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Show AMERICAN IRON RESOURCES There Is Iron ore In thlrt-onc mates of the Union cry muny of the deposits, however, nre unuwilliihlc for ona or another an-other cause. Thousand of owners of iron lands lit Vlrslntii, lenneHec. Alubami nnd Georgia In the Houth. and In Illinois, Illi-nois, Ohio. inconpln, uml own Prun-Hlanld, Prun-Hlanld, In tho North have had their ilrenms of winllh dispelled by finding that tho ores were too lenn. too hlrh In phos phorus or tttunte atld or sonn other Injurious In-jurious element, or Were loo expenlc to ml no proiltHbly In competition with tho iheapl won deposits In the lkr Superior Su-perior districts ir In the Southern Htutes Itut th Biipplj of luw-phoMphorus ores for nukluic UfgNciner sic-! wit a apparently appar-ently neurtr Us llmltiitions ten vears iiko than It Is toda 'I he so-calkd 'old range' ores were bclnjr mined out at u rate that cutiseo apprehension hih! new dttocrlc were few Tho opening of the Mestiuhl district In Minnesota howe t r, In the (Kendo from 1WHJ lu lb), (.hunted the Bltimtlon 'the duration of tho supplj of Like Superior Su-perior ore iin tml be toujectured Hlnco tho Rreut revluil In lion In 1VTO exploration explora-tion work has been tarried forward with l,reiit enerej, and It tan afel be said that new Bonnes ot supplj arc opeiud faster than old ones .ire workul out Close to ..i.cmi.ooo tons inr annum, how-rtr, how-rtr, hip now behiK brouxht down thu lakes und this tohmml tonnage tuuuot he taken from the Kround eaih ictii without leatmr somo treimndotis kups wliUh tin-turo tin-turo at present is not engaged in supply-Ins: supply-Ins: JJtisIo open-hearth steel making would seem tu be secure for all time on account of tho wide range of ores which ran be utilized Tho non-Hescemer Luke Hun r-lor r-lor ores are now most cxtenslej used next come the high mangunlforous ores of Irglnla, und; lwtlj the cheaply mined red ores of the HlrmlnKlum dlstrkt In yxianama 'i in magnetlto and lie ma lite deposits of New Jem, nnrtlnll ntglett-rd ntglett-rd ii fow ears ago, are found to be peculiarly pecu-liarly udipted to the making of high-grade high-grade stpsl, and a ntw and Important future fu-ture Is ntcned for these propf riles Wyoming, Wyo-ming, 1'tuh, Washington and oen L'atl-fornla L'atl-fornla hae mountnlnH of hlgh-grude ors, needing only railroads furnaies mills, foundries und an adequate market for the products. All of these will come In time. rlcxtiH also has Its rich beds of both Hess me r nnd imn-ltesscmcr ores, but tho ubvnio of coking ioa und tho lemotc-i lemotc-i ess of consuming centers will mako the development slow -Archer Itrown lu the Kuglnccrlng Magazine |