New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-21
Yaper from Bamboo and Cane.

/ lrst Article.
Our issue Of this day is printed upon paper made
tom Bamboo BY The Fiber Disintegrating Com
,lar. ualer the process for which patent was
grated some Yeas ago to Mr.. A. $. Lyman,
snirc cf Massachusetts,.
The Bamboo, which is imported by the company
from Jamaica, is put into steam cylinders or guns
steam az 4 high pressure is let in for few minutes,
sd then valve at the mouth of the gun is liber-
ssd ,, Q trigger, and the steam in the gun PUSHES
pst. carving with il the Bamboo, which, on being
projected into the air, bursts and becomes partially
tsiniegrated. The heat of the steam changes the
rs:urc Of the guns, holding the fbers together so
Gst they can be easily washed out. The slick is
s.solgel, or softened and shattered, and blown
t0m the fiber.
The blown Bamboo is then boiled or simmerod in
n open vessel, in waste or spent alkali liquor
tae refuse of subsequent process, beaten up and
washed.
1t is now pretty clean fiber Of golden color, and
i ready to be boiled under pressure in alkali in a
piping boiler, according TO the ordinary mode of
,dueng material to paper pulp. But, as the Bam-
boo hss been already reduced TO fiber and has been
GyeSted of most of the extraheous and worthless
natter. X does not require to be treated with
very strong chemicals, does it require steam at
avery high pressure, and boiling for an hour or
iro Il sufficient. After the pulpng process, the
pip =. bleached and made into white paper in the
raa way, or the bleaching is omitted and packing
Hper j. made instead
The Fibre Disintcgrating Company is incor
,ratcd by special charter of the State of New.
Jsrsev. The company have large works at Red
Hoos south Brooklyn, factory at Elizabethport
Xew.Jersey (where it is intended to conduct Thu
principal part of the " blowing process and work
s,e being established at Carondelct, suburb OF st
Louis Missouri. AT the latter place the company
intend 20 make paper stock from Cane, whiel
.bouad, on the banks of the Missssppi-also iron
Hemp Stalks-blowing the entire plant, diyested 0
kaves.
Cane is also to be brought up from North Car
Gina to the works at Elizabethport and Brooklyn
1t Is said that Cane paper, made by the "blowin
Process. will be cheaper than Rye Straw paper an
very superior in quality-thc Cane paper being
soft, like that made from Cotton rags. The BAN
boo paper. however, is regarded as superior to tn
Cane paper, 80 much so az to warrant the importa
Ton Of Bamboo from Jamaica at cost nearl.
double that Of Cane.
The Bamboo grows abundantly in Jamaica, il
Various places very near to ports accessible by sail
ing vessels of ordinary size.
We understand that the company referred I
own the patent for the whole OF the United States
and that they expect TO make arrangements for tn
establishment of works in several parts Of the Sout
and West and on the Pacific, for the supply q
paper mills with an abundance of "paper stock
for the manufacture of all kinds Of paper, News
BOOK and Letter, as well as ordinary packing-pa
per al 30 cheap rote as to cause discontinuanc
OF the importation of rags into the United States
This : result very much TO be desired, as infec
ticus diseases are often spread by rags. We ar
Iow importing rags from China, and from parts O
Europe where plague and cholera prevail. W
shsll be very glad to find American ingenuity an
enterprise enabling MS to close our ports against
trade 80 dangerous TO the health Of the community
The proposed scale OF operations at st. Louis ap
pear, to be of considerable magnitude Not les
than one hundred tuns per day OF cane are to b
blown and roughly broken down, to be sent L
Iaper-mills. The cost OF the Cane, delivered a
taroadeet is estimated to be less than s. per tun
nldried. in which condition it is blown. The COS
81 blowing, it is said viii be under one dollar
'un. aud the yield about one tun of paper to five
The uRdried Cane. The subsequent processes, a
though simple and cheap, are Of course more G,
pensive than the blowing. There is a coal-Inin
within two or three miles Of the works. The CANE
s'sF being cut down, in the cane-brakes, il to