El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-08-05
WILL PROSPECT
SULPHUR FIELDS
Seven Projects for Devel-
opment of Sulphur Are
Already Started.

Carlsbad. y. ~ aug 5.-Now that
the government has taken over the
production and refinement Of sulphur,
from mine to bursting shell, it is
probable that the great and unworked
fields Of yellow stuff between Carls-
bad and Ell Paso viii be thoroughly
prospected. The war and navy de-
partments are in urgent need Of sui
phur and the outcroppings in this dis
district, lying roughly. between Carls-
bad. the Texas and Pacific. the Pecos
river and the Guadalupe, and tribu-
tary from FL Paso on the west, give
promise that il viii shortly become
one Of the most anti-German districts
in the entire southwest. Seven
projects for the development Of sui
phur have already been started, and
ID is the hone OF their promoters that
government help may speedily bring
them TO the producing stage
A Romantic Region
This section is an odd and enticing
region TO the student OF the early
southwest The passing tourist who
gives but a casual glance 10 the pur-
pie hulk Of Signal Point, IS miles
from a railroad, would never believe
il to be the highest point in all the
state or that Il raises its bulk 1897
feet into the west Texas sky. He
would not know that years ago United
States tOpoEraphers built a signal
mound upon its very top, OF mountain
boulders tied together with cement
freighted up its narrow trails BY
burro pack or that, using this stone
platform as a base. they conducted
important experiments just 10000 feet
above sea level
At Bone Springs. nearby. black
troopers. hunting Indians, rode down
TO a rocky cliff. from which they
could neither advance or retreat At
the least cliff they tumbled their
mules off the rocks. and hardy black
men in blue coats followed after. Then
the troopers could ride. and the
beasts who could carry. followed on
the trail
Here old Butterfield drove his stage
line, and at places one may find a
depression in the earth, caused by the
constant passage OF coach wheels.
Underneath near the peak lies one
Juan Silva, killed by Indians 1852"
Crossed arrows mark his headstone.
Ranchers OF the country, when they
pass his grave, think wonderingly OF
the time when Juan Silva died OF
wounds from Indian arrows. and when
racing stage coach played a wild tatto
with Indian ponies, drumming down
a deep ravine-
Two Monuments Near Sulphur Fields.
And there are two gray stone monu-
ments, mys -eries alike TO the casual
tourist and the wondering cowman-
Not so far from those dusty sulphur
fields, under the western shadow OF
great Guadalupe. lie two great cairns
of stone. They bear no date or in
scriptiOn. They are only rough laid
monuments. built OF the rubble Of the
country. But could the tourist OF
cowboy solve their riddle. he would
be rich.
Somewhere IN that wide eLpause
there is another monument, like those
two known 10 men. And gone. too.
crumbled to dusty earth, perhaps, IS
a chart that keys all there together
in link that ties the present to the
days Of the Conquistadores. Lost.
with pack mules no longer able TO
carry their bullion TO his Spanish fort.
with guides hopelessly lost. hungry
and worn with the sun OF heavy sum
mer, this Spanish priest built three