Show uni ruwa this item Is from a pennsylvania paper the tha steamer that tills mean boon exported for or several diya days with a circa of sulphur ar au a u pounds tit I 1 brion tone in ili all halt of at it diving aca des taueu cor atia to 10 roudo into sulp sulphuric huria abeld aclu and halt for points on the grand trunk trual abo sulphur la is valued lit at Cou ou the vessel and on chirico ago collie frodi palermo iio italy and that makos us think that thai a little way irom from this city there la Is a del deposit ol of sulphur that measured by the iho pr t ing so hiir f ar done one ilia estimate est linato I 1 Is tint that there are of 0 tons toils practically ill fit sight of a quality exceedingly pure tl it reminds us further farther that while refined sulphur lias has a duty upon it when sent to lo this country ot or c 0 o it ton raw sulphur Is admitted free in palermo the sulphur as it Is mined has only about two 0 or r three per cent cant to the ilia ton that thai bow however olor is reduced or prop properly orly refined ned until tho the sulphur in neail ySO 00 tous tons 0 ot f crial erial is reduced to one ton and it comes within two or three per coot cent of being pure but it is not absolutely pure and so by a combination between tho the officers in it washington awl and the great firms thit that uso use sulphur extensively in tho ilia last east thit refined article is admitted as though it raw hence it Is unprofitable to work the mines in southern utah and iu in other places in this basin and they llo ito year after year idle d this particular shipload spoken ot or above wo we are told Is worth on its faco face it looks liko like a foolish thing fora country try with fields ot of a mineral to pay lor for a shipload ot cf that same mineral to coma collie across thor the sea that Is absolutely lost to this cot country latry it goes to italy either cither in gold or its equivalent when la in point ot of fact it ought to be paid to the miners and mine euine owners ot of the united states tho the writer of 0 this was LF talking to a senator 0 I 1 the united states on tills this samo subject and beaning him to use his 1114 influence with the ilia department to obtain a ruling which would the tari tariff fr as it was intended by tho the uw law to bo be enforced ills ilia reply was 1 I will do anything I 1 can of course but do you know I 1 frequently have three shiploads ship loads of italian sulphur on tha ahn sea at the same time and that Is the tha trouble when a man rich enough to lo havo have great reduction works tho next stop Is foe him to go to elio senate of tho the united states stales there is a combination directly between tho ilia legislative power of the country and the great corporations the great croat trusts and mau velli valuable property properly la in tile tho desert even with tho the law lawon on ills his side can starve to death boath before lie ho can got get relief reher against that combination wo a havo have no idea of the amount of sulphur imported annually but it must bo be very great when wo we think of a all tho the uses to which that EnIti mineral oral Is put in tho the aklus of powder in the making of acids and a hundred other purposes it probably amounts to half ball a million or a in million illion dollars per annum th that at menus halt bait a million or a million dollars dollari sout sent away thit that beaus that several hundred woi workingmen kingmen are denied malo inato work in ill tills this coultry com try and that tha t the ilia work is given elven to tho the poor who at the ilia baso base of mount X trio tor for a 11 miserable pittance mine alno and prepare this sulphur tor for export tile tho freights 10 across r oss ill the 0 atlantic aro are probably az 2 possibly sa 3 per day tile the labor laborers ars who loparo P r tho the sulphur do not race receive a to exceed 37 cents a ton and with no protection on the ilia home article of course it is lor for a man to mine sulphur in southern utah or northern nevada and compote compete paying railroad freights and paling miners miners via beges as will wilh those wretches lu in italy and the tha ocean freight fortunately sulphur does docs not decay it does docs not evaporate andoor and our alphur sulphur can rest without harm barm in ili the mine for a hundred or a thousand deais baltis until conditions chango so that it can bo be made available ava lable by and by whon when the railroad of the future carries freight for almost nothing when this country becomes so filled with people that they too are m to work lor for low is ages it will not need any tariff to keep out italian sulphur As it Is tho the owners of if our sulphur mines can do nothing but sit elt down above their sulphur deposits and estimate how much some man mail or somo some company a generation hence will bo be making out ot of their property |