The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-11-27
Low WATER AND PAPER.
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IF winter should happen to close in on us
with the streams in the low condition OF water
that they are now It will be disastrous thing
for the paper mills and other branches Of the
paper making business9" said the New York
representative OF large paper and wood
pulp company In the upper Hudson Valley.
Eighty per cent Of the paper used In tho
printing Of newspapers is made from wood
pulp. and for economical reasons the pulp
mills must be run by water. for they are not
located where coal or natural gas can be OBJ
tained except at high cost. It requires 800
horse power to make one pound Of wood pulp
per hour. and II this power had to depend on
coal or other fuel for its production the cost
would be great deal more than the market
price Of pulp. So 1t may he said that news
paper readers depend almost entirely on the
water power Of the country for the great boon
OF the cheap and excellent journals which they
are now able to buy. for steam mills cannot
make the pulp. and comparatively few OF the
paper mills that manufacture the pulp into
paper arc run by steam.
Few people have any conception OF the
magnitude OF the paper business OF this
country. Out OF the nearly 100000 pounds
OF book and news paper turned out daily in the
various paper manufacturing localities. almost
one.third is made in New York State Massa-
chusetts comes next with nearly $4,000
pounds. and WISCONSIN, third with over a00o09
tie pulp mills q ths STATE supply t the raps!
makers Of the country with nearly one-hnlf OF
the pulp they use in getting out pa JpsT Ter
use IN books and newspapers or 1.O3O.OU
mills; including all varieties Of paper. from the
s%opnt q Almost iSs5o.3oS pos S te Tho
tHs
power. Some of the paper mills. particularly
soas fH vc s E y snd G d hS o AnaS
IIssk q water: iSs Situation II -. thsss
AndroscoGcin. region get their water supply
from the noted Rangeley Lakes. aud tho lower
pf m Il q 1y and The
lowered The Hosoke mills % are s and d"P have
been for some weeks under the rule OF restric
msnaiactarers. The "a q Monday df Helped ped
prevent q disastrous water famine II winter
should close IN suddenly with the streams and
reservoirs in the present depleted condition.
and in that event newspaper readers may as
we'll make up their minds that it will not be
with its annual floods,
Perkins. Goodwin & Co. has within the past
Few years become great paper manufactur-
Ing district, and never before has there been
any fear Of n water famine at the mills. Now.
however. Winnebaeo Lake is almost dry. and
Fox River can be crossed almost anywhere
dry shod. 1t is the same with the water power
in the Miami Valley In Ohio, which. next to
tho Fox River region. Is the second largest
paper NAL king. district In the West. The mills
in Ohio; though: can be run economically with
petroleum for fuel. and Pennsylvania. which
Is large paper producer. is also fayorably
located for steam power In the mills. Yet the
Tho production Of paper is 1000 tons day
known New York paper dealer land il it
wasn't for tho fact that there has been n large
overproduction Of paper for some time that
large decrease would have greatly affected tho
ANYTHING but reassuring. II the water famine
continues into the winter it will be followed by
the failure OF many paper manufacturers long
before spring. The pulp mills OF this State are
better OF for water than those anywhere else.
% Sst os the make mills The don't np haS o
paper Many Mil owners Hs in '' Maine ns and
Massachusetts are arranging to change
their mills from water power to steam.
That will be attended with great expense. but
the change must either be made or the mills
at the mills is disposed OF tho price Of paper
will have to go up. and the number Of pages
printed In the Sunday editions Of tho great
dailies must necessarily come down II We
don't get rain to I'LL the streams and reservoirs
from the paper making districts foreshadows
that result. and there isn't q paper company
in the country that isn't viewing the situation
with uneasiness and alarm"