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Show THE NICKEL OF THE WORLD. Tba Sacretary of tlia ay Will Make bo Furchaaas Just Now. New Yohk. Oct. 30. Tho Tiilune's Washington dispatch says the secretary of the navy has decided not to make any immediate purchase of nickel to be used as alloy in the manufacture of steel armor plates. When the armor trials at Annapolis demonstrated the victory of nickel plate, it was expected that nickel would advance in price. As far as information possessed by the department could form a base of judgment, there would besomediftlculty in procuring the metal looked for. Congress was asked to make provision for the purchase of nickel without with-out dlay. The urgency of the matter was made more obvious by the efforts made by foeign armor, an ordinance manufacturers to secure for their works the product of the Canadian mines which was regarded as the most accessible. No inquiry has ever been made into the exact quantity of nickel in the world. Disinterested parties were somewhat at variance on tho subject and statements made by the operators of the nickel mines, in effect that the metal scarce was evidently accepted. The department detailed five officers offic-ers who know the nickel mines of the world with a view to their productiveness Commodore Folger. chief uaval officer, visited the inluo at Sudbury in Canada and brought back some speciments. Lieut. Buckingham was sent to the mines in Nevada, and officers attached to the United States legation abroad visited the sources of nickel in Europe. The results of these examinations show the supply of nickel is not limited now it appears that there is small occasion oc-casion for any immediate action. |