemical company has been forced to close Its carnotlto properties pro-perties In Paradox Valley In western west-ern Montrose county. Colorado, : throwing 250 men out of work, ac-oordlng ac-oordlng to an announcement mad by officials of tho company hero today, i Discovery of vast deposits of pltch-I pltch-I blende in the Belgian Conjro Is said j to be responsible for the decrease In prl( e of radium, which le said to sell for $70,000 a gram now, compared with $120,000 a gram formerl. oo