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Show MAKING PAPER FROM QUAKING ASP IS A FUTURE PROBABILITY IN UTAH S' ECTION of Quaking Aspen forest, which extends over wide area in the southern part of the jj state, and which may be utilized for making paper pulp. . a ft f, ! V . ft ' f 3 " - ' ft'71 ,;',' t,tiL-'f-.:i;l rr-U 4 9MBWx ' Great New Industry Await-! ing Development, Says University Expert. By W. G. ROYLANCE, Director of the School of Community i Survey of tho Extension Division of; tho University of Utah. j jVERYONE knows that during the J ' last eighteen months prices of all i j grades of papers have advanced j JLJ tremendously. Not only have prices advanced, but In many cases dealers are finding it impossible to fill their orders at any price. Bulletins have gone out from t he United States depart ment of commerce urging people to save all waste paper and rags, so as in some ! measure to supply the gTeat need for j raw material for making paper. Meanwhile Mean-while the government laboratory at ! Madison, Wis., is experimenting with dif- j 1 ferent woods to determine whether or not the supply may be increased by using new kinds of timber. The prevailing- opinion is that the great shortage of paper material in this country is due to the cutting off of our imports from Europe because of the war. While it is beyond question true that a large part of the wood pulp used In America comes from Canada and that the United States until recently Imported large quantities of paper material from Europe, the greater part of the raw ma- 1 terial comes from our own forests. Becoming Exhausted. These forests are rapidly becoming exhausted. ex-hausted. Large sections have been completely com-pletely stripped of poplar, birch, spruce and other paper woods, and the country Is dotted with abandoned paper mills. Even should the European supply be restored re-stored after the war, the growing scarcity of paper woods in this country and Canada Can-ada will, in all probability, prevent the return of paper prices to tnelr former level. But it is quite unlikely that Europe will be sending us any such quantities of paper materials after the war as she sent before. Certainly not at the former prices. The war operations are destroy- i ing thousands of acres of forest, large quantities of timber are being used, and still larger quantities will be needed to repair the ravages of war after it is over. It Is estimated that Europe will need no less than a billion feet of lumber for construction con-struction from this country immediately after the close of the war. Instead of her sending paper materials to ns after the war, it is more likely that Europe may be compelled to import for her own uses. Utah Much Interested. "What direct interest has Utah in the paper situation? The intermountain region re-gion is paving higher prices for paper than auy other section of the country. In times ofc nation-wide scarcity of any article we pay the highest prices and are supplied last. Unless relief comes from some quarter we may expect in the next few years to pay still higher prices for all kinds of paper and to find the supply very inadequate and uncertain at that. But it !s possible that we may be able not only to find a remedy for our own situation, but also in large measure to help make up the deficiency in paper materials ma-terials for the whole country. Forest experts ex-perts tell us that the native quaking aspen of Utah is identical with the poplar pop-lar Of Maine and the northeast, , a wood much used in the manufacture of book papers, either by itself or mixed with wood of longer fiber, such as spruce. The experiments at the Madison laboratory have demonstrated that by the soda process proc-ess aspen pulps may be made even more economically than at present. Big Area in West. The largest single area of aspen In solid stands to be found in the west, if not the largest in America, is in Utah and Colorado. The aspen forests in Utah extend ex-tend in a great curve from the extreme northeast corner of the state, through the Uinta, Wasatch. Sanpete and Sevier mountains to the southern edge of the Pish lake plateau in Sevier county. The United States forest service makes the following estimate of Aspen and Engel-mann Engel-mann spruce, available for making paper pulp, on the Manti, Fish lake and Fillmore Fill-more forests: En gel ma nn spruce Aspen, Xational forests, in M ft. B. M. in cords. Manti i:!7,3-ln 70n.Hl! Fish lake lll.ono i,5fm,nnn Fillmore fiO.OOO 570,000 Totals 308.345 2,773,31 0 This estimate does not include the considerable con-siderable quantities of aspen in the Wasatch Wa-satch region, nor the much greater areas of the Uinta. In the mountains east of I the Sanpete and Sevier valleys, near j Fillmore, and also in the Uinta mountains, moun-tains, are laree forests of Engelmann spruce, which has nn superior ns a long-liher long-liher pulp wood. The total quantity of 1 wood suitable for paper manufacture in the slate is roughly estimated at seven million cords, exclusive of that suitable for lumber. All through these regions water-power sites are found within easy reach of the timber. The streams which drain the forest areas converge into canyons, can-yons, down which the timber will be hauled to the mills or lo the railroad, t hese sa me strca in 3 bci ng often la rge enough below I ho Junction of their branches to supply power for the working work-ing tip of the adjacent timber. On Middle Areas. In the Uinta, ns also in the Sanpete and Sevier re' Ions, the aspt-n forest s sprc.id over the middle nri-a.s of the watersheds, while the Engelmann spruce occupies the higher el "va lions, aspen and spruce blending along the middle line. Thus where- the use of a mixture of the two woods Is desirable, they could easily be assembled at the same plant. Utah. Colorado and Idaho have an advantage ad-vantage over most other regions in the United States in that hern the aspen is often found in solid stands, while in other places it is scattered among other forest trees. Though the mountain country Is rough, as compared with the flat lan-.is of Wisconsin, Michigan in id Minnesota, logging, so men of experience experi-ence say, is imt evce.isivelv difficult, as the loads are nearly always hauled down hill. The estimated cost of cutting and : hauling aspen and spruce in Utah forests a ho n t eq rials t lie ai t rial a vera ge cost of ' apt-n and other poplais at the eastern j pa. pit mills. It is possible th:Lt Utah, may posscsr a still further advantage in paper manufacture. manu-facture. In the making nf paper pulp t hree processes a re i n use one median I -ral and the other two chemical. In the pvo last either soda or bisulphide of calcium is used wilh the wood filler. I if. Homier, in charge nf the department of ehemislry at the state universltv, experts ex-perts 10 undertake an investigation to determine whether the bisulphide, in coin-tner.dai coin-tner.dai quantities, can be saved at suf-liri.-ntlv low est from smeiter waste. If the sola process should he used, it is possible l::at our large deposits of the si 'Its: a nee could be made a va i la'.'le. Y hen we add T ho t as: ten is of very 'apid growth, leiiewing itself .cry quick- |