Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-01

onJNAcoNA Quebec Nov. 24.-Even though you
\ are not dependent upon the publishing business
IL for a living, you have doubtless felt the paper
famine way You have been admonlsned 10
save your waste paper and economic stationery or
you have watched with grief the dwindling Of some
favorite periodical The situation in the United
States has been sad almost everyone, and posi-
lively tragic for those who live by print
In Canada this paper famine cloud has silver
lining which the paper makers ara scraping on and
putting in their pockets. couple OF years ago tne
Canadian parliament passed law pronlDt n |
export of pulp wood which encouraged the building OF
paper mills And the has boosted the price OF
paper so high all OF these mills are running AT
capacity day and night
Here at Donnacona, forty miles from Quebec, is one
of these mills first built two years ago. ana just
completed with enlarged capacity rev Gays ago.
ba narsb cure will bless 1t formal opening today
This especially interesting because IL Is the lasI
word in modern paper making because II is an aDso
+elv conplete Independent producing organization
that does everything it's land from cutting the
tree loading the paper into box car ana most OF
all 1t just about supplies the neeos OF one
great New York newspaper. 1t shows exacuy wnat
vocabulary monster the American press is-what II
takes In trees labor to lay the morning paper on
a few hundred thousand breakfast tables.
The product of this mill is hundred tons OF paper
day. and the great newspaper that buys the proouoe
uses about that much for ordinary week day
edition but has get Its Sunday supply somewhere
else To make hundred tons Of newspaper requires
$50 of wood, and here in Canada the average
stand Of pulp timber is about eight cords TO the acre
Therefore nearly twenty acres of forest must rall
every time that New York paper gets out daily
edition. A Sunday edition will clear hundred-and-
Their. ara 200 woodsmen at work in the tmberlands
cutting the and ESQ workmen here in the mills
making the paper while the investment represented is
about s20o00 900. These the elements that go to
supply one American daily with its paper fun page
advertisement this daily represents about half an
acre and proportionate amount OF labor and
capital
This Is a factory in a wilderness. 1t is located in
beautiful little canyon where the swift Jacquez Cartier
river goes foaming into the St Lawrence All about
are ridges heavily tmbered with spruce and oalsam
and whte-stemmed birch. and in the BACKGROUND are
the Iaurentan hills the yacquez Cartier has Its
source Sixty miles back in this woodland the com
pany owns 1877 square miles of timber There lts
French Canadian woodsmen now at work felllng
trees and they will at 1t all winter, piling the
logs on the river. When the spring freshets
swell the Jacquez Cartier the whole mass will come
shooting down mill, with the aid Of crews OF
husky log drivers and occasional stick or dynamte
to keep the stuff moving. Here 1t is fed into the
grinders and suphite watts and converted into pulp
Three-ouarters the pulp that goes into newsprnt
paper is simply ground on stone under tremendous
hydraulic pressure. CAT this mill the power for the
work is supplied by the stream that carries the
logs) The other quarter is suphide pulp, which Is
by cooking in acid and IS much stronger imam
the ground fiber.
These two kinds of pulp mixed and pumped to
the paper-making machine which is remarkably simple
simple 1t consists of screen about tweIve rect "!ue
which kept moving rollers and at the same time
gently oscllates from side to side The mesh OF the
screen Is about sixty-ve to the inch that water
will pass through, but not pulp. As the mushy mass
of pulp pours fabric the water is shaken out
of it, and the motion of the causes the hbers
70 weave together SO that the stream of pulp in
process is converted into broad, creamy sheet OF
paper flows out between rollers at the other END
of the machine. The of the factory is of
driving and pressing rollers about hundred yards
lcng and from these the is rolled into
great cylinders for shipment
Every part of this machinery from the screen to
the last roller be kept moving at exactly the
same speed or else great fabric would tear, and
this timing of the machinery is the greatest difficulty
the process
The Canadian paper makers say that there is no
danger exhaustng the supply of material so far as
the industry itself concerned For example, this
company owns enough timber lands that it could run
for fifty years continuously without cutting tn same
acre twice at present rate production The cutting
is done under government supervision that enough
small left to reproduce the stand and Will
he large enough for pulp again in thirty years
Thus the company could almost double its capacity and
stir be assured continuous supply of wood so far
as its own operations concerned
The factor apt upset all calculations is
forest fire. Fire destroys year, they say more
wood than is used for pulp Some of these fires are
started by campers by railroads, but Of
them are blamed by the paper companies the
settlers settler still clearing the forest to
make his and he burns the brush which he cuts
fires often spread and destroy mlons OF dollars
worth of timber.
The fact the demand for paper exceeds the
supply only factor in the present high price
by any means The of production has increased
greatly hearing the subject before the royal
commission yesterday 1t brought out that the
cost of labor in bush" has increased % cent
within year. while that in the factory has increased
IA per cent since May. The average increase in the
cost of materials other than the wood is about 80
cent The brass wirecloth Of which the in the
paper is made costs about $50 cent more