The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-08-19
GREAT BRITAIN IN QUEST OF ORES


significant British Trade Association
has asked the government instruct officials throughout
the world collect information and the iron OF
many with British iron their search
for the materials needed carry the industry In its letter
the Prime Minister the association has suggested the appointment OF
royal commission inquire into the question materials and
collect which
concerns the buyer and the user OF such to know
This application the Marine Review illustrates the changed
position of Great Britain iron manufacturer 1t many
that the British boosted Of the advantage they enjoyed
together that they could their blast
furnaces cheap than other In the iron
districts OF Cleveland south Scotland Safodshre and Lincolnshire
the and coal side by side while district of the kingdom
they separated by than miles and in hardly district
by than fifty sixty miles
"On the other hand, United States
generally about miles apart Alabama and in Germany
the bulk Of the had distances
varying from miles Today however Great Britain is bring
reason interesting Great Britain still
in iron But change has occurred all the iron markets
The while
made Of steel and he Fact is deen regretted bv all British anua
that the larger part their iron contains mich
phosphorus for the production of iron suitable for the manufacture Of
Bessemer and Semens steel
1.-The ost district the kingdom is the Ceve
land district the coast south of Newcastle Until about
twenty the iron from which its millions of tons of pig iron
annually produced almost wholly from the hills of the Ceve
land region Today however the demand for the highest quality
OF seemang iron ompes the importation OF large quantities OF or
egn hemate which used Cleveland to the extent of near
lily 100000 tons year
THE change Scotland where until
fifteen the iron produced almost wholly from local
provide quality of pig iron suited the demands of the local steel
works Scotland produces considerable quantity OF hemate but
increasingly upon imported ores.
The most ironmang district after Cleveland the
that say Cumberland and northwest Lancashire
The product this district
N and that OF steel from 10000 tons The pig is chiefly
produced from local hemae this being the only
of such in the British Isles but the local supplies have in the past
three four been largely supplemented by imports hemate
ores from foreign countries.
"e fact that Germany today producing steel though not
pig than Great Britain due to the poverty eemakng
of the British Isles The result therefore, of the substitution of
steel for many manufactures that Great Britain longer
that the supplies for blast furnaces together Nearly the
whole of the for the important form of iron that used the
manufacture Bessemer mild steel brought miles
the from Spain Some Of from other countries but Spain
the largest supply has been evident for time that
the mines north will longer be equal the
demands which Great Britain less Germany max
ing them Evidences of approaching exhaustion already
the best Spanish districts 1t is imperative
siy Great Britain should other supply hema
m Another fact that has helped the iron
steel from Britain that richer found and worked
foreign lands Cumberland and Lancashire hema
@ have but of on while the Cleveland iron is
very much eane Our Lake Superior the other hand
of IRON while the Gevara mines of north
ern Sweden give 68 per cent IRON
hu happens Britain which had always held the
mier position among ronpoducng countries has lost its
Thirteen the United States wrested the lead from Great Brit
held since Fifteen ago
British production double that of the United States But
left behind and there indication
within few years the blast furnaces of this country will
than twice much iron those of Great Britain