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erty of G. \\". Smith near Keeseville was taken over under lease 

 by Mr E. Scliaaf-Regelnian and produced a small quantity of mass- 

 ive garnet, mostly for the foreign market. 



A recent feature of the garnet trade has been the ai)pearance 

 of Spanish garnet, which was first imported in 1907. The min- 

 eral is said to occur in detrital material along streams and is col- 

 lected and sorted by hand. It can hardly replace the domestic 

 garnet to any great extent owing to its fine size, though it is im- 

 ported at a cost much below that attainable by mines in this 

 country. The imix)rts of Spanish garnet in 1907 amounted to a 

 value of $6432. They fell off in 1908 to $2095. The average 

 value placed on the consignments was about $16.40 a long ton, or 

 less than one half the average selling price of domestic garnet. 

 There is no duty on abrasive garnet. Garnet sands are of fre- 

 C[uent occurrence along the streams and lake shores of the Adi- 

 rondacks, but so far as observed they are too finely comminuted to 

 be valuable for abrasive uses. 



The output of the Adirondack mines in 1908 amounted to 2480 

 short tons valued at $79,890. In the preceding year the total was 

 5709 short tons with a valuation of $174,800. The sales of garnet 

 in 1908 amounted to 1996 short tons. Notwithstanding the small 

 demand, there was no falling off in the prices which have been 

 maintained at about the same level for many years past. The mar- 

 gin of profit is small and most of the output is sold on contracts 

 covering the annual requirements of the consumers. 



GRAPHITE 



In the graphite industry of New York the most notable feature 

 of the past year was a -large decrease in production. The amount 

 reported by the Adirondack mines was 1,932,000 pounds with a 

 valuation of $116,100. In 1907 the total was 2,950,000 pounds 

 valued at $106,951, while in 1906 it was 2,811,582 pounds valued 

 ..t $96,084. The largest amount reported in any recent year was 

 in 1905 when the production reached 3.897,616 pounds valued at 

 $142,948. 



The statistics indicate a considerable gain in the value of the 

 material which averaged 6 cents a pound in 1908 as compared 

 with 3.6 cents a pound in the preceding year, though this may be 

 partly due to a somewhat different standard used in reporting the 

 values last year. The graphite after its first separation from the 

 gangue undergoes repeated refinings, by \vhich products of varying 



