The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-06-25
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BEET PAPER.-A NEW INVENTION.

10 ne Editor Of the Lnon: r e,
No has greater interest than you lave in obtain
ing cheap printing paper Your circulation has in
creased Of late that reduced price in the chief material
would enable you to meet the enlarged demand for the
Union with remunerative ascrty. The whole world Of
literature has been for years dsplong tho enhanced cost
of paper and the archives Of tho Patent Office are
med with caveats and claims relating to discoveries OF
and cheap materials for paper. Our friends in Eng
land seem, however, TO have supposed in obtaining
the doidcratum. DR.. Collyer has patented ''an i'm.
proved mode of preparing thu rcduo Of beet root
gel-wurzn &C., left after sugar making and dsllaton,
to be used . material In making paper.' This new
paper hes been tumphantly tesed by series OF exps-
mcns and largo amount has boen ordered by the pro-
prictors of the London Times and tho Illustrated News
and the steamer will bring over tie usual editions
Of those journals printed bsstroot paper The saving
to the Times, tits estimated, win amount annually to
100000 The British government has used the same
paper but of quality for cartridges and h pro-
nounced vastly cheaper and better than any material
heretofore used 1t Is remarkably adapted for "dry
printing, giving "a clear, sharp impressioa like wood
engraving. "Hf61 aa f4sy sgsla VIZ lsaIt ,is,
gentleman perfectly acquainted with the merits OF
this fabric informs the readem Of the New York
Tmea that the prepared albumen from beet residue
tors into the fabric and forms component part of
the extent sf from 10 to 80 Per cent The paper 10
more compact, tenacious fsxible sfszd strpnger,
and durable than that made with other material
It doubles the strength of cotton and in pupg requires
not than fourth the powcr 10 reduce while in
working the manipulations fewer and simpler and
cred at least oneth to onefourth less The prepared
beet residue, abumen, gives tine, veumy surface to
the paper superior to that conferred by gycene and
which fits it to be printed without ''wetting down =
There In little .of-set, and adherence to the
sheets. The paper made with it rsgsres okr sizig,
thus saving the expense Of resin animal sise In the
proportion of so per cent to cotton II makes magnificent
paper equal in strength Color and feblity to linen,
but with much finer surface. 8 6sQalt -g
In adopting the use Of the rRxPARED ALDUMKN, the
manufacturer ID not required to make any change In his
present appliances machinery, except in adding
pulping machine at probable cost of 500. The ma
tcral must be reduced to payss pulp. which the ord-
nary rag engine will net do. There no lo In is use
every pound being warranted to give pound Il paper
II be bleachcd at less exponse of chlorine than
The material Is mpormeabe 10 humidity under ~ cir
cumstancss, and therefore unaffected by climate -
you feel disposed to test the advantages of this i'm
portant discovery you address Gen. J. Winchester,
No. Eli Centre street, New York, who WILL have no
doubt send you for trial, Gen. w. Is practical
printer and formerly published the New World and the
Golden Rule and also the proprietor and editor Of
the Pacific News in San Francisco. He knows what
printing paper ought TO be; and has become 20 well con-
vnced Of the merits of beet paper A. TO accept the agency
for the United States. to@30 SMPTHSON