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Show ! UTJIH SULPHUR WILL nn Mi Subliming Furnaces to Cost $180,C00 to Be Installed j This Season. Tmnir.ii i.'Lto onstfui-tinn nf (uruaces for tin: KuMirnin of suljlitjr at the property ut' .'Uih Sulphur corporation, Morris- i :oy, lliMi'i'i' county, is .-nmounced by : .Mi' ii;n-1 I'. ,Moi-r;:-"sey, prcsi'lciit and gun- L'cal iiuhl'i :-;f'j- oi" i ho con i i.'liiv. lie snid j y:Hi cfi;i y that, the nnprovC"iucul:i now I di.:fiiiiU'ly d-'i'idoij upon would co.st appro-, i muh.'l y $ I Su.U'ti) ; I'uit t plans and hluu P r-i 1 1 t.-i u'it(! now in coui'.so of preparation ; IhaL tin: money required wa.s available, a nd 1 1 nil. (he ork would be r us lied aft rapidly as possible, it bein estimated MiaL about four months would be necessary neces-sary to fini'-li tin: bi undertaking. This determination lij insiull at the property of the Utah Sulphur corporation has been nindc after a series of exhaustive exhaus-tive and elaborate experiments a subliming sublim-ing furnace, built on a Mnall s.'Lile, .aftr-r Mr, Mo! rissey's own id. 'as, having been erected early in the spring and maintain, main-tain, r.l in .MH-rrssful upcra'ioti during the jj.tsr si w.-cks. When I lie new f u rnares ar-o installed they v.ill have a eapaeily of tide tons pel-day pel-day nf the sulphur ort: and will produce from 1-jU to l'mii tons of suiilimed sulphur e ei-y t wen t y - four hourp. The pla nt will be must ructei .so as to permit of the niM nuiai't iiro of larbon disulph id- a sulphur sul-phur prod ui t used in 1 be real men t of r.-rtain tries ot i.ro and world S!,"jO per tun, wholesale. Tlie pn,ccss tit-cd is i;niiiic I he crude tailpinir ore is treated ! in cc ;i j ii ; i - I i 01 1 with passing the melted I prn.iihL th run .nil a cuke tower, tlie coke ; Inn n healed to i m -a nd csren ce and the : rc.mralinn of (lie aniuuiit of air admitted df tfi'in i Mrs ihe nature of tho product de-ri de-ri vd. ii 1 1 1 r subl imcd sulphur or carbon ' disulphi.m. I 'reside 1 1 1 Morri.ssey, who has just rc- t u riii'il from an ex i ended slay at I lie j: l;cafi- county property, said that Ihe two rctoru fur the making of brimstone sulphur sul-phur w ore working in a vi rt ua II y per foe t iiiiiiiiicr and were turning out about forty mns per day of the highest-grade product, prod-uct, The ';iluc of the product, ho de-cIhi'ci). de-cIhi'ci). iniuhf be judged from the fact that tin- output was now sold ahead for sixty d;iys and that, this week he received ui der;; for 4 ih) tons without any solicitation solicita-tion or m erlising. The nruiagcr added that enough ore was now stripped at Ihe property lo keep the plant busy for a. period of at lca.st elgit-tccn elgit-tccn months, and when the subliming furnaces fur-naces were insialled a creat dump of ore thai once pa-ed Cirougii a crude process was read v for treatment. Waler "lvom the mine has proved a problem of some vexation and a largo d rai u system w as const rue ted to get rid II of tli is. The water gives off a eharac-terlstic eharac-terlstic odor and h nalysis h;is proved it is i Iwavily impregnated with hydrogen sulphide sul-phide and sulphurous acid and has a com mcicial a I uo ol' about $26 per ton, 1 when used in certain processes. Somo-' Somo-' thing like a million dollars' worth of this I water has been allowed, to waste, but I now that its aluc has been determined I stops are being taken for its conserva- tion, witlt a, view to ultimately market- ing tho product to eomc of the big mining .1 and muling companies in Utah or Mon-j Mon-j tana . |