Manganese (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from ManganeseThe chief rivals of the Virginia ores are those of the Etowah re gion, Bartow county, Georgia. A Virginian named Ruckman dis covered manganese at Cass station, Bartow county, and recognized a similarity between these ores and those of Virginia. In 1867 the prop erty was bought for mining purposes by Mr. M. G. Dobbins, who has furnished the following information In 1870 the mines were rented to a company of New York capitalists who extracted about tons of ore from less' than one-half acre of land, without going deeper than 40 feet. The property has now gone into the hands of the Bartow Man ganese and Manufacturing Company, with paid stock. The company consists of M. G. Dobbins and others. Nearly the whole year. Has been spent in placing machinery in position and in other prepara tions for work. The indications are that the ore will find sale in Pitts burgh. A small quantity has been shipped to England. The following analyses give a fair idea of the average character of the ore. No. 1 is a sample analyzed in New York, No.2 is taken from a lot of ore shipped to England.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.