Show I THE MAKING OF PAPER A writer In Success tells most interestingly inter-estingly papermaking from wood pulp The pulp mills of tho country use about a billion feet of lumber a year but this Is not as much as is destroyed by fires while other industries indus-tries consume twenty times as much These pulp mills are located on the edges of thp great forests of New York New Englanti Michigan Wisconsin and Pennsylvania sometimes in the very midst of them In their treecut ting the managers these mills act under the direction of the Government Govern-ment Bureau of Forestry and being especially careful to guard the forests from destruction as their interest calls for thcycut no trees under nine inches in diameter no young trces are felled Tho timber IB felled in the winter and floated down to the mills in the spring where it is piled up for use First the fogs aro sawed into piles no longer than a mans arm then the barkers or series of rapidly whirling knives strip off the bark which Is carried by an endless chain to the boilerroom and fed to the fires Enormous tur blues driven by water power supply the power to force thc logs against specially hardened 4 grindstones which grind the wood to powder a stream or cold water fed on the point of con tact preventing the friction setting the wood on fire This ground pulp flows Into the different vats and is there treated and bleached passing through the different processes and from one set of machines to another till it lands in tho warehouse in the form off the large halfton rolls used In the news paper pressrooma A cord of wood produces nearly a ton of crude pulp but the process of cleansing1 reduces this about talf There are more than doyen hundred pulp and paper millsIn1 America with a capacity to produce 2600000 tons of paper annually Worth about 200 000000 The State of New York pro duces nearly half of this l1 r pulp mills having an average dally output of 20QQ I tons The great NewYork City dai lies consume 15000 tons of paper year ly 1 worth 5100000 tlie icckbnlng being at 40 a ton Some of the expenditures of the New York dallies are given I which show enormous outlays for white paper The New York Herald I pays a round million dollars for It the JounnaliSlGQOOOQ tbeWotld 1201000 t Printing House Square New York I i l City feeds moro whlto paper Into printing presses than Is used on any other spot of the globe It Is the newspaper news-paper center of the world American newspapers a quarter of the AmerIcan Amer-ican production of paper of all kinds and our output Is a quarter of that of the whole world The American people peo-ple says the writer of the article are truly Illustrative of the adage The consumption of paper Is the measure meas-ure of peoples culture I |