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 The first paper mill in America wa5 built in 1890 by William Rittenhouse, a Dutch paper maker from Amsterdam. This first civilization factory was To- oated on what is now part of Phila- delphias great Fairmount Park The first paper mill in Massachusetts was built at Milton in 1730 by an enter prising Boston bookseller, It lad 8 capacity of about 20O0 sheets day. That is, it could turn out in a day what any gCcd min can now produce in ten minutes. The growth of the paper in dustry In the United States, without creating much comment has been phe- nomenal Within the memory of Q young man almost the ontire bulk of fine papofs Used ln this country we're imported, but by reason of stimulated inventive genius, improved machinery and methods of reducing stock, and by domestic competition, the imports have entirely ceased and we are exporters of paper. From 1850 to 1890 the annual product of paper increased from 70,o00 tons to ,50O, 900 tons and from S2O, 0O0, 900 valuation to SITS, ,OOO, 900. Du- ring the same period the increase in paper hangiugs alone was from l5, 900, 900 rolls in 1850 to 12O,OOO, 900 rolls in 1890. The output of wall paper last year was enough to make girdle 30 feet in width entirely around the equator The United States has HOG paper machines ih operation Ger many has s9l, France 525, England 430, Italy I50, Russia l37 and Spain 47. We lead the world in the manu- facturs of paper The capital invested is estimated at s150, ,OOO, 900, and the output at s175, 900, 900. We not only lead in the manufacture of paper, but, by all statistics, foreign and domestic, we also lead in the average consump- ton per capita.
 Almost everything in the vegetable Kingdom, with large additions from the animal and mineral will furnish the raw material for the making of pa per. The only question IS whether it can be reduced at allowable expense Horns hoofs, hides and bones, ims, alum, rosin, soda and soap, divers places, go into paper. Tire mining of clay for paper-makers nse is a very Considerable industry of itself The clay adds to the body and finish of the paper, and likewise to the profit. Pa per has been mads of wood, hay and stubbls, of mumuies and hornets nests. Tine list of paper-making materials in- cludes about 400 items It would be easier to catalogue the materials of which paper cannot be made. Almost anything csa be nBsd except nails, needles and pearl buttons, feathers, pig-iron and syntax, the only question being the cost of reducing the stuff to pulp.
 a'the ages B. C. the "reeds' lorded it over the paper-maker, and even for 800 of the years of our Lord the papy- rus roll held it's own. Then for ten centuries the lowly and despised rag was king. But kings are little passee, and now wood is "boss, or at least divides thg empire. The supply of "paper reeds is exhausted, the sup ply of rags will not begin to equal the demand; A substitute must be found, and for it We go to the fosess.
 Wood pulp has achieved mighty revolution in Che art of paper making, and the revolution ig not ended, The wasp hns used wood paper for immemorial ages but man has been slow to use it as . fiber. Ths invention was finally suggegted by observing a wasp's nest made of wood transformed into paper. In the search for c suBsti. ute for rags, wood had been expert mented with in many places and for many years, but to Frederick Gottlob Keller, of Saxony, ie due she credit of the invention about lS45.
 If he is a benefaetor who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, what of him who makes pos sible 'tentold increase in Che reams of She great civiIIzing product and who makes Sc coss where lOc price grew before? And ye. Keller, the inventor of mechanical wood pulp, now ar old man, is living in great poverty, and has derived no benefit from his reyolu. sion-raking inveRticu.
 In 1881 the capacity of she pulp mills in the United States was about 72,0O0 sons per annuns The present capaoisy is 100000 tons. fad in this remark Able growth the industry has been ac- eompenied by these three desirable