Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 134 years, the U.S. paid the last installment on the bill for the War of 1812. Esther Ann Hill Morgan, 88, daughter of a soldier who fought in the Battle of New Orleans, and the last U.S. citizen eligible for an 1812 pension, died last week in Independence, Ore...
...Astoria, Ore...
...Pearl of the Far East." Last week's advertisements gave details. Birobidjan was on the same latitude as Duluth, Minn., "but with lots more sunshine." Its fertile soil yielded rich crops (wheat, oats, cabbage, rice, soy beans). Its natural resources were rich and variegated (coal, iron ore, gold, graphite, marble, magnesite). Its woods teemed with fur-bearing animals. "According to scientific surveys," the region could maintain a population of at least four million...
...Pyrites) which gives a surface appearance of precious metal. Yet there was indeed a fortune in the district. It took some 18 years of exploration and drilling-and investment of more than $3,600,000-to find it. Subsequently it produced 25 million tons of copper, gold and silver ore...
Iron would be brought by barge from deposits on Texada Island, about 50 miles upcoast from Vancouver. The necessary fluxes-limestone and silica-were near by. Electric heat would melt the ore; fuel would be required only as a reducing and carbonizing agent. A primary advantage: power costs were estimated at less than one mill per kwh, probably the cheapest in Canada. Plans were to handle 130 tons of ore from Texada daily, to turn out 65 tons of "high quality iron cheaply and economically," with the initial output earmarked for B.C.'s burgeoning postwar industry (TIME...