Show manganese scouts now out in search of this metal now that the government governments s requirements quire ments for manganese have grown to such enormous proportions U S geologists and geological scouts are out searching tor for deposits of this metal every effort Is being made to bring about greater production of manganese ore with as little delay as possible recently the govern ment offices officials attention has been directed to the presence of mange nese in the southern utah sandstone formations and this matter Is to be very thoroughly investigated at this time nevada is producing the bulk of the manganese the larg est deposit being at las vegas utah is producing only a limited amount of the metal some coming from green river and a small tonnage from marysvale Marys vale a little from stock ton and some from and west tintic gintic contrary to the general belief the price of manganese has not advance ed during the past few months al though the buyers of the metal are now in position to make more liber al contracts with reference to the silica and phosphorous which comes with mith most of the manganese ore in other words ore running rather high in silica and phosphorus is now ac cepter without the penalties which formerly lowered the value of such ore |