El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-26

Railroad shops at MADEIRA 100000
Improvements to lumber
mills l,50O,OOV
Pearson pulp mills 49,. 100000
Railroad Improvements 100000
MADEIRA saw mills -.-..- 100000
Ell Paso wood working
factory -..- 100000
Railroad terminals in FL
PaSo 0OVsVOU
New FL Paso Industries.
OF greatest interest TO FL Paso are
the proposed paper mills and wood
working foctories OF the Pearson COM
pany. These plants to utilize the by
product of the great mills at Pearson
and MADEIRA, are now assured. DR.. F.
ests, including the MADEIRA company.
limited, which has control Of the lum-
Der interests in Mexico, issued a state
ment when here last that the paper
mills and box, sash and door and
woodworking factories would be built
here, work TO begin not later than
January first. Sites have been ex-
amined in Ell Paso for the location Of
the Pearson plants, but no decision
has yet been announced as to the To-
cation for the mammoth enterprises.
Work will begin on the prelimin
airy preparation for the construction
of the paper mills, box and other fac
tories in Ell Paso. That will not be
many months" DR.. Pearson said while
here
"I would say that work on the plant
here will begin before that time At
least by the first of the year. Hiram
Smith, of the lumber department, who
is now at Pearson and MADEIRA, is MAX
ing a careful study of the situation
here and he viii decide upon the loca-
ton for the mills There are three or
four satisfactory sites now under con-
sideration-
Pulp to Come from Pearson.
These mills will be very extensive,
It is the intention to have them man
ufacture and work all the products of
the Pearson mills. The pulp mills for
paper making will be at Pearson and
the prepared pulp will be shipped here
for making paper There is no duty
on this pulp. There will be smaller
paper mill at Pearson for supplying
the Mexican trade and until the Ell
Paso mills are completed we may i'm
port some paper from the Mexican mill
to supply the southwestern trade. This
mill at Pearson will cost $4,000 gold.
Ell Paso Mill to Cost $1,000 900.
1.-The paper mills in FL Paso will cost
1,500, 600 to 81, GOO, 600. They will make
high grade wrapping paper which is
now made in large quantities only in
Sweden and Norway. There are few
small mills making this paper in Texas
and Louisiana but to no great extent
1t is the plan to have the FL Paso mills
take care of the entire western trade.
The pulp mills at Pearson will be laid
out for four times its capacity in or
der to supply the pulp for the factor
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Speciality VIII Be Kroft Paper.
1T is not possible to estimate the
number of men that will be employed
in the mills here. A large number of
Mexicans will be employed to do the
less skilful york. The skilled work
men Will be brought from the east for
they must be experts trained in the
eastern paper mills The product of
the mills is known to the trade as
kroft paper. from the German word
meaning strength. 1t is called this be-
cause of its toughness. 1t is double
strength and it is almost impossible
TO tear IT. It is made from pine fiber
instead Of spruce as is the papers that
are now being used largely by the
trade
s'This kroft paper will take the
place of all other wrapping papers
because of its great strength. Paper
IldQc Ol liAlS pine pup OI6 hall DIS
thick as the ordinary paper will have
the same or greater strength. This will |
make it possible for the merchant to
use paper one-half as thick as that |
now being used AS paper is sold by |
weight to purchase the paper that |
will be made in our mills will mean
a saving to the consumer. even If he |
pays as much as so percent more Tor |
the new paper.
h.
print paper as it will be Of the same /
general quality as book paper But /
until the selling sales department can |
dispose of the entire product Of the |
mills there may be a quantity Of print /
paper made to supply the trade in the /
west and southwest
Box Factory to Cost 100000.
1.-The box factory will cost at a /
rough estimate, 100000, but IL will
be enlarged later. 1t is not the in
tention to make only boxes from the |
byproduct of the Pearson mills, but
also window frames, sash and doors, |
interior finish and other forms of /
wood work. Like the paper mills, it
Is impossible to estimate the number
Of men to be employed in these mills |.
until the plans are further along.
With the paper mills, the box and
factories it will be pos
the Pearson mills aside from the
lumber, which is the real product of
the lumber company"
Pearson Saw Mills.
The Pearson saw mills, with their
auxiliary plants. their railroad, and
he model town which has been built
or the accommodation of~<he employees
# the plant, are now practically com
oleted- These mills and plants have
IN estimated value of $4,000, 600, and
ire considered the most modern and
timber saving mills in
America.
The mills at MADEIRA, which were
purchased from the old Sierra Madre
lumber company, have also been re-
'uilt and extended to handle the
treat mass of timber which is broueht$
n from the woods to this plant. These
Mills are valued at 100000 and are
eing improved with new electric