The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-03-15
scrub Pine Tor Wood Pulp.

u The long neglected and despised
scrub pine or Jersey pine. growing
ON the abandoned farms and cut-oyer
lands Of the East. seems destined at
last to have reached its rightful
place as a material of value, accord
ing to the results obtained through
recent pulp and paper making tests
at the United States Forest Service
laboratories in Washington.
While there is a considerable
amount of this wood standing as
timber, 1t has Heretofore been used
only in a very deaultory fashion, and
then mostly as fuel. About 500, 900,
acres, or 90 per cent. of the wooded.
area OF Maryland. and about $780,
900 acres, or 10 per cent OF that of
Virginia. are covered with dense
stands, while the broad range of the
tree extends along the Atlantic sea-
board from southern New York roI
South Carolina. and back over the
Appalachians to central Indiana
where its largest specimens are
found.
While a number OF mills have
used scrub pine for the manufacture
of soda pulp and ground wood, no
plants have ever operated the sui
phite process. Scrub pine might
have been used to good advantage
long ago. abut for the fact. that 1t did
not seem to the practical paper
maker even worthy 81 trial. BY only
slight changes of the regular cook
ing treatment which is ordinarily ac-I
corded pulp wood in the sulphite
process, however. 1t has now yielded
a pulp product which mas been ia
Norably commented upon by numer-
Gus members Of the paper trade as a
substitute for spruce sulphite in the
manufacture of newspaper.
When forest Of scrub nine ID
matured, a fully stocked stand VIM
Yield thirty to forty cords per acre
when economically harvester accord.
ing to the practical forestry meth
DDS AT the present time there is
practically no general use for this
timber, outside of fuel, although a
coarse lumber is made of it and It i
sometimes used for fencing. AMI
evidence Of the low esteem inswhjcb
TINS pine is held is the price which
the MARYLAND wood brings when
deltvered-$5.75 per cord. The
wood itself is of light yellow color |
mleh white sap wood. 1T is light
IN weight, Is brittle. and coarse
grained. While it is fairly durable
IN contact with the weather. ito weax
structural properties Offset anv ad.I
vantage this might give.
one advantage for paper maxine
Whih scrub pine is said TO have i
t'ile fact that there is considerablel
less loss in barking it than with or-I
alnary spruce. The logs are, in gem
s,al regular and not difficult to han-E
oie- The wood Yields quite easily toi
q suiphte treatment when nsins an
acid cooking liquor slightly strongarI
enan the ordinary mill strenetb
IN treatment the wood reuutras ron,
eisnt to eleven hours, while the
maximum steam pressure has mi
D o9 over sixty pounds temperatnre
elSo degrees eentigrade) ana III
some cases 1T was hut 81 ponrds
The unbieached pulp in these exner.
iments IS Of a light grayisb ~
brownish color not unlike that from
spruce, Of course depending nnan
the cooking conditions, which can Ia
controlled to suit the smannractnrar |
The fiber is strong ana durable and
Is about the same size as that Of I
spruce, being possibly a tribe broad
81. The Yields obtained by the For-I
est Service are about the sama as
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