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Show A PENCIL FACTORY IS AMONG POSSIBILITIES Unlimited Amount of Graphite in Uintah Basin Owned by American Ameri-can Pencil Company and Dixon Graphite Co. A pencil factory in the Uintah basin ba-sin is among the possibilities. It is claimed that there is an unlimited amount of graphite, from which pencils are manufactured. A recent dispatch from Salt Lake says: The American Pencil company and the Dixon Graphite company com-pany have a representative in Salt Lake who is going into the Uintah basin and Millard county coun-ty to survey tho graphite deposits de-posits which are controlled by the two companies. George Franks, a New York engineer, is at the Hotel Utah. He said yesterday yes-terday that the Utah deposits would probably be developed In the near future as the European Euro-pean war has cut off the supply of graphite deposits and the Pennsylvania graphite deposits ! are not of desirable quality. "The supply of graphite in Utah is practically unlimited so I have been Informed by the gineers who have been over the ground," said Mr. Franks. "We have all the properties we want, but this trip Is being taken to determine whether or not the two companies can get the right kind of raw material to supply the demands. In fact, the orders ord-ers which have been received by the companies have caused the price of soft graphite to advance moro than 300 per cent in the prist six months. That Is the reason rea-son for the advance in the price of pencls and copying Inks." r |