Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-12-05
Sill, 900 monthly. The payroll amounts

0lf,V VV MUMMY AhS pay IVA oAAi""AA@
to s 500 per month.
The larger part of the stock used b.
the mill consists of poplar logs foate'
down the Androscoggin aud its tributa
ries. Twelve hundred cords of poplar
cut in four-feet lengths are piled about
the mill and a little further up the rive
are 5000 cords more. The logs arr
hauled from the river and sawed int
lengths by donkey engine, which cuts
about sixty cords per day and pulls ou
fourteen logs at time. All the spruce
slabs made by the saw mill are used with
this poplar. The wood is fed to
A MERcILESS WHEEL
Armed with many sharp knives. 1t de.
YOURS a cord Of wood every fifteen min
utes. The four-fe sticks are chewed
into fine chips as rapidly as they can be
thrust into the nav Of the chopper. They
are carried directly from this machine to
the topof the mill by an endless belt with
pockets attached. There are hatch-ways
in the attic floor, which open upon rota-
~ iron boilers. Into these boilers the
chips are raked, and q solution OF lime
and soda ash is poured over them.
THIS BATH
Des troys all the resinous matter in the
wood, and after cooking FIVE hours, the
chips are reduced TO a mass Of soft black
pulp. Each rotary will contain two cords
of chips. After the cooking, the pulp is
dumped into iron tanks. in the basement
where it is thoroughly washed with
streams of clean, cold water. 1t is then
pumped into a machine which rolls it
into broad sheets. These sheets are
folded and condensed by hydraulic
press of two hundred tons pressure. This
process reduces its bulk fifty per cent,
and sends profusc jets Of water flying out
of it.
THE SODA ASH
In which, mixed with lime and wa
ter, the chips are cooked, is reclaimed,
and used over and over again. The Ii
ouor, after it has been used, is pumped
into tanks on top of large brick furnaces.
As it is heated, i, thickens. 1t is brought
nearer and nearer the fire until il crystal
ICES and finally burns into an ash: so per
cent. of the ash used is thus reclaimed.
This process is an immense saving to the
pulp manufacturers.
The work in the pulp mill is severe,
and is slightly tinged with danger. The
arms of the furnace men are often COW
cred with burns, Few, if any, Of our
readers can have forgotten the awful
death of the young man who fell into the
vat of
sCALDING LIQUOR,
In this same mill, less than year ago.
Parts Of his body were burned to cinder,
and great patches Of flesh came off with
his clothes.
Three thousand four hundred lbs. Of
white ash to 2,l00 lbs. of lime are the
proportions in which the liquor in each
vat is mixed.
One doesn't envy the lot Of the stout
fellows who
CRAWL INTO
The great rotaries TO stow away the chips.
The hurry of business is so great that
they can't wait for these boilers to cool
naturally after they have cooked one
batch, before putting in another. So,
they have fan pump to which Is at
tached canvas hose, and with this blow
cooling air-currents into the boiler, or
rotary" as they call it. The rotary is
subjected to an immense pressure, and Is
very stoutly made Of thick iron plates,
bolted together. Capt. A. l.. Dyer is
superintendent of the pulp mill, and Mr..
A. J. Mills, formerly Of this city, book.
keeper.
The growth of Gilbertville has had a
reviving effect on the
| OLD VILLAGE
OF Canton. The village was settled ovel
sixty years ago. The first house built
in it is now standing-a weather-stained
and low posted structure. The Canton
people have been brushing up and reno
waiting their houses, Of late. There has
been some building, this season. The
Gilberts of the Steam Mill Co., are now
building two handsome residences. They
will be finished in good style, and will
adorn the town. The new bridge be-
tween Canton and Canton Point is source
of great satisfaction to the people. There
is large production of oak shocks on
the Point. Two or three carloads pei
day are shipped from Canton. The mills
at Gilbertyille are a bonanza to the X. +
& R.R., whose terminus is at Canton