Show COVE CREEK SULPHUR BEDS A region in southern utah which re gently attracted attention of gov officials salt lake feb 22 A good many do not realize the importance of the sulphur deposits which exist in the eastern part of mallard county this region was recently visited by willas T day of the united states geological survey who found that some of the sulphur occurs in cylindrical masses or cores 10 or 15 feet in diameter having a rude radial structure as if they had been formed about a central vent extending indefinitely don into beds of tuff but it occurs mainly as a dark colored impregnation pr or cementing substance in the rhyolite tute in certain places it appears as pure yellow sulphur ramifying through the beds occasionally a smaller cavity Is found lined either with flowers of sulphur or with sulphur crystals this sulphur is probably the result of volcanic action as shown by its presence in a volcanic region where recent eruptions have occurred gas Is escaping in large volumes in some areas by thousands of small jets from the porous beds of wherever water is found standing in the excavations the gas is noted boiling up it at short vals the agreeable dle odor of hydrogen sulphide is strong and lis probable that this gas is the origin of the sulphur the hydrogen in the gas uniting with the oxygen in the porous tuft to form water and sulphur behind as a solid tho ore varies in richness from a trace to practically pure sulphur samples taken at the extremities of the workings and analyzed in the laboratory of the geological survey were found to contain respectively 80 per cent and 65 per cent of sulphur material running as low aa 15 ped cent sulphur Is considered paying ore at the smelter theore placed in iron retorts and the sulphur is melted out by steam of the prod as it comes from the cretors shows that it contains per cent sulphur 23 per cent nonvolatile non volatile residue and 06 per cent of moisture sulphurdale Sulphur dale is the name ot the camp which Is about 20 miles north of beaver the nearest town of any considerable size the deposits are owned by the utah sulphur company of salt lake city arid are situated about four miles south of the site of old cove fort cove creek sulphur has supplied the local market for about 30 years the average annual output being estimated at 1000 tana an area of several acres has been exploited but the lateral extent as well as the depth of the deposits is unknown |