The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-19
APAPHR MILL IN TEXAS.

had newspapers printed in the English Ian
gusge ffty-one years. Beginning with one
weekly in 1929, the number Of papers and
periodicals now published in Texas is as fol-
lows: Dslies % tri-weekies ], Semi-week-
lies A. weeklies POP, semi-monthlies |, month
lies total 242. We can only approximate
the consumption of paper by these es'sb-
lishments. 1t would DO reasonable to place
the money expended by the dailies annually
for paper for news purposes at $780,
900, weekies and periodicals $40,-
900, and paper for job work
$4,000. 1t would DO in perfect modera-
ton to say merchants and others purchase
enough for wrapping and other purposes 10
swell the grand total of tho Texas paper bill
to $500, 900 per annum. Nor would it be
over the mark to say Texans since 1879 have
sent beyond the state and expended for pa
per S15,OOOOOO. Not so much us a single
sheet has ever been manufactured within
our borders from the day Of the Arst settle
ment to the present hour, and yet there Is
no lack of material. The Grst object to con-
slider in buildirga paper mill is for obvious
reasons an abundance of clear water 1t
should have power enough to run the ma
chinery and purity enough to cleanse the
raw material intended for use. Without eI-
aggeration several hundred suitable places
can be pointed out. AS TO material used in
The manufacture Of paper we will give a
list and see if we cannot fur
nish at least large portion,
rs follows: Aloe fibre, asbestos, bagging or
facking, banana FIBRE barks OF various kinds,
bean stalks, sugar cane. cocoanut fibre,
cocosnut kernel clover, cotton, fur, slfs.
fax, fresh water-woeds, grasses, guttaperchs,
hair, hay, heath, hemp, hops, hus sof grain,
jute leather, leaves, maize, MANILA hemp,
moss, nettles, old writing paper, peat or
turf roots Of various kinds, sawdust, sea
weeds, silk, straw, spent tan bark, thistle
d 'wn, thistles, tobacco stall 5, wood, wool,
aud rags of every kind, character and con-
dilion under the run. This list fully sup
plies the answer to the question, ms we have
10 more or less abundance tho whole Of it,
and much of it going to waste, Now, to
start paper mill with capacity sufficient to
supply the trade of Texas and get
patronage from our people alone, would
+ quire capital Of 100000, S75 000 to be
expended in jiparan rights, in building and
machinery, aud. S25 600 held as a reserya or
commercial fund. 1t Is true one can be- es.
tablished for great deal less, but 1t will take
that much invested in order to get the ca
paoity 10 command the entire trade $780,,
900 per annum) Of Texas. The MILL of
course, can base calculations upon capturing
a great deal Of the patronage Of Arkansas,
Indian territory, Louisiana the terrtorie,
west Of us and Mexico. Indeed, il started
right, built and run upon correct principles,
il can get patronage without limit. 1t can
sell it's stock throughout Missouri
and Kansas, as well rs furnishing
III press of New Orleans and Mobile, whose
publishers, ike every publisher without ex-
c-ption in Te'as, would be only too glad to
g.. their supple. nearer home than they are
now doing, The idea that publisher or
m rchant will go thousand miles from
homH to buy an article he can get in few
miles OF him, is all stuff If made as well
and iold as cheap they will do nothing Of the
kind. That notion prevailed in Georgia
when she was building her first paper mill.
Now there is not II Ieam OF paper per year
shipped into the whole state hut her six mills
ship tons upon tons Of it to Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Florida, Mis-
sissippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Ken
lucky, Texas and Mexico. They
have every dollars worth of business
they can stand M to. Their rag.gatherer'
strip every street, alley and yard, every
cloihes-bssk aud closet of every ounce of
refuse they can lay han upon, not omit
ting to pick up every scrap Of paper in the
sire 'ts, countngrooms and every where else
they can find anything from the size os your
hand to a daily paper. Rig merchants pay
handsomely t,r the privilege ofcottoR-yards,
congresses AMI wharves. All this is totally
LIST in Texas. There is no market for such
material, and yet highly useful SO that
paper mill will not only be Of benefit to
publishers and merchants, ut directly to
every housekeeper and citizen. 1t
will not only keep 100000 which
we annually send away, Mt home, but will
offer market for 100000 or 100000
worth Of refuse which we now throw into
the streets and cutters and totally lose. The
way to build paper mill is-to build it.
Machinery can be bought as readily as = line
OF ca'coes. Operatives can be obtained as
readily as carpenters. The only thing there
will be any trouble about getting isthe capt.
tai. And we believe IL somo one will take
the lead in it, that can To obtained from the
moneyed men of Texas.
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