The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 9, 1929 Page: 10 of 14
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TO THE TEXAS GULF SULPHUR
THE SIMPLEST GESTURE THE SINCEREST
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scopie chute thru which it
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ships into which the sulphur is loaded portant, virile, active part of the com-
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owned by the same company, is now
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per minute, for lifting the
sulphur. I ompressed air
al a lower pressure is also
used for operating various
tools in the power plant
and in the nearby shops.
transport it to all par'- of the
lizud world.
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.ally feed the belt. The sulphur a
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equipment. Until Newgulf was
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county, its own railroad yard
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ined caparits of about 15,000 gross
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and $» feet high literally
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households, none of it, is to be taken
as a notice that work and production
at Gulf will cease. for sinh is not the
case Operations at Gulf will con-
tinue indefinitely and, beyond a doubt,
for many years to come.
While the produetion of sulphur for
the years ahead and in bewilderin :
quantities is the motive back of the
activities of this great industry it is
all being done by a corporation intent
upon other things as well. These oth-
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carried thru the weighing house, is, work of its local officers and men, has
weighed twice while in motion, using been a prominent and controlling
one weightometer as a check on the factor in the advancement and prog-
other The sulphur after being ress of the count, it has been liberal
weighed is discharged from the main in its attitude toward the people and
conveyor belt onto a smaller belt the county and most generous in all of
I which carries it to the cylindrical tele- its dealings especially when the public
charged into the vessel. uted to the schools, the roads, the
With this equipment, a loading chambers of commerce, to the church-
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liquid at the end
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ternally a amall pipe in whicl steam follo......, and the cope or th.....era
in flowinK lor th" purpo " ol kerPinK ............. on Sulphur for shipment
the sulphur well Imam l ho that it will , blasted from the race „t the vat as
move freely with minimum tti.tlom .......... A biock from 12 to 20 feet
Thene linen diacharee directiy on dm thick removed at one time Holes
vac. in rart a vat - formed by the ar. drilled from the race of Ihe vat at
solidirini...... ’h" liuuid ulphur in itable intervals apart Each hole H
a wooden bin "he ulplur ...............I chars with powder and exploded
into.the lin ‘ 1 rat. which " Most ot I.....ulphur , thereby broken
the heizht a few inches per day, Um into ....... ol a Nize suitable for load.
■ between the a business enterprise. The personnel
by tile two of the operative force include scores of
for two storage producing sulphur at Gulf. It has,
tracks for the' therefore, figured largely in the de-
i and an endless velopment of this county and section
nequence of larre horizontal area pro
vldc maximum cooling surface, and
involves umple tonnage capacity Am
the sulphur solidities, it graduali)
huihl up into t great hlock of did
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io id the ulphur into railroad < rs
which is moved from the mines to ship
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cranes and their movable hoppers high class men, splendid families and
rhe storage or discharzing tracks at'" well appreciated citizens who have
placed on either side of Ilie belt. formed a delightfully important part
The cranes are provided witli < 1am of the county's population for the past
shell buckets which pick tip the sal- twelve years, not only from a business
phur from iiins or cars and discharge point of view, but socially, religiously
lit into the hoppers which automati and educationally
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The company owns its own docks on 11 larger scale.
and ship-loading facilities at Galves- The preparations at Newgulf, the
| ton. an enormous property within great building program, the opening
itself. of the enormous mines, the moving
Since 1917 the company has been about of department heads and their
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Hon T N Mauritz of Ganado, w
IS tile repres entativ •' O' Jackson at
Wharton < ount ies in he State I eg
lature, has advan ed several revol
tionary ideas . 11 taxation d
present full session of the Legi slatun
in introducing II u Bill No
providing for the levying am! Child
ing of income taxes upon all indi
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there is now in Texas an inherit ar
tax ami that the Federa! Governmi
now lei ies an income tax and it is w
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that there should lie a division as I
State and Federal Govel
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Smith, Carey. The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 9, 1929, newspaper, May 9, 1929; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1553994/m1/10/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.