The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-13
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TALKSOFPAPER MILL
HARyIE JORDAN TELLS OF THE
 NEW PROCESS.
Montgomery Will Have S200,0O0 Plant to Utilize Cotton stalks-Other Plants to He Established
 in the South.

tM thG OVutns The Cotton Stalks Products Com pany which will build the first of a number of plants in Montgomery has been incorporated under. the laws of
 Maine with a capital stock of $15,000,- 900. It will make paper from cotton stalks and will manufacture denatur- ized alcohol It is tliks1y that- several plants will be established in other Southern cities before long.
 This enterprise is said toebe lthe1con ception of frHarvie Jordan of Atlanta President of the Southern Cotton Asso- citation and also of the new corporation. Other officers of the Cotton Stalk Pro duets Company are: Vice-President Samuel F. B. Morse. New York. Secre- tary and Treasurer. Arthur F. KaIes New York: Directors, John P Allison Concord. Ga; W. P. c. Harding, Bir-
 mingham; William H. Hassinger. Blr- mingham William c. Seddon, Balti- more; W. F. vandiver. Montgomery and John D. Walker. Sparta. Ga. MT. Jordan thus tells about cotton
 stalks products in The Manufacturefs Record: sASHF ~ ss,s.fss . ''The manufacture of paper from the fiber 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- g4gea expefl me 1tingg with the cotton stalkrehd 1t now appears from recent developments that their labors and ex- penditures of money are to be reward ed with signal and striking success. Not only have these investigations passed the experimental stage, but they are taa,idly behtg3 shaped Ito be place. into practical opefation.
 Tt has been unquestionably demon. strated that all grades of paper, iron | the best form of linen grade to tn, l lowest, can be manufactured from cot | tor stalks. Ire time is not now fal | distant when paper plants equipped with all modern machinery and de vices for making paper and the utili-
 zation of other by-products will bs built and placed in operation through out the cotton-g growing States of tho South.
 "The establishment of these mitis for
 the manufacture. of paper from cotton stalks will at once develop a new in-
 dustry of quite anormous proportions
 and institute the utilization of waste
 product which at the present time has
 comparatively littie or no value. It
 will prove the entering wedge of check
 ing the present increasing cost of
 paper, which is becoming such bur
 den upor the newspaper industry of the
 country.
 Tt is estimated that on an area g. of
 land producing a bale of cotton at least
 one ton of stalks can be gathered. Up
 on this basis of calculation this new
 industry can annually depend upon from 10.00o.o0o to 12,000.000 tons of raw
 material. This will not only furnish
 necessary supplies to meet all home
 demands but also permit of the ex-
 port of pulp or finished products to foreign cuntries. At the present time there Is approximately &2sT, ,oO0, ,060 1fn- vested in the paper mills in the United
 States. with but few plants located ir
 the South. ~,
 The bulk of the material going into
 the manufacture of paper at the pres ent time is spruce pine. which is an | nually becoming more expensive in tht depletion of the forests and the higH
 prices which such timber commands 1T l the markets for otherS uses. The utili zation of a waste product such as thu cotton stalk. manufactured into com merciaI paper, will be a boon of ines
 timable value to the whole country. | "The practical effect of this new in
 vention will be to increase tho presen
 value of the South's cotton crop neaIl!
 $1 co, 900, ,o00S. annuaIfyt The \ growerl
 will be amply paid for the expense O removing the stalks from their field
 and delivery to the paper plants. an' | in addition thereto receive a profit ol
 this product of their labor.
 l Paper manufactured from the cotta.
 stalk is of the strongest texture an
 soft finish. It is reported that severn
 plants will be erected during the mex | few months in certain sections of tn South which will be in full operation
 by January 1. 1907"
 l Since MT Jordan gave the foregoing interview to the Manufacturers Rec
 ord the Board of Directors of the Cot
 ton Stalks Products Company met F Atlanta and decided to build the frs | of the paper plants in Montgomery a
 a cost of s200,000, z