Eureka Reporter | 1918-05-17 | Page 1 | Manganese Indespensible in Manufacture of Steel

manganese in ili manufacture of steel the robertson brothers have just finished hauling another carload ot of manganese taken from the chief cons company s property at homans ville which is now under lease to huish beane this is the second car mined by these leasers and the ore was taken out in about two weeks time frederick J haskin in a feature article in one of the sunday papers has the following to say regarding manganese and some ot of the other metals which are in such demand at the present time antimony bismuth cerium chro gium graphite radium manganese pyrites the names of the minerals now in demand for government use read like the table of contents of a mineralogy yet their importance to the nation now is great despite the fact that most of the people in it never heard of them shutting off manganese and from our plants would stop the war gramme pro of america within a month for the manufacture of every ton of steel from 14 to 15 pounds of pure manganese Is required and al at though the ore is found extensively through the south and west america last year produced only 32 per cent of her total consumption of almost a million long tons importing hun deeds of thousands of tons from brazil and a large quantity from india before the war the average price of manganese ore was about 12 in ton now it Is fetching five times that sum and supply is unable to meet demand