The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-03
ONCE ONLY MILL WASTE,
 NOW GOOD AS GOLD MINE

the board were submitted for estimates. the lowest estimate made being SIS per ton. and the highest S52.
 George R. Wright. of Chicago. pres- ident of the Southern Woods Distil- late and Fiber Company, was In Orange early in January arranging for the additional ground necessary for the box board addition to the plant. and for continued supply of raw material. Orders have been placed for two addi- tionai fivs-cord digesters for the re- fuse plant. which will bring It's ca- pacity up to thirty cords of refuse and twenty tons of pulp daily. Estimates are now being made on the machinery for the box board plant. the manufac- turers contracting to build the ma chimes and install them at Orange. The building for the box board addition will occupy ground space of 40x23e feet.
 The successful result of these de- monstrations has created considerable commotion in box board circles. and has resulted in arrangements being made for the construction of a plant in Florida. Negotiations are also fin progress looking to the establishment of another in Mexico. The parent com pany. the Wood DfstiIlates and Fiber Company of Chicago. control the pat ents to the secret process used. and from all plants using their process will derive a handsome royalty. The plant to be established in Florida will be built in connection with a large saw mill. which Is being constructed by Chicago people who own extensive timber holdings in that State. and they calculate that the profit to he de- rived from their distillates and fiber plant will equal those derived from the saw mill itself. even in these palmy days of lumber manufacture.
 When the plant at orange resumes operations on its more extended scale the atm of the promoters will have been accomplished--the complete utiI- ization of the pine tree--and an Indus trial revolution along these lines will be the result.
 To follow this process of utilization will be of interest taking for the ex- ample a well known Orange lumber. concern that has vast holdings of pine lands. The timber is first tar pentined in the customary way, two years in advance of being cut for the mills. A profitable revenue fs derived from the turpentine and rosin thus se- cured At the proper time the timber Is cut and sent to the mills and sawed into lumber. the sawdust being used for fuel to operate the mill. The lun Der goes through it's various stages oi manufacture. but the slabs and shay ings that formerly went to the refine burner will now be carefully husband ed--the shavings going to the paper mill to be made Into paper. The slabs so to the distillates and fiber plant, where the bark is taken of and may be used for fuel. The wood Is then put through the distillation process. the by-products being extracted. The ros- idue Is a pulp that Is taken to the box board plant and made into the pronta- ble coated boards, which completes the utilization of the pine tree. everything having been used but tho tops. and it Is proposed later on to use these also in this wonderful plant.
 In addition to the domestic demand for box boards, there Is also a big export demand. Che Northern concern operating three plants. the total output of which 240 tons daily. ls exporting large quantities of this material to Japan.
 The plant at orange 1in have . capacity of twenty tons daily. With the entire output sold in advance, ana with a certain profit of not less than that the company has discovered a gold mine and 1t will not be over- drawn.
 Besides the local capital that is in. terested, the stockholders and promo ters of the Wood Distillates and Fiber Company comprise names well known in the lumber world. among them be- ing W. B. Judson, of Chicago; Guy H. Mallum, of Kansas City. formerly with the Texas Tram and Lumber Company at Beaumont, and for sew eral years engaged in the insurance business; and Captain George Locke, of Lake Charles, La. The owners of the Yellow Pine Paper NH at Orange are likewise largely interested in the plant.
 It will probably require several months yet to get the new plant in full operation at Orange, but 1t will be ready as fast as men and money can do 1t. and with the enviable future be- fore it. 1t may safely be presumed that the plant will be kept in regular and permanent operation.
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