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Show flEH PROCESS PROMISES I Reduction in Carbon-Di- j sulnhide Cost Is of Vital 1 t Import. ' Exhaustive experiments carried on for a long period of time at considerable expense ex-pense by the Utah ul'-hnr corporation, whose properties are situated twenty miles north of Beaver and two miles south of Cove 1'ort, promise that a certain new Drocess will revolutionize the sulphur industry. in-dustry. By this process sulphur can be manufactured more ecunomtcully than by the Frasche process, used in Texas and Louisiana. The Krasche system consists o: boring a well into the sulphur deposits. When this has been accomplished. s;eam :s forced at such jrreat pressure into the sulphur beds that the mineral is Ikiuefietl. The liquid is pumped into tanks and by evaporation the sulphur obtained. Although Al-though the Prasche system has been employed em-ployed with great profit, accord in? to C. V.'. J'eterson. secretary of the corporation, the new svstem. reeenth- discovered by an A mcrican. will enab.e the local product to be manufactured at a norma I cos:, a cofi so low that compcti:iou from no part u; the world need be feared. Production of sulnhur has been carried on in iliiy siaic under ennsiderabie handicap, handi-cap, because of t lie hish cost of carbon -disulphido, the leaehin? asent. Lp to the ire3?nt time this aseut has been pro iu eel bv an Italian or an English process, wnich consists of treating coke in towers four feet in diameter and of various heights. These towers are costly to construct and only small amounts of coke can be treated. By the new process, coke towers tow-ers for the manufacture of carbon-disulphide carbon-disulphide of large capacity can be built at a reasonable cast. For the purpose or , s;udying thoroughly at first hand a p. ant irr actual operation under the new process, proc-ess, M. P. Morrissey, president and general gen-eral manager of the company, left the ciiv for New York recently. This plant, which Is manufacturing carhon-disnlphide under the new process, is sKieen feet in diameter and forty-one feet in height. Tr further investigation proves the process a;l that the best authorities declare it to be. Mr. Morrisscy will bring back with him an engineer and plans, ami construction of a-plant of sufficient capacity to furnisn the demands of consumers of carbon -d Isnlnhide in this inter mountain district wj'l be i.uilt. Officia's of the company are very optimistic op-timistic in regard to the new process and " are confident that with the cheap rooduc-t;on rooduc-t;on o; the carbon-di sulphide p"od net ion of sulnhur iil become one of Utah's chief industries. Production of this lea.-h-inc agent should also be profitable, it is sa id. as the consump; ion of this product in the imermotmtain country i--' large. A I read y wo rk prenu : a t ory to t be ! n -s'ai'a Lion of the new plant has begun. The water supply is being developed ?nl reservoirs for th.e storing of water are being built, it i.s said. Oil Mr. Morrissey's return fmm New York it is expected thi-.t he wiil be ab'e to gi-e definite information of a project which will solve the tra nsoorta t ;nn diffi-cjIUos diffi-cjIUos of the southern nart of the state. |