Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1945 — Page 36

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1| Belgian Congo had long since closed dldown. Mining interests began to

4 Rock claims,

ii before the eyes of Josie Bishop,

{lin New York. She planned a home

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The discovery created an inter national furor, The Curle institute in Paris made tests and was con-

The precious substance was then ~and still is—mined at only one place in the world, and that was in Canada. One other mine in the

bid for drilling leases on the Red

Fantastic riches were dangled self-styled desert rat. She was feted in San Francisco, honored

{for crippled children—and a refuge orn-out prospectors, 8he | broug t with her to the streets {a whiff of pungent desert holly, Claim Mine “Salted”

Then an “official” test of sample ores from her mine showed no trace of radium. There were in-

mine was “salted.” Hurt, outraged, disillusioned with the world of business in which, she admitted, “I'm a fool,” Josie Bishop returned to the desert to lick her wounds. But she never gave up. In the scrawling hand that is the despair of her correspondents, she wrote mining folk the world over. Thi year vindication . crowned her efforts. Engineers of the Canadian Radium and Uranium Coro. made new and exhaustive tests. They came up with assurance that radium ore is indeed present in Josie Bishop's mine. Triumphantly waving the report under the noses ‘of her one-time critics, the doughty desert rat came back. Million Dollar Offer

Bhe confronted her former business associates—and weund up with 8 contract calling for a million dollars—not in a lump sum, bit at $250 a month until the mine starts producing, then on a profit-sharing basis until the million is paid. “I'm getting old,” freely admits the gray-haired woman who is better acquainted with a pickaxe than a bank book. “I want to enjoy some of that money before I die. I've proved I'm honest—that'’s all that matters. Look—they'rs paying me to live in my own home on my own

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES :

Million Dollars—for Uranium

NEA Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19-—Josie Bishop owns a radium mine.

Mine Worth

BOGARDUS

ealed the presence of pitchblende.

water for my morning bath—but I can't stand people thinking I'm not honest.” Daughter of the sheriff of Silver City, N. M., Josie was born in a room over the jail. Her earliest memories are of Billy the Kid and the famed bandit Geronimo, With her prospector hushand, she moved to Mojave, and in between births of her six children, sought gold and silver—and found some. The end of the trail has brought

Josie Bishop gray hair and dimming eyes. It has led her right

___ FRIDAY, OCT. 19, 1945

and I can breathe. I can still haul [§

back to her home in the desert— but left her a good name, her memories—and a good chance at that million dollars. |

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