Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1920 — Addition to Brazil's Wealth. [ARTICLE]

Addition to Brazil's Wealth.

The commercial life of Para, Brazil, depends so essentially on the marketing of forest products that every effort Is being made to advertise the value of a common native plant called “anhinga.” In the soft beds of mnd that line so many of the state’s sluggish rivers, the plant grows so profusely that an estimated total of 100,000 tons could be exported annually. The anhinga is now known as the raw material from which cellulose Is obtained for the manufacture of linen paper; but recent experiments show that the fibers may be transformed chemically into an artificial cotton fiber, of structure even superior to that of the genuine article. One milt is now busy wit,h this new work, while efforts are being made to adapt abandoned sugar mills to the process.—Popular Mechanics Magazine.