The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-30
SULPHUR FOR ALL THE WORLD.
Vast Deposits of the Pure Element
Opened on Una1aska Island.
From the Tacoma Ledge

| NuSt OepOs1ts OF tne Fure EAemeht
Opened on Unalaska Island.
From the Tacoma Ledger.
And now it is for sulphur-pure sui
phur in tons, in carloads, in shiploadg
for which Alaska is to become most
| famous. Hitherto the worlds supply
of sulphur for the making of powder
and in the industrial arts has been
| coming for centuries from the Island
| of Sicily, where a dozen vessels at a
time are seen loading the yellow ma
terial. But that Sicily is not a circum-
stance for deposits of pure sulphur to
/ Mount McCutcheon, on Unalaska Is
| land, is the report just brought down
| from there by George Carlson, who is
at present and has been for years in
the Swedish government employ as a
mining engineer, fitting him more es-
| pecially for passing as an expert on
| the deposits of Mount McCutcheon. He
was for years located at the Sicilian
| sulphur mines as expert, locating new
beds of the stuff and experimenting
the workings. 1t was on this account
the gentleman's annual vacation from
| the Swedish service was eagerly TAX
| en- advantage of by the New Workers
| who hold a claim to the new sulphur
| discoveries of Unalaska Island, and he
was secured and set UP there at once.
| He spent one month on the mountain
with a force of twenty-five men, and
recently reached Tacoma on his return
trip by the Elihu Thomson, the boat
having picked him up at Dutch Har-
Dor.
without Equal in the World.
The Swedish government expert
| finds that for vast deposits of the pur-
est flower sulphur the Alaskan dis
covery is without equal in the world.
| The beds lie in blanket fashion over
most of the mountains, thinning out
as the level of the sea is reached, but
everywhere prevalent in almost I'M
! broken strata. He found the noun
| tain to be 5000 feet above the sur
rounding ocean, and covered more than
half way down from the summit with
eternal snow. The summit reveals an
extinct volcano. with a great crater
! half mile wide. The interior of the
crater is sunlxen some hundreds of feet,
and the sides are all honeycombed,
affording sheltering caves for Mr.. Carl
| son and his twenty-five men for many
| nights. Owing to there being no tim
| Der at all on the mountain, the month
| spent in the SHOWS was spent for the
most part entirely without fire or hot
food, but the wonderful revelations
more than compensated the traveller.
| In one spot the removal of thirty feet
| of snow and ice and some twenty feet
| of broken shelf rock let the Worwers
into a body of commercially pure sui
! phur, the extent of which was not dis
| covered, for shaft of fifty feet had
not gone through it, and it was i'm
| possible to sink further owing to the
| constantly caving sides. In all, the
| deposits were tapped at sixteen points,
| and found to be at every point more
| free from adulterous substances-lava
| bodies and pumice, which hinder the
1 Ill fl1s1
| phur beds of Iceland. Said Mr.. Carl
| son:
| Staked Years Ago.
"It cannot be said to be an entirely
new discovery, since it was Staked
and recorded FIVE years ago-and then
abandoned. But we have done the very
| first work ever performed on the de-
posits, and the original stalking was
done from the showings at the base
| of the mountains. where Indians have
for centuries been digging out more or
| less of the stuff. for medicines Drin-
| cipally. l don't want to say too much
about the matter, for while was there
the original stakers of five years ago
returned from Seattle and restaked the
| ground right on top of it. The original
| stalker was De Sata of Seattle, but the
following gold rush into Alaska divert
ed that company's attention, and the
| certainty it would never have been
| abandoned. Then it was staked by the
| men who have sold it to the New York
! spectators 1 have represented, and 1
| have been sent out. am carrying
back my report. If the development of
the property would cost a million, it
| would yet be O. proposition of world
wide Importance, while as a matter Of
! fact it is close to the waters of the
| Pacific Ocean, but ten miles from
| Dutch Harbor-as good a harbor at
| any time of the year as could be de-
sired. !
Easily Accessible.
"A bit of tramway, and the com
| pany can begin to load the sulphur on
| to ships at once, and see no end to
the deposits in sight. I am sure it
is destined to take the place of Sicilian
sulphur in the markets of the world
from its being IS per cent pure, re-
quiring no process of publication, and
lying in such vast bodies that the la
Dor of loading is all the expense there
is to it. Yes, l should judge there is
to be big lawsuit over the possess
sion of the property now that it has
been found to be so exceedingly valu-
able, though a concern which has been |
IN undlsputed possession for five years |
and has never sunk a hole or had a. !
man on top of the mountain, where
the really valuable sulphur is, would
seem to me to stand little show in a
contest with the United States as ar
bitter"
TIE trip has been an expensive one. |
and landing as he did, after banking |
hours, Mr. Carlson is forced to wait |
Tor the opening of the banks again on |
Monday before resuming his Journey
in the direction of New York
URIv Climate
He brings out with him several hun
dred pounds of the sulphur all of
which looks exactly as does the drug
store sulphur, which. mixed with mo-
lasses' used to form so large a part
OF the medicine chest in grandmother's
days. The exposures endured on the
trip were severe while they lastd, but
the gentleman is rapidly recovering
under the genial sunshine encountered
several days out from Puget Sound.
~ all the variations Of climate along
the Alaskan coast. Mr.. Carlson de-
clares the climate in the neighbohood
OF the mountains the worst. In TWEEN
ty-nine days on the mountains IL was
never possible 10 see the surrounding