Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-08-13

The manufacture Of paper is now one
OF the great industries Of America.
Heretofore this business has enriched
the people north Of the Ohio and east of
the Mississippi, but within few years
il has scaled the Rocky mountains and
nestled in few places in the favored
valleys Of California. San Francisco,
Stockton and Waisonville have come in
for their share Of the profits Of this great
but Southern California
has been obliged to see her paper stock
return to dust. and purchase paper at
whatever price Eastern manufacturers
may choose to set in their annual com
bination conventions, which are held to
keep up prices and prevent over.produc-
tion.
But, owing to the rapid strides Of
Southern California in the accumulation
Of capital. money has become so abund-
ant, that manufactures are arising in all
parts Of the country; oil wells are being
made, refineries are being built, quartz
mills are jarring the air with unceasing
din; Touring mills, wineries, canneries,
foundries, machine shops, woollen facto-
ries and fruit-dryers are adding their
work to the general wealth OF the peo-
pie.
Adding to all these important works
now comes
A GREAT PAPER MILL,
That will soon send its silent smoke in
graceful festoons round the summer sun,
and the great stacks Of straw that used
to send their wild glare and clouds Of
smoke, till even the mountains were OBJ
scured, will now be wrought into paper
for the use and profit of mankind. The
agency by which this great result is to
be brought about is by the formation
and incorporation of the
Los ANGELES PAPER COMPANY,
With the following corporators: l. w.
Hellman, A. A. Polhamus, 4. N. Nc
Donald, Il l.. Garrett and d. Wagner.
These gentlemen purchased ten acres Of
land on the lind Of the s. P. r. r., about
ten miles from this city,on tho San Pedro
brlnch, where station has been estab-
lished called Lynwood. A side track
has been built by the Railway Com
pany, for the use of the paper company,
which has erected q wooden building
about 100 feet long for manufacturing
purposes, with bleaching tank, pulp
tanks and water tanks OF q total ca
pacity OF about 1000 barrels The bleach
ing tank is at the northwest corner of the
building where the straw for brown paper
is placed for bleaching, which occupies
six or eight hours. It is then carried
into the grinding mills, OF which there
are two. from which the ground mass
is carried into settling tanks and thence
to absorbing cylinders, which gather it
up and send it forward to other large
cylinders warmed by steam, which send
the fastened mass over Others, and then
between mass Of steel rollers, then over
other warm cylinders by which it is
dried, then caught on reel and sent
into cutting machine, by which it is
cut Of the requisite size for the pur-
poses of commerce. The transportion
is most ample and rapid.
The machinery is Of the latest in
vention and Of the strongest and best
kind that is made at Lee, Massachusetts,,
the center Of the paper making busi-
ness of the United States. The two
powerful steam engines that energize
the machinery are placed on the south
side of the building, aud are supplied
with peat fuel from the tract on which
the manufactory is located. while the
water is supplied from a mammoth
spring few rods distant, that sends up
a heavy column Of pure cold water
without ceasing.
When the great engines begin their
tireless work, and the S25, 900 combi-
nation of bands and wheels and cylin-
ders and cunning devices get to work,
they viii sen1 forth a constant stream
Of paper, in continuous sheet, at the
rate Of
NINETY FEET PER MINUTE,
Or over mile an hour, or twenty five
miles q day, which would reach around
the globe once in a thousand days. All
this. this monster machine can do, and
do 1t well. To person unskiiled in
this branch Of mechanics the vast array
of pulleys, bands, beveled wheels, roll
ers, cylinders, cams, levers, cnt-offs,
vass, ffywheeIs and endless iron pipes
seem bewildering mass: but when the
brain of man has set everything in order
and the great machinery breathes and
tErobs, and straw stack at one end Of
the building ia turned out into pressed
and folded paper into railway cars ut
the other, then the significance Of every
wheel and roller and roo 10 compre-
hended, and their Office appreciated.
The situation is admirable. 1t is on
the line Of rail which reaches every part
of the land, and surrounded with the
richest agricultural country imaginable,
with abundance of raw material at a
trifling cost. while more than half Of the
ten.acre lot was formerly part of an
ancient lake, which has been overgrown
and filed with the roots Of rank grasses
and rushes till the lake has entirely dis
appeared and in its stead is p vast mass
of elastic, tremulous pest. which is being
cut out in blocks about six inches square
and eighteen inches in length and dried
in the sun for fuel. Two tons Of this
peat Is considered equal to ton OF coal.
and as it only costs the cutting, while
the sun does the drying, the fuel supply
10 as cheap rs can be expected.
Capt. Polhamus has invented ma
chine. with the knives Of . moving
machine. and turned BY hand. which
cuts out slice Of this valuable fuel about
four feet vile and six inches thick in
moment Of time. When the peat istaken
ost from this lot. and the other lands
adjoining, there will remain beautiful
Transparent lake, fed by half dozen
large springs, that will be glorious
fish pond for the coming aGes
Itwas the good fortune Of reporter Of
the HERALD to partake of roast chick
en- dinner prepared over this blazing
peat at the kospitable mansion of Mr..
0mri Bulls, near by where his excellent
wife and accomplished niece, Miss Ads
Bulls, paid their respects to the HER
AID, by furnishing . most delicious meal
Of the best fruits Of the land, and that is
good enough for any mortal.
Mr.. Bulls Is the owner OF large tract
OF peat land with numerous springs, aud
has sunk an artesian well beside the rail-
way, which sends up q column of water
that forms q swift stream twelve inches
wide and four inches deep. This furn-
ishes water for his ranch and residence.
besides sending lovely stream on the
ranch of Judge A. NJ. Bragg. formerly Of
Los Angeles. but now granger, with q
fine home aud luxuriant crops.
This great well sends up so powerful
a stream that stones thrown into the
tube, are throws up and out in a'lively
manner. The new station Of Lynwood
can have an ample water supply from
this noble well, which is q fortune in it.
self and will be- blessing to the future
town-of Lynwood Tho water Is clear,
cold and delicious. With so many ad-
vantages for settlement there is no
reason Why il should not be success.
An kinds Of deciduous fruit grow to per-
fection in that locality. The plum trees
in Mr.. Bulls orchard are nearly broken
down with their load of ripening fruit,
while pears and apples grow to perfec-
tion.
The ponderous machinery Of Lynwood
will hauin n, ravaIxo .1av a.<l .s.hk :.