The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-12-15

Utilization of Western North Carolina
Timber.
Especial Cor. Manufacturers Record.,

11n1Der-
Especial Cor. Manufacturers Record-t
Waynesville. y. c.. November 81
A few years ago when I first wrote
you that the Balsam range of noun
Itains. located mostly in Haywood.
jackson and Swain counties. North
lCarolina. would become a great pulp
and paper mill center. and that there
Twas so years base of supply for the
American CONSUMPTION. the idea was
called extravaneant by the pulp men
i'm New Englnd spruce belts. / said
lit was only a matter of a short time
when large pulp mills would locate
here. That time has rolled around.
land in the center of Haywood count
Iabout eight miles from Waynesville.
to-day the work of constructing proba-
IDLY the largest pulp mill in the world
has begun-a plant hat will cost over
Isl. 500, 900 and consume 500 cords Of
Ipulp wood per day and burn 200 tons
iof coal per day and employ over 1000
people. Independent of the 5000
horsepower developed from coal the
company will utilize 5000 horsepower
generated electrically from the Pigeon
river. The operations of the plant
Twill require 10 carloads of sulphur a.
.day and five car loads of arsenic, with
imany other supplies. and the Southern
HALLWAY is now lowering its grade
from Asheville to the factory site. The
company has bought about 10000
lacres of timber lands for pulp wood.
only mention the timber land pur-
Ichase to show that the largest pulp
lmill in the world is to be built here,
land is owned by one of the strongest
u nov niac in 4 m a~io which IG
sufficient answer as to whether there
lis q plentiful base of supply of the
,raW material. | have in my PREVIOUS
i~letters stated, and I again r~eiterate it,
THAT there is more pulp wood, more
iacid wood Cor chestnut wood) and fur
initure timber available to the Waynes-
willie valley than any other DIN LETT
jim the timber belt of America.
Pulp wood in the East and Middle
states is about exhausted. and for a
good many years past has commanded
from $3.50 to 81 per core f. o. b. Chest
inut or acid wood will yield per cord
labOut the same amOun of fannie acid
THAT the best cord of oak tanbark Will
lyield: both are here in abundance and
being supplied at present for an aV-
lerage of SO per cord for acid wood
land 1925 per cord for pulp wood
within less than four years four fannie
lacid mills have located in this section,
three large tannieries. n now comes
1.-THE largest pulp mill in the world, and
lOf course. others will follow. For no
lcOuntry in the world offers such a fine
lclimate, such good water. such per-
fleet health and rich soil, where labor
lean live cheaper in the MD of the
base Of supply than any portion Of
america. For but a few eatables
for the table will have to be shipped
here for a distance.
Acid mills. pulp mills and furniture
Factories and tanneries that locate
learly are making long time contracts
lat low prices per cord for their sup
lplieS, and a numbe of cotton factories
lare arranging to come. OF course,
iprices for these woods will not remain
Imany years below the Eastern and
Western prices per cord. When it is
taken into consideration that it takes
1.-THE timber from four acres of we'll
itimbered pulp land to make the paper
flor one days issue of one of the big
,daily papers in New York. one cannot
begin to comprehend the future value
|of pulp wood in the United States.
From the London TitbitS of July 10,
1905. we quote the following:
Once the manufacture of paper was
la tedious process. but it is SO no longer.
lSome time ago at Essential, in Nor
WAY. three trees were felled as an eX-
pertinent in presence of a notary. who
Twas charged to certify the time taken.
THE cutting began at 1885 a. m. Tho
IWoOd was reduced to small pieces. dec
Iorticated and converted into pulp. and
lat 1884 the first sheet Of paper was
finished. The sheets were then driven
two miles to a printing office. and just
latter 10 o'clock a paper was printed,
$50 that in 2 hours and 25 minutes the
IWOod of a standing tree was convert
led into a journal"
yVIrr, ., tJn,rrhf 1lyn fh;r &c sHnCi1-
Iered. who a encompass with his
tmind at a single grasp the vast posi-
Utilities Of the rise in the price of pa
iDer making wood. For there is no
Industry. eXcept it be iron and steel,
THAT the daily growth in the increase
IOf daily demand is greater than paper.
mot only in America. but throughout
THE world. No doubt the editor of the
Manufacturers Record we'll remem-
ibers that no longer than in 1895 the
Heavily timbered lands carrying these
iuulp and acid woods in the BalSanl
mountains of North Carolina could
hardly be sold at $3.50 per acre. To-
iday there is being cut from these lands
from 30 to 80 cords of pulp and acid
wood over and above his from 1000
ito 1000 feet of good first-clasS mer-
i~chantable boards The Balsam range
IOf North Carolina has more pulp and
lacid woods and more furniture wood
THAN any other portion of the United
Estates, and the territory it covers is
ISmall when with the grow
ling demand. The discovery in recent
years of annie acid in chestnut wood
lshould save millions of feet Of fine oak
land hemlock tina has been wasted be-
fore. simply to yield the tanbark.
IHemlock wood that was of too ow
!value to ship can now be put into pulp
flor naper. and the hemlock bark into
Iacid for the tanneries. making this,
THAT was the cheapest of our timber
lgrowths. become one of the most val
luable. Among this growth of timber
lin the Ralsam range of North Carolina