Show I Southern Utahs Sulphur A DEMOCRAT reporter met Mr Ferdi nand Dickert the sulphur king this morning and on asking the condition of the sulphur industry Mr Dickert said ne was manufacturing ground sulphur which will run 78 per cent of the pure article He has located twenty three sulphur claims near the road to St George from Salt Lake and about twenty five miles from Blackhawk on tho Utah Central Railroad Mr Dickert made a visit to the great sulphur mines of Europe for the exclusive purpose pur-pose of learning their treatment of the mineral and while in Sicily he studied carefully the different processes Since returning to Utah he has erected several heavy iron cylinders or furnaces near Cove Creek where the mineral undergoes un-dergoes a heavy steam pressure which forces the sulphur through in a fluid state It runs into moulds and is then ground into flour dust At present the duty of 10 a ton on imported im-ported sulphur is not enforced and Sicily is shipping sulphur to America for 24 a ton which is entered into our market as the crude material and the duty avoided Mr Dickert has an immense quantity of mineral and feels confident of increasing his already large shipments right along |