Seward daily gateway., 1930-05-22

], The skylineS of Alaskan cities will be hazy with smoke from ray on factories, and the hum of the spinning wheels weaving their dainty patterns of French nude stockings will be heard night and day.
 The rayon industry, which ob tains raw materials from forest trees, is leaping ahead with such giant strides that it is impossible for the layman to keep abreast of it.
 Cellulose! A magic word used by chemists, is beginning to take on a new meaning to foresters. From wood cellulose comes an endless variety of useful and beau tiful articles The oldest of these ' is gun-cotton: then comes, among the newer cellulose products, eel luloid and pyroxlyn toilet articles, such as combs, backs for brushes and mirrors, and the like; and al- SD artificial leather, movie films: cellophane, that beautiful and nearly alright covering of candy packages. And then to top it all, rayon, that marvelously beautiful ana artificial silk from which mi lady's gorgeous stockings and whatnots are made.
 All this comes from the forest. Right here in our front yard lies the raw material for all these i'm duStries. Heaven only knows how many pairs of silk stockings may be made from a single tree. We do know that the cellulose industry ut1lizes the tree to a much closer degree than does the lumber ir dustry. Instead of wasting two- thirds of the total cubic volume of the tree, as is sometimes the case in wasteful numbering op- ration, less than one-tenth is wasted in the cellulose industry. One of the greatest research chemists in the United States re- gently said. What IS rayon? There are four different ways of making ! lt, Just four, but primarily All de- pend upon the conversion of cell- ulose into thread by getting it in to solution by one means or an- other The main point is this. Cellulose either from cotton on wood, is cotton into form where It can be projected from small openings, the solvent quickly eva- porated, the threads of cellnIose then twisted into larger threads ana woven into the beautiful gar ments we see today which bave taken possession of the Women,s garment field and are already in Che held of mems underwear The rayon industry is onIv eiobt years old, and yet the annual nro- auction is now 100000 900 hounds and will reach 14O,OO0,Oo0 pounds in 193O
 The industry uses about 3oooo tons of wood pulp wear and more than half as much cotton llnters. The authority ouoted aooVe states that research has so improved the quality of cellulose Hrom wood pulp that wood pulp is finding it's way into these finer uses, until today we can freely sav that the possibility of making it directly into the lady's dress is an accomplished fact
 And the wonders of cellulose are nod yet ended. TO quote further rom our chemist friend, Tt is an easy matter to convert cellu- lose into sugar; that is being done. It isn't quite economic at the present time, but again, it is a question of research We know that sugar can be fermented into alcohol, and I am not talking ab- out prohibition alcohol but indus trial alcohol, The industries of the country take enormous quantities of alcohol. The production of in dustrial alcohol has gone up the past ten years, and there will be no stopping of it as these indus tries expand"
 He compares the cellulose in dustry with the coal-tar industries and concludes his remarks with this bright picture:
 T don't hesitate to say, and don't think I am indulging in any fancy whatever, that we have Just as much right to expect an infinite number of industries that