New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-01
PAPER.

! recent advertisement 10 London paper appear
ing anonymously, but attributed 10 Tho T1Hcs) offers
2 reward OF - 600 for material which shall be
fsund so cheap and seryceable TO supplan Rags in
the manufacture Of Paper We shall very gladly
learn aDd record That the each has been earned and
received.
4 decided tendency % rise mas been manifested by
the Paper market Tor year or two past and has
with difficulty and bnI partially been counteracted.
This tendency had it, origin not in the neiciency Of
Paper making machinery, which has OF late been de
cidedy improved Dor yet in the rspacity OF paper
makeTs whose average gains have been moderate, but
in the enhanced cost Of stock originating in dispro-
portion OF production 70 consumption. The rapidly
increasing diffusion OF Books and Newspapers has
sho ahead Of the production OF Rage though that also
ha, been steadily increasing We americans do net
produce anything like Raes enough 70 supply Us with
raw material for Paper; 60 we ransock tho nuts of
Italian Deggsgy and the novels OF lrsn iaoiDe-sOme-
times We apprehend the hospitals OF Turkish plague
Russian cholera and Cuban yellow feyer-for where
withal ~ supply the deficit. 40 last it nos become
evident That no longer rely or Rags alone and
The science 81 the chemist rhe skill OF the inventor,
are invoked 70 give new material. Straw, Cotton
Waste. Old Cables and COrdage, and several other
hbrous substances have been tried with various de-
grees OF success But mere glance az what is being
done or attempted cannot be devoid Of interest.
Vi sleier Frenchman /, The patenree Of tie
lates, process icr making Paper Of Straw which il
pow il practical operation. La Presse Paris is
wholly o. il part printed on paper made under this
patent; and The Ledger lPhadephia) which probably
has the largest circulation OF any Daily paper printed
in the world now appears regularly on paper made by
Meers process-sixty per cent. OF the material be
ing straw. This paper is darh-colored thin hard,
and apt 10 be translucent; but it il very firm, tears
with difficulty, Is quite smooth and ressts admirably
toe tendency to which i CHE; affection.
The process has not been long il operation here and
there are various opinions as 70 ts value We trust
* may deSerse and secure general adoption.
Another material OF which we have sanguine hops
+ the seiagie-,os discarded in dressing Flax,
not hitherto OF any commercial value, and which GEN
orally lee around TIE hsx-grower. barn. d1ie,lt 70
move, dangerous 70 JurIl and determined never 70
roJ. \ apernsking iirla in Ot,eso County be pa
tented mode Of working Up the fbrous part 81 tlis
refuse INTO paper, snd il make, excellent stockru
.!ro-e and white should the use Of THE material
become general farmers viii derive some income
non an article hitherto regarded az unmitgated
nuisance; ana thus the present tendency 10 Flay-
growing nus, necessarily be guickened and difusej.
There II need Of cheap, simple, effective machine,
.oneH here between A8x-brake and . cotton gin,
in'o which the swingletcw may be pitch;orAed and
rapidly cleaned o. the great ouk OF IT. woody portion
or shsess preparatory % being baed and dispatched
70 the papermakers, Of whom estimates ss
ally certain 70 be worth ~ per cwt, or SO per tun
AZ the mills if properly cleaned as aforesaid. Will
not farmers and inventors think OF this
We may resume the subject