The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-08
NEW INDUSTRY
Paper From Refuse d
Sugar Cane.
Southerner Talks of PossibFh ,
Hawaii Taking Up Novel
Scheme.

Hawaii may have a new ina,..-
soon," said a well known Southern -
is not improbable that in a few ysa,. =.
manufacture of paper from bagassa i,
woody fibrous residuum of crusbAs :,
gar cane, will become an impor.an,
dustry. There is no question OF ,he M
ity of this manufacture. Scientisc -,
have urged it for some years. and in a.
past few years il has been demons,-,,.,
practically a prominent sugar par,-I
of Southeast Texas is now. and has .,
TWO years been manufacturing nan
both news and wrapping, from the din
SION chlps OF his sugar house. There a
eleven diffusion batteries in Louisisr;
and Texas, and these combined viii m.
nish a considerable quantity of the =,
material for paper mills. As maize,
now stand, this diffusion bagasse * aJsr-
available for paper mills. the c-ushlr,|
mill bagasse being used as fuel nj
planters believing that to be the ue
profitable use to which il can be pu,
THE difficulty and cost of dispos,1g Il
bagasse has been the stumbling bod n
the way of the diffusion process In ts1
state, for the diffusion bagasse cana
be used for fuel. Once make the bsgsss
available and the diffusion process, CO..
fesSedly the more scientific and prozl
able, in that it extracts more juice f-u-
the cane, will begin to come into geaEi
al use. But il can be demonstrated I'd
even in the crushing mills the bsgzs|
can be used more profitably as lpsl
pulp than as fuel. These figures n
from no less an authority than ProitsS3
Stubbs, than whom no one is better n
formed concerning the sugar Industry, 4
the advancement of which he has sEslj
some of the best efforts of his life
Assuming the value of bagasse as 70
to be one-fourth or one-fifth the van
of coal, these results are apparent Thsi
are annually cultivated in the sugar =
/ 1000 acres in cane. which produce iva
/ ty tons of the stalk to the acre. Thsj
/ 100000 tons of cane produce 3 per @
or 1,500, 900 tons of bagasse. This bzgs;l
Sc has a caloric energy one-fifth thst
coal, making the crop equal to ~
J tons of coal. the cost of which on an y
lerage is $4,000 This bagasse Is To'.
as fuel only about 60 cents pr
therefore.
''The bagasse contains 10 per cent
lcellulose, which would become ~
pulp, and 100000 tons contain -
tons of celluloee. Even admitting
only 20 per cent of the cellulose 81
be converted into paper pulp, there We.
be 10000 tons OF the pulp. Thus
price of the pulp would only have y
So per ton to exceed the value OF tas
gasse as fuel AS a matter OF iael
pulp is worth about 50 per ton
These figures, giving the casofe
Ipulp value Of bagasse. are by No N''
estimated.
1.-The present cultivation OF suea
ANNUALLY depletes the soil OF Us niIO7
which cannot be restored 10 ~
being possible to return the hi'I Se.'.i
Qualities OF the bagasse to the ~
the cane soil, as the unutllizea pa
the cane would interfere ser0usr ~,
the cultivation of the succeeolnss
But once reduce what is now rei. -
paper pulp, and the nitrogenousu =
UNI could be restored TO the sou ". "a.
great benefit. Sugar itself does Nv, I'd
from the soil, but from the an rs-s
all but the sugar and celiulose
turned to the soil. the SOL W. IN d
nothing. practically Hawah HE
this up. as has Louisiana.
For that tired feeling. brace =,
,, Jesse Moore "AA" whiskey; II
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