Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-03-02
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Of wood ,E Pulp shut or Kst
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(From the prtShicago Daily lnteY =
IA serious. famine threatens 10,
industry Of Dthe United States. j
causes hay, . conspired to LED 4
product Of u The mills, while the)
for print pa tper and the Other
grades ia Uni Unprecedented. a.
The cond sitions led to = sec :,
ing Of the II leading paper manu- ID
Of the Unit Jed States yesterda -.
Great NortlEahern hotel, to cons1 rel
could be d zone to avert the :
threatened by the shortage =
pulp, whictA, II 1t Is not relic =
cause the VI last paper mills OF ma
try to shutE down and cripple
every indus& try which depends On
| product Of the mills. Nearl ~
the leading paper manufacture 10Y
country we Ire present, and the
topic of ii Interest was a new e
the manuf| acture of paper, to- ea
place of the wood fibre on
such univ ersal use. What pre-
fiber is, thu E paper manufactured -
not say. NThey averred that atr 0
the process. by which it is mann
cred is in a crude stage, buffers
cussed II dhs the only visible an
Of present difficulties. Ve y
o... -. :, =. lite p
y en-. ~ +w.nt- tnce.
...,aws ,d,t,o, ....Ss-s seed
- ot,,r.rs ~ ron.. go |ntere
do,oar ~ Ut No n,.r - 49, JIG bu
mr. mills lar ,ack Z, nata.,n, avinf
n aoh.adiar ~ ~. u.-... pises
Nv oa,anbrx r,ha 800. until
.,...,n1 "v.r,o,,. aa...s 1T, y
-,s,. 90. Ih,s a...,,.,S-n ~ in
49, :. ~ J. woad 49, 80. tory.
lower gra}1es Of paper IL manu- - Z,
is SO hard to get that there :
slant scramble for material. any any
inquiry OF the pulp mills at ~
Marie, the largest pulp mills !
world, develops the fact that vi ~
not a po,,nd for sale there, q -
mills are, as hard pressed. ea
cutting of the forests OF the pr
and middle Western states, I'M
stopping of the supply from ga,
Is largely responsible for the lei
ed famine. Added to the SC an
timber @is the recent mild Cn
which has made 1t Impossible =
tho nulr wood which has i are |
market. "A large part of II Y IA
cut of thA forests of Wise e gov
Michigan, upon which Il az
Western states depend for TINS :
is now lying 1en the bare g ln plg
cannot be moved until snd DIT rls
Another great danger conn Aoams
possibility of heavy fall 81
lowing this long dry season.
eighteen inches sof snow wi "a
up the pulp WOOD already
1t would be nexttto ,impass
it out and float it d the rfyer a
mills. - sss8as
Labor Als) oarUs. IL.
"a great scarcity Emabor In the 3
cries has also madM she movement
pulp wood to the. 3Glls slow. Co
panies cutting pulp Food have sp,
thousands of dollarl importing m
into the pineries toI cut pulp VIC
only to lose them when they got the
Boys Of eighteen and nineteen are 1
ing largely employed IN the work.
Canada has been th@ source Of q
ply for many sofNtAAA EnMern mi
but that source AZ Us been
off as the cuttin on Gro
lands has bel I'd and
province of Out ltsl The impo1
pay $3.50 per Sos9 thich ma
the material TO- The o
solution we 1dopt q .
fiber as a suhetls13 wood al
That is the subj cussion. 3
have one in X1SNs p not care
talk of that nov M
Another 10y lch conrro
Eastern ma teieats a lack
water upon Il elm depend
power. That, n Jesuit Of
cutting away of. tht ~ sSStsg The m
Of the middle West III Ambarrt
ed in this respect ans be ext
as the Eastern MIL M
1--WE have not ddaA to 4
any combination r::
The demand natu3 16l9 pri
The sole object is t min
possible, for a faminSs 1t
producer as much an Yer.
J. c. Brockelbank, N \
Western manager of S &
ers' Paper company of 5as'
offices in the RookerS lidfSng, G
6rmed the statements made, byt Will
,Schaeffer concerning the trade
Condition 1. ssr,snsss ass
III present conditions Ep u 81 ~
continue. there will be- M
age of pulp wood in 1ik
next fall" he said. "S
ply impossible to get T.!
which wood pulp is
It grows in the swamps
and the winter has bed aJ
it has been impossible ~ -
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