The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27
TREASURE STATE IS. RICH
IN HIGH GRADE MANGANESE

ton poSSlDle LII The ace Oh an adverse
market, according to data assembled
by the state department. Of agriculture
and industry. Manganese from lne
Phillipsburg district for the manufac-
ture of dry-cell batteries commonly
sells for two or three times the open
market price.
Deposits of manganese ore are
found in eight distinct districts in
Montana, Philipsburg being the most
productive district not only in Mon
tana but in the United States. Large
bodies of rhodochrosite at Butte are
the source of valuable quantities of
manganese. During 1917 and 1918
Montana produced approximately two
thirds of the total amount of this met
al that was produced in the United
States.
1t is estimated that $4,000 to $4,000
tons are used annually in the manufac-
ture of dry-cell batteries, but the
greatest market yet is for steel MAX
ing, by the open-hearth or Bassemer
processes. Manganese like ferroman-
| SdICEO IS uoRd as an AMY lA0 lOl iuCl
containing 70 to 80 per ZEN of man
| ganese going into structural shapes,
| sheets, bars and wire made by the
| open-hearth process. Spiegeleisen,
| containing 16 to 80 per cent Of man
ganese, is used largely in the Ressemer
ings and the like.
President c.. H.. Clapp of the Univer-
sity of Montana reports that deposits
of manganese in various ore cOmbina-
lions are found also at Neihart, in
Cascade county, at Wicks in Jefferson
county, northwest of Anceney gulch in
Gallatin county, west of Melrose in
Beaverhead county and in Dry gulch
il Madison county between Twin
Bridges
Razing the arena in which the
Dempsey Gibbons fight for the heavy.
weight championship of the world was
held at Shelby July 4, will soon be fin
ished by I. T. Ketchum, of Salt Lake,
who purchased the big lumber pile
from creditors on attachment when the
financial wreckage of the battle was
being cleared up. The lumber is being
shipped to Cardston. Alta, and to Salt
Lake city, and a considerable amount
is being sold in Shelby. There were
]. 100000 feet of lumber in the big
arena and ter tons of nails.
Mrs. Emma Hardwick. of Poison,
x-;l1 o++opl +Io ,o+,o,o1 ao~xoptfan ~ |
War Mothers at Kansas City as Mon
tana's delegate. Mrs. Hardwick is one
of three mothers in Montana WHO lost
two sons in the World war. The other
two motners who are eligible TO honors
for a double loss are Mrs. Charles d.
Belden. of Billings and Mrs. Lou
Young. of Butte.
Frank Lewis. % years old, and en-
p1oyed as a mechanic in Great Falls,
died at the steering wheel of his car
while driving on Eighth avenue in that
city. Death was due to heart failure.
The car, speeding down the avenue
without control, crashed into a parked
machine and stopped. Lewis had been
dead for several minutes before the
The Rev. J. A. Martin. of Great
Falls, the Oldest Methodist minister in
point of service in Montana. has re-
TO accept the executive position
as western representative of the gen.
eral Deaconess board. Rev. Martin
first occupied a pulpit in Montana in
1887 and has been continually in the
ministry in the state since that time.
Col. George Sheets, pioneer of Gus
county and one Of the trail blazers
of the early days in Montana, died re.
Gently at the home of relatives In Lin
coin, Nebraska. Deceased was about
30 years of age. He was at one time
county surveyor of Custer county and
was well known throughout the east
prn part OF the state.
Montana undertakers. in convention
In Butte elected G. Walter Selby OF
Livingston. president Of the Montana
State Funeral Directors association
others selected are: w. D. Kendrick.
Anaconda, first vice president; Seth
Carroll. Harlewton, second vice presi.
lent: Mrs. Vivian Wolfe, .Bridger,
,ecretary-treasurer.
Mrs. Mary r. Evans of Deer Lodge,
IN early-day Montana pioneer, mother
John M. Evans, congressman from
he First Montana district. is dead at
he home of her granddaughter in
3ozeman. Deceased came to Montana
n 1854 and is survived by four sons.
wo daughters. 81 grandchildren and
s great-grandchildren.
George Walters. 80. n of the pi-
,neers of Custer county. but who lived
n Rosebud county since it was Gre
ted. is dead at his home at Ashland.
When he jumped from a wagon onto
he handle Of a %pitchfork in such a
manner that it pierced his abdomen,
r. Cole, a farmer south of Nashua,
vas perhaps fatally injured.
United States Senator T. J. Walsh
,efore leaving for Washington. d. c..
ooontlvy~ announced his candidacy for