The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-03-07
LOCATION IDEAL
SAYS GOODENOUGH
LARGE AUDIENCE HEARS ADDRESS
Il. II. GOOdenOugh Gives History Of Paper
Industry = Address Illustrated by
Lanter Slides Made by Speaker.

In 1906" said W. II. Goodenough,
addressing the citizens of the city at
the commercial club Tuesday night,
forty three per cent of all the water
power developed in the United States
was used Dy pulp and paper mills.
The latest trade directories show 733
firms operating 756 paper and 240 pulp
mills, representing an invested capital
of over S27S, 0O0, 600. employing upward
| Of 100, 600 lab0rers and producing ap-
proXimately product of 4, 1000, 600 tons
annually. However Mr.. Goodenough
stated that as yet not a single paper
mill manufacturing finer qualities of
writing paper had been established on
the Pacific Coast. All of the paper of
this kind is shipped in from the East
and Middle West. 1.-The greater part
of this finer writing paper, +" he said
''is made of old rags and scrap paper.
old newspapers and magazines. All
of this material goes to waste out here.
In the East and Middle West all of
these old rags and scraps are made use
of. "
The Pacific coast needs paper mill
to make its finer writing paper. con-
tinued Mr.. Goodenough, land to utilize
some OF the water if its pure streams
and ideal water power sites. have
been to a number of cities since | have
been on the coast Just to look for paper
mill sites. However, have never
seen better location for such an in
dustry than right here at Hood River.
You have the water as pure as any
place in thesworld and any amount of
power can be developed. -
A large audience, composed of both
men and women. listened to Mr.. Good
enough with interest. In the course of
his lecture, which was illustrated with
lantern slides, showing scenes of some
of the larger paper mills of the coun-
try, he demonstrated how paper was
made by hand, making several sheets
before the audience. The scenes de-
picted by the lantern slides showed
every form of paper making, from the
old hand processes down To the most
modern machinery. MIR. Goodenough
has spent almost his entire life in the
paper business, and Just before coming
west was manager of one of the larg-
est mills in the west. Pictures of this
mill were shown Tuesday night. Mr..
Goodenough is what one might call a
skilled amateur photographer. All OF
the photographs as well as the slides
shown by him Tuesday night were
made by himself,
AT the beginning of his lecture he
gave short history of the making of
paper. 'The Chinese, he said were
the first to make paper in the web
from tibres. In the second century
they used for raw materials the inner
bark of trees. such as the mulberry,
bamboo, rags and rice straw. In
China, paper is usedl for various pur-
poses such as handkerchiefs. napkins,
articles of clothing and twine. A GER
tam quantity is often secured to their
wives in their marriage contracts,
showing that the Chinese consider pa
per Indispensable.
''The knowledge of the art was com
municated by the Chinese to the Hin
docs and Arabs, about the eighth cen
turey, and was carried into Spain by
the Moors in 1888; from Spain to
France in 1890, Germany 1912. Eng
land 1910. In 1880 John Rittenhausen,
native of Holland. put the first paper
mill in America, at Roxboro, Pennsyl-
vania. Linen paper was first made in
the fourteenth century. The oldest
paper made of cotton, of which rec.
ord is known, is deed of King Roger,
of Sicily, in the year ll02. Since then
machine made paper has supplanted
hand made paper.
During the eighteenth century, (chlo-
ride of lime for bleaching not being
known rags were sorted for their col
ors, the color of the rag determining
the color of the paper.