Show Box Elder County Deposit Largest and nd Richest in the World Neither nt records nor other known records tell ot of a deposit of graphite anywhere in the world which compares In size and richness with that ot of the Bomber Homber MIning corn com company panT pany In Threemile canyon near Per Perry Perry ry Box Elder Eider county Utah The Homber compans graphite do de deposit posit where It has s ben crOsscut is with only one wall exposed It outcrops prominently In the prop property etty erty for a length ot of feet prospected extensively by open cuts shafts and tunnels it is proven to be beof ot of uniform grade running from rein 90 per percent percent cent to 98 08 per cent pure graphite The Importance of It these facts can be belt beet appreciated when It Is 18 known that the deposits of at graphite In the I ot of the United States which have pro provided vided the small proportion ot of that min into i eral used in the United Stat States s besides being very verb much smaller tItan than the deposit average only about 6 per cent pure graphite Wb which means that the ores ot of those other mines must be treated by processes ot of concentration more or less The ore as It comes from the mine of the Bomber Homber company Is more nearly pure graphite than are the concentrates from the which treat the tho ores ot of other graphite mines Requires No C Concentration n The ore ot of the Homber mine does not require concentration to produce v a product read ready for use In the manufacture ture ot of paints lubricants and man ninny other articles ot Of commerce It to ra quite qUires only grinding to varYIng de degrees degrees grees Of fineness thus calling for rel relatively small amaIl Initial outlay for tor cry ery arid and relatively low cost ot of Uon The rho use ulle of at graphite Is s by the small supply TIle The United States Statu pro produces produces duces not to exceed of the graphite that It ot of course being imported from other countries It is the best known mate material material rial for tor the body of paints in which Is requIred the quality of resisting the I elements tir firO Produced only n a tal tIe more cheaply than has tas be been n possible under prevailing condition that Us Its u uso e would be almost immeasurably ably extended d goes without saying It Is thus that the tho company II is about to launch n a new flew Industry for Utah which should prove of oC vast importance That It ban baD not beep earlier to the tho front appears appear to t be due to the tao fact that with Interest rc t center centered d In other minerals and aud metals local talent has not appreciated the lUtle of graphite As mat Juat matter tel ter of tact the nature and extent ot of the deposIt was for tor a long longtime time not r realized Js A early es 1264 prospectors for tor dro drove Ia a IJ Jt Tt M burn so no furt attention II 1 I was given that hou of at the neighborhood learned where e ethey they could get cheep cheap stove tovo polish Wall of VeIn Some Bomo years yeara l later ter It was discovered that the great body of at graphite forms time the hanging hangin wall of a vein of Df lead silver ere cre The ore are vein is only two tivo inches wide at the surface but at tie the bottom ot of a shaft fifty feet teet deep It h 1 two feet teet thick with values value Increasing The Tho ore are shows aver average e values of t 1 12 a ton and a carload o of It was shipped late in the Some day the owners of the property may have bave a mine ot of consid considerable considerable erable value but at the present time they are devoting their energies to t opening the great body 0 of pure graph graphIte graphIte Ite and preparing to Install a mill to 1 reduce it to the forms required to make mak makIt It a commercial product The Tho only known deposit of graphite Which approaches that of the Homber Hmar company for the purpose ot of Son Is in the state of Sonora Bonora It Is not nearly w s large as that ot of the and U ft Is fa laId aId to run about per cent pure as to the bet better hf ter than per cent or of th the ti graphite Preparing to Build Mill The Homber owns a group gr p ot of claims covering Its deposit An ample water wat i sup supply su ply is at hand for tor all purposes ill I eluding milling The mine ill Is only oni two tv and a half miles from the tue Short Line with an easy grade Grado the entire distance from t mine to the The company 1 jUt just completed construction ot of a gOld guJ road and Is otherwise Ing for the large ns which wU v bo be inaUgurated as soon lIoon as a rom L bl be provided The Tue gr greater ter Portion ot of the depot depe that has bu been bRen expOsed is Ie what is 4 1 as a graphite raphU which Is 1 kInd particularly for use In Li manufacturing of at paints and for In the ordinary lead pencils In tb tl bottom ot of the deepest shaft ha tIe greato bOdy b has appeared two feet teet u s crystalline graphite the kind used f franking ranking malting lubricants The he Homber company is for tor 1 shares par 10 cents II i o bare haret In the treasury Its of and large art veI 11 known conservative mining men td capitalists ot of Utah wh who are their best energies to getting tie the new nev Industry established upon right on that should assure the tho s shuge large huge profits for several veral generations to come The CO eon 1 prizes A G 11 Burritt president M 1 P Anderson Andorson vice M Anderso secretary and treasurer T 1 J Yate ae eri W W Cannop S itu au |