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Show TO MAKE PAPER FROM GRASS Mill to Be Started at El Paso, Tex., to Compel Weed to Yield Easy Profit to Farmers. El Paso, Tex., la to have a paper mill alongside the arena in which that famous place has had other kinds of mills which are more talked about This new mill Is of a good deal of consequence con-sequence as compared with the pugilistic pugi-listic mills. It is to make paper of bear grass. Even the thrifty wisdom of Texas was not equal to making, anything but a nuisance of bear grass before the paper idea was worked out at St. Louis. After five years of success suc-cess in Missouri, El Paso, in the midst of millions of acres of the grass, is going go-ing to make paper. It is claimed that, the highest grades of paper for ordinary or-dinary print and commercial uses can be made of bear grass, and the prices range lower, because there Is an abundaDt supply and the cost is all in gathering the grass. An acre of bear grass makes nearly as much paper pa-per as an acre of Maine spruce trees, and the grass grows annually. It looks like sharp competition for the spruce, which grows In no such hurry as that by about 40 years. Worcester Telegram. |