1961 Press Photo Freeport Sulphur Company's Garden Island Bay plant - nob13670

Less than three months after being placed in operation, Freeport Sulphur Company's Garden Island Bay plant near the mouth of the Mississippi River has reached its designed production rate of 500,000 long tons of sulphur per year. The $14,000,000 plant in the Louisiana marshland--costliest ever built---is the nation's newest major source of sulphur essential in making fertilizers, chemicals, paper, paints, rayon, steel, rubber and hundreds of other important products. Large building (center) is power plant which heats 50 325 degrees Fahrenheit more than 3,000,000 gallons of water a day for melting sulphur deep underground.

Photo is dated 1961.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.