Show ARE PENCILS LEAD SO CALLED TUB obvious answer to tills lids question ques ques- tion would be Been Because use they have e lead lend In them But they The Tine writing material In ID the pencil lend of today Is graphite not lead lend But there was a 0 time before the discovery of ot the famous graphite mine In Cumberland Cumberland Cum Cum- berland England when metallic lead lend was used Inside a wooden woollen holder bolder or shield and nud the name nome persisted even en after the lead Itself disappeared After Afler large deposits of graphite were located In ID England In 1505 1565 that country countr had practically a n complete monopoly of the pencil lead Industry for some years In fact It was not until 1701 illI when Casper Faber haber his pencil factory at ot burg In Bavaria that Germany took the lead lend In the making of this product The of the tariff which went Into effect In 1801 made the Importation of pencils lead-pencils into the United States a very expensive operation opera tion and forced n a number of manufacturers to establish plants In ID this coun coun- try American Inventive genius perfected perfected per per- many of the machines which made the pencils and today the United States supplies at least 00 per cent nt of ot the pencils used on this side of the Atlantic and a considerable proportion proportion tion of those which are utilized by bj the world at ot large The graphite comes principally from Ceylon Mexico Bohemia Bo nO Bohemia hemia hernia and Siberia while the red cedar c. cedarwood cedarwood wood Is obtained from Florida Florda Copyright ht |