Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-12-06
PIPER MILLS.
Paper and Pulp Making Will
Yet be a Great Industry In s#
thia Section. @
Immense Pulp Mills at Sault
q Ste. Marie-No~w Ship to
81 Fox River. 800

~, =. d.
Northern Minnesota will in a few
wears be one Of the leading paper
shaking sections of the country. 1t
possesses many advantages for the
industry. and the time is near when
paper makers will avail themselves
ofthOse advantages. A recent item
from Sank Rapids says: E~>H -
's:'1t is now practically assured
that the deal which has been pend
ing for several weeks, whereby
John Strange. of Menasha. Wis, Is
to organize a company which il to
develop the water power at Sank
Rapids. build a paper mill and make
other improvements, will soon he
closed and work commenced. The
little flOwage difficulties in the way
have been settled. The projectors
of the enterprise are now seriously
considering the udvisability OF build
ing the new dam of solid masonry.
The improvements now contem-
plat ted 1T Sank Rapids, and the fact
that large company has been
formed with view IT, putting a
dam across the Mississippi in Itasca
county and developing power for
immense paper mills there, would
seem to Indicate that the upper Mis-
sissippi may in. the near future
compete with the pulp and paper in
dustry on the Fox riverin Wisconsin.
The mills in this state would Ger
tainly have q great advantage in
the cheapness of the raw material
and abundance of water power"
That the conditions are attract
ing attention even in distant cities,
is shown by the following from 4
recent issue of the New York Times:
There was published two or three
days ago an interview with a
brother-in-law ex-senator Burro WIS,
OF Michigan, who says that the
government will lie asked to-. permit
him and his associates to dam the
Mississippi river in Itasca county,
AIinn.. in order that, they may OBJ
tain water power there to be used in
operating large paper and pulp mills
which are to be fed by the forests in
the ::ivicinity. The wood is poplar,
and there is an abun dance of it that
can be had for 81 per cord.
"These forests at the head WATERS
of the Mississippi are, we think,
worth more than 81 per cord to the
people: of the United States. The
point where it is proposed the mills
shall be erected is about one hun
bred miles from Lake Itasca, the
source of the great river. It is in the
heart of the lake region OF MINNESOTA.
We published few weeks ago the
results OF an interesting. and im:
portant Investigation concerning
the lakes of that state, which have
been drying up during the last two
years. Twenty years ago there
were 1000 of them. A large number
of these have entirely disappeared,
and the surface levels Of a majority
of those remaining. The rainfall has
been reduced. The destruction by
axe and by fire has undoubtedly been
one OF the causes of this change.
The interests of the whole country
require that the forests around the
headwaters Of the Mississippi shall
be preserved. B."
At the Sault Ste. Marie some Of
the largest pulp mills In the world
are being built. Particulars about
them. are given in the following dis.
patch dated at that place Dec. 2:
'The first shipment of pulp paper
was made today from the great new
mill on the Canadian side, built by
the Lake Superior Power company.
The mill, which is CONSTRUCTED Of
sandstone, is $40 feet long and IS,
feet wide. It is equipped with %
grinders, 16 wet machines and 16
screens. Its capacity per day, is rs
tons of dry pip. A force OF 800 men
is now employed. in and fabout the
mill, which will be operated "a hours
a day. The product will be sent all
over the world, but the bulk Of this
winters output will be sent to
paper mills in the Fox River district
in Wisconsin. Enough pulpwood is
on hand. to supply the mill until
navigation opens. Mill No. 2, of
about the same size, will be COM
pleted in April. This fs also on the
Canadian side. During the winter q
new machine shop is to bebnilt. It's
dimensions will be 1O0x2OO feet.
The new foundry and ware house,
which are each 60xS0 feet, will be
completed within q fe W weeks.
F. H.. Clergne, the manager OF the
company, speaks az follows Of the