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Show Iron Furnace to India. Pioneers of the Iron Industry throughout the country may recall the stack erected several years ago at Battelle, Ala., which was abandoned because it was too far from raw materials ma-terials nnd had Inadequate transportation transpor-tation facilities, says a Christian Science Monitor's Birmingham (Ala.) correspondent. For 11 years the furnace stood Inactive In-active until the war brought the demand de-mand in Mesopotamia for railroads to move troops and supplies. In August. 1017, the old stack at Battelle was bought by a group of Iron makers, who took It down piece by piece, shipped ship-ped it to New Orleans and loaded it on a steamship for India. This is said to be the first iron furnace to cross the sea nnd make iron on two continents. |