Show MINING FOR GRAPHITE A new and important enterprise is hi now getting fairly on its feet and those backing this project are now having visions of a period not far distant when they will be taking down regular dividends not long ago in these columns mention was made of the incorporation of the homber mining company of which A G burritt is president and martin anderson treasurer the basis of the incorporation embraced a number of claims near perry box elder county utah on which there had been discovered large deposits of nearly pure graphite and these have been thoroughly explored and their value determined through the untiring efforts of mr burritt who is enthusiastic over the showing as well he may be as an almost inexhaustible supply of graphite has been uncovered the deposit being sixteen feet in width which assays essays in the neighborhood of 97 per cent pure in addition to which twelve inches of flake graphite has been ered which is almost the pure quill while the graphite is so nearly perfect as to grade it must first be treated on the ground before it can be marketed the process is itself as the raw material needs only to be ground and settled to handle the graphite the company is preparing to put in a small crushing plant with a capacity of from forty to fifty tons daily and will soon be on a producing and paying basis for it already has offers whereby it can find a salt lake market for its product at 5 cents a pound the mill will be installed this fall the company also has discovered a deposit of silica six feet in width ag per cent of which is graphite and is satisfied that from froin this material it can turn out a fire brick which will be superior for smelter work in furnace lining and is now making experimental tests in firebrick fire brick brck manufacture the company has water on the ground which will be utilized for direct power purposes |