Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-10-31

to whose formidable name is attached
the following more formidable string of
titles: "Imperial Royal Aulic Counsel
or: Director of the Imperial Royal State
Printing Establishment in Vienna; First
Superintendent of the Imperial Royal
Paper Mill at Schlogelmuhle, and Mem
Der of the Imperial Academy of Sci
ences."
Accompanying the application were
three handsome boxes, containing spec
linens of thirteen different kinds Of 1he
new "maize products" as the DR.. Alois
Ritter Auer, &C., quantity calls them,
as follows:
l. Some Indian Corn leaves, or So
called maize shucks, the raw material
from which the following are manufac-
:. J. : Ffbers, Fiifb made out 81 maze ssueEs::
3. Maize-yarn. ~.
4. Maize-linen cloth.
5. Paper-half stuff, made out of the
waste (a) in its natural color, and (b)
bleached.
6. Maize-four (the only nutritive
substance of the corn shuck,) obtained
out of the mass.
Z. The maize fiber viz: A Dipped paper,
of twenty-four different sizes, Chick and
thin of each two sheets. B Machine
paper, in its natural color, (unbleached,)
of twenty eight different sizes. G. Ma
chine paper, bleached, of twenty-four
different sizes, (thick and thin,) of each
two sheets D. A few sheets of silk-pa-
per, Clipped and machine paper.)
One of these boxes was, of course,
sent to the Commissioner of Patents to
accompany the application, and may now
be seen at Mr.. Holloways room in the
Patent Office. OF the other two, one
was sent to the President, and the 9TH
er to Secretary Seward.
The corn husk paper is remarkably
good. Some of the qualities forwarded
are fine tracing paper, which, though
exceedingly thin, has nevertheless firm,
solid body and an excellent surface
From that the qualities range down to
the coarsest wrapping papers, which
certainly seem much stouter and tougher
than corresponding grades of straw
wrapping papers, and it is claimed, can
be produced at greatly reduced cost
some of the sheets are an excellent ar
ticle of book printing paper; Others
would almost pass for parch ment. The
inventors own account Of the various
steps toward his discovery, is printed
handsomely on large sheet of the corn
husk prper, in style which it would
puzzle our printers with their best
presses and paper, to surpass.
The corn husk yarn and cloth are not
nearly as good in their way as the spec
linens Of paper. The yarn, however, is
about equal to some of the old fashioned
tow yarn with which our grandm others
in this sountry were familiar; andthu'
cloth is trif1e coarser and less firmly
woven than the coarsest tow cloth.
Of this, the inventor, in his quaint,
German way Of writing English, says:
''That the spinning and weaving of maize
fiber is not yet SO far advanced as manu-
featuring paper out of it, is not to be
wondered. The textures of maize fax
will look quite different in short time,
when men of the profession
will have taken it into their hands, and
when the spinning and weaving ma
chimes will be adapted to the maize
fiber. Not one invention came out of
the head of its author complete; every
one had to have time for its perfection.
Why should it be otherwise in this case?
But so much can be said already at
present, that the detection of the capa-
bility Of the maize fiber to be spun and
woven is of the greatest consequence.-
The process applied and invented by
me is not only in Austria, but also in
all great Europen States, protected by
patents to secure for Austria the priori-
ty of the invention"
For many purposes for which coarse
linen fairies are now used, the corn
husk cloth, is already manufactured, is
we'll adapted. Ifthe processes OF man.
ufacture can be so improved, as the in
ventor claims, as to make finer qualities
equally we'll, the Importance of this new
process can hardly be overrated. In
this country, especially, where the raw
hdl lal is alieauy Piouoeou LII 'no W.
most abundance, the discovery of these
new qualities will be like the creation of
manufacture, that shall cost nothing in
the out set and be capable of supplying
some Of our most costly wants.
Meantime, the capak lities of corn
husks in the manufactureef paper seem
definitely established. Should the in
ventor's claim stand the test of a<more
rigid examination at the Patent Office,
and processes proves as easy as repre-
sented, paper makers and paper consul
mers q. e., everybody will await with
interest the introduction of the new
manufactures in this country.
The frst attempt to make paper out
of corn husks date back as far as 1772,
but till the Austrian authorities turned
cir attention to it in 1856, seems to
have been regarded either as impractical
BILE or useless. From 1856 till lie pres
ent year, the Austrian experiments have
been in progress. What they have ac-
complished is substantially set forth
above.