Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1919 — Fear Radium Shortage. [ARTICLE]

Fear Radium Shortage.

A shortage of radium was recently forecast by Dr. Blanchard B. Moore of the United States bureau of mines. “It is difficult to estimate the amount of radium in existence at present,” said Doctor Moore. “Six years ago the engineers of the bureau of mines estimated that at the current rate of production the deposits might, last, commerciallyj .10 or 12 years.”