Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — Maine’s Pulp Industry. [ARTICLE]

Maine’s Pulp Industry.

The first pulp mills in Maine were established about 1870, when it was estimated that moro than half tho area of the State was still covered with unbroken forests, while more than half tho area of the 6,000,000 acres in farm lands was "unimproved," also largely in wood. Even twenty years later a careful computation put the forest area still higher, notwithstanding all that the axe, tho saw, and the “chipper” hud done during that double decade: and figured out that there was still in the Stato wood enough to make 28,000,000 tons of pulp, or fully sixty years’ supply for all tho pulp mills of the country on the basis of their present output.—[Boston Transcript.