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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : ECONOMICS. [PaRT III : 
In 1902, the late Mr. A. M. Gow Smith, on coming to the Central 
A. M. Gow Smith and the Provinces to prospect for coal in the Chhind- 
i;Sd''"S-°'"'-l -ara district, was led by the active export of 
Chhindwara). manganese-ore taking place from Nagpur and 
Kamthi to prospect for this mineral as well. He took up the Kodegaon^ 
deposit in the Nagpur district, rejected by the Central Provinces 
Prospecting Syndicate on account of the small size of its outcrop, 
compared with the very fine deposits they had secured in other parts of 
the district ; and continuing into the Chhindwara district, discovered 
several previously unknown deposits 2, some of them, especially 
Kachi Dhana, Sitapar, and Gowari Warhona, being very fine deposits. 
The Kodegaon deposits were opened up by a syndicate styled Messrs. 
Gow Smith, Dundas Whifiin, & Co., and some 8,000 tons despatched 
during 1903. After a report by Mr. H. Kilburn Scott in 1903 a limited 
company designated The Indian Manganese Company, Limited, was 
formed to work Gow Smith's deposits. The capital of the company 
is £50,000. of which only 39,000 £1 shares have been issued, the amount 
paid up being £35,400 ; the amount paid for the acquisition of the 
mining property and rights was £25,000. Owing to the distance of the 
Chhindwara properties from the railway Kodegaon was the only one of 
this company's deposits worked up to the end of 1905. During 1906, 
however, under the stimulus of higher prices, Kachi Dhana, Sitapar, and 
Gowari Warhona, in the Chhindwara district, were also opened up, the 
ore of the two former properties being carted to Chhindwara, and 
that of the last-named to Nagpur. The output from the deposits of 
this company in 1906 was 16,543 tons. The mines manager is 
Mr. H. M. Hance, and the English agents of the company are Messrs. 
Everitt & Co., of Liverpool. The Indian agents were Messrs. Shrager 
Bros., of Calcutta, up till the autumn of 1905, and are now Messrs. 
Martin <Sr Co., of Calcutta. 
In addition to those already mentioned, there are several other 
firms and individuals working in the Central 
an?Bhandd.at°' Provinces, though on a less important scale. 
Messrs. Jessop and Co. of Calcutta own de- 
posits at Guguldoho and Bhandarbori in the Nagpur district, and 
Pachara in the Bhandara district. The Nagpur deposits were 
1 Date of first application for a prospecting license — 6th January, 1902. 
2 Mr. P. N. Datta of the Geologiual Survey discovered Kachi Dhana and indica- 
tions of Gowari Warhona in the field season of 1893-94 ; but the discovery had not 
heeu made public. 
