Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1916 — SAVING THE CHIPS FOR PAPER [ARTICLE]

SAVING THE CHIPS FOR PAPER

Forest Service Finds Way to Give New Material for Paper Making. As the result of studies which have been at the forest products laboratory on methods of handling wood chips suitable for paper pulp, it is announced that Wisconsin paper companies are now negotiating with the railroads for shipment to their factoriez: of experimental train loads of chips of western woods adapted to paper making. Previous investigations by the forest service have demonstrated that r-ood grades of paper ca t be made from a number of western woods. The experts now estimate that some of these woods, when cut into chips and dried and baled, can he delivered to the mills in Wisconsin at a very small advance over the cost of chips made front local timber. 4 If a favorable freight rate can be obtained, they say. the great quantity of pulpwood on the national forests should prove to he a considerable factor in stipplving favorably located paper mills with thet necessary raw material. In Wisconsin alone, it is stated there is an annual market for over 300,000 cords of pulpwood.