Show WAR INAR NEEDS NEES CAUSE U. U S. S TAKING OVER SULPHUR MINES I IThe The possibility as an In Tuesdays Tuesday's Tuel Tues days day's Telegram that the argest largest sulphur mine in Utah has been taken over by bythe bythe bythe the government makes interesting the situation as to the sulphur industry in connection with war operations During everal several weeks there have been rumors of the Im impending ing decin government to take takeover eJ over the sulphur mines and to m make ke official distribution of oC that mineral The action acton has been forced by the shortage of sulphur throughout the country and by the Increasing demands of the administrations administration's war program It Itis Itis I is gener generally lly understood that the Interests great sulphur mines have strenuously opposed such a step As recently as June 7 last the Chemical Alliance Alance an incorporated bod body of chemical chemical chemical chemi chemi- cal man manufacturers ur formed at the tle re recommendation om om- of the war Industries board met at the hotel Biltmore in this city for the purpose of considering the need for allocation Horace Horac Bowker secretary secretary secre secre- tary tar of the American Agricultural Chemical Chemical Chem Chem- ical ial company acted as chairman and stated In his opening remarks that unless this distribution of sulphur could be satisfactorily satisfactorily sat sat- done by the Chemical Alliance Alliance Alliance Al Al- liance there could be no doubt but that the government would take the sulphur over and distribute it officially Since that meeting the members of the alliance alance have claimed that such Buch distribution as was being carried on was In the Interests interests inter Inter- ests eats of the great consumers consumer of sulphur and sulphuric acid There Is a a- 8 avery very serious shortage o ot 0 sulphur and the government has been seriously alarmed at the growing gowing men men- ace As recently as a May 22 of this year experts of ot the bureau of mines stated at ata ata ata a senate hearing held in Washington that the country was facing a dangerous shortage It H was shown that natural re resources resources resources re- re sources could not be depended on to supply supply supply sup sup- ply the country's countr's needs and that the most practical hope lay in the utilization of waste from the great geat smelters of the country A. A E. E Wells Vels consulting engineer engineer engineer engi engi- neer of the war department ep stated that it would be possible to develop a comparatively comparatively com com- swift source of supply by the process of of reclaiming sulphur from the smelter fumes and that be possible to erect two plants plant with a capacity of tons a day each to cone come into operation within a few months Present sources of sulphur supply are from rom two mines minea mine one at Calcasieu Parish Par Par- ish La owned by the Union Sulphur company over tons of ot sulphur sulphura a day and another at Bryan Height sulphura Texas ow owned d by the Freeport Sulphur company and producing In excess ex ex- cess of 1000 tons a day Miner properties properties proper proper- ces ties In Nevada Utah and Wyoming produce produce produce pro pro- duce tes about sixty tons a day combined Sulphur consumption in the United States exceeds tons per month Mr r. r Wells stated this will wl Increase to over Vels tons per month before the end of of the year due to Increased government govern- govern m ment use Sulphur p e is a necessity for the production production tion of or explosives explosive print Paper manufactured manufactured manufactured ton rubber goods and other othEr uses There are sulphur deposits in both Sicily and Japan but both the Italian and anc Japanese governments have forbidden the export from their respective It is considered as not unlikely that the United I States will wU later on have pave to face the necessity for exporting large quantities quan quan- titles of sulphur to meet the needs of the allies ales |