Show u TION 01 o UK UH Consumption linn II II III III In The recent reent In the price of ot sulphur t nd the consequent lacrosse In the of ot pyrite which lift lens lately found favor na as n a substitute for sulphur especially In the manu manufacture facture of ot sulphuric avid add wire were nota notable his ble features feature II of 0 the Ih and pyrIte industries In 1908 Dr Joseph Hyde Pratt ascribes ascribe tl Ue the changes In those these I h Industries during the last year to 10 an sit agreement r ment made the Anglo Anelo Sicilian Sulphur company compau and the Ih operators of ot mines mImics In Sicily Iy By II the time terms ot of the agreement this company controls control at tenet least 85 86 per Jer cent of ot the total production of ot sulphur In III Sicily An n interesting report entitled The Pro Production of ot Sulphur and In 1901 1008 has hall J een prepared by Dr Pr Pratt fur for forthe the United States Slate Geological Survey end and JH is published IU a un LU extract from the volume of Mineral 1003 Tho Time greater greuter portion of ot the Ihli world supply of natural sulphur U it obtained from Sicily of ot f this timis production the time United States Slates by lr tat tar the larger amount The or of ot the tho In Ini 1800 1806 has ima however helped hotd the time domestic trade a all as hown by b the net fact that while the tho imports Import of natural sulphur have Increased only ani nr per por cent since 1896 1885 the production of at natural sulphur In Inthe time the United has hu Increased per pcr cent The Tho sulphur Imported Into the time KUtes Is ua used d chiefly In the time manufacture of or sulphurIc acid and In Inthe Inthe Inthe the paper that In III Trance Iranee and Italy U is employed for tor agri agricultural agricultural cultural purposes The Time Increase In Inthe Inthe the time price of ot Sicilian sulphur less lian stimulated the manufacture of ot sulphuric acid front from and ha has hall begun bun to laue a II substitution of or for the time sulphur employed In the Ih man mall manufacture of ot paper pulp pilip In a few tew Instances Instance In thIs thle country count paper mIlls mill are obtaining th their r sul eul sulphurous ul acid from that are meetIng ores orell Up to the lIle pros prea ent eat time the largest Increase In the th Ih production of pyrite and Its U use ue In the of ot sulphur has baa Wn been n In the Ih man manufacture manufActure ot of scold acId for tor the time for fer fertilizer trade and for tor refining petro fittro petroleum hum leum It has been heen estimated that alum ISM 1896 he lie h production of ot pyrite has It ha increased per ier cent and the Import imports of at PYrite 13 per r cent Dr Pratt devotes devotee seine space apace to 10 A R description tle of ot occurrence occurrences of ot sulphur In Iii Louisiana Texan Texas Arizona Nevada Nev da California Utah and amid Alaska The deposIts In Sicily Jauan Mexico Chile Peru leru and Spain lip ln mire are alto all noted The countries that may mr e eaten dye exporters of ot sulphur ore aro rn MexIco and anti Chile It U Is probable that the United States may always to 10 de tie depend depend pend pond on oi Importing a portion of ut the sulphur and ami the control by American o of large lare of this mineral In would be of advantage to 10 this country The production of sulphur and of nt pyrite for tor or the manufacture of sul lul sulphuric In the PulLed l States State dur during durIn ing In 1901 1902 waa we long hong tons ton valued at as fI against a production of fir long tons toni valued at al In 1801 1902 The states that produced sulphur were lx Nevada eada and Utah The Th total domestic con consumption of ot sulphur In III 1908 was li long tons toni aa as agaInst ton tona In 1207 an Hn Increase e of ot tons ton Considerable space is II given rIven to a die dla of ot the production ton and md prices of ot Sicilian sulphur and to a 1 description of time the four methods used In Sicily In smelting sulphur ore oce The fhe report closes clone with an account of ot the Ihl sources lOure of supply production milton Imports and exports and consumption of The pyrite produced In 1 ao 1303 OS was we Attained from the following state Ial given len In lit the time order of at their respective re tIe output Virginia VI Massachusetts Cali Call California fornia Georgia Ohio Alabama Indi Indiana ana alma South Dakota and an New Kew Jersey Over one otto half halt of ot the total production was waa obtained from roam Virginia The do domestic mUr production does not begin to equal the demand and anil the rest reat re l of ot the supply used In the United States Is Im Imported potted ported principally from Spain Spelt with smaller quantities from Colum Column Columbia Columbia bia We Canada and lineS Newfoundland |