Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1911 — REVIVING THE PAPYRUS INDUSTRY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REVIVING THE PAPYRUS INDUSTRY

MOVED by the warnings of the experts regarding the near approach of a paper famine consequent on the demolition of the world’s forests, a number of capitalists have undertaken the v resuscitation of the ancient cultivation of the papyrus reed of Egypt and its manufacture into paper. The task was entrusted to J. Smedley Norton, a well-known traveler and explorer, and very satisfactory progress is being made. A plantation near Alexandria has been sown and reaped and the produce shipped to a paper mill in England where it was manufactured into paper of excellent quality which already has been utilized in the printing press with every success. A field of papyrus wyi yield three crops annually and can furnish, according to the experts, nearly, one hundred tons to the acre.