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Show m. GARNET8 BY THE TON ' Garnest aro generally classed as precious stones and a fine gem garnet j may be worth from $5 to $25 a caret, ' according to variety and size, but It , Is ndt necessarily true that tho owner of a garnet mine is a millionaire be- j cause his mine produces garnets by ( the ton. In fact tho bulk of the gar- j nets produced are measured by the ' ton, but these of Inferior quality are used for abrasive purposes. In 19i2 the production of abrasive garnet, according ac-cording to tho United States Geological Geologi-cal Survey amounted to 4,182 short tons, valued at $137,800 so that the j ovcroKP rrlce for a ton of garnets was not qulto V33 or considerably less thnn doublo tho price of a ton of hay. The productions of gfu'netb In IJJ2 showed an Increase of 100 tons In quantity and $16,052 in vnlue campar-ed campar-ed with 1911. Tho three garnet producing pro-ducing StateB aro New York, New Hampshire, and North Carolina. |