Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-11
A MODEL ESTABLISHMENT.
The Hanna & Clemens Paper Company
The Excellent Product of the Mill.

The Hanna l. Clemens Paper Company
The Excellent Product of the Mill.
Yesterday q REGISTER reporter stepped
into the Office of the Hanna Il Clemens
Paper Company, at Fulton, thinking that
some information in regard to such an i'm
portant business establishment might not
prove uninteresting to the public. He found
Mr.. r. Hanna, the genial president Of the
company, in the Office, and upon learning
the object of his visit, that gentleman
kindly showed him around through the
works and gave him all the information ne
desired in regard to the business.
This mill was established in 1S32, and
is consequently one Of the oldest manufac
turing establishments in this part of the
country. 1t has been in con-
tinuOus operation ever since its
foundation, with the exception of a few
weeks during the war, and during all that
time its business has been steadily incrcas-
ing. until now its trade extends to Cincin-
natl, New York, st. Paul, Mimi, Pitts
burg, and to all points in this State. Dur
ing the present year il has been rebuilt and
reiitted with improved machinery, and ut
present it is one of the best equipped mills
in the country.
AS an illustration of the improvements
which have been made in it, Mr.. Hanna
stated that when the present proprietors
| took charge of it fourteen years ago the
producing capacity of the mill was 1000
pounds every twenty-four hours, while now
it produces three tons of paper every Day.
The company devotes itself exClu-
sively TO the manufacture of paper
for book and newspaper Use,
and make a purely rag paper, not a
pound of straw or wOOd-pulp entering into
its composition.
The proprietors have lately introduced
natural gas into their works, and the ad-
vantageS Of this fuel for paper-making are
easily seen. Besides the facility with
which the steam may be regulated and an
even temperature maintained, greater
advantage is that the SCOT and coal dust
attending the use Of coal, which is so fatal
to.the cleanliness and purity of the paper,
are entirely avoided. Another advantage
| which this company has, is the presence of
two large wells which have 4 constant
hO" va dbOub NV SdllOllS VI "abtl pNt
minute, all the year around, the water be-
ing as pure and clear rs the finest
spring water. The value of this to
the company can hardly be estimated
as the difficulty of procuring good water
in abundance is one of the greatest draw
backs which the paper industry has to
contend with.
The company have lately put in a new
Kingland refining engine and the mill also
contains one of the best FOurdenier paper
making machines in the country, and
these added to the other advantages which
it possess render this mill able TO compete
| fay6rably with any other establishment of
the kind in the country. The superior
quality Of the product of this mill is
shown by the fact that it supplies some of
of the leading daily papers of the country,
the st. Paul Globe and the leading Cincin-
natl and New York papers being printed
upon paper of its manufacture. The
paper used in the printing of the REGIS
ter is also produced by this mill.