It takes six tons of Spanish ore to make one ton of sulphur.
| Perton ofsulphur. | |||
| £ | s. | d. | |
| Cost, | 2 | 13 | 0 |
| Carriage to railway station, | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Railway carriage to Cartagena, | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Loading, etc., | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| Freight from Cartagena to England, | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| Royalty to Government, | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| Insurance, | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Estimated cost of Spanish sulphur, | £4 | 11 | 0 |
“This sulphur should be worth, either in England or Marseilles, from £6 to £7 per ton.
“Flowers of sulphur would cost £6 per ton, and their value would be £10.”
Estimated Cost of Icelandic Sulphur.
Although from the fact of the deposits of the sulphur producing clay, sand, ashes, etc., in Iceland being on the surface, the working expenses of excavation (and from the closer proximity to the coalfields of England, the cost of extraction) must be far less than those of Sicily, yet it has been thought advisable to be on the safe side by taking the costs of excavation, extraction, and fusion, to be in each case the same.
The expenses of bringing the sulphur to this country will then be: