The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22

of Wood Pulp Shut or
the Present. fsly
(From the Chicago Daily rn,..
A serious famine threatens ~ oes
Industry Of the United State 'ls p
causes have conspired to le.. va
product of the mills, while tS .@S Sa
for print paper and the otbsr ' a uen
grades is unprecedented OruiI
The conditions led to a soo,..
ing OF the leading paper mann,a ' n
OF the United States yesteraan .ae.a
Great Northern hotel, to cons sy a.
could be done to avert the !.
threatened by the shortaga T., iAl
pulp. which, If it is NOT re,,. ~
cause the vast paper mills n ~
try 10 shut down and cripple So, sa,, ]
every industry which denend nd. p,
product of the mills. Near I qp ~
the leading paper manufactursr, - !.
country were present, and the w.t. y
topic OF interest was a new q sh ~
tne manufacture of paper to tsr.
place OF the wood fibre no ns
such universal use. what -.
fiber is, the paper manufactnro .us :,
not say They averred that al nrs1
the process by which II Is mor,, r.''
cred is in a crude stage bpt tha.
cussed 1t as the only visible soIn,
OF present difficulties.
Great Lack of Materto,
Not for twenty years has sr,,
serious condition confronted tbo nv
facturers of paper. and there l. -
danger that we may be forced 70
our mills for lack of material s.,s
d. Sehaeffer of the Hartford citv
per company who presided over
meeting. Various causes arc roe.
sible for this condition. The nrina,
one is that wood pulp, from which
lower grades of paper is manufactu-
is so hard to get that there IL a !
slant scramble for material Pecs
inquiry OF the pulp mills at SAINT
Marie, the largest pulp mills in
world, develops the fact that there
not pound for sale there, and oil
mills are as hard pressed The r.,
cutting of the forests of the Rastd
and middle Western states, and
stopping of the supply from Cana
Is largely responsible for the threat
ed famine. Added to the scarcity
timber is the recent mild wealth
which has made it impossible to bri
the pulp wood which has been cut
market. A large part of the seaso
cut of the forests of Wisconsin Al
Michigan, upon which the midi
Western states depend for pulp yoa
is now lying on the bare ground \
cannot be moved until snow coml
Another great danger comes in
possibility Of heavy fall Of snow
lowing this long dry season. A fall
eighteen inches of snow would eoV
up the pulp wood already cut SO d
it would be next to impossible to
it out and float it down the river to
mills.
Labor Also Scarce,
"a great scarcity of labor in the p
cries has also made the movement
pulp wood to the mills slow. Coy
panies cutting pulp wood have spe
thousands of dollars importing M
into the pineries to cut pulp VO
only to lose them when they got ne
Boys of eighteen and nineteen are
ing largely employed in the WofN
Canada has been the source OF -
ply for many of the Eastern MI
but that source of supply has been
off as the cutting of timber on clu
lands has been prohibited anu
province of Quebec makes the impOl
pay S1.9O per cord duty, when ma.
the material too expensive. the o.
solution we can see is to adopt
fiber as a substitute for woou "
That is the subject of discussion
have one in view, but do hos 'a''
talk of that now. 4.,D
Another ditticulty which conn'
Eastern manufacturers is iasA
water upon which they depshu
power. That, too, is the result u
cutting away of the forests lus =
of the middle West are not ehlOa ~.
ed in this respect to the sans 90
as the Eastern mills. an
eve have not como together u !.
any combination or to raise pr
The demand naturally governs r.
The sole object is to avert la-
possible, for famine woulu n
producer as much as the consa nt
q Rrockelbank, vice president
western manager of the Manul
,ers' Paper company of New forA' u
Offices in the Rookery buil0lI Mimi,
firmed the statements MADE " '"
Schaeffer concerning the tl"u~
Condition Is Serious, riust
"If present conditions IN sno 40,
continue. there will be a serious M nj
age Of pulp wood in the wss ssr ID
a as tolI" he said. SIT has been "a
NV impossible to get the spruce y m,rs.|
which wood pulp is made, ~, " niusts|
It grows in the swamps Of the o0 plI b,
and the winter has peeh ~ .n, It to n
It has been impossible to a aau, to N
rivers. down which it is Aoa's , 70 u