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Show ! GRAPHITE INDUS! England Controls Situation Through Ownership of ; Immense Fields. I ' WASHINGTON. D. C, Juno 22.-For-elgn control of American graphite output Is to be wiped out If a bill l,y Congressman Congress-man Ilcflin or Alabama Is made a part of the forthcoming tariff bill. Millions of American capital were Invested In war-j war-j time graphite enterprises In Alabama, I Montana, Colorado and other states. American cruciljlo producers learned the valuable lesson that they ii.-U no longer 'lepend upon Cennanv ami Ceylon 'or JiadaKawar trraphiie tor results. Under t present condiiiuns Americans stand t.i lo-c vast fortunes unless congress furnishes relief, and Congressman Ileflln's bill asks that a tariff of 2 cents per pound for low grade or a mori.hous: .'1 cents per pound lor high isra.lt!, or Ceylon, and 6 cents Per pountl of Kraphite on crude, concentrated concen-trated or refined flake be granted. On the i manufncl tired product he asks a tariff of : 5 cents per pound of graphite, content, i V S IM backed "P 1'V Hie Alabama chapter of the American .Minim; congress, and by tli.! Kraphite producers represent, ins Texas. Colorado. Jl.nitinia, Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, New York, .St. nth Carolina anil Alabama, Ala-bama, grouped in the national organization. organiza-tion. The re,urenu nts of the United Stales have been -HI, alio tons annually, of which -1,000 tons must be HO per cent crucible Kraphite. The annual value of the Imports Im-ports is $1,200,0.11), coming- from C.-vlon, Madagascar and Mexico. The Mexican graphite Is the low grade, or amorphous type. The uses for graphite are for crucibles, cru-cibles, to per cent; stove polish, 16 per cent; lubricant, 10 per cent; facing, 5 per cent; paints, r. per cent, and 5 per cent for all other uses. England practically controls the graph-' lte situation through ownership in the Ceylon field and control of Madagascar. Alabama alono can furnish 00 per cent of the entire domestic demand, while vast deposits have been opened in Texas and Montana of such richness in graphite content con-tent that they bid fair to compete .with Ceylon in the manufacture of crucibles! older graphite deposits are found In Pennsylvania. Penn-sylvania. New York and the Carolina. Reports have been presented to the United I Mates Tarilf commission, showing that a combination of American clay and I American graphite has added 30 per cent to the life of crucibles, and upon this showing and the necessity for protecting a national defense resource, the graphite ; men will make their fight to save the pillions pill-ions now invested in mines from the Inroads of the low-cost foreign product. American Mining Congress. |