Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — Paper Clay. [ARTICLE]

Paper Clay.

In view of the rapid rise in the price of paper, and the complaints of the papermakers with regard to the scarcity and increasing costliness of ail sorts of paper stock, It is gratifying to see that one source of such raw material is not likely soon to foil us. Whatever may happen to rags, wood palp, and the thousand other sorts of fibrous material supposed to enter into the composition of paper, the clay bank promises to be inexhaustible True, the majority of people who pay a high price for paper nave a prejudice against that material, but evidently the owners of the day hanks have not; for, in a prominent journal devoted to the paper trade, they boldly print a large cut of their “day works,” showing a long stretch of snowy Muff out of which a huge section has been cut, presumably to supply the needs of “first-class mills. East and West,” to whose owners they refer for evidence of the excellence of their clay. —Scientific American.