Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-27

| limited extent with those derived from
cotton. fax or hemp mot less than 20
per cent Of the latter class nor more
Than 30 per cent OF the former for the
manufacture OF the lowest grades or
paper that viii serve Tor publications
Of permanent value. These lower grades
may also have "a slight lJading OF clay
total ash not exceeding 10 per cent?
but IL is advisable to restrict the load
lug 90 the least amount that win give
the finish and printing quality desired.
for strength and ncNibllty are adverse
ly affected by overlooking
Books which have a permanent usc-
iuiness are usually published in small
editions and constitute but a small pro-
portion ~ the total output Of the print
ing presses The higher grades II
celluloses are derived from sources
which could undoubtedly be made to
yield the quantity needed FOR an such
books And there are manufacturers
VINO are willing TO make any kind OF
paper for which there Is demand
The New England Historic Genealog-
zeal society has demonstrated that II rs
possible TO secure paper OF the desired
quality. For over 30 years that used
in IFS magazine has been made TO order
by ono manufacturers as desired by the
committee on publications Beginning
with the year 1905. this paper formerly
known as the Register paper" is ia
be water-malked On. T.. n. 9. s.
Staudard.'D SO that authors and COM
pliers who wish Il TO be used for their
books win have no difficulty In obtain
ing the genuine Register paper. The
formula Of this paper Is: dbers from
cotton rags not less than IS per cent:
hbers from wood (sulphite spruce and
soda poplar not more than 70 per cent
loading clay total ash not 20 exceed
10 per ccnt, and freedom from all but
the merest trace OF acids and chlorides.
This formula is iu substantial agree
mcnt with the recommendations or the
committee on deterioration Of paper
appointed by the Society for the En-
enlargement of Arts, Manufactures
and Commerce. whose report U.Ondon
1889 shows an exhaustive study Of the
subject, and the leading German. Eng
ltsh and American chemists who have
made study OF the manufacture OF
paper believe that tine paper properly
made ON such a specification win prove
sufficiently lasting for publications OF
permanent value.
The experienced chemist, by the aid
or the microscope. can readily distin-
guish the various Kinds Of ccllulose
ana estimate the approximate proper
tiun OF zach found In a. given sample
OF paper He can also determine tho
presence Of impurities. acids and chic
rides. hence IL is possible and praC-
termin, at a small expense Cthe cheiu-
lists fee for anMysis), whether "a given
lot of paper conforms 10 required
formula or not by means OF the au-
alysis OF "a sample selected at random
An eminent American authority ON
the subject CAr Arthur d. Little) has
said (The Printing Art, June. l903) that
Paper quite as durable and i'm other
respects at least as good as any ever
made may be had today by any one
who viii learn TO recognize good paper
and who is willing To pay what good
paper costs"
The difference OF cost between coed
paper and poor rs but a tribe per
volume, especially IL the poor paper
be heavily loaded with clay There
seems 10 be no reason then why tbs
historian or gcnealogist who wishes
his work 10 endure cannot, by the
assistance Of "a chemist determine "a
advance whether the paper which hn
proposes 10 use for his work IS ftee
from all physical and chemical defects
which would tend TO destroy its per-
manence