Show GRAPHITE MINE NEAR KETCHUM HUM Owners Have Forty Feet of Ore Running Well in the Black Mineral For a short time past T O 0 Hampton and AI Al Griffith of ot Ketchum have been working a claim In Slaughterhouse gulch on Trail creek crock about two miles from Ketchum that seems become val valuable al as a graphite mine says the Wood River fiher The owners now have hae forty feet of ot ore rc assays from which taken at random average from 17 11 to 31 11 per cent graphite Originally they began work on the property to open up a sliver lead vein but the ore oro appears to be changing its character The popular name for graphite graph generally by b mineralogists Is black lead leador or plumbago It Is found In primary and transition rocks all over the world and sometimes occurs crystallized In shot short hexagonal prisms but more moro or less rad tad radiated radIated foliated scaly or compact It Is greasy to the touch and a perfect conductor tor of electricity It Is much used for the tho manufacture of crucibles employed by as assayers assayers sayers and of lead pencils It gives a ablack ablack ablack black gloss to Iron grates stoves tailings and diminishes the tIu friction of ot belts and ome other parts of ot machinery As a lu lii lubricating lubrIcating agent It Is coming quito gen generally generally emily Into use for certain purposes Sin Singularly Singularly Singularly enough it contains no lead but is principally carbon in its crystalline and opaque form Its commercial value is paid fald to bo be In the neighborhood of 12 cents a pound Hampton and Griffith while not unduly over their discovery have good reasons to believe belleve that with further development they may have a big mine |