The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-02-27
ASSIST IN
SEARCH FOR PULP WOODS

A recent issue of the New York
woods which have not been used here
tofore for news print paper.
The sheet which newspaper read
ers hold in their hands each day is
made of wood. If one looks closely
the little wood fibsrs can be seen,
in the margins where print
ing does not obscure them. The lar
ger part of the wood so used is ground
up, while some of it is reduced by
the action of chemicals. The chemi-
cal pulp has the longer fibers and a
certain proportion of it is added to
the ground wood to give the finished
paper the required toughness
Spruce the Best Pulp Wood.
Spruce, abundant in the New Eng
land and Lake States and in Canada,
his heretofore been the stndard wood
for making news print and as long as
there is supply sufficient to meet the
needs of the paper industry there is
no reason to seek substitutes. But
heavy inroads have been made on
the spruce forests of the western part
of the United States in this day of
great circulatiOns and large editions,
of Sunday papers with their
many parts. On rough estimate, a
newspaper with an average circula-
ton of sixty Thousand copies and an
average edition of twenty pages, uses
each day the product Of about four
acres of forest. When this figure is
by the great number of
newspapers published in the United
States, many of them with much lar
ger editions, and when this is further
multiplied by 365, because many pa
pers are issued every day of the year,
1t can be seen that the drain upon
the forests is enormous. Foresters
say that even under the most ap-
proved methods known to their pro-
fession, it could scarcely be expected
that spruce would be able to hold its
own, but would need supplementing
by other material.
1t is but natural, therefore, that
paper manufacturers are looking for
new sources of supply which will fur
nlsh an abundance of wood pulp, at a
price which will NO: be prohibitive.
Poplar and a few otherwoods are
used, but they do not go very far.
Forest Service Seeks New Woods.
In the National forests there are
many woods considered inferior by
lumbermen. Yet they are available
for purchases at low rates and many
of the timber stands are readily &C.
cessible. The forest service, in its
des1reto utilize to the best advantage
all OF the resources of the federal tim
Der holdings, has been seeking proper
uses for these trees and has expert.
mented in making pulp from them at
Its pulp laboratory at Wausau, Wis
cons1n, an auxiliary of the forest prod
ucts laboratory at Madison. The Wau.
sau laboratory is equipped with stand.
ard machinery and all experiments
are carried out under conditions
which duplicate commercial practice.
AS final test of the value of some
OF these new woods under practical
conditions, arrangements were made
between the forest service and the
Herald to print some part of it's edi-
tlon on paper made from various
woods that showed promise as sub
stitutes for spruce. These woods
ground at the Wausau laboratory; the
- ONoSN '" 90 tliOh ullASu WIFI Tile us
ual portion of chemical pulp and made
into news print paper, rolls of which
were sent to New York for the ex,
perimental run.
Need of Practical Test.
The new woods must fulfill many
conditions as to color, finish and
strength. In these trial runs, most of
the paper is made from various west
ern frs, which show considerable
promise, but the investigators do not
consider their tests complete until
they have subjected the paper to act
ual printing conditions. They grow
throughout the mountain ranges of
the west, particularly in the Pacific
Coast States.
In addition to their interest in find
Ing new uses for little-used woods,
federal forest officers naturally desire
to keep the news-print paper manu-
featuring industry within the United
States. They therefore seek to pre-
sent the opportunity offered by many
of the woods on the National forests,
where there is a rupply of cheap
wood available for many years to
come.
Other woods have been tried for
pulp by forest products laboratory
and other newspapers will make ex-
perlmental runs of the paper.