Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-29

In the January Success there is an
interesting article by Frank Hix Fay
ant describing the manufacture OF
wood pulp paper from our native for
ests. and giving an idea OF the enor-
nous demand for this sort of paper
| from the great newspapers. Taking
/ the New York newspapers alone, MIR.
Fayant figures that the chief dailies
/ of Manhattan require about 10000
tons of paper a year, for which they
have to pay about S5,400,000 annually.
( He places the Journal at the head In
point of the amount of paper con-
sumed, with 10000 tons a year; the
World next. with 10000 tons; then
the Herald, with $4,000 tons. and the
SUM- Times News, Press and Tribune
together, about 10000 tons. The jour
nal, then. has to pay about $4,000
day for it's paper. In other words, Mr..
| Hearst can not pay his bill for white
paper until he has sold 100000 Journals.
None of the morning papers could pub
lish their editions without loss except
for the advertising, even of the only
bill they had to pay was for white pa
/ per.
MAKING THE PAPER.
This white stock for newspapers Is
made chiefly of wood, and in America
there are now more than LOO pulp and
paper mills, with capacity of 100000
tons of paper a year, worth $2OO,OOoO0O.
THE state of New York leads in pro
duction, her pulp mills having an aver
age daily output of two thousand tons.
or nearly half the total American pro-
| duction. All along the edges of her
wilderness, and even in the heart of
| her forests, are the pulp, and paper
mills. transforming the trunks of the
| forest giants into paper three thous-
andsths of an inch thick, for eastern
Consumption only. The forests of New
England. Michigan, Wisconsin and
Pennsylvania furnish the bulk of the
remainder for the country. Night and
day, an unbroken stream of paper
comes from these mills. The printing
presses are voracious: so rapidly do
, they devour the great white rolls that
before the branches of the tree have
withered the trunk, in a myriad frag
ments, is flying to the four corners
of the earth, carrying the news of the
moment.
THE FUTURE OF THE FORESTS.
Mr.. Fayant does not think that the
newspapers are destroying our forests.
tho there are others that do think so.
He admits that the pulp mills use about
a billion feet of lumber a year. but
he calls attention to the fact that the
sawmills consume twenty times as
much, and that the reports of the
United States Geological Survey show
that not hundredth part of the tim
Der felled in this country goes to the
pulp mills.
No one is more concerned in the
vital question Of forest preservation
than the man whose income is derived
from paper making. and the owners of
the great pulp mills of our northern
forests are using all the scientific
knowledge available to prevent the de-
struction of precious woodlands. No
young trees are felled; only those of
a greater trunk diameter than nine
inches are used. and these are scien-
tifically selected. From Washington.
the governments bureau of forestry
spreads instruction as to woodland
preservation, and some of the leading
universities, like Cornell and Yale. have
courses OF forestry The students of
forestry at Cornell devote four years
to study for the degree of Bachelor
|of Science in forestry, and spend
months in practical work in the univer-
sitys demonstration forest in the Adj
rondack mountains. For the preser-
walton Of our woodlands. the proven
ton of fires is of far greater impor-
lance than watching the pulp mills.
In the Adirondack mountains last
year, despite New Yorks vigilant
care, twenty-six thousand acres We're
burned over. Enough timber is de-