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Show ELECTRIC SMELTERS FOR EAST INDIES ORE Hydroalaetrlo jilnnts may ho hullt In Celebes, an Isltiml In the Dutch Ensi Indies, In-dies, to furnish current for electric smelters smelt-ers planned I" handle the Iron oro recently re-cently dlncoveied there In larnc 'inutilities, 'inutili-ties, according to the Popular Mcchnnl'-H. The use of coke la helm considered, hut is not hk favorably regurded as eleeiiirliy Kenernted hy water power. rrellmlnnry urveyi f tha dapoaiti Indlcata that there rue f, 000,000 tons of surfnee ore nnd 155.-ooo.Ofsi 155.-ooo.Ofsi tone of clay ore available, with the poaalblllty that there are 7,000,000 tons of I ho former nnd 20H, 000,000 tons of the latter, a total of 211,000,000 tons. All of the ore In within foity-flve feet of the fur face, and can he removed without groat cost, If M Is found prnctlcnl tn luir- neaa some of the numaroua treame on the Isl'iiid. |