The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-29
wANTED-A PAPER MILL.

Success of the New Enterprise of This
Character just Opened at Denver.
The opening of the new paper-mill at
Denver on Saturday, Aug. %, was made
the occasion of much rejoicing by the
people of that enterprising city. The
plant was commenced over a year ago
and if not the largest is undoubtedly one
of the finest in the United States. At
present only news paper will be manu-
featured and the entire product of the
plant, it is estimated, will be required in
Denver and vicinity. The newspapers of
that city have already contracted for the
output of the mill for several months.
AS this is an industry that might with
profit be built up at Great Falls we give
below a few extracts from the address of
President Platt of the Denver Paper
Mill company:
There was IA time when ~"cotton was
king" The advances of the last twenty
years IN educational facilities and in
creased intelligence has dethroned cot
ton and paper takes its place. The hu-
man mind can hardly comprehend the
vastness of the interests depending upon
paper or the figures which would repre-
sent the quantity produced and con
sumed in the United States alone, or
measure the calamity which would over
whelm the human race il paper should
cease to be produced.
BY reference to commercial reports
and statistics you will find that tinan-
cially the paper manufacturers of the
United States average higher than any
other manufacturing business; and in
every community where paper-making
has become an established industry it
has added largely to the wealth, prosper
ity. and contentment of the people.
, Those of you who have not given the
! subject careful consideration will be
startled when l state that Denver is one
of the best paper making points in the
United States. if not the best.
Denver uses more news paper thar any
other city of its size in America, and 50
far as | have been able to obtain inform
alton, more than any city of its popula.
| ton in the world. The newspapers
: printed here and the paper houses en-.
! gagged in the trade are paying out over
81 1000 per day, including Sundays, fol
t news paper. This large amount is col
s lected from this community every day
and sent away LOO 10 1000 miles, ano
nothing has been coming back to re
place it. What this constant dali.
:. drain has amounted to in ten years you
can easily calculate, as you also can wha
the effect would be on the prosperity anC
business of our city if the great sum 81
} taken away to distant points was herr
now for investment. The market for al
y this mill can make with its present ca
l pacity is here, and gives an advantage IL
starting this business which could no
10 have been secured in any other city be
tween Chicago and San Francisco, il
d which the raw material can be readll,
y and cheaply obtained.
If Great Falls does not use as mucl
paper as Denver the time is not far OF
:, when it will; besides a mill here woul
y have as a market the entire state and a
" well the states of Idaho and Washington
IT, if not even a wider field. 1t is interest
Sc ing to know that the raw material frol
Ill which the Denver mill will make l,
III print paper is the same as our mountain
here produce in unlimited supply, Vi:
the white spruce of the mountains. !
regard to this material President Pla'
IA said:
Ill we nave IL ldlSC oupppy vi INV p'
raw material for making nearly evel
;. grade of paper. In news paper we on.
vi use wood, Of that We have now in OF
ne possession or control an unlimited sul
10 ply, and the quality is greatly superi'
to that obtained east of the Missouri;
ne is whittier, freer from knots, pitch an
&c heart. 1t will work up easier and pr
a. duces more pulp to the cord than Il
N wood of the middle and eastern stat,
or Canada.
., A paper mill in Great Falls wou
Ell have all the advantages afforded !
SIS Denver and in addition would have at
d nominal cost all the water power tn
III. could be desired, and power is one of Il
We important factors in an enterprise OF I'll
kind. There can be no question as
ng the success of a paper mill at this pla(
be and our people should put forth eve
ar. possible effort to interest capital in tn
cr. direction. The board of trade had {
matter in hand at one time. but it do
not seem to have followed up the subje
10 with any great energy or persistent
ne The success achieved by Denver shou
stimulate us to greater and more dett
nc o mined efforts in that direction. Next
st1 our smelling enterprises a paper m
~, ~ would be OF greatcr benefit oCireat Fal