New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-04-16

| Ana Hht't tvNu It!fl H'iHtAil
! Bat the printer as here doth tel.
L. gone unto New.YOrk 20 dwell.
No donbt bot he will lay np bags
II be can get good store Of rags.
Kind friend when Thy old shin is rent.
Let 1t TO the paper mil be sent
Let me state as an annexation that the printer thus
accorded A. leaving Philadelphia for NeWlok was the
celebrated William Bradford VINO spose ms mind Freely
;nsn,ess and oil. This Punishment OF Bradford being,
viii here state the origin Of The remarkable super
sttion among people 81 tIs state sI'' "N'" s''u
sylvanians die they go 20 New-York
In those DAYS all paper was manufactured ~ bshd
Each sheet manufactured separately Inc rags were
made into pnln in iron or stone moriars by mp hli
80 :, confirm, several days 10 make sample OF 1Iy
snisbed nsrer The capacity 9i ibe MI "as sg's' ii'V
reams a wear You can now induce one OF your Desl
clerks to tell how many hundred years 1t would have
,sken honest old William to furnish years sup
piy Of paper for THB TRIBUNE. The business grew
rapidly in the colonies. IL ll69 there were 40
mills in New.Iersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware
annually producing sl3j,OOo worth Of paper Ia
I'M the business commanded GO mills, and .eqgiIsy
600 900 worth Of paper. In 1886 required 50 mills TO
supply Philadelphia with Cab and Scnbble stun many
gatherings Of CongIessmen conventions young 5,ates
men and juvenile Pub. Docs. in those days, at PhIla,
delphaJ, the demand absorbing 1000 reams. In 1910
there 426 mills, with capital Of 81 49, and an
annual product Of s673O9! In ls5O li3 mills capital
A. 2G6 81; annual product, slOls77 in 1860 800
mills; capital $40 600 000 annual product 81 600 600
being the printing and publishing year Of peace, 1900
Total co 600 tuns Of paper or about $500 200 reains or
TO be minnie and al the risk Of giving the Hcrdd people
idea OF llrtcon
thousand two hundred million sheets. From 1OO,OOO
annual sheets as the labor Of honest William Rytinghu
SEN to more than thirteen thousand million, the
work Of this great Yankee nation This the story OF
the American paper trade in a sentence.
In time all the world began TO read and write, the
problem came the minds Of good ren: How can we
hone 10 keep this demand so fully supplied that
paper shall be cheap and literature open to the poorthat
the farmer may eventually have his Bible for shilling
and his WEEKLY TRIBUNE for dollar year. Rags were
wanted who shall write the LYME Of the great Rag Hunt
of the last four yearsl Even 20 Japan said paper
maker to-day" all the world and Japan have been
secured for rags that Yankee people may read
and write" The failure OF the cotton crop,
through war, increased the rag famine, white
paper rising-5O, IS, 100 per cent-until timid men
began fear that return to vellum and pampsest,
wa. all that remained. All sorts Of contrivances
were made The problem perplexing. Wanted first
good substance that had fiber aud body and could hold
together. Wanted second, substance that was cheap,
poraton and travel and foreign labor would not destroy
its value. Cheap paper means cheap Ieading--eheap
reading national virtue Industry and science had
found ingenious mechanism capable Of printing all the
books of the world over again-where was the paper!
That is the problem now We have tired humid
red substances-all good-but not answering every
requirement Of the problem The rsg-thc best ele
ment Of paper-has for years become more and more
contracted in supply, while cotton waste and rope
waste are necessarily Straw is good agency but
we want better one Behold these plains the tall
poplar treethe pretentious unwecome, unnecessaypop
iar-of little in farm economy-t0 be cut down Ms
numbering the ground some day perhaps Stop We will
try this tall poplar tree in the American Wood and Pulp
Works and what hidden virtues may possess. This
is the experiment which has brought 10 Philadelphia
for TIE IRBUYE-which has kept the banks Of the
Schuylkl River these many hours and which | now re-
cord as contribution to the science and civilization of
the world. Let tell you then, briefly, and with as
few techncates possible Of what these works consist
They are located in Manayunk, on the bank of the
Schuykill River with canal and railroad adjoining They
were commenced in August, 1861, and completed during
the present month"; The building, built Of stone and
brick in the substantial manner and occupy space
of 900 feet in length By 80 in width and cost when
Melted over 100000 United with the Flat Rock Mills
thew embrace IN all about 10 Of ground. They
said 10 be the most extensive works Of the kind IN the
world and are capable Of producing from IL 10 - tps OF
paper pulp per diem. The works projected by com
pany of gentlemen from different parts of TIE Union and
the subscribed capital is estimated az om slOOO1OOO TO
Sl5000,000.
Before entering the ncosure arrive at what is known
as the Settling Pond AT the eXtrcme north end. II
used for the storage Of water Of which % quantities
used daily and must necessarily be clear The pond pro-
tccted the Schuyk side by high strong wall, and Is
about 10 feet deep by about 300 feet square, Us clpcy
il 1000 gallons. In close proximity TO thc pond are
two lime klns, which kept constantly employed in
making The best lime which Is used IN he establishment
The stone for which brought ln boats from The quart-
some miles mp the river.
The most Important part ofthegc works lc round house
orcyapomnc establishment This is tAc feature of
the works. known t.ut oi tlc reasons why plp
hes not been made from wood and other substances Do-'
successfully is the Ai-h price az SOFIA AID Ac necessity
lrf iH con jon lu largo .i."H. Us H H" .l
apo q. .. ...... ..c.a 10 p. Tr-v r..t
refuse liquor which las dono its duty u dsntegary tle
wood lbeI Is compelled T. yield ia is soda at af-g