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Show POLITICAL ECONOMY. Our Sulphur. In many countriia pyrites are ued to obtain sulphur and sulphuric acid. Immense heaps of the sulphid of iron are allowed to undergo spontaneous combustion, or they are purpouely arranged in such h manner tnat th y can be burni r.itu ncc o cumruon air. In this w.iy, nt a very tr.fl.ng expense, ex-pense, the largest masses ol pyrites ure Conveitad ilId eulpbate ot iron, which is leached out and prepared lor the market as green vitiiol. This salt, when crystallized aa toe protc-eulpbiite protc-eulpbiite of iron (green copperas), when exposed to a dull rej beat, crumbles into a white powder, and loses the greater part of iU water ol crystallization. In this state it is a marketable commodity; Irom it that kind of sulphuric acid known as the , Nordhausen, or Sxon sulphuric acid, is prepared. To oh:ain it is a far lees expensive mode than that resorted to by some of our patriotio cbemuts of this city, who brtve had to muke chambers under circumstances of great difficulty, and to distil over the lumes of burning sulphur with tbooe of nitrates obtained with great difficulty diffi-culty and at groat expense 1'uo Nordhausen acid is obtained Uy distilling dis-tilling the green vitriol, whit-h is put into a ccated earthen or dressed glass retort, where it is gradually exposed to a lull red heat, a dark-colored liquid passes over, which is of great specific gravity (1,89). This kind o( sulphuric acid can be need lor aiaoy purposes in the arts. But there ib really nothing to prevent the manufacture of the ordinary or-dinary sulphurio acid.or oil of vitriol. The judicious outlay of $50,000 would enable a beginning to be made, and when that was accomplished chemical industries could be started that are now practically impossible by reason of the heavy expense of importation. That, with the influx of miners, engineers en-gineers and educated men ol allied industries, this important acid will be made, there can be no question, as time will prove. What is dona now with all the waste products of Utah ? Nothing; they lay idle in a thousand places, and in tens ot thousands of tone. Let any one examine tie statistical sta-tistical reports of imports and calculate calcu-late what an immense outlay is passing pass-ing away annually, whioh could be saved to this community. With the manufacture of these waste products of Ulh our commerce would be extended, ex-tended, we cculd export, not as largely as we now import, but gradually this kind of business would increase. Any way, we could find employment for the laborer aud benefit the capitalist. Then our salt, so abundant and diversified di-versified iu their character that we oniy vaguely kcow where they are or what they are; . these would become things of value. The mineral resources of thU entire region would ho developed; rb it is, tho lead-silver is our staple article ol export, and -until very recently rich lead ore, of low grade in silver, would not pay for rtduciiou If we look at the quotations, of loreigo markets iu the artioles of acids, dry salts, paints, earths, and i alkaheB, then compare the prices we 1 are paying here (or them, reflact for ; a moment that we have the material j here within our reach, we ha7e the' requaite skilled lubur, the willing IhdcI, ready to do all that is needed to devebp these iududtries, that if capital is needed it can be obtained by united effort and with its judicious outlay other industries will be slarted; property will increase in value; agricultural agri-cultural produce will obtain more remunerative prices. There ia every incentive to action. Bofore long we shall be in the centre of a network ol , railways, extending into the surround- ing scales and territories, aud ramify- 1 ing and circulating into every : canou where mineral wealth is found. Thia ia the kind of market now opening open-ing up for us; aha 11 we prepare to supply it or leave it to our neighbors ? |