The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-06-06
Devils LAKE TO
GET PAPER MILL

What promises to become one of the
| greatest industries in the state OF
North Dakota or the great northwest
was given a start at Devils Lake Fri
DAY when the preliminary steps were
TAKEN 10 organize company with a
capital of 100000, the purpose of
"hlch is to establish and operate a
paper manufacturing mill in or near
this city.
Inc incorporation papers were for
Warded to Bismarck SATURDAY. and the
Devils Lake men who are Interested
IN the enterprise are C. A. Dodge Ole
serumgard, E. J. Chamberlain and Dir,
f. j. Pierce. Associated with them are
James Cutler, a prominent business
man of Boston; M. j. Baker, a paper
man of Portland, Me-, who in all prob.
ability will be secretary and treasurer
of the company
AS DR.. Pierce was riding on the
train en- route to Devils Lake from
new England year ago, he was
greatly impressed with the immense
quantity of straw which was being
burned here and there all over this
great state. In New England it would
De considered a crime to burn such
me straw, where there is always a
good market for it. The wholesale
destruction and waste of straw so i'm.
pressed the doctor that he concluded
to make an investigation and ascer-
tam IL 1t could not be made into paper
at profit. Having a close acuuain-
lance with a number Of large manu-
tacturlng institutions in the east he
commenced the work of gathering da-
Ia he had number Of friends who
were engaged in the paper manufac-
turing business, and from these he was
able to procure much valuable infor-
nation. Last fall he returned TO the
east and spent several months VISITING
the big paper mills of the country
He visited every wood pulp and straw
mill In New England with the excen-
ton of few OF the smaller fnstitu-
tons which were owned or controlled
by the larger mills.
The facts he secured more than ms
tined the idea which he had formed
that there was a great opportunity
Lor capitalists in North Dakota. The
paper manufacturers of the east with
Whom he talked were astonished to
know That vast quantities of the hest
milling straw in the world was burned
every year. They were also aston
lshed to know that Ignite coal co1Id
be procured at price cheaper than
the manufacturing establishments Of
the east are paying for fuel
Several weeks ago DR.. Pierce re-
turned to Devils Lake thoroughly con-
Vlnced that paper mill in North Da.
kota could be made one of the hest
paying investments in the country
and as the list of names above shows.
ne has interested some of the most
and best business men in
the state.
1t is proposed to equip the mill es-
peclally for the manufacture of news
print paper, with daily output of
forty tons. 1t is estimated that the
newspapers of this state and that por |
ton of adjoining states which will he
tributary to the mill will more than
the output.
The growing scarcity of wood nuln |
and the enforcement of the tariff law
prohibiting the importation of wood
pulp from Canada, is forcing the price
OF print paper so high that the nub-
llshers of the country are becoming
The establishment of a ma |
per mill at Devils Lake will prove of |
great benefit to the newspapers of the
northwest in that they will be able to
buy paper for less price than it can
be made from wood pulp under pres
emit conditions.