Show STORY OF OP A SULPHUR MINE MIRE Only One in This T is Country It Is Said How It Is Worked Milwaukee Sentinel l There is only one sulphur mine in the United States said Hubert Oser O er of New Orleans The existence of the tha mine Is known to but a few and arni was known to hardly any an one until recent years jears ars The mine is 15 said to contain about worth of purr pure sulphur It is located near Lake Charles in an almost inaccessible region J Jt t was discovered by b a famous mineralogist according ln to toone toone toone one story stor while whilo another has it that it was found Uy a party of hunters who had shot bears in the vicinity und and found the coats of the beara to be IJ filled with witha a black greasy oil Thay Phy lh y were curious to know where this came from and tracked bruin one going through an Il almost impenetrable marsu marsit nd coin com coining comin coining ing in out on a high wooded knoll where ft he re rethe the cit til pit was discovered r d Little was thought thou ht o 0 the tho matter un dl 11 a ew rew years the civi war var when an all attempt t was made mads to t sin shO a slut to tc get the tilt oil The war var broke u j the busi busl i H iem ess SS but in another r shaft sh Lt was wa sunk stink this time with huge steel rings each twelve feet in aad five feet wide itle They were werd front from Frann anil trai a roll i oiled across the country to th the oil il pit of thorn them th m wore W wet IJ sunk in one une lie shaft feet d I ep t I but it filled up with c o I and it was that nothing could ce ic done with tha the enterprise A for Jor fortune fortune tune tUlle was vas sunk in the attempt Later the Standard Oil heard h ald of the th oil all and came down to f the ground Borings were made and it was uis found the oil vas was a i r stratum of I If pure flure sulphur rock from to O feet deep Jeep Various expedients were WT tri d to tomine mine autie the stuff but 11 ll tailed until one un of or tho engineers thought up a n tt the sulphur by melting meilin it and It to the S made madei i mile either way showed the stratum to t t be about feet in e every ry diree direction tion and the worth of the mine was esti estimated estimated estimated mated at lit nearly A unique and intricate process is used us d to extract the sulphur Huge iron pipes are forced into the bed bad and hot water pumped into them at degrees from froma a 11 battery of boilers boil rs After about ten days the melted sulphur is pumped to the surface and flowed into hu hure re e vats where here It is allowed to cool c ol |