Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-03-31

the chemical as possible is recovered
from the pulp. And in livid stream
Of fire that chemical pours out of the
great retorts, splitting and cracking
/ like witches broth, while the flames
! that heat it are fed with fagots by q
dusky stoker, laboring financially,
and stripped to his ebony waist.
In new caverns swirling waters
bear the pulp through sluices and
channels to the apparatus where the
mingled pulp and water run over end
less belts Of pure woven wool. And
the water draining off, leaves the
thickening coating or pulp in great
sheets that are stripped off and
loaded on Waiting trucks by the paper
workers.
Too, there are other huge watts in
which waste paper, shipped to BOga-
lusa from all over the South, is ma
cerated to be mixed with the pure
pine pulp.
And in a long building stands the
complicated machine-"YCu couldn't
duplicate it today for S30O,000," said
Captain FIRTH. looking at it lovingly
that looks like an enormously long
line of newspaper printing presses
linked one after the other, and that
turns out the rolls Of commercial
paper in its finished form.
Capacity OF Plant
This one plant can turn out 140,-
600 pounds of air dry extra strong
kraft pulp every "a hours. It can
produce $4,000 po-nds of container
liner of paper specialties every "a
hours. That paper, you can fold and
crease heavily-and it does not break
in fibre. It forms part of the mil
lions of containers used in commerce
and have supplanted to so great a de-
gree the thin wooden case.
That is the work of this one plant. |
And the directors of the Great South
ern Lumber Company have decided |
to erect five additional units like it. |
Work begins this spring on the first
new unit.
So, in those paper mills, rests the
future of the City of Bogalusa. View
ing the first one even, it is hard to /
believe that in 1906 one, ]. L. Nc
Clendon, cut the first tree in the viz
gin forest where today Bogalusa
stands.
But that's America. And if ever
community was American, keen,
IN its toes, aware Of past and certain
II the future, that community is Bo-
5alusa, already sure of its place as
99ne OF the worlds great paper muau-
featuring centers.
And here is the message Of the fu-
.ure to Bogalusa, given by W. H.
Sullivan, the man who built that
'ity;
ut is impossible to make a perma-
tent city of any consequence around
he lumber business. 1t is possible
o make permanent city around the
'aper business. The Great Southern
lumber Company will practice refor-
on a large scale, and en-
outrage everybody else that has anv
waste land to plant it with quick
pine trees. This refores-
alton development will be supervised
y the United States Forestry Service
nd the Louisiana Forest Depart
lent.
There is enough waste land with
I radius of 100 miles Of Bopalusa.
set aside and developed with quick
rowing pine trees, to operate paper
ills producing 600 tons of pulp per
az, which would supply ten such /
lants as we have at the present
me.
With the cooperation of the citi-
ems OF Bogalusa, the possibilities of
le paper industry in the City of Boz
alusa are unlimited"
And if there's any truth to back +
lie belief that a good leader and a
'owd of good men behind him will
ct results-well-that Bogalusa pa
er project will be worth watching in
lie next few years. NJ