The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-05

uOnAtely Ll1eki OelDS III lACL Tue COES
wood usually exposed for sale on th'
streets Of all towns. The sticks, two anC
three at time. are inserted in the chip
per, huge steel disk fitted with number
Of razor sharp knives, the whole encased
in an iron frame. Going in at one side q
solid stick OF wood, it comes out at the
other fine bits OF who'd, OF all shapes and
rs, and is elevated by meaus OF au end
less belt bearing wide shallow buckets tc
the chip room on the top h)or, passing on
It's way thither over screen, which re
moves the sand and sucn like impurities
In the chip room it Is raked into can
holding abolt one-third oil cord each
The clipper can cut up a cort OF wood
knots and all, every fifteen minuteS, but il
is rarely made to cut more than two cords
an hour. In the cars the chips are con.
veyed to the upright boilers or diges,ers
the tops OF which are level with the
chip floor, and an average Of a
cord and half placed in each boiler. It il
then covered with caustic soda liquid (con'
centrated lye) the top closed ana the mass
subject to heat OF 100 degrees for two
hours. This boiling or stewing process:
causes. by the action oil the CausIlc liquor,
the disintegration OF all the slllceous
gummy and resinous matter, and the whole
becomes a dark colored mass OF the con
sistency OF mush, which it is called. Seam
is now made to force the whole mass
through pipes into the bleaching vAts, great
iron tanks where the chemicals are re.
moved, and the pulp thoroughly washed
with hot water purified by the use Of alum
Water now forces the substances TO the
next floor into other huge iron watts, pro
vided with rotary btirrers and washers
which are made 10 thoroughly stir and
wash the pulp. These vals hold l,OOl
pounds OF dry pulp. rhs next process
takes place in stone vats in the cellar where
other stirrers and washers, aided by
powerful bleaching sgents, chaugts the
color from a dark chocolate to au almos
pure white.
THE FfSEHIEG TOUCHES.
The pulp now approaches the end OF its
journey, but it is not yet done with severe
treatment. An immense rotary pumI
forces the substance into a machine callec
"soaker" or 'drainer," cement vat viii
perforated bottom through which all chemi
Gals left in the pulp escapes into sewer
Another pump now elevstes tue pulp Il
the rag or beating machine, a wooden tanl
in which a steel cylinder with knive:
thoroughly opens up all the flores, or beat
them out as 10 technically called. Still an
other washing is given to the much WASHED
stuff and 1t ia now ready To be run intC
sheets. From this OUT the process Is th'
same as that OF paper making, the pull!
passing over fifteen large cylinders belor'
il is fua!ly wound OF on the rollers. Th'
pulp " hen at last Il ID in sheets presents {
perfectly smooth surface, almost white, II
absolutely free from spots or bard dArl
fibres like the common wood pulps, look
much like parchment and ia almost a
strong. Put through one other process /
produces fair quality of paper equal Il
poor rag. When 10 il is added twenty 70
twenty five per cent OF ray pulp it make
paper equal in softIess, finish and uui
formity 10 the best rag The capacity o
the mill is five tons per day, and the pro
duct is sold as fast as made.
r9-ri ECONOMICAL FEATURES.
One advantage in this process is that th'
chemicals used are not destroyed or wasted
but are used over and over again. Wher
they are collected in the chemical sewe
after leaving the soaker they are conducted
through many hundred feet Of pipes to tn,
furnace department where they are boileC
down in large iuclosed steel pans to the
consistency Of sirup. The sirup Is placed
In large reverbatory furnace, and sub
iected to an intense heat which causes all
The vegetable and resiuous matter absorbed
from the wood to burn up. The residue is
now ready for the refining department
where by manipulation with water and
quick lime il is again made ready for use in
the pulp mill. Il should be distinctly re-
membered that this mill makes chem
ical pulp, an article infinitely supe.
rior to the common wood pulp.
was not little interested in the manner
in which the water is treated before 1t is
used in the pulp mill. 1t is frat pumped
from the Little Kapawha, dirty, nasty
stream, into huge tanks, being made to
pass cnroute from the river through jets of
alum water. In the tanks 1t receives
further treatment, and goes into the pulp
mill perfectly pure and OF rare brilliancy.
But the rarest treat Of the day WAS trip
through the great buildings OF B'oe1a <
Rath6one, manufacturing chemists and
makers Of chemicals for dyers, bleachers
calico printers, silk aud woolsn manutac
tnrers. This firm has branch offices at
New York and Philadelphia, and have &
wonderful trade.
BLGDE 4 RArHBoSEs ESTABLISHMENT.
The company commenced business eigh
years ago and now have trade second tt
no firm in the United States. The on'
agent most extensively used in this as vel
as all chemical manufacturing firms is sul
phuric acid, which is made by burning
sulphur with an admixture OF saltpetcr
The sulphur used By the firm is imported
directly IRON Sicily. The gas generated b!
the awful heat, which is certainly ho
enough 10 make satisfactory hadss for tn
most orthodox, goes into an immense room
or chamber made Of hanging striFsot lead
l25 COO pounds Of which we're required Il
making this room, which Is 100 ieet long
4 thirty vide and twenty high. The Ga
condeuses on the lead, trickles down int
troughs emptying into pipes that carry
through various channels and procesSe
until Il comes at last TO the concentIatiD
pans Of heavy sheet lead. And here th