Show V U S paper industries manufacture products totaling billion dollars paper in some form is so common in american homes that one does not give much thought as to how or from what it is made although the value of paper products manufactured annually in the united states amounts to about a billion dollars at one time spruce and balsam were the principal woods from which paper was made but the gradual decrease in the stands of these woods caused the U S forest products laboratory madison wis several years ago to begin investigating other woods for paper making the forest products laboratory has found that good pulps culps for various kinds of paper can be made from many kinds of wood up to the present time having satisfactorily tried out over 90 different species |