| Show SULPHUR MINING IN A CRATER working an oil in the colono of kansas city aly times timm kouvel los tanos of chichi hau mexico has bag been visiting friends in thia this city recently V mr ir los tanoa tanos is a mexican mining engineer e ua 9 ineer ho ile told yesterday yeat erday of his descent into the crater of the volcano which is now practically extinct 1 I went down into the crater of the mountain further probably than any other man to examine the sulphur mines said the young spaniard very few persons of the united states have even made the ascent of thia this mountain it is worse than climbing tho the Matt Matter erhorn born it costs about in the first place takes several days and is very exhausting hau sting I 1 was let down into the crater the same way as the mexican miners who dup dug sulphur at this elevation of 18 feet by means of a wandlas and a rope the mouth of the crater is more than half a mile across the mine is owned by general ochoa who lives in the city of mexico I 1 saw there and examined cire carefully fully thousands of tons of the purest sulphur ever mined when cortez and his soldiers ol diers visited that country they needed sulphur for gunpowder and ascended the mountain for the first si time in ita its history the na native ti v sai said I 1 tell you it must have taken a vast amount of nerve to go u up p an unknown mountain like tecetl and then descend into a crater like the mouth of that volcano I 1 think everything con si dered it beats anything I 1 have ever heard of in history or fiction the natives who gather the sulphur now only secure small pick ages of it which they fasten to their hacks backs they then slide down the snow on the mountain after the mann marin r of the woodcutters of france for this venturesome work they get about 20 centa cents a day |
