Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-02-20
USES 50 CORDS OF.
WOOD EACH DAY
Output of Local Mill in "a
Hours Would Make Strip of
Paper 2S7 Miles Long

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small amount of interesting reading
matter, even to those who are not EN-
| ployed at or directly connected with
| Ladysmith's largest manufacturing i'll
| stitutiOn.
| Ed Kennedy, pencil pusher Of the
sheet, has indulged in some figuring
on the output of the plant. and claims
that one days output Of the plant
would make a strip of paper 2S7 miles
long. But let the Paper Mill News
tell the story:
DO you realize that the paper mills
here use approximately 10000
pounds ground wood and 10000
pounds of sulphite in day? This
with the pulp and sulphite we sell rep
rcSents SO cords of wood This wood
would make Il pile 4 feet high, feet
wide. and $40 feet long. or about two
city blocks in length That the COM
lined speed of the machines is 1850 feet
of paper Il minute or Il total Of 1912
900 feet in II hours. This is equiva-
lent to about 2S7 miles. That this pa
per would make road s 1-3 feet wide
from here to Minneapolis and back.
then have enough left to cover the road
from here to HOlcombe and return and
then you would have enough over to
supply your wife with shelf paper for
several years.
That the paper made in this mill in
II day if stretched out single sheet
would cover Il 292-acre tract of land
y few weeks ago the Chicago Trib-
nne contained 1916 pages in their Sun
day issue and 10000 copies were sold
Few people realize the extent of this
but you will find you will have one
thousand tons (2,00O000 pOunds) the
amount Of paper used for the Sunday
edition. Thirty-three carloads of
newsprint of approximately 10000
pounds each This amount of paper
represents about 1880 cords of wood
Approximately 63 acres of land cleared
of it's wood for this one issue. Picture
Il trainload Of wood going TO the mill.
\ trainload Of newsprint leaving the
load of papers, Sunday edition, leav-
ing the publishers for all parts of the
country. And it is not such long
time either from log to the printed pa
per- Imagine when you read your pa
per that just short while previous
Hard to realize, hut nevertheless
true.
At thousand pounds apiece this
amount Of paper represents about two
thousand 70-inch shipping rolls. These
shipping rolls would make a pile ten
feet high, seventy inches wide and
twelve hundred feet long. or J62 cords
of paper if you care to figure that way.
These shipping rolls standing on end
would fill the street from the State
Bank to the Rusll County Rank This
also represents approximately six thou
sand one hundred and ten miles OF
paper seventy inches wide.
This paper would stretch from New
York to San Francisco and then
enough TO reach across the Pacific to
Honolulu and then there would be
enough paper left to supply the Paper
Mill News for nine hundred and sew
enty-five years.
Tn a few days q new elevator will
be installed in the beater room to re-
place the present one which is about
II years old. The new one will have
a larger platform. travel faster and
carry one ton more of freight. 1t will
also be provided with the latest safety
devices and operate with motor in
stead of belt driven.
The city owns large fire whistle
that is in our paper mill boiler room
and they pay for the telephone that is
in the boiler room so that in the event
of a fire UP town you can call 13S and
our fireman will blow the whistle.
However, since the middle of last No
vember the plate on the bell of the
whistle has been broken so that the
whistle can hardly be heard although
the city was promptly notified and as
vet the broken part has not yet been
replaced by the city The above is our
explanation Of why so many people are
complaining,
Casimer KOstka, Paul SikOra and
George HaviliZek have severed their
connections with the company, packed
their bags and baggage and started for
the old country. Casimer worked on
the screens in the wet room, Paul was
a save-all man on Number one and
George worked in the bleach room sew
eral years. These three men have
their families in the old country and
their primary object in going back is
to visit their families. They expected
to sail from New York on the seventh
Of February and land in DanZig. Paul
and George live in the same town in
Silesia while Casimer goes to Galicia.