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Show GREAT INTEREST IN URANIUM ORE Senators Clark and Kcarns Preparing to Do Big Things in Dry Valley Near Moab ' Secretary Lane Talkative. People who have been watchlnjr the progress of the development develop-ment of enrnotite nnd urnnlum clnlms throughout Eastern nnd Southeastern Utah for n considerable time, will be interested in the Htntcment below from Frnnklln K. Lane, secretary of the interior, in-terior, concerning these minerals. Further interest is added locnl-ly locnl-ly by tho presence in the Monb country Inst week of Thomns Kcarns of Salt Lake City and W. A. Clark of New York City, each n multimillionaire multi-millionaire and a former United States Scnntor, the former from Utah nnd the Inttcr from Montnnn. These gentlemen have large holdings in the Dry Valley and La Sal Mountain sections nnd thnt they are satisfied with the showings there nnd are going to do things nt once nnd on n big scale Is admitted by them. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT PRESS BULLETIN. WA8IIINOTOV. I) C. July 31 -Hccrrtnry of the Interior rrnnklln K. I jinn nnimutuwi thnt the production of radium from Colorado enrnotite ores by tho bureau of mines. In connection con-nection with the Nntlonnl ltndlum Institute, In-stitute, hns punned tho experimental Bin ne In Its new prnries nnd Is now on n successful mnnufncturlnir basis. He nlso declared thnt tho statements made to congress concenrlnic the ability of the bureau of mines to produce radium ra-dium at a greatly reduced cost over other proccsne had actually been accomplished ac-complished nnd thnt tho costs were even less O.nn predicted. The cost of one irrnm of milium metal produced In the form of bro-; bro-; mlde during; March, April nnd May of I tho present eur wn $38,010, 1 mil 1 Informed by Charles K 1'arsons, In I chnrge of the radium Invcutlgntlon of , the bureau. This Includes cunts of 1 ore, Insurance, repairs, nmnrtlinllon I allowance for nnd equipment, cot of , bureau of mints co-operation, nnd nil ' expenses Incident to the production of I high grade radium bromide. When . you consider that radium hns been ' nolllng for 1120,000 and 1180.000 s gram, you will see Junt what the bureau bu-reau of mines hns nccompllshsd along ' these lines. Tho cost or producing radium ra-dium In tho small experimental plant during tho first few months of tho bureau's activities wits somen hnt higher but not enough to seriously affect af-fect tho final average. "The public, however, should not Infer llml IliU InW mat nf irmluetlllll necessarily means nn Immediate drop In the selling price of radium. The Nntlonnl Itadlum Institute was fortunate fortun-ate In securing through the t'rucllde Hteel company the right to mine ten claims of carnotlte ores belonging to them ami this wns practically the only ore available at the lime. Hluce then new deposits Iwixu been opened, but these nre closely held nnd lu-ttirdlng to the best judgment of the experts employed by the bureau of mines the Colorado and I'lah fields, wblth are, iniiili richer In radium hearing ores than any others known, Mill supply oro for u few enrs only at the rule of production thnt obtained when the Kuropean war closed down the mined. The demnnd for nullum Mill also Increase In-crease rapidly for the two or three nuryvoits who have n suffbleut Unn-tlt Unn-tlt of this to spenk from experience are obtaining results In the cure of nicer that are Increasingly encour-aging encour-aging as their knowledge of Its application appli-cation Improves. A rew more reports like thnt presented to the American Medlrul association at Its recent Han Kntneltro meeting mid the medical profession ns a whole will Im convinced convinc-ed of Its offleaoy. I'nder all the clr-cumi.tuurcs clr-cumi.tuurcs thnt buve come to my knowledge It does seem to me thnt It behuoves the government to make some arrangement whereby theae deposits, de-posits, so unique In their extent and their Ichnrss, mny tie conserved In - tho truest sense for our people, by ex-. ex-. trading the radium from the ores where It now lies useless nnd putting It to work for the eradication of can-! can-! cer In the hospitals of the army and navy nnd the public health service. "The ten carnotlte claims being operated op-erated at Uing Turk, Colp.. by the National Na-tional Itadlum Institute have iitreudy produced oT .'even hundred and nlnety-tlx tons nt oto nveiaglnx above 3 tier cent uranium oxide The cost of ore delivered at the radium plant In Denver has averaged $81.11) psr ton. This Included IS per cent rojully, salary sal-ary of bureau of mines emplojes, amortisation of camp and equipment and till expenses Incident to the mining, min-ing, transportation, grinding and sampling of the ore A concentrating plant for low grade ores has been erected at the mines and Is miceess-full) miceess-full) recovering materials formerly wasted, drlndlng and sampling machinery ma-chinery has been Installed nt Denver und a radium extraction plant erected In the same ilty The radium plant lias now a i-upaclty of three tons of ore per day. having been more than doubled In site since last February, llufore that time tho plant had been run more or less on an experimental scale although regularly producing radium since June, 191 1. "To July 1, 1914, slightly over three grums of rudium metal had been obtained ob-tained In the form of radium burium sulfate containing over one milligram of radluir to the kilogram of sulfates. The conversion of tho sulfates Into chlorides and the purification of the radium therefrom Is easily accomplished accomp-lished and with very small loss of r" -terlal Unfortunately, however, special spe-cial acid proof enamel ware, obtainable obtain-able only In France, has not been delivered de-livered of sufficient capacity to handle han-dle tho urystallxallon of the full plant production, so that a little lean than half tho output, or to he exact, thirteen thir-teen hundred it.d four milligrams of radium element have been delivered to the two hospitals connected with the National Itadlum Institute. The radium remaining can be crysUllied at uny time from neutral solution In apparatus Installed, but the greater rapidity nnd efficiency of production of (his very valuable material by the methods used have decided tho bureau of mines to nwnlt tho completion of apparatus now being built before pushing the chloride crystnlltatlon to full capacity. "The average radium extraction of nil ore mined by the Nntlonnl Itadlum Institute has been over IS per cent of the amount present In the ore as determined' de-termined' by nclunl measurement The amount present In the oro has been found In fact to be essentially the same ns tho theoretical nmount required re-quired by tho uranlutn-radlum ratio. The extraction figures for tho last five enrtonds of carnotlte treated has shown n recovery of over 90 per cent I' i each case. A bulletin giving details de-tails of mining, concentration nnd methods of extraction Is being prepared pre-pared by the bureau of mines nnd will be Issued early In the fall." TWO HIENATOIIH U'lit.b l'l.llKi:i with nirv vam.kv huovin;k Highly pleased with the quality of oro found on their hundred nnd fifty uranium claims in Dry Valley, and satisfied this field will ttccnmn probably prob-ably the biggest producer of radium In the world, Henntor William A. Clark of New York City nnd Henstor Thomas Kcarns nnd It. J. Milne of Halt I-oko City, have returned to their homes from n three days' Inspection trip to their mines, says Moab's Times of Inst Saturday. Senators I'lnrk nnd Kearns visited practically every one of their claims In Dry Valley, secured scores of samples of the different kinds of ore nnd famlllnrlied themselves with the nature of the uranium deposits. They were more than pleased with n number num-ber of the claims, where Inrge quantities quanti-ties of high grnde ores have been mined nnd the deposits seem to be getting larger ns work goes on. One claim Is said by experience miners to tie the richest and largest uranium mine In the West. On account nf the fact that work nt the Standard Chemical company mill In l'arndox has been shut down, the iwrty did not visit that field. It hnd been their Intention to look over the concentrating system used at the Standard mill. That n milt will lie Installed In-stalled In the near future will undoubtedly un-doubtedly be one of the results of the senators' visit. They expressed themselves them-selves as entirely satisfied with the outlook for the field. Senator's Clark und Keurns looked over the Dig Indian copper properties, and the former secured iv Inrge num-tier num-tier of samples of the ore. These he will have assayed, and If the values ire satisfactory, he may decide to get control of the properties and work them. 1;. I). Clark of Ophlr, manager of - the Ophlr 1 III mine which Is owned 4 by Senutor Clsrk, who accompanied 1 the party to the field, stayed ov.r h there to visit tho Lisbon copper prop- 4 ertles as wejl as conduct a more ex- J tensive Investigation of the uranium - holdings. |