Myton Free Press | 1921-01-20 | Page 3 | Purple Ore Now in Demand

Purple Ore Or Now In Demand Purple ore oro Is an on unknown quantity to the uninitiated To the initiated It ItIs ItIs itis Is a n heavy purplish powder used chiefly chief chief- ly as ballast by ships leaving French ports ports So little worth was attached to the ore five months ago that It sold In Bordeaux for tor 1250 1260 francs a ton Since then It has been put to new uses and with the rise in demand there I has been a corresponding rise In price Purple ore has a rich Iron content anc and that fact tact has been sufficient to prompt English manufacturers to devise new I uses for tor the powder Its sudden leap Into the limelight will wUl perhaps stimulate stimulate stimulate late Interest in the residue of other minerals the possibilities of ot which may have been overlooked In the rapid march of all branches of engineering