The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-15 00:00:00

PRINTING PAPBE MADB FROM BASSWOOD.

Our exchanges, and the various book-publishers with
whom we are in correspondence, will receive this number
of the Albany P2,,,.4".7 -7.”44"nal Pri'a on paper made
olibiroly from basswood. We hope soon to issue our
whole edition upon this paper, and we should have de-
ferred any reference to it until that period but for the
numerous calls made upon us, from all quarters, for spe-
cimens of it. Its inventor, George W. Beardslee, Esq.,
of this city, kindly furnished us with a ream to print
for circulation among those directly interested in the
important discovery.
The paper is made from pulp produced from basswood
shavings, of a peculiar form thrown off by Mr. Beard-
sloe's planing machine, which has been improved to
produce this result. It contains no mixture of rags, or
other material whatever, or sizing. It is from the pure
wood alone. The paper furnished us was made at
Satterlee's mill, Little Falls, under unfavourable cir-
cumstances. The supply of water was so small that the
mill had to be served by hand instead of by gauge
pumps, the consequence of which was such irregular
feeding as to produce slightly irregular thicknesses of
paper. The paper has also been used with perfect suc-
cess by Mr. Gavit for transferring fine line engravings—
a result which cannot be attained by any ordinary news-
paper. But Mr. Beardslee is not restricted to bass-
wood. He has made experiments which leave no doubt
upon his mind that paper of a texture even superior to
that which he has already produced from that wood can
be produced from ether native woods, found in equal
abundance. The pulp is manufactured very cheaply,
and by a simple process--known, of course, to himself
alone. It can be packed in bags and bales, as com-
pactly as cotton, and sent as readily to any part of the
country or world, and at rates which (if it shall prove
available) must ultimately drive rags entirely out of the
market.

Thus far Mr. Beardslee has only manufactured se
much pulp as was necessary for the prosecution of his
experiments. But he purposes, as soon as arrangements
can be perfected, to enter largely into the manufacture of
the article for market. It can be used in any paper-
mill, furnished ready for the finishing engine, and capa-
ble of producing a weight of paper equal to the weight
of the pulp used. Consequently, in adopting it, no new
machinery will be required, but a great deal of the most
cumbersome now used and much of the most unpleasant
part of the work of making paper from rags may be dis-
played with.
This discovery, as timely as it is important, will prove
of incalculable value to the world. The necessity of
some such substitute for the articles hitherto used in the
manufacture of paper had become imperative. The de-
mand has already outstripped the supply, and the most
serious difficulties were apprehended in the future. If
Mr. Beardslee has discovered the needed substitute, he
will have done mere for the world than any living con•
temporary. And that he has made this discovery, few
acquainted with the qualities of good' paper will doubt,
with these crude specimens of basswood paper before
them.

,SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.