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Show tho mill yards of Pugct Sound and northward to provide a vast quantity of paper, and it appears that practically all of what was feared would forever bo a useless waste will be turned to good account. PAPER FROM SPRUCE. During tho tvar millions of icct of spruce woro cut in t!3 northwest for tho jnanufneturo of airfilanca. Very , offf:n a magnificniit Pprtirc tmo yicMrd ! only ono small piece of timber suitable for Uk: purpose; hundrffls of trees yielrled none at all. Tho requirements , were aueh that only tho very choir-est wood could bo acc-pted, for upon tho -i.renth of tho timber (V-pendrd tho "rvifrjubilit.y of 1 tho airship and tho af"ty of the flier. The "sidings" cut from spruco Ioh ran into the millions of feet. There tva a no niarkr '. for thi.y lumber, although it w.iH of hi''h quality. Tho yards of the mills in nort h western Htate.s ivlieni fiirpl.'ino lumber was cut were massed v.i I h material for whi'-h t hero was no demand then and for wliirh no demand, ! apparently, was likely ever to arise. 1 Now a solution, of tho problem up-penrs up-penrs to have been found. Print paper' produced from this near-wa:;f.o material is beinf,' manufactured and tho f i est . eon lyu men t turned out at Ocean Jails, nar j'rijice If.iipert, firilinh Columbia, is now on its way eastward. Tho shipment ship-ment eoirust' of thirteen carloads and was turner out for the New York Times. Tho paper tvarj made from pulp do-, river from sprueo bis felli-d on I ho Ojjrru Tharlotto i-ilands during t.Iio air-; plane -.vood-eut.t ing industry, which ended v: it h the nign ing of t ho a rmis- fief, Iarj;e quantities of lumber left over have been hold to the mills at Oer-au I'alls for the ma!-, ing of news print. pa.j'r, and no doult oilier plants will roon bo in operation in this manufacture. man-ufacture. There ii enough npruen lying about, |