Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-20
FACTS ABOUT sAWoUsT.
Manufactured in Various Grades, Its
Uses Are Many.

Here in a business office ranged
along on shelves like similar contain
ers useu for displaying color samples
by chemical or paint manufacturers
were rows of glass jars. stoppered and
| standing mouth downward and round
ed ends up and All filed with some sort
of powdered or fine, soft, fluffy materi-
| al in a variety of colors or tints: there
were reds of different shades, and
browns, and yellows and there was
one lemon coiored, and there was white
end black: hut these were not chemi-
calls, they were all sawGust samples,
shown in the office Of u wholesale deal
er in and manufacturer of sawdust.
! In these finer forms sawdust is made
of perhaps fifty different woods and
in varying degrees OF hneness. TO be
used for a wide variety of purposes
But sawdust in all it's forms, coarse
and fine. has many uses, and common
| sawdust is sold in enormous guam
titles.
The sawdust familiar to everybody
is that which is gathered from lum-
Der mills and mills i'll which lumber is
resawed in manufacturing. This conf
| NOR Sawdust is used extensively on
| ioors 10 take up dampDess in sweep
| ing, and it is used for packing bottled
| goods and for bedding horses, and in
| ice houses. Some sawdusts are screen
| ed at The mills to remove chips and
sticks.
| Sawdust combined with oil is put up
| in packages Tor use in sweeping car
| pets in place of the cd time scat
| tered tea leaves. Sawdust from Va
| Iious nor-fesinous woods is used in
great Quantities in the smoking of
| meats and sawdast in the form of
pulp IS used in the manufacture of
dynamite. :. lss-f s#et zsa=-l
Ssrwdust of various kinds and eolors
are NOW used combined with cement
| in making floors. especially in
hospitals. Such floors, made With the
| material in q plastic condition, can be
laid in single piece, without cracks
or joints, and SO made germ proof. and
they are more silent and easier to the
tread than tile. z#sH. taa
Among the better kinds of sawdust
some are used for curious common
purposes. as for instance one of
tile uses for Spanish cedar sawdust,
which is Very light. is for packing
even eneap chemicals contained in
glass shipped ever long distances. and
where weight would count in the
freight cost.
Freight rates must be taken into con-
sideration in bringing the common
sorts of sawdust into the city for sale;
yellow pine sawdust. for example,
cannot be brought profitahly from a
distance of more than hundred miles.
There are fine sawdusts that are
brought from various more or less dis
tant points, but most of these, may be
gathered here. From the citys many
mills and factories, sawdust is gather
ed in great quantities of the common
er 81 more familiar sorts of lumber,
as heInlock, pine, spruce, cedar, hick-
DRY. maple. yellow pine. and SO on;
and there are few fine woods that
have been brought into use in the
world anywhere but what, also. are
sawed here in cabinet work and in
various other forms of production.
Manufactured saWdust is made not
by saving up lumber expressly for
that purpose but by the treatment of
sawdust gathered from the various
factories in which the woods were
sawed Some of these sawdusts may
the fine tooshed saws in cutting ve-
neers from the woods, but all are sub
jected to treatment.
In factory of his own the sawdust
manufacturer grinds these sawdusts
into fine powders or powders of coars-
er grain or into a fine feathery pulp.
All these manufactured sawdusts. var
led as they may be in their tints. are
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colors, as they appeared in the various
attractive forms in which they were
seen IN the sample jars in the manu-
facturer's Office. Some of the uses of
these various manufactured sawdusts
are trade. secrets with their several
users
Manufactured satinwood sawdust is
used IN the preparation of pastel
boards for drawing purposes. Sawdust
or briar-wood is revoked for some
special uses. Lisnum vitae sawdust is
put TO some chemical uses.
Tine heaviest sawdust is that of ebo-
NY and this sawdust Is black in col
or, though even in the ebony sawdust
there are traces of tiny white fibres.
The ebony is not q large tree and it's
wood is not black through and
through; its sapwood is white; il is
particles OF this sapwood that appear
iii the sawdust, mingled in the saw
ing. But to the eye except on close
inspection the ebony sawdust appears
black.
The whitest of all sawdusts is that
of holly which is manufactured into
very fine pulp form. This holly saw
dust is used for floor material and
also in the manufacture of some
grades of wall paper.
There is a manufactured sawdust
called lemon sawdust, which is not
made from the wood of the lemon
tree, but which is in tint OF a clear
bright lemon color, this lemon sawdust
being used for the same purposes as
satinWood
Manufactured rosewood sawdust is
of limited use; various mahogany saw
dusts. including white, are used more
extensively for various purposes; that
of Il wood called vermlion, which is a.
bright red mahogany from the East