The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-07-26
PAPER FROM COTTON STALKS.

1&V4 WITHIN STALkS.
Effect Of New Invention WIN Be TO
increase the Value Of the south's
Cotton Crop Nearly 800, 900, 900 q
Year.
Harvie Jordan, President Southern
Cotton Association in Manufacture
ers' Record:
The manufacture of paper from the
hbre of the cotton stalk is one of the
latest and most interesting inventions
OF the new century. For many years
expert inventors have been busily en-.
gagged experimenting with the cotton
stalk, and now it appears from re-
cent developments that their labors
and expenditures of money are to be
rewarded with signal and striking
success. Not only have these investi-
cations passed the experimental stage,
but they are rapidly being shaped to
be placed into practical operation. Tt
has been PROFESSIONALLY demonstrate
ed that all grades of paper, from
the best form of linen grade to the
lowest, can be manufactured from cot
ton stalks. In addition to this, a va
rlety of by-products, such as alcohol,
nltrogea, material for gun cotton and
smokeless powder, can also be secur-
ed IN paying quantities. The time is
not now distant when paper plants
equipped with all modern machinery
and devices for making paper and
fhn I1N11S1oA1oo 90 Az o%L1- 49, 100
ducts referred to will be built and
placed in operation throughout the
cotton-growing States of the South.
The establishment of these mills for
the manufacture of paper from cotton
stalks will at once develop a new in
dustry of quite enormous proper
tons and institute the utilization of
a waste product which at the present
time has comparatively little or no
value. It will prove the entering
wedge of checking the present in
creasings cost of paper, which is be-
coming such a burden upon the news
paper industry of the country.
1t is estimated that on an arear of
land producing a bale of cotton at
~~5 JIG WI O4 SGd1AS CdA OC SdGLC1-
ed. Upon this basis of calculation
this new industry can annually de-
pend upon from 100000 to 12,-
100000 tons of raw material. This
will not only furnish necessary sup
plies to meet all home demands, but
permit of the export of pulp or fin
lshed products to foreign countries.
At the present time there is approx
mately $685., 100000 invested in pa
per mills in the United States, with
but few plants located in the South.
The bulk of material going into the
manufacture of paper at the present
time is spruce pine, and which is an
nually becoming more expensive in
the depletion of the forests and the
high prices which such timber COM
mands In the markets for other uses.
The utilization of a waste product
such as the cotton stalk, manufactur-
ed into commercial paper, will be a
boon of inestimable value to the
whole country.
The practical effect of this new
invention will be to increase the pres
OAG NdAuO VI tAC SOutA > cOIlOu crop
lear $10O,000,000 annually. The
growers will be amply paid for the
expense of removing the stalks from
their fields and delivery to the paper
plants. and in addition thereto receive
a profit on this product of their labor.
In the southwestern section of the
cotton belt the new industry will es-
pecially be of value and a blessing.
With the removal of the sotton stalks
from the field in the early fall the
death knell of the boil weevil will be
sounded among present devastating
influences reduced to a minimum. So
that from every standpoint the speedy
development and extension of this
new industry will be welcomed in all
sections of the cotton belt. Paper
manufactured from the cotton stalk
IS Of the strongest texture and softest
finish. 1t is reported that several
plants will be erected during the next
few months in certain sections of the
South which will be in full operation