Show UTAH IS AFFECTED BY ORDER ORDE AS TO SULPHUR G Government Is Supposed to Have Taken Over Plant in This State I. I The action acton of oE the government in taking I I over the sulphur Industry of the country is of Interest to Utah principally by reason reason reason rea rea- son of the fact that tha a company composed composed com corn posed principally of Eastern men recently recent recent- ly obtained control of a deposit In the southwestern section octon of ot the state and had ha planned to expend about in modern mod mod- em ern machinery It is presumed ed in the absence of of In Information information in- in formation to the thc contrary that the plant der will wi be included in the governments government's or or- or The sulphur Industry has ha been chiefly ny In the hands of two concerns the Union and Freeport Texas Sulphur companies Both are close corporations I j. j The Th Union company owns the largest deposit in the country and on ito ita Iv very ver small capital of paid dividends smal j of per cent monthly lr or at the rate of 1200 a share annually orT The Freeport e Texas company a relatively I newcomer In Inthe inthe I the eX field Tel has 1 also been very successful f The Tie last known transfer of Union Sul Sulphur Sulphur stock t cl occurred several years ago at atThe f o a share hoe The Union Sulphur company operating In Louisiana Louisana produces about tons daily daly while the Freeport company turns out over 1000 tons a day Consumption of sulphur in the United States now averages about tons a month With Wih increased government It Is expected to Increase to o at least tons a IL month Sulphur t not only enters enter Into the manufacture manufacture manufacture manu manu- facture of explosives but into print paper as well wel as rubber goods and fertilizers Supplies of ot sulphur in the United States under the pressure presure of ot increased demand have become perilously small smal which doubtless compelled the war Industries industries industries Indus indus- tries board to assume control of ot both the production and distribution of the country's country's coun coun- and try's tys ty's output Against t a price Of 22 22 a ton before the I war sulphur has as advanced to around 35 a ton |