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SOVIET MANGANESE DUMPING
DAMAGES AMERICAN INDUSTRY

A committee of IS members of Con-
gresS now being formed to consider
placing an immediate embargo on GER
tain Soviet products, especially man
ganeSe, has again drawn attention to
this little known metal which is in
dtspensable in steel making and the
production of which has been practical
ly paralyZed in this country due to
Soviet price cutting, it is stated.
For the past two years American
producers of manganese have been
striving to supply real share of the
domestic demand. The annual Ameri-
can consumption, amounting to about
100000 tons of ore with so per cent
metal content, is equivalent to approx
mately 400, 600 tons of metallic manga
nese. This consumption amounts to
one-third of the worlds present total
output and fluctuates directly with the
total of steel ingots produced, since 80
per cent of the manganese used in the
United States goes into steel furnaces.
United States Has Large Deposits.
Only about IA pounds of manganese
are used in making a ton of steel, but
so necessary is it to control the carbon
and decxidize molten steel that the
price of manganese increased about five
times during the World War, when for
eign shipments were greatly curtailed.
Our own deposits of the mineral are
estimated to be the largest in the world.
but the United States is producing less
than 10 per cent of its own require
ments and less than per cent of the
worlds yearly output.
The explanation is that Soviet man
ganese ores are selling currently for
about $12.50 ton of SO per cent me-
tallic content delivered in American
ports, or about $24 a ton after pay
ment Of the tariff. In view of labor
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contained in foreign ores is sufficiently
high so that they can be used in the
steel makers processes without treat
ment to concentrate or "beneficiate"
them. The American producers outlook
has improved considerably in recent
years, however, with the location of
numerous new deposits and the per-
lection of new concentration methods
which make it possible to raise the
metallic content of the ore to the
specified so per cent and higher.
Manganese is one of the worlds wide
ly distributed minerals. In the United
States no less than "a States have
deposits of sufficient size to warrant
investigation by the Bureau of Mines.
The richest deposits are in Montana,
California, South Dakota, Nevada,
Arizona, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia
and Minnesota. A belt of manganese
deposits runs through the Atlantic
States, along the line of the Appalach-
ian Mountain system from Alabama to
Maine. The manganese content of
these deposits runs from to rs or 80
per cent, which may be increased to
a higher percentage through new con-
centrating methods.
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NEW YORK BANK STOCKS

NEW YORK, January 81 CP.-Over-
the-counter market:
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PUBLIC CONFIDENCE
SEEN AS TRADE AID
Alexander Believes Revival of
Business Depends on Change
in Viewpoint.
BY the Associated Press.


CLEVELAND, January 31.-Belief
that business soon will emerge from
the depression if common sense can
prevail over fatalism on one hand and
faddism on the other was expressed
by Magnus w. Alexander, president Of
the National Industrial Conference
Board, in an address here.
The fatalistS, who sit with folded
hands, gloomy, languid and resourcelesS,
and the faddists, who have remedy
for every situation. represent the two
extremes of mental attitudes that de-
pressions develop, Mr.. Alexander said,
addressing the annual meeting of the
Associated Industries of Cleveland.
Standing between them, he added, is
third group who have a passion for
facts and base their action in any
situation on what the facts disclose.
THE restoration of public confidence
in the future of American industry and
commerce is unquestionably the first
step toward substantial business re-
covery," he said.
Discussing some of the proposals to
relieve conditions, he asserted that the
plan to increase public expenditures for
construction work, while it may be
sound as a general policy, lends itself
to abuse and might ultimately prove
injurious"
"The proposal that business concerns
guarantee their employees fixed annual
income would be generally practicable
if the business concerns themselves
were guaranteed fixed annual income.
For it's own sake as well as Tor that
of its employees no business can a1ord
to enter into arrangements that VIII
prevent it from making whatever ad-
iustments may become necessary IN
order to preserve its existence
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Oliver Farm Equipment prior pre-
ferred share earnings, IL months to
November 80, SO cents.
Radio Keith Orpheum reported deal
involving purchase of certain Pathe Ex-
change assets reported consummated.
ST. Louis-San Francisco Railway,
seven roads inaugurate cents mile
passenger fare rate In competitive
territory.
Sears, Roebuck 1880 common share
earnings, S30l against $685., adjusted
for stock dividend.
Shenandoah Corporation net asset
value December 81, $3.50 common share
against S9.47 December 81, 1929.
Wolverine Portland Cement 1880
common share earnings 80 cents against
81 cents.
Atchison, Topeka g. Santa Fe Rail-
way December net operating income of
23.5 per cent; IL months, excluding
$2,493,193 back mail in 1929, of 80
per cent.
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NORTH AMERICAN OFFERS
$25.OOO.OOO IN BONDS

An issde of SIS, O00, 900 North Ameri-
can Co. 5 per cent debentures, due Feb
ruary ], 1861, is being offered today at
81 and intere t to yield $50 per cent by
the company's bankers, Dillon, Read g.
Co., with whom are associated the Ma
tional City Co., Guaranty Co. of New
York, Chase Securities Corporation.
Bankers Co. of New York, Lee, Hig-
ginson g. Co. of New York, Lee Hig-
stone g. Webster and Blodget, Inc.
This is the first public offering of a
bond issue for the North American Co.
and comprises the only funded debt of
the company.
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BOND SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK

and
110A 1914 Western Union Tel 6As. 110h 1851 1854
1908 80 Wilson Co A.. 1904 100 100 "
1895 1o2 Youngstown
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Dividend rates table are the annual
ratons. ' - --~--- ueSi~-
a. q sde Of sTsdnE less than 100
year no regular rate Payable stock Payable
stock Plus az stocn plus 81 in preferred stocE ps
80 in stock Plus IN - 'SOO~' AA'"S
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FENDER DIVIDEND.

Directors of David Fender Grocery
Co. have declared the regular quarterly
dividend Of 8712 cents per share on the
class "a" stock, payable March / to
stockholders Of record February 20.
The Kusko times., 1931-02-07

recovered from the copper ores-n fact, during 1929, the latest year for which complete reports are available, over three-quarters of thesilver came from that source. With the reduc tion in the output of copper ore in 1880 the quantity of silver naturally shows corresponding decrease. Fur thermore, the average selling price of silver was only 38.5 cents an ounce, against 53.3 cents in 1929. Owing to the greater output of gold from placers there was some increase in the output of silver associated with the gold. The quantity of silver con- tained in ordinary placer gold, how ever, is relatively so small, and silver is so low in price, that the increase in the output of gold in 1930 means an increase of only a few thousand dollars in the value of the silver re- covered from that source. All the gold lode mines also yield some silver ILL duulIlOu tO CIlG OIileI iiiCldio lii6I they contain, and they are estimated to have produced about 20 per cent of the total amount of silver produced during 1930 from Alaska ore
 Coal.
 The production of coal from Alaska mines in 1880 is estimated to have been 116,00O tons, or somewhat more than 1929 and within a few thousand tons of the high record of all time that was established in 1928. As usual practically all of the output came from the Matanuska and Healy River lelds. The principal producing mines were those of the Alaska Matanuska Coal Company, the Evan Jones Coal Company in the Moose Creek district of the Matanuska leld, and the Sun trana mine of the Healy River Coal Corporation in the Healy River field. No notable new developments were reported to have taken place during the year in the Matanuska field, but in the Hea1y River field extreme high water and floods in September seri- ously damaged the plant of the Healy River Coal Corporation and washed out long stretches of the spur track that connects the mine with the main
The Kusko times., 1931-02-07

River region, and from one mine III the Prince William Sound region. These mines alone, according to the published reports of the Geological Survey, have yielded more than $200,- 100000 in the twenty years that they nave been actively developed
 Search for new ere bodies and for extensions of the known ore bodies has been continued at all the produc- ing mines, but the general business depression and the low price of all the base metals or the failure to ob- tain encouraging returns have caused the abandonment of several new pros pecting projects that had been start ed in the preceding year. Among these discontinued projects may be mentioned work on the copper show ngs on Glacier creek, a tributary Of the Chittistone, where the Kennecott Copper Corporation had maintained a large crew for several months to carry on exploratory work; at the de- posits on Knight Island, where an er- teasive drilling program had been un- dertaken by the Solar Development Company, and at the deposits on Kas- san Peninsula, where the same com pany had already opened up some of the old workings of certain of the mines that were formerly productive but have laid idle for many years.
 Doubtess some of these enterprises will be revived when ber.e- prices for copper prevail, but their cessation at this time Is severe setback to the 1el eral copper mining activities in the Territory. That there are in Alaska coppe:: deposits winch are not now producing but w:,lvn hold prom ise of profitable development under normal conditions seen. certain, but their successful development is an expensive ard time-consunling task, and no new deposits appear likely to become producers in the rear future.
 Silver.
 Mot of the silver produced in Alaska during recent years has been
The Kusko times., 1931-02-07

track of the Alaska Railroad. Repairs were rushed so that deliveries of coal were back to normal within a month, and no serious hardship was caused to the company or it's customers. The contract for most of the coal used by the Alaska Railroad during the year was held by the Alaska Matanuska Coal Company, and consequently that company's mine was operated to about the capacity of it's equipment, but the contract for 1881 was award ed to the Evan Jones Coal Company, and during December increased ac- tivities were in progress at that con- pany's mine to furnish larger out put.
 Petroleum.
 All the petroleum produced in Alas ka during 1880 continued to come from wells of the Chilkat Oil Com pany near Katalla, where, in addition to the oil wells, the company operates a small refinery. The gasoline and distillate produced from this petrol cum are much in demand in the local market, as they are said to be of bet ter quality than the usual commer- cial brands. This company is report ed to have continued operations in
The Kusko times., 1931-02-07
ReVl8dtOr Restores Waters
 Lost Element

THE NEWEST MIRACLE OF MODERN SCIENCE " HE most important thing life health We cannot
 tinue to live heathfuly with some respect
 to the laws of nature Life but cellular budny lar elimination This of water is Radio-acvtv which both cellular energy cellular poison Sir Arbuthno Lane the English physician says Most diseases directly raceabe bad drainage the Of coggng waste matter peisons organs.
 For centuries the world has recognized hsat springs and medical officers the fam. springs to the natural activity radioacvy of natures dssong eirnin- ang these poisons building healthy ces and tissues
 possible everyone or we to have perpeu ally and at reasonable the splendid genuine radioactive health spring in the home through THE NAVIGATOR WATER JAR.
 Order today from of the following sub-agents Ebrght Flat; Tom DeVan Ruby Oliver Anderson Mcrath Fred Roethsberger Ophir; Chris Petersen Takotna.
The Kusko times., 1931-02-07
MINERAL PRODUCTION
 OF ALASKA IN 1930.
(C0ntinued from Page 1.)

\SuuClHuGu lTOIH rage I.I
 per cent from the lode mines. During the entire. period that gold mining has been in progress in Alaska about $390, ,00O, ,0OO has been won, of which almost exactly two-thirds has come from placer deposits and one-third from lode.
 The bulk of the increase in produc- ton of gold appears to be attributa- ble mainly to the increased operation of the placer mines,. especially those of the Fairbanks Exploration Con- pany in the Fairbanks district of Gen. tral Alaska, where the large mining enterprise on which preparatory work had been in progress for several years came into full operation and it's five dredges were continuously min ing throughout the open season. Through practically the entire Terri tory weather conditions that affert mining, surh as plentiful water SUD- ply and length of wirking season,fb were favorable. In fact, throughout Central Alaska the rainfall was un- usually heavy during during the mid- dle and latter part of the season, and in a few cases there were rather dis astrous oods. Most of the placer gold is now recovered by dredging, and the more primitive hand methods or sim pier mechanical devices have already disappeared except in the more re- moote mining districts. It appears that about 80 per cent of the placer gold that was rerovered in 1880 was mined by dredges; in 1929 the ratio was about 71 per cent.
 So far as reported, 26 dredges were in operation during 1880, as against 30 in 1929. The dredges that had been mining in 1929 but were idle in 1880 were mainly small ones, and several of the larger modern dredges that were credited as mining in 1929 1929 and operated only short time in that year but put in full season in 1880. The. dredges that mined in 1929 but not in 1880 were one in the Hot Springs district, two. in the In- noko district of the Yukon regiol.. one in the Tuluksak- district of the Kuskokwim, and two in the Sew ord Peninsula region. Two dredges tha. had recently been reconstructed resumed mining in. the Solomon and Nome regions of Seward Peninsula in ia:,n.
 No new finds of placer ground that welded any considerable amount of gold were made during the year, and inevitably each year many of ti'e known placer areas are worked out Prospecting for new deposits, how eSer, appears to. have been somewhat more active than it has been in the recent past. Not only are. there more prospectors and miners in the hills searihing for workable deposits, but persons with funds seem to be taking a-growing a. interest in assisting in the
The Kusko times., 1931-02-07
,f prospective mining

properties.
 The bulk of the lode gold continued to come from the properties of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company the Juneau region of Southeastern A aska. Work at this place appears to have been carried on at essentially ,he same scale as heretofore, but the average tenor of the ore seems to have been slightly lower than in 1929. In spite of this the operations were extremely satisfactory, and during the year the bonded indebtedness on she property was paid up from the profits. Small amounts of lode gold were also recovered bys two of the lode mines on Chiragof Island, but her produrtion was small bedause at both of them most of the year was spent in development work. The re- ported finds of promising sdlphide .eads in the Takd region were ex- plored rather fully by both under ground and surface work, though number of prospectors are still in the region, and there is no reason to be- ieve that the search has yet been thorough enough to warrant a con- clusion that the possibilities of find ing ore there are exhausted. In the Willow Creek district several pros
 
 largest constructive operations were those of the Willow Creek Mines, where an extensive milling plant and settlement were built during the year. This mill began operations late in December, and so it's output for 1880 will be small, but next year it should aud materially to the lode gold out put from Alaska. Lode gold mining in the Fairbanks district appears to have been especially sucressful in 1880 and to have yielded about 50 per cent more gold than in 1929. Several other lode gold mines widely scat tered throughout the Territory yield ed some gold. The most productive of these were the Sunny Fox mine, in the Nuka Bay district; and the old Pearson & Strand mine, in the Nixon Fork district of the Kuskokwim val ley.
 Copper.
 The value of the copper produced from Alaska in 193 Oi sestimated to have been $4,100,000. This marks decrease in value of more than $3,- O00,0O0 from the cores bonding value in 1929. Nearly $1,75O,OOO of this decrease may be attributed directly to the lower average price of copper in 1880 than in 1929. The low price not only had it's direct effect in the value of tn eoutput, but it also acted to re- tard operations so that the quantity produced also fell og by an amount estimated as in excess of 100000 pounds. The average selling price of copper during the year as computed by the Bureau of Mines was 12.4 cents, as against 17.6 cents in 1929. In 1880, as in former years, practi- cally all the copper came from two mines near Kennecott, in the Copper
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-03

Dear Editor:
We. your senator and representa-
tives of Sheridan county do respect
fully ask that the following com
densed report of the past legislative
session be published in your paper,
so that all your readers who are
interested may read for themselves
matters relating to some or the
most important bills that passed ano
were enacted, or that failed to pass
MEMBERSHIP
The full membership of the house
is 1O2, divided as follows: n farm
ers, Is lawyers, 13 ranchers, Z mer-
chants, 2 bankers, 4 doctors ana tne
80 remaining members who claimed
many different professions as tneii
chief occupation.
The full membership of the SEN
ate is SIS, divided as follows: SIX
teen farmers, one dentist, IL law
yers, 8 insurance men, one lumper'
man, bankers, 6 merchants, oIus.
gists one professor, one doctor, Two
automobile dealers, two MINING en-
gineers. two abstractors, one lauh
! dryman and one grain dealer.
500 BILLS INTRODUCED
Some over 500 bills, memorials y
resolutions were introduced durlnl
! the session bv the house and senate
sheridan county's senator and repre-
sentatives introduced and sponSore'
with other members, ten dlIIereh
bills. Four of them passed ana IN
senate substituted a bill TOT Tn
fifth. ACCOMPLISHING what was de
signed in the first place by IN
house bill. Approximately one-tnlr
of all bills introduced in either .
the houses passed. the otner s"o
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-03

Towner, Colo, March 28.- Ma
rooned in school bus for SO hours
while the winters worst blizzard
howled around them, five Towner
children persisted from the cold
last night.
Eighteen others, their strength
exhausted, were found huddled to-
gether in one large pile IN the real
section of the bus-aH unconscious.
Six of the survivors were believ-
ed to have good chance for re-
covery but the rest, suffering from
pneumonia, were to be rushed to a
hospital at Lamar, Colo.
The driver of the bus, Carl Mill
Ter. was the object of an airplane
search in the southeastern Colora-
do farming district, while virtual
ly all hope had been given up for
Miss Maude Moser, the school
teacher, who attempted to walk to
her home from the school i'm the
blizzard of Thursday.
Later reports are that the body
Of Miller, the driver, had been To-
Gated about three miles from the
scene of the tragedy. The surviv-
ors said he had given them most
of his outer clothing and then
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started out, after waiting for sew
eral hours, to get help.
The teacher had taken refuge on
farm and was unable TO report
her safety because of lack of com
munication facilities.
Airplanes were sent today from
Denver and Lamar to pick up the
survivors who needed hospital at
tentiOn but late today neither had
been able to make landing In the
snow which was piles 10 a height
ten feet in places.
Mary Miller, the bus drivers
daughter; Orlo Untiedt, Louise
Stonebreaker, Robert Brown and:
Kenneth Johnson, ranging in age
from 8 to ID years. were the VIC
tins Of the sub-zerO weather.
Miller left the school at 1880
Thursday morning when the school
was closed because of the storm.
Less than three miles away the
driver was unable to see the way
on account of the storm and at
tempted to turn back. His bus
struck fence post and stalled IN
the snow. Until early yesterday
morning Miller remained with the
CONTINUED orr page Fourl
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More than Million VIII be
Divided Among Schools

Helena, March 16.-More than a
million dollars will be distributed
to the counties for their school
funds within a short time, F. E.
Williams, state treasurer said to-
day.
The amount represents earnings
of the common school interest and
income fund. The fund this year
amounted to $1,143,847.76, OF
which five per cent or $57, 1929
is added to the principal, leaving
81, 086,655.37 to be apportiOned
The distribution is $26,865.45 less
than in 1880.
This money comes from interest
on investments, grazing permits
leases and forest leases. Appor-
tionment, on basis of school popu
lation, will be made, Williams sale
as soon as the department of edu
cation submits the school census.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-03
EASTER MONDAY
DANCE is FOR
LEGION CHARITY

The American Legion Dance, to
be given Monday, April 6, 1881, is
for the purpose of building up the
funds in order to carry on the
charitable work. In order to give
the public, who have helped us so
generously, an idea where the
American Legion dollar goes, we
wish to submit the following:
$355.35 was expended for food
and turned over to the associated
charities of Sheridan county for
distribution to all needy families
whose condition was brought to
their attention.
The time has come, that we
must rebuild our buying power and
we are asking the public to COOP
crate with us by attending our
dance on Easter Monday, April 6,
1881, and getting $1.0O worth of
enjoyment as well as assisting us
TO carry on our work.
We again heartily thank the
public spirited people of this dis
trict who have made it possible
for us to carry on.
AMERICAN LEGION,
Post No. So, P1entywoo6