Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-01
War Is Responsible for Another
Big Industry.
FUTURE POSSIBlLITlRE GREAT
Tanks Credited With Developing Iron.
stone Areas in Parts of England
Vast Wealth Which Lies Few Feet
Below Surface undreamed Of Few
Years Ago-Distriet to Be Great
Steel Production Center.

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! Few British Industrial developments
which were set in motion by war ne
cessities can compare in magnitude
or in future possibilities with the ex-
ploitation of new ironstone areas In
North Lincolnshire. 1t is confidently
predicted that within ten years there
will be created on the sparsely in
habited plain which stretches from
the south bank of the Humber new
manufacturing region as busy and
important as Middlesborough and
Tees-side are today.
Only a. few years ago the vast
wealth which lies few feet below
the surface was undreamed of. 1t
was only when the lack Of ships re-
stricted imports of ore from abroad.
concurrently with an urgent need for
increased steel production, that the
resources of North Lincolnshire were
fully realized.
The soil needs little more than
scratching to reveal the ironstone, and
consequently exploitation should be
rapidly organized.
Plans are projected which, it is
said, will make this district one of
the greatest centers in the kingdom
for the production Of steel. Subsid-
larry industries will be fostered, new
traffic will be created for the great
docks at birmingham, and the miles
Of waste land along the Humber may
be filed with wharves and factories.
Authorities Cooperate in Plan.
The principal firms, the local au-
thorities, and the local government
board are cooperating with the object
of directing the growth Of the future
urban area on rational lines.
The creation of beautiful city in
conjunction with the manufacture OF
iron and steel is not impossible OF
achievement, and no fairer site could
be desired for such an industrial ex
pertinent.
There are thousands of acres Of
moorland, dotted with pine woods and
plantations, all unspoiled as prairie
land. No problems of slum areas or
congested districts would arise. Given,
good will on all sides splendid gar
den city can be built. 1t will be a
crime against civilization if anything
less worthy is done.
For Lincoln name in history has
been established by the invention and
manufacture of the tanks, and with
these larger works and the growing
supplies Of coal and steel near at
hand the manufacturers are now in
a far stronger position than they were
before the war to meet the intense
American and Canadian competition.
To keep the extended works fully
employed an immense world trade
must be cultivated, and to obtain this
plans have been laid for standardiza-
tion,f within certain limits and large
scale production, without impairing
the quality for which East Anglia is
unsurpassed.
Output Of Various Products.
The output will include everything
required in the mechanical operations
Of agriculture, and in road transport,
oil and steam tractors, plows and cul-
ttvators, petrol engines of all kinds,
threshers, sugar machinery and the
whole range of harvesting and general
farm implements.
Already an amalgamation of impor-
tant Lincoln and Grantham firms has
taken place, and closer cooperation
than has hitherto existed is likely
+ to be fostered among all the firms.
One result may be the replacement
Of the customary foreign agencies by
direct representation of the firms in
the principal agricultural countries of
the world