Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-11-16
SULPHATE Mill
IS DEFENDED
P. STONE MAINTAINS
PLANT is KEEPING
WATER PURE

/ Recently an article was published
| in the Stevens Point Journal in which
| the Wausau Sulphate Fibre Mill al
Mosinee was attacked and the Stevens
Point Fish and Game club expressed
! it's belief that the Mosinee plant was
palluting river water The following
letter defending the company was re-
Gently published in the Stevens Point
Journal:
Editor Journal, Dear Sir: In an arti-
Gle which | have just read in your pa
per. dated October %, the statement
IS made by number. of the Portage
County Game association that our
mill at Mosinee is dumping mineral
deposits which are killing the fish in
| the river.
Another member of this association
states that our mill is not carrying
out the accommodation of the state
health department, etc.
Pollution Natural
The matter of polluting the Wis
onsin river water by our mill was
thoroughly. investigated and SAM
tary survey was made by the State
Board of Health on March IS and 27
49, The report of this board shows
tonclusively that the condition of the
water below Mosinee and Stevens
'oint is not due to industrial waste
but ito the natural heterogeneous or
sanic matter present in the water
Nevertheless, in that same report the
health department advised us to re-
move from the river water certain
amount of lime sludge which at that
ime we were depositing there in our
ever water. We were also told to
remove bark deposits from our wood
DOM and were given details, all OF
which we are complying with.
Costly Improvement
The filtration plant which is TAX
| ing out all traces of chemicals, as
veil as an the lime, was put into
operation without interruption since
he 25th day of that month, and nc
mineral deposits of any kind are be-
ing dumped into the river by our mill
[ further want to state that our
books show that the exact cost OF
his filtration plant was $39,872.07
We are spending between $4,000
md $50, 900 to do away with all bark
which formerly escaped into the river
md although this plant is not fin
shed because it was not possible for
US to build any faster or secure the
material needed any sooner, within a
lonth from today all the work will
be completed and no more bark will
escape into the River from our plant
Same Along River
1t seems to me that it must be
mic, n onc 20 10
,art of the members of the Portage
County Game association when such
statements are being made as report
ed in the article of your paper, and
while we did not propose to put any
hing into the Wisconsin river which
S harmful over and above what any
Their industrial plant, and that WE
| desire to continue to complete any
| hing within reason and within the
| law to make conditions still better
We do not understand why an agita-
| ton of this kind should continue
against our particular plant, especi
tally as long as we believe that the
people in Stevens Point understand
that the condition of the Wisconsin
liver between Mosinee and Stevens
Point is the. same as it is north of
Wausau, because Wausau had the
same experience as Stevens Point is
now having as long as some of its
water supply was taken from the
Wisconsin river
Not Guilty
I would like to ask you to be kind
enough to publish this article in a
similar manner to the one / referred
to above | believe that your desire is
simply to find out the facts in regard
to the water conditions and feel that
and consideration as any other indus
trial plant on the Wisconsin river.
We don not see why any SPECIAL agita-
ton should be carried on against our
mill as long as the health department
has conclusively shown that we are
not guilty.
(Signed) WAUSAU SULPHATE
FIBRE co
By F. P. STONE,
President