Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1895 — Wood Pulp. [ARTICLE]

Wood Pulp.

More than 50 per cent, of the saw mill owners to-day would make more money to sell their logs to be manufactured into wood pulp and paper than they can possibly expect to secure through sales of the same in the form of manufactured lumber. The wood pulp industry has far outstripped the manufactured lumber industry. One factor in the pulp and paper business is not always recognized by the owners of spruce forests. When a pulp mill grinds up a million feet of logs into paper product, and the same is sold to the great newspaper corporations and printed upon day after day, that paper practically goes out of existence. Few think of saving a newspaper. The individual newspaper reader throws his paper, after reading, into the waste basket or kindles a fire with it, or it becomes the property of the old junk dealer, and practically passes out of existence. On the other hand the piece of lumber which is manufactured goes into a substantial building, which lasts for generations. So that the great consumption of spruce for pnlp and paper really amounts to so much raw material taken out of the market forever, and practically wasted, so far as any subsequent use to which it may be applied is concerned.—Manufacturers Gazette.