Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-05
WILL ENLARGE
But Madison Does Not Expect
a New Pulp Mill.
The Mill Will Be Enlarged and Pulp
Worked Into Paper
But the Town Will Have to Wait for q
New Mill.

Madison, Me-. Dec. 4.-(SpeciaD.-Al-
though the Investment Co. will not
build a new pulp mill, as has been re-
ported, the company will make altera-
lions to its plant by which a part Of
the pulp will be worked UP into paper
and an increase in the working crew
will be necessary.
in different parts of the State for some
little time that the company is to be-
gin work at once ON an addition to its
plant and erect new mill for the
manufacture of paper. This report has
gained credence from the fact that sur
veyors have been at work for some lit
tie time on the company's property.
Now that the survey is completed it is
current talk in the village that a new
mill is to be erected, short distance
below the company's present mills.
Another report which has been cir
culated is that the company has sold
a part of its property below the plant
and that a large amount of foreign
erecting a
paper mill to work up the pulp manu-
featured by the Manufacturing Invest
ment Co.
A. L. Smith. one of the head men at
the plant of the Misunderstanding and
Investment Co. in Madison was seen.
Saturday. in relation 10 the new mill,
which rumor said was to be erected.
and at the start denied that the. COM
pany had any intentions of erecting a
new mill. He then went on to explain
that the work of the surveyors had
started all kinds of rumors in the vii
lage, many Of which had been caught
up and carried through the State
In speaking of the ruinor that a new
mill is to be erected. he said the reports
probably started from the. fact that the
company Is planning to make a part of
the pulp it manufactures into paper, by
machinery which is to be put into the
mill in very short time.
Under the present arrangement the COM
pany manufactures nothing but pulp. by
the sulphite process, which is sent away
TO other mills. to be manufactured into
paper The same; method of manufacture
ing which was in vogue when the mills
had been completed after being built has
been used until within a short time. A
short time ago alterations We're made in
the mills by which mich more room is
given. 1t is the purpose of the company
to fill up this room gained through NOV
ing the old machines by putting in ma
chimes for the manufacture of paper.
These machines are to be. ordered at
once and will arrive, it is thought in sea-
son to be placed in,running order inside
of six months. When these new ma
chimes are started there will be room for
the employment of % additional hands.
The present capacity of the mill is about
40 tons of pulp, and with the installation
wi
use up about % tons of the pulp in the
mahnufacture Of its own paper:
That part Of the. pulp which is not
worked up blythe Manufacturing Invest
ment Co. in making its own paper will be
shipped to other paper mills, as in the
past, where it will there be worked into
paper.
In speaking of the advantages of own
ing its own paper making machinery Mr.
Smith said that with the manufacture ri
the eompany's own pulp into paper in its
own plant one freight would thus be
saved and the company would thus be
able to compete with other manufactures
of paper.
When asked is the much-talked-of trust
among the ma1Nlfa cturerS in Rumford
Falls would affect the Manufacturing In
vestment Co. Mr. Smith said it certainly
would not, for the reason that a good
part of the pulp manufactured in Madi-
son Is sold to the paper mills in Rumford
Falls.
Referring to the pulp that is to be man
ufactured, he said that the company pro-
poses to make a comparatively new ven
ture for this State by using hemlOck in
the manufacture OF pulp at the company S
mill in Madison. In nearly all the mills
In the State spruce is used. 1t is the pur-
pose of the company to use hemock in
the manufacture of its pulp. When asked
the reason for this departure, Mr.. Smith
SAID that the company uses great deal
OF hemlock in its plants in Wisconsin, for
the reason that hemlock is more easily
obtained. In Maine the greater part of
the wood available is spruce, and being
more plenty and consequently cheaper, is
used almost exclusively.
The pulp manufactured at the plant in
Madison is wholly for the manufacture of
manila paper. and for that reason the
company is to turn out MANILA paper
when the paper making machines which
are to be placed in position are in work
ing order
When asked the purpose of the survey,
Which has started the talk that the com
pany Is to put up Il new paper mill, Mr..
smith said that the company owns valu-
dble privilege below the site OF the pres
ent plant which the company wishes to
dispose of to some other company. The
Manufacturing Investment Co. has no
company in mind to which it is thinking
OF selling the privileges but had the sur
Ney, made so that it might be known eX-
actly what the property is in case :,
chance for sale comes. 1t was this sur
Ney, he thought, that started the rumo:
winch has been given such wide circula-
tlon, that the company is to erect new
plant
In regard to the outlook for the paper
Imllls in the State, Mr.. Smith said that TO
him it seemed unusually good. AS to his
reasons, he said that there was no par
Ocular reason why the outlook for the
investment Co. is better than 1t has been,
except for the fact that business in gem
and as the result the paper mills must
have their share of the prosperity.