The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-01
SPRUCE LOGS READY FOR PAPER.

OF the Shipping Register, another London
newspaper of wide circulation, have also
invested in pulp forests
Canada has now thirty-nine mills,
which are annually turning out 27o,0oO
tons Of wood pulp, a large part OF which
goes TO the United States. went
through q pulp mill here at Ottawa
which was grinding spruce logs to pow
der reducing them to pulp, and finally
turning them Into paper. It was making
great rolls OF newspaper each as big
around as a hogshead, and 1t was also
turning trees into paper bags. The mill
belongs to company OF Americans 1t
is operated by the Ottawa River, which
furnishes many thousand horse power,
and runs saw-mlls, factories and paper
mills. 55s
The Worlds Biggest Pulp Mill
The biggest pulp mills Of the world, SO
| am told, arc those OF the Lake Superior
Corporation at Sault Ste. Marie Canada.
They are run by Americans, operated
with American capital. with Canadian
labor and Canadian lumber. These mills
make both mechanical and chemical pulp
turning out big product when In fun
operation. During my visit to them the
mechanical works only were going and
the output was one hundred tons per
day. A hundred tons, however, gives little
idea of the amount OF paper made. II
takes about cord of wood to make
ton OF pulp, and a ton, If the roll which
weighs that were spread out like q car
pet. would cover any city pavement TO-
the length of three and a half miles
The pulp comes out in the shape Of a
cardboard two yards wide, rolled up just
like mating. A days output OF the me
chanical part OF that mill alone would
carpet every sidewalk In Washington
|. city, and leave enough to put clean
coat on the chief highways OF Boston
1T would, in fact make a carpet. SIX
feet wide, three hundred and fifty miles
long. or long enough to cover one track
of tho Pennsylvania Railroad from
Washington to New York. and pave the
New York Central from the latter city
to far beyond Albany. One years output
OF that mill. estimating three hundred
working days to the year, would carpet
n. track, six feet wide, four times around
the world and across our continent anu
back again.
From Tree to Newspaper.
1t is several centuries since Shakes
'Tongucs in trees. books In the running
Sermons in stones and good In every
thing
1t remained however, for our ago to
mako these tree-tongues speak, and
preach their sermons to all the world.
I frlt that as went through the big
lup mill watching the machines yank
newspapers out of saw logs. Tho SPRUCE
timber Is cut in tho forests during thu
winter and hoated down thu rivers to
Lake Superior and thence brought TO the
Sauit
Tho logs are OF various dlameters.
Those worked during my stay were a
foot or a foot and half thick. Tho
bark was taken off by planning machines
and thcy were carried on endless belts
to tho mill. All the machinery was moved
by water and the brooks really floated
in tho running brooks on their way to
their readers.
Tho mills In which these logs are
ground are about eight feet In diameter
and not more than eight feet high. Each
has n great grlndstone in IT, against
" hich the logs are pressed by machinery
in such way that they are gradually
pulyerized as the stones move around at
the rate OF 200 revolutions per minute.
AS tho wood grinds Off the dust falls
down into the water inside tho mill, and
when It comes out 1t looks like ohoWed
paper. It Is now wood pulp, and has
only to be purified and dried into sort
of a cardboard before 1t Is ready for
the market. opened one OF thu mills
and took up a handful Of the pulp. then
grinding It was clean, but hot; and
asked the ensinee, w.pth.' h'i water
WAS need for making It. He replied that
the water went into the mill ice cold,
but that the friction of grinding was so
great that it soon boiled and steamed.
After the pulp comes from the mill It
is forced through wire stralners and
then CARRIED over wide belts of the finest
WOODEN felt,
1t is SO thrown upon these belts that 1t
coats them. The particles stick together.
forming a kind Of cardboard, which dries
as 1t goes on to the various machines,
and finally comes out In great rolls ready
for shipment over the world, to DO made
into the newspapers which we have
served UP to us every Sunday morning vt
our breakfast tables va
Chemical Pulp.
The best wood pulp, however Is made