Dodge City times., 1883-01-25

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to pulp. Of course, chemicals are
used. Poplar wood is used almost al
together in the manufacture of print
paper. After the wood has become
wood pulp it is run off between rollers
until the desired thickness is attained.
It is then cut and packed in packages
of twenty-five and fifty pounds and is
sent to the paper-mill. The cheaper
the paper the more wood is used.
Only dark woods are used in the
manufacture of print-paper. Poplar,
spruce, pine-woods and straw are
the principal articles used in re-
ducing grades. The very common
brown paper is made out of rye, wheat
and oat straw. No rags at all are used.
The process for making straw pulp is
about the same as the others described
above. The straw is put into the boiler,
cooked, and then beaten to a pulp by
hammers and stones, worked by the
machinery. Then it is run out into a
machine which presses it. The different
grades of paper of all kinds have sizing
put into the pulp, so that it would re-
sist the action Of water and liquids.
The same amount of sizing is generally
put into pulp intended for print and
caleAdered or writing paper. The
only difference between the TWO grades
is in the kind of sizing used. The latter
paper is run through system of rollers
: one wood and the oher chilled iron.
The sizing used is of two kinds animal
and vegetable. The first is made of
scraps. leather, bones gum, etc. The
vegetable is generally made out of resin
and soda ash. although the diffetent
manufact Tres differ in the composition
of sizing. The animal sizing is useG in
writing and other calendered paper, the
vegetable is used in print and cheap
paper, which would be soft and spoagy
without it. Blotting paper is the cnly
kind made without sizing in it,
The Herald man was then given s'me
figures on paper aud told to WORK them
out. There is a very good profit n,ade
by manufacturers, but the dealers do
not make nearly as much. The wsges
paid at mills vary and are fairly gcod.
Linen pulp is made out of linen Tags
strictly. though some mills adulte:ate
their linen pulp with a little wood, but
they are few. Some mills use as Eigh
as seventy per cent. of wood in making
print paper. The general percentage
is fifty percent. wood to fifty per cert.
rags. there is chemical wood rpulp
made which is so good that some claim
it is better than the genuine article, and
many mills make. an apparently good
article OF print paper out of it. The
State of Michigan probably furnishes
the mills that have so perfected this sys-
tenn.
In speaking of qualities of paper Mr.
B. the informant, said: There
are prints. plain white. of weights from
ten to seventy pounds tc the bundle:
tissue manillas all colors, writing
paper, poster print, very heavy gener-
ally, and made of plenty of wood pulp,
different colors, and MANILA. OF this
latter there is No. /. all made out OF
MANILA rope and bagging; No. 2, with
some wood and straw, or either
wood or straw adulteration. There
is also bogus MANILA, which
has very little man LA stock
used. 1t is principally made of wood
and straw. The tints to paper are CIV
en- when the pulp is being made by the
introduction into the ''engine" men
toned above OF the necessary quantity
Of analine dyes of the desired color.
The tlatness and thickness of the paper
is given to the pulp when yet wet. L,
is fed into receiver, from which it runs.
cut on an endless wire belt, which car
ries it between wooden and iron rollers
alternately. each one squee ling the pulp
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sheets is obtained. The iron rollers ar:
hollow and heated by steam Introduce:
in each end by iron tubes which extend
from one end OF the frame to the other.
and are connected with the furnace OF
the mill. The pulp enters at one end
as pulp and emerges at the other end Oh
the system of rollers. cut and ready az
paper for counting and packing. which
is done by girls and boys. All paper is
cut and counted except the end.e roll