Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-03-20
UTILITY OF WOOD PULP.
Growing Demand for the Material
In the Industries.
1t 10 Largely Used In the Manufacture OF
Thing, and Promises to Become an
Important Factor I'm Build
ing Operations, Etc.

The demand for pulp for other pur-
poses than paper making is likely to
increase largely the next few years
should the various branches of indus
try ~whichare cropping up around about
here meet with the great success which
sanguine inventors and patentees
anticipate. Whatever opinion may be
expressed with regard to these new
ventures there are already n couple of
manufacturers who seem to have struck
out in the right objection in the making
of marketable goods where pulp is the
chief factor as raw material. One of the
undertakings which descrvesto be noted
is the Fie'dhammer Brug, started by
the go-alead and cnterpriSing H.
Bache-Wug, and managed by the we'll
known Cl;ristiania firm of Ambrosius
Hansen. This mill began operations
about two years ago. making roofing
tiles. and is now shipping to different
parts of the globe n product which has
gained n reputation for its superior
qualities over all other States in the
market. Norway tiles" as they are
termed, nIe made from wood pulp,
which, under very high pressure, is
formed into thin cakes of sizes like the
ordinary roofing states. After Il chemi-
cal treatment, which is the inventors
secret. the tiles become hard. like brick,
and attain Il deep black appearance,
which lends itself admirably to give u
soft ton to houses with prominent
roofs and gables. 1t is claimed for the
Norway tiles" that they possess every
advantage OF the best states in the
market; their composition makes them
light and durable and they are not so
liable to brealiagc rs the ordinary
states; they arc not subject to II cX-
pansion 81 contraction, and when a
roof is once covered with this material
it will stnnd for n good many years
without 'epairs whatever. The price
Of NORWAY states" is very low, and
compared with what other roofing
costs adults Of q saving Of 35 per cent,
I'm item t.: no small imrortance in our
days, when competition is so keen.
Prominent architects who had The OBJ
portunitS 10 examine Norway tiles"
pronounce them superior as to quality,
appearance and price. and the insur-
nee companies appear favorably dis
posed Il stamp the tiles as Il very be-
sirablc and safe roofing material. The
new mills ut EmhrCtsfos. Thursfos and
Siicin arc covered with Norway tiles"
and from information gathered the pro-
prictors Of the mills are well pleased
with the new roofing.
An enthusiastic advocate of wood
pulp for building material rs n substi-
tutc for stone is G. ID. Rice, who mas
made the subject one of close study
and Investigation. His conclusion is
that it possesses the needed clements
OF Il durable constructive substance,
being ut the same time devoid os some
OF those features which dc+ract from
the value of stone and brick. He sum-
mariZcs some Of tn" qualities presented
by this new factor in building cs con-
sisting o. being light in weight, en-
ceodingly hard, n poor conductor of
heat and sound, and sufficiently elastic
to meet all the usual requirements for
II purpose; it is tough, though n nail
can be driven into it, and it can also be
drilled. while the other necessities of
q stone substitute. arc enumerated, to-
Tcther with resistance of frost and
neat. with ability to stand strain. and
so on. arr said to be met, besides the
transportation. 1t is urged further
that the difficulty of producing per-
tectly square stone blocks, except ut
high rates, is thus overcome. for the
pulp blocks, being cast in q square
mold. are necessarily uniform. Diff
fcring from stone and brick, which
absorb So much heat in the
proposed material is claimed to be
cooler i'll summer, while in cold weather
it prevents dampness. so in
stone.-World's Paper Trade Review.