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Show SULPHUR SHORTAGE inRlCTSJITEill Government Experts Lay Stress Upon Requirements Require-ments of Nation. Utah is well known as possessing some of the largest and highest grade sulphur deposits in the west,- and, although these are as yet comparatively undeveloped, a large company is now busy opening up arid beginning the treatment of its enormous enor-mous sulphur properties in, Beaver and Millard counties. That government ex-perls ex-perls are recognizing the necessity for a speedy increase in the sulphur production of the United States is shown in the following fol-lowing article hv Dr. R. H. McKee, taken from lslie's Weekly of July 20. The writer says: "Unless steps are immediately taken to insure a far greater production of sulphur sul-phur and sulphuric acid the country is going to experience a strangely painful lack "of certain essentials to its welfare. "It is not generally appreciated that practically all the print paper is made from pulp that requires sulphur to produce pro-duce it; that rubber goods, and this includes in-cludes motor tires, cannot be made without with-out sulphur; that fertilizer requires sulphuric sul-phuric acid to produce it, and that explosives ex-plosives cannot be made without sulphuric sul-phuric acid. In fact, sulphur looms large upon the horizon of our national life, and unless we are to do without some of the things that have come to be considered necessaries we will have to get. more sul- phur somewnere. As evidence that Professor McKee is not overstating the situation that is now confronting the government at Washing-Ion, Washing-Ion, and that it is in fact rapidly driving toward a commandeer of all the available sulphur in the United States, and its allocation later on, the bureau of mines of the department of the interior sent one of its experts to testify before the senate committee on mines and mining, and this expert. Arthur E. Weils, staled that the country is facing a very dangerous danger-ous shortage in sulphur and sulphuric acid, and that no margin of safety exists ex-ists whatever. It was further adduced at this hearing hear-ing that the government is faced with the problem of making tremendous quantities of explosives for the use of the Americai) expeditionary force in France; that it is erecting enormous new powder plants In various parts of the country, and that when these are in operation as they will be before November of this year they will require such great quantities of sulphur sul-phur and sulphuric acid that the present sou-ces of sutiplv will be wholly inadequate inade-quate to take care of the country's needs. Asked what should he the procedure, Mr. Wells replied in .effect that there were three sources of supply that might be brought in. "Sulphuric acid may be made direct from pyrites, of which there are some available deposits in the United States: it mav be made from pyrrhotite, which Is a low-grade sulphur-bearing ore, also found scattered over the country, and Kiilnhur mav be reclaimed from smelter gases now going to waste oy means of the Thiogen process, a chemical process that has been developed by Professor Pro-fessor S. W. Young of Stanford university," univer-sity," was the substance of his testimony. testi-mony. Philip T. Dodge, president of the International In-ternational Paper company, recently staled that he was quite aware of the shortage of sulphur, and that unless his eomnnrv continued to obtain the sulphur needed to produce the sulphur dioxide, without which paper making was impossible, impos-sible, the newspapers of the country might find it necessary to cut their issues is-sues to a fraction of their present out7 put. |