Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-07-18

'PAPER.-A recent advertisement In London
paper (appeaTing anonymously but attributed 10 The
Times) offers reward OF $4,000 for material
which shall be found so cbeop AMI serviceaDls ns
to supplant Rags in The manufacture Of Paper
We shall very gladly learn and record That the cash
has been earned and received.
A decided tendency 10 rise has been manifested
by The Paper market, for some yeat or two past and
has with difficulty and but partially been counter
acted This tendency had its origin, not IN the in
efficiency OF Pepper making machinery which has
OF late been decidedly impioved nor yet in the Ia
pacity Of paper.makeEs, whose average gsins have
been moderate, but in The enhanced cost Of stock,
originating In adiSptopoTtionol production 10 con-
sumption. The rapidly increasing diffusion Of
Books and Newspapers has shot ahead Of the pro.
Juctlon OF Rogs though that also has been steadily
Increasing. We Americans do nor Produce any
thing like rags enough to supplyus With raw ma
;eTa for PapeIj so we Tans0ck the hutS Of Italian
beggory end Tie novels OF lIiSll famne-Sometlme
we approach the hospitals Of Turkish plasut
Russian cholera and Cuban yellow fever--Go,
wherewilhal TO supply the deficit. AT last it hur
become evident that we can no longerte rely on
Rags Rlone, and the science Of the olemis', the
skill OF The inventor, ae invoked 10 give Us
new Material Straw, Cotton Waste, old Gables
and Cordnge, and several other fbroGS substances
have been tried with valious degreesO Of SUCCESS
But mere glance OF hat Is being done or nuempl-
ed cannot " ueVnid of interest.
NJ. Alellier, a Rrenehlnan, is the patantee OF the
latest process for making Paper OF Straw which is
now IN plSctical opera lou. In Presse (Paris)
is wholly or part printed on paper made under this
patent; and The Ledger (Philadelphia) " hich
probably has the largest circulation III tile world,
pJw appears regularly onnaper made by Mellier' s
rrocess-sixty per cent. OF the material being
straw. THIS paper is dnra. coored, thin. hard,
and apt to be lranslucsnl; but IS very itm, totes
with difficulty, Is quite smooth, and ressts ADM.
raby The tendency 10 crease, " hch is our chief
aff1iption. The process hss not been long in ope
ration here, and there ore various opinions as 10
lis value. We trust it may deserve and secure
general adoption.
Another material OF which we have san
guine hope is The common suing h-to,o 1isoorded
IN dressing Flax, not hitherto Of any commercial
value, and which generally lice around lie fax
grow eI'S barn, difficult 10 move dangerous u burn,
aud determined never to rot. A pDper.makng
firm in OtSegO County hos patented a mode OF
working up the fbtous part Of refuse fax, and
itnakes excellent stock-tTni, strong a..L white.
Should the use this material become general,
farmers will derive SOlne income from an article
hitherto regarded hsnp unmitgated nuisance; and
thus the pteSent tendency 10 Rlux-growing must
necessarily be quickene1 and diIused There is
need Of cheap, simple, effective machine, some.
where between q tlax'brake and cOlton.gln, in
10 which the swingle tow may be pitchforksd and
rapidly cleaned of the great bulk Of il woody por
ton OF shipes preparatory 10 being and dispatched
TO the palter.makeIs, one of whom estimates II IS
MORALLY certain 10 be worth 81 per cwt., or S76
per tun at The mills, II properly cleaned as alore9
said, Will mol farmers and inventors think Of
thisl ''