Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1911 — MAKE CHEAP LUMBER PAPER [ARTICLE]

MAKE CHEAP LUMBER PAPER

Manufacturers Can Turn Out Fiber Board, Largely From Waste Materials. Conservationist Says. Kansas City, Mo.—So nearly perfect is artificial lumber made from paper there is no longer cause for' great worry over forest conservation, said J. B. White, chairman of the executive committee of the National Conservation congress, here the other night He had just returned* from a trip through the eastern states. Much of his time there was spent investigating the manufacture of' "lumber” from paper. “A superior quality of artificial lumber can be manufactured cheaper than natural lumber can be grown," he said. "Taking 57 per cent, waste paper, 22 per cent, straw, 5 per cent jute and 16 per cent, wood fiber, a ton of fiber board, one-fourth Inch thick, or 1,100 feet of inch lumber can be produced."