![]() The slower meadow water from the boat launch down to the canyon is great for dry fly fishing from a boat, with several foam holes and eddies you may want to nymph just below the surface of the water. The Radium to Rancho Del Rio float tends to flow with less turbidity than stretches down river and is slightly cooler in the summer both trends providing more prolific hatches in this section. The faster water can support more aquatic life then the slower sections of the Upper Colorado. These great canyons have been created for thousands of years by deep fast moving water, great for trout habitat. Where we find uplifts and faster water along the Colorado River we tend find more trout. The Colorado River has just exited Gore Canyon about five miles back upstream, several miles downstream is Sheephorn Canyon and after passing by Radium the river is going to enter Red Gore Canyon about two miles downstream of the launch. Access is easy via the Trough Road from either highway 9 south of Kremmling or via 131 north of Wolcott. The cement boat ramps can fill up quickly with white water rafters, as this is one of the State of Colorado’s most popular white water runs, plan to arrive early. The BLM Radium Recreation Area provides camping ($6 per night), restrooms, pay phone, picnicking and river access. This scenic river float begins at the BLM boat launch in Radium, a small railroad community along the Upper Colorado River known most for the hot springs found about a mile upstream from the improved boat launch. Varying water types and a good trout population will keep anglers happy. The Upper Colorado River offers float fisherman 5 miles between Radium and Rancho Del Rio with excellent opportunities to fly fish from a boat as the class I-III, intermediate water, is inviting for most angling boaters. In earlier blogs we discussed fishing the upper Colorado at Gore Canyon and Pumphouse and will be running a weekly series discussing the various float trips available to anglers on the upper and lower Colorado. continued producing fluorescent watch dials powered by radium radioactivity until 1978.Float fishing the Colorado River between Radium and Rancho Del Rio is one of the most scenic floats the river has to offer and the fly fishing is nothing short of excellent. ![]() a few blocks away from the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois shortly after closing down the Radium Dial Company. Kelly opened up a new corporation called Luminous Processes Inc. At the highest point in production (around 1925), the Radium Dial Company employed around 1,000 young women who turned out around 4,300 dials each day. ![]() ![]() In 1920 the company relocated to Peru, Illinois to closer proximity to the clock manufacturer and major customer, Westclox.īy 1922 the company had moved to a former high school building in Ottawa, Illinois where it remained until the mid-1930s. The company was a division of the Standard Chemical Company based in the Marshall Field Annex building in Chicago. The Radium Dial Company was started in 1917 and was in full production of painted dials by 1918. However, unlike the US Radium Corporation, Radium Dial Company was specifically set up to only paint dials, and no other radium processing took place at the premises. The luminous paint used on the dials contained a mixture of phosphor and radium, a product that the Radium Dial Company named Luna. The resulting dials are now collectively known as radium dials. The Radium Dial Company was one of a few now defunct United States companies, along with the United States Radium Corporation, involved in the painting of clocks, watches and other instrument dials using radioluminescent paint containing radium.
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