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Show . SULPHUR TAKEN FROM WELLS How It Is Forced From Great Depths In Louisiana by Mean of Hot Water. Within recent years Sicily, ao long famous for Ita exportation of sulphur, has suffered from the competition of the United Stales., In Sicily sulphur Is mined In the solid form. At Lake Charles. I .a., near the Oulf of Mexico, a little over 200 miles from New Orleans, Or-leans, su'.phur Is obtained from deep deposits In the form of a liquid. Wells driven to a depth of 600 feet In search of petroleum revealed Instead In-stead a rich deposit of sulphur. To obtain the mineral hollow tubes were driven Into tho earth. Each sulphur well consists of three tube, one with lrf another. Through the outer tube bot water Is forced down, and it Is-i Is-i sues through ix-rforatlons near the bottom. Through the central tube ' hot air Is driven a little lower than the points where the hot water escapes es-capes Through this third tube, In-1 In-1 closed between the other two, the liquid li-quid sulphur, dissolved by the water, rises to the surface under the com-, com-, blned Influence of the pressure of the column of water and Impulsion of the rising air. The liquid sulphur Is led Into wooden reservoirs, where It cools 1 and hardens. |
