Show the sulphur mines beaver uttian Ut nian not notwithstanding withstanding the many promises of an early resumption of work the sulphur mines at cove creek still remain idle superintendent zimmer and assayer J 11 bur burfeind fein still remain in charge however daily awaiting orders to resume A cursory visit to the deposits of sulphur under the intelligent tell igent guidance of mr zimmer revealed the fact that the mine thus far exploited exhibit a layer of brimstone twenty four feet thick and at least twenty five acres in extent the th e very POiS poisonous ODOus nature of the f fumes umes exhaled by the mineral prevents its being mined by bt means of shafts tunnels and dinies RB as are other minerals it being necessary to quarry it out by means of big open cuts similar in i many n my respects to a stone quarry in into to t these hes cuts a narrow gauge railway has been constructed and the cars each holding five orsia or six tons of crude sulphur and there loaded and hauled by mule or horse power to the refinery a short distance away the sulphurous rag gas exhaled in in the cuts is so strong that rabbits gophers and the smaller class of wild bals animals i als fall ing into or taking refuge in the workings over night are bated and their remains bestrew the path of the visitor to the mine in one or two p places aces these gases escape from orifices in the ground with a continuous hissing sound like unto escaping ing steam and of a tempera ture much too warm to be comfort able to a persons hand held over the orifice Imme immense iise as this sulphur mine has proved to be there are eaid said to be other immense deposits of the same mineral in the immediate vicinity tyas as well as a hill bill of almost pure alum the refinery is surrounded by a village of sixteen cottages constructed on regular lines and each with a neatly fenced flower garden in front after the european style and as each cottage is whitewashed over its exterior the little town presents a neat and tasty appearance water for the re finery as well as for a domestic purpose is piped from a mountain spring pring some two miles diskint di stint and in in the rc re langle tangle formed by the houses are three or four continuously C flowing hydrants furnishing the inhabitants at all times with pure mountain water right at their very doors judging from the surroundings a person would naturally conclude that as soon as the railroad reaches the sulphur mines not only will the extracting and refining of sulphur be carried onon an extensive scale but manufactures also of sulphuric acid and its kindred compounds of sulphur and oxygen will doubtless be carried on |