Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-06-11
PULP AND PAPER.
Large Increase In Number Of
Logs Used.
Paper Mill Crews Will Be Doubled
Next Year.
And Much Larger Amount Will Be Invested
in Mills.

y 4tA iot7o lity Will Dt lllS season,
provided all the drives get through. Of
which there now seems to be no doubt.
Not only was the cut of logs especially
intended for pulp very large, last winter
but an immense quantity at first in
tended for sawmill consumption has
been purchased by one of the pulp
companies, 50 that the total Of logs for
pulp mill purposes, this year will be
nearly if not quite one-half of the
total cut on the river.
1t Is a difficult matter to estimate
closely, but lumbermen say that the
stock, this year. exclusive Of the saw
logs bought by pulp companies, is
twenty-five per cent larger than usual.
The Great Northern Paper Company,
which is erecting at Millnocket the
largest paper mill in the world. has cut
5000. 900 feet Of logs on its own account
and purchased $1,000, 900 feet more.
making a total stock of 40 900 900 feet
This includes a large quantity of saw
logs. bought, it is supposed, on spccu-
latiOn. which would have been sold had
the spruce market held up TO the high
prices that prevailed in the cary
spring. The bottom having dropped
out Of the market. ii is likely now that
the company VIII hold on to its logs.
In addition to the Great Northern Com
pany's stock il is estimated that other
mills on the Pcnobscot will usa ~ 600
600 feet of logs, making a total in the
hands of the pulp and paper men of
about ~ 900 600 feet. ur nearly one-half
Of the total cut Of all kinds on the
t.'. "Er sam conditions practi
y. II .. prevail On other Maine rivers
ON the Kenurbec. il is estimated that
- 600. 600 feet Of logs will 60 into pulp.
and that is rather more than one-half
of the total cut Of logs on that river.
on the Andoscoggin, the pulp Industry
il making rapid strides. and is now
using TIP the larger part ~ far of All
the logs rut 81 that river Some ~ tn
Aroostook logs Will 20 into pulp in New
brunswick. but no considerable guam
THY on the waters in Hancock and
Washington counties. there are as yet
10 pulp mills. but considerable quanti- |
ties of pulp wood viii b. shipped by
rail from the vicinity If Machils to tn" |
mills hit Gardiner and Madison.
There are. at present. tWenty-eight |
paper minis ana thirty pulp mills in
Guiding those now under construction, |
in Maine. This plac tn state second |
in the list of those producing pulp and |
ana paper with a daily output of 50 |
tons. 40 tons OF the paper being COM !
mon newspaper. Next year it is *
pcctcd the daily output NJ |
pulp ana paper viii b. about |
!, 500 tons, and Maine Will BE- at the head |
IF the list New York now il first. |
Maine second, Wisconsin third, Massa- |
rhusetts fourth, Pennsylvania fifth !
and Ohio sixth. with New Hampshire, !
Vermont. Illinois and connecticut fol- |
lowing in the order named.
The pulp and paper mills in Maine /
represent an investment Of about $50
900 600. and at present are employing |
about 5000 hands. which number will
bc increased next year to 1000. The |
sum Of SO 900 daily. or about $5.0cO,OcO |
annually, is paid out in wages, and tho |
Of lumber. this year. VIII |
hc about 10000 00 feet. worth about |
3 30. When the plants now under con-
struction shall have begun operations |
the consumption " lumber Will be
$50 900 600 feet. costing about 81, l9o.ooo
annually. The value Of the output OF
pulp ana paper is now about $l'.9OooOo
annually. and will be increased. next |
year. to $50 O00. 600. Three of the smaller |
mills use poplar wood. all the others |
sDrllce. The seven mills producing |
are now turning out 100000 |
rounds daily. and the Great Northern !
Company's mill at Milinocket, which |
will start next winter or before then. |
viii ada at the beginning 25o00o pounds |
a day. ana its capacity eventually will |
be increased to 1000 pounds day. |
Other mills now in course of construc- |
ton or projected within year or two !
will add still more to the output Of
in the state.
The International Paper Company. at
its Rumford Fails plant. Is making
additions that will about double tn
for both pulp and paper, and
is also erecting for the Continental
Paper Bag Company mill that Will
cost 500. 600 or more. The Hollings-
worth & Whitney Company is COM
pl atng a new sulphite pulp mill at its
plant in WinsloW. and the Great
Northern Paper Company is expanding
$500. 900 in charging the plant at
Madison. which it purchased from the
Manufacturing Investment Company.
This company also is erecting at MILL
uocket. SeVenty-five miles north of
Bangor. an immense pulp and paper
mill. 900 feet long by 450 feet wide. to
cost about 81. 000. 900 and to be ready
for operation in January, 1901. The mill
viii employ 800 hands and turn out at
first 80 tons Of newspaper daily, which
capacity Will be increased before long
to 425 tons daily. !. Fred Webster of
Bangor and E,ben &. Webster of Orono
are building a pulp and paper mill at
old Town. to cost 81 .000, coo.
Manufacturers Of paper and pulp say
that business is better than ever before
ard that the prospects are bright for. Il
continuance Of this condition. Prices
are high, especially on white news
paper, and there seems to be a feeling
that there must be a reduction soon. 50
rapid is the increase in capacity of
the mills. At present the demand for
logs for the pulp mills has sent the
price 50 high that there is no profit, or
very little. in saving, and the lumber
trade suffers accordingly. The pulp
men can afford to pay more for logs
than the sawmill men. and their de-
mand fixes the price. which the saw
mill men uuSt nav or go without logs