| Show IRON ORE SUPPLY FAILING Worlds Store May Not Suffice for the Demands Made Upon It Tho amount of Iron ores still available avail-able Is very great doubtless many times perhaps twentyfold as great as has been won to use Yet already In the continent of Europe tho fields long In service are beginning to be exhausted ex-hausted Great Britain has practically practi-cally consumed Its store which a century cen-tury ago seemed ample Practically all the supply for Its furnaces Is now Imported The supply from the Mediterranean that promised to bo Inexhaustible cannot can-not endure for many decades to come Tho same Is the condition of the ore districts of central Europe At the rate of the Increasing demand they are not likely to meet tho demands of 100 years There remain extensive deposits of rich ores In the Scandinavian Scandina-vian peninsula and in fields of tho confines of Belgium and Franco which have hardly begun tq be drawn upon yet It is evident that at anything like time preseimt rato of Increase in the consumption of metallic iron In Europe I Eu-rope tho sources of supply are not I likely to endure for n century Tho bestplaced field for the production produc-tion of iron In North America or save that In northern China In the world Is in the central section of the Mississippi valley mainly between the great river and the Appalachian system sys-tem of mountains and northward beyond be-yond the great lakes to the headwaters head-waters of the streams flowing Into Hudsons bay tho physical conditions on the whole being favorable for the cheap production of tho metal and Its ready transportation to the principal markets It Is a question however If tho store vIII supply tho demands of the future |
