Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1885 — Paper from Sugar Cane. [ARTICLE]

Paper from Sugar Cane.

Until recently sugar cane was looked upon as practically worthless also, and was permitted th go to waste by the thousands of tons. In pursuing some investigations a short time ago for the purpose of discovering, if possible, whether the fiber of the cane could not bo used in tbe manufacture of bagging, a gentleman found properties which convinced him that paper could be made of the stalk if suitable machinery could be devised for reducing it to a pulp. After many discouragements the task was accomplished, and of the first batch of pnlp manufactured a Northern paper mill recently made enough sugar cane paper to print one edition of the New Orleans Picaywne. A copy of the paper now in hand is substantial and tough, with fair color and smooth surfaces, It is claimed for it that it Will be specially desirable for use on fast prmting presses, and that, its manufacture, which is now regarded as a permanent enterprise, will add largely to the wealth of Louisiana, as welj as tend still further to simplify the problem of paper making.— Chicago Herald,