Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-06-19
PLENTY OF pulp LOGS.
nArxE MILLS NEVER so WELL sup
PLIRD.

MAINE MILLS NEVER so WELL SUP
PLIRD.
The pulp and paper mills Of Maine
never have been 20 heavily supplied With
logs ~ they viii be this season, provided
all the drives get through, OF which
there now seems 70 be no doubt. Not
only WAS the cut Of logs especially In
tended for pulp very large last winter,
but an immense quantity at nrst Intend
ed for saw mill consumption has been
purchased by one Of the pulp companies,
90 that the total Of logs for pulp mill
purposes this year will Be nearly II not
quite one-half the total cut on the Penob-
.cot.
Il ID q difficult matter TO estimate
closely, bat lumbermen say that the
stock this year, exclusive Of the saw
logs bought by pulp companies, u TWEEN
ty-fve per cent larger than usual. The
great Northern Paper Company, which
Il erecting at Millinocket the largest ps-
per mill 10 the world, has cut 5000, 600
feet OF logs on its own account, and pur-
chased IS O00, 900 feet more, making n
total stock Of 10000, 900 feet. This In
cludes . large quantity OF saw logs,
bought, 1t Is supposed, on speculation,
which would have been sold had the
spruce market held up 70 the high prices
that prevailed In the early spring. The
bottom having dropped out Of the mar
get, Il 10 likely now that the company
will hold on to It's logs. In addition to
,ha Nraat Nopthavr Nocn ~ "A yss stock II
Is estimated that other mills on the
Penobscot will use 81, 000, 900 feet OF
logs, msking total In the hands Of the
pulp and paper men Of about 20, 000, 900
feet, or nearly one-half OF the total cut
of ell kinds on the river. The same con-
ditions, practically, prevail on other
Maine rivers. On the Kennebec II Il es-
timsted that $4,000, 900 feet Of logs will
90 Into pulp, and that II rather more
than one-hslf Of the total cut Of logs on
that river. On the Androscoggin the
pulp industry 10 making rapid strides,
and is now using up the larger part by
ar Of all the logs cut on that river.
Some Of the Aroostook logs will 20 into
pulp In New Brunswick, bat no consider
sble quantity. On the waters In Han
cock and Washington Counties there are
- yet no pulp mills, but considerable
quantities Of pulp wood will be shipped
ny rail from the vicinity Of Mschias TO
the mills at Gardiner and Madison.
There are at present twenty-eight pa
per mills and thirty pulp mills, including
those now under construction, In Maine.
This places the state second In the list
Of those producing pulp and paper, with
daily output Of 1885 tons, $50 tons o.
the paper being common newsp,p per.
Next year II ls expected the daily output
81 pulp and psprr will be about $500
tons, and Maine will be at the head OF
the list. New York now IL frat, Maine
second, Wisconsin third, Mzssachu 'etts
fourth, Pennsylvania hfth and Ohio
sixth, with New Hampshire, Vermont,
Illinois and Connecticut following In
the order named.
. The pulp and paper mills In Maine
represent an Investment OF about $50,
0O0, 900, and ut present are employing
about GOO hsnds, which number will be
increased next year to 1000. The sum
OF el5, 900 daily, or about o., 900 900 an
nually, IL paid out In wages, and the
consumption OF lumber this year will be
about 275, 900 900 feet, worth about g..
500, 900.
When the plants now under construc-
ton shall have begun operations the con.
sumption OF lumber will be $50, 900. 00C
feet, costing about $780, 900 annually,
The value of the output OF pulp and pa.
per IL now about Oh, 900, 900 annually,
and will be Increased next year TO e20,.
100000. Three Of the smaller mills use
poplar wood, all the others spruce. The
seven mills producing newspaper are
now turning out 955, 900 pounds daily
The International Paper Company, al
It's Rumford Falls plant, 10 making sddi
lions that will about double the capacity
for both pulp and paper, and is also
erecting for the Continental Paper Bss
Company 4 mill that will cost el00, 00t
or more. The Hollingsworth & Whit
ney Company IL completing new sui
phite pulp MILL at It's plant In Winslow
and the Great Northern Paper Company
IL expanding $500, 900 In enlarging thu
plant at Madison, which is purchased
from the Manufacturing Investment
Company. This company also is erect
Ing at Millinocket, seventy-hve miles
north OF Bangor, an immense pulp and
psper mill, 900 feet long by $50 feet
wide, to cost about 100000 and to be
ready for operation In January, 1901. Thu
mill will employ 500 hands and turn on,
at first $50 tons Of newspaper daily
which capacity will be increased before
long to 425 tons daily. J Fred Webster
of Bangor and Eben C. Webster OF 0ronO
are building pulp and paper mill Al
Oldtown, to cost OIL 900, 900.
Manufacturers of paper and pulp say
that business IL better than ever before
and that the prospects are bright for q
continuance Of this condition. Prices
are high, especially on white newspaper,
and there seems to be feeling that there
must be Q reduction soon, 80 rapid IL the
increase 10 capacity Of the mills. AT
present the demand for logs for the pulp
mills has sent the price 80 high that
there Is no pioht, or very little 10 saw
Ing. and the lumber trade suffers &C.
cordingly. The pulp men can afford to
pay more for logs than the sswmill men,
and their demand Hxes the price,
which the sawmill men must pay or 60
without logs.