The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-02-19
PAPER FROM PINE sHAVINes

MI. Albert RHEIMS, WTIJlnS 10 the
Manufacturers Record of Baltimore,
from Orange, Texas, says:
"Out of all the various and mutitu-
dinOus efforts that have been made
to utilize the waste from yellow-pine
sawmills, the one first and real COM
mercial success that stands forth is
the yellow-pine paper mill of this
place, which makes paper out of the
shavings from planning mills. 1t is
now marketing at profitable figures
an output aggregating $175,000 a year,
and is arranging to enlarge the plant
to three times its present capacity.
This will represent a total investment
of about half a million dollars and
will give a nominal capacity for 80
tons day. The product is wrapping
paper of high grade solely-NO. l
pure fiber wrapping paper it is call
ed-which brings a higher price than
news and is more profitable to manu-
facture, and the output is marketed
mainly in Texas, although some is
shipped to st. Louis and Kansas City.
The nearby trade is sufficient to tax
the capacity of the plant, however.
There is no difficulty at any time in
marketing the entire output Even
during the dullness of 1908, with the
mill running night and day, the out
put was almost continuously six
weeks behind the orders"
Giving a history of the manufacture
of paper at this plant Mr.. Phenis
says:
"The industry began with the pur-
chace and removal to this city
of portion of the machinery
that had been used in a futile attempt
to make paper from sawmill refuse
at Pensacola. A company was form
ed at Orange with 100000 capital.
E. G. Goodall, paper mill man from
Michigan, was secured as manager,
and pending developments was presi-
dent of the company, then called the
Orange Paper Mill Co. AS superin-
tendent, practical paper-maker
named E. E. Emigh was secured from
Pennsylvania 1t was almost imme-
diately demonstrated that a very ex-
cellent quality of paper could be
made by the soda process from the
yellow-pine sawdust, so-called, but in
reality the fine chips or shavings
that come from the planners But va
rious problems had to be worked out,
for making paper from yellow-pine
shavings is quite different fro paper
making in the north, where 80 per
cent. of the mills use the sulphite pro-
cess, and in none of which yellow pine
is used.
I'm 1904 the name of the company
was changed to the Yellow Pine Pa
per Mill Co., and the capital stock
was increased to 100000 where it
has remained to the present time.
New machinery and equipments were
added from time to time, and improve
ments in methods and processes
adopted. The additional machinery
includes four more digesters, the treb-
ling of the chemical plant, a 7O0-h. p.
engine and other smaller engines,
1OO0-h. p. boilers, additional evapora-
tors and rotary furnaces, as we'll as
further conveying elevator machin-
cry, etc.
CAS- a by-product a small amount of
turpentine is secured by condensing
the vapors from the cooking process
and re-distilling. Some so gallons a
day, that cost, nothing, are thus Sc
cured, and in this quantity are easily
marketed. On a large scale the re-
suits have never been equally salts
factory. There exists such a preju-
dice against turpentine waste pro-
ducts that a vast amount of money
invested in such enterprises has been
irretrievably lost. 1t is deemed i'm
possible that the splendid tests and
theoretical successes attendant at dis
tilling turpentine from waste pine will
always go for naught, but thus far it !
is the fact that such experiments
have been prolific breeders OF losses. /