Show SULPHUR A Huge Solid Mountain of it Down South The production and manufacture of sulphur has not been treated as a matter mat-ter of much importance in Utah especially but the industry is an extensive ex-tensive and judging from facts and figures learned yesterday a profitable one In Southern Utah at Cove Creek a four hours drive from Black Rock are located several mines of which Mr Ferdinand Dickert is the owner and in which fromeighteen to twenty men are employed and machinery and means used in working them which would surprise sur-prise an ordinary citizen There are I twentythree claims located on the hill and the body of brimstone so far surveyed sur-veyed extends 2100 feet in length is 1800 feet wide and has a thickness of about sixty four feet This immense deposit contains many many million tons of thejnineral and will ultimately yield to its owner a vast fortune The output hitherto has been limited inconsequence I in-consequence of the absence of the requisite machinery for grinding but recently Mr Dickert has purchased pur-chased > l freighted to the mines mills and engines for the proper reduction of sulphur What has been produced has been shipped to St Louis where there is an excellent market An order for 6000 barrels or 300 tons was received the other day from a gentleman of Missouris capital which can not be filled until the grinding grind-ing machinery is put in successful operation oper-ation This it is expected will be in about fcvo tweeks The purity of the sulphur unquestioned As the result of a carload recently shipped to a St Louis firm dhe purchaser wrote back thai itwas absolutely pure not a trace of arsenic in it It is 99 and SOlOOths per cent j > nre sulphur This is purer than the Sicilian article which is in greatdeman and which is only 95 toG ° to-G ner cent The process used in working it is a patent one owned by Mr Dickert and so far has acted to a charm There are at present at iiie mine some 700 tons which will be shortly sacked and consigned con-signed to St tLouis when regular large expoxtatwnswill be maintained There will he no difficulty mining the principal prin-cipal claims during the winter as the climate that section is not so severe as farther lam Geologists and other scientific menwho have vsited the deposit de-posit say they neversaw anything like It and some of them estimate it to contain con-tain 1300900 teas but Mr Dickert considers con-siders that a xery low figure He expects I ex-pects that when everything is in good order he will tenable to ship from 40000 io 50000 tans a year Theentire mountain moun-tain is a bedof stone which needs only masdfi steam enterprise to mine grind and place it where itwill do the mostgood |