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Show Graphite Possibilites The Price Sun says: "The American Pencil company and the Dion Graphite company have a representative in Salt Lake City who is going into the Uintah Basin and Millard county to survey sur-vey the graphite deposits which are controlled by the companies, says the Herald Republican. George Franks, a New York engineer, is at the Hotel Utah. He says that the Utah deposits will probably be developed in the near future a3 the European war has cutoff the supply of graphite deposits and the Pennsylvania deposits are not , of desirable quality. The supply of graphite in Utah is practically unlimited so I have been informed by the engineers who have been over the ground," says Franks. "We have all the properties we want, but this trip is being taken to determine whether or not the two companies compan-ies can get the right kind of raw material to supply the demands. In fact, the orders which have been received by the companies have caused the price of soft graphite to advance more than 300 per cent in the past six months. That is the reason for the advance in the price of pencils pen-cils and copying inks." |