Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1893 — Value of Nickel Metal. [ARTICLE]

Value of Nickel Metal.

Nickel is a metal of more importance than it used to be, since it has been discovered that combined with steel it makes the best and hardest armor for warships, and these southern Oregon mines should not have been allowed to pass into the hands of an English syndicate. The nickel for the armor of the battle ships now building at Philadelphia is procured from Canada under a regular contract with the navy department. It is almost the only material entering into the new war vessels which is not produced in the United States.—[Boston Jwrstl.