Show Dallas Texas Mexico Mexico whose expropriation ex- ex of foreign oil properties has las centered interest in hi its mineral resources was itself a victim of expropriation more than years fears ago during its conquest by Hernando Fernando Cortez and his hardy band of Spaniards In 1519 it was described described described de de- de- de scribed to the Chemical society re re- Cortez sent his men into the crater of ot famed Mount and obtained sulphur with which he was v able to make gunpowder that helped him to conquer the country Donald B. B Mason chemical engineer engineer en en- of the Freeport Sulphur company com corn pany told of this episode from history history his- his tory lory in hi his review of the worlds world's sulphur industry for the chemists Cortez's Cortez s exploit was the first production production pro pro- of sulphur in hi the Western hemisphere |