Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-09-24 | Page 4 | Local News

Tho fight between Irresistible guns and impenetrable armor goes on From Plttsburg comes n report that by the new Cosgrove process armor plate can be turned out so that it will have n high carbon surface of any desired thickness with a low carbon back rendering It absolutely impenetrable Impene-trable The further report Is that this process pro-cess Is comparatively economical hence cheaper and Infinitely liner armor is looked for 4Thetests of the new armor are said to bo something wonderful Where is the softnose shell that we read about a few weeks ago before which the finest armor was but as paper The new armor should be tried by the new shell and if the armor successfully suc-cessfully resists the missile then all the navy needs is one gun in a ship belted by this new armor to sink the worlds fleets I