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Vol. XVII. No. 28
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA, NOVEMBER 2 5, 190 8.
50 Cents per Year
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UNCLE SAM'S PAPER MILL
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Discoveries which are calculated to
revolutionize the paper making indus-
try of the country, have recently been
made by the wood chemistry exports
of the United States forestry bureau.
These discoveries have oeen made
. ,in a small, unpretentious red brick
building at the southeastern end of
Pennsylvania avenue, where for more
than a year and a'half government
experts have been laboring on the
manufacture of wood pulp. The ex-
periments which they are now con-
cluding are expected, it Is said, to
settle two great na'tional questions—
how to wive the forests of the coun-
try from depletion and how to make
commercial use of pne of the largest
of the waste products of the farm.
The experts say they have proved,
and are now demonstrating, that pulp
which was heretofore made only from
wood, can be manufactured" from or-
din.ii> cornstalk.-. Such pulp, ton. <• ji
be "Uide more cheaply and its quality
is as good, if not better, for paper
making than any other.
The far-reVhing effects of this dis-
covery are readily apparent if the re-
sults claimed prove true. It will prob-
aby put an end to the bitter war be-
tween the newspaper publishers and
the American pulp and paper manu-
facturers over the annually increasing
. cost of paper; will do away with the
necessity of the removal of the pres-
ent high tariff on imported pulp and
finally will open a new and almost
boundless fiield ovf profit for the farm
ers. The discovery is due in a large
measure to the newspapers of the
country.
Simultaneously with the opening
boom of the newspaper cannon and
the roar of the legal rapid fire guns
■which proclaimed the battle royal
against the Paper trust nearly two
years ago, Uncle Sam started an in-
vestigation. He found, first, that the
cost of paper had increased more than
$60,000,000 within" two years; second,
that the continually increasing con-
sumption of timber was surely and in-
evitably resulting in the total destruc-
tion of the once vast forests of spruce
poplar and hemlock—supposedly the
onl/y woods from wl>ieh commercial
pulp could be manufactured.
These facts led to the establish-
ment of a government factory in this
city, a factory perfect in detail and
appointment, but not extensive. Dr.
H. S. Bristol, chief of tht section of
wood chemistry, United States fores-
try service, was placed in charge and,
aided by a score of government chem-
ists, began the experiments which he
is now bringing to so succsfufc a. con-
clusion.
However, it was only recently that
he began his experiments with corn-
stalks. His first steps were guided by
the theory that other woods could be
employed with as good or better re-
sults than the rapidly disappearing
species so exclusively used.
The Possibilities Discovered.
The substitution of white fir and
scrub pine for these woods is in Itself
enough to insure against the destruc-
tion of the forests for the time being,
but so continually does the demand for
this product increase that een the
supply of these substitutes musit
eventually be exhausted.
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O Painter of the fruits and flowers!
V> e thank thee for thy wise design
\\ hereby these human hands of ours
In Nature's garden work with thine.
And thanks that from our daily need
The joy of simple faith is born;
rl hat he who smites the summer weed.
May trust thee for the autumn corn
(Jive 'heir gold and knaves their
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I.et fi. <V ■ bubbles rise and frill;
* Held, or trains tiie
flow s,
or plants a tree, is more than all.
For he who blesses most is blest; 1
And (Jod and man shall own ' his
worth
Who tolls to leaveias his bequest
An added beauty to the earth.
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thanksgiving, then and now.
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"Amidst the storm they s^ng,
And the stars heard, and the sea;
And the sounding aisles of the dim
woods rang
To the anthem of the free.
The ocean eagle soared
From his nest by the white waves'
foam;
And the rocking pines of the forest
roared—1
This was their welcome home."
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Away back in the beginning Elder
lirewster spoke to the Pilgrims after
their tirst Thanksgiving feast:
"Generations to come will look back
.to this hour and these scenes of ag-
onizing trial, this day of small things
and say: 'Here was our beginning
as a people. These were our tauiei ti.
Through their trials we inherit our
blessings.' "
When we think of the years that
have passed, says Successful Farm-
ing, and the changes in our manner
of lining and in ourselves, we won-
der that our Thanksgiving da/ has
remained so true to its purpose, and
in its observation so like the first.
ThCn, as now, it is celebrated on
Thursday, the feasting lasting until
Saturday, For days tiie seven Pil-
grim homes had been In a bustle of
preparation for the event. There was
to be company—the Indians under
Massasoit would dine with them, and
it was a wonderful occasion. Hunters
brought in wild turkey, venison, rab-
bits anti (luail. The Indians brought
oysters, the white man's first ac-
quaintance with this delicacy. It
was customary then to serve pud-
ding and nuts at the first of the meal
instead of the last. Then, as now,
a service of Thanksgiving was held
In the meeUng house before the feast.
The Indians had games, and shoot-
ing with the bow and arrow. Today,
we see men and boys pitching horse
shoes or engaging in feats of strength
after dinner is over. How different
our Thanksgiving is, and still how
wonderfully like that first day, when
the revered Elder spoke his pho'pheey;
"Through their trial* we Inherit our
blessings."
Remembering their trials, we are
thankful for the peace, comfort, and
bounty that are ours. Remembering
hdw they fought against mighty odds
and conquered, we are filled with the
pride of race.
We have much to be thankfnl for;
but not the least of our blessings Is
our descent from this sturdy race that
appointed a day of thanksgiving; who
while not forgetting their agonizing
trial, their day of small things, press-
ed forward toward the greater things
which were before
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All have arrived—aunt and unci-
and cousins and the big brother
from mysterious college. All have ar-
an? hlJU,se is "'led with
itistle and clumping, unusual voles
laughter and interchange of Christian
names sacred in family chonology.
The tuikey also lias arrived—enor-
mous creature, clammy cold, pale
yellow, head'ess, laying upon his back
att"ude, with truncated
legs stiffly up sticking.
rnm A *!'.'?'! Preliminary canter the
faithful kitchen stove has been de-
monstrating its best; emboldened by
I ho extra supply of wood 1,rough in
3-ourself, out of honor to the as-
sembled company and as proof of
be«« e °an , d° t0 the enormous
least aforesaid it has been turning
forth ripe mince and pumpkin pie
and apple pie, so that the cheeriness
of warmth and smell irridiated from
Us black surface and its constantly
opened oven have permeated delic-
iously the premises. You have read
of the "odors of Araby the blest,"
and now you know what thcy must
be -l hanksgiving pies.
Spick and span, you have naught
to do but to loiter; in Sabbath con-
straint of garb hut with thoughts
most weekly and secular. What will
dA?w,t?e,;' V'1 Us enumel'ate again,
delightfully hypnotized by the pros-
pect. Stewed squash (do you like
squash?), and mashed white pota-
to (the sweet are best, ain't they')
and cranberry, and elder—and tur-
key, and-and celery, and—O. yes,
hot biscuits and stuffing and gravy
nnl le *nd PuddinS and nuts and—
will dinner never be ready.
In the parlor the household all, ex-
cept mother, who is bustling at the
front of those Araby odors abovemen-
tloned and still prevalent, are gath-
ered In studiously Indifferent circle
Of course, to such the eating part is
nothing. They can wait, enjoying
conversation.
Won't dinner ever—Ah! mother
stands upon the threshold; flushed
warm, and triumphant, she bids-
Come out, all."
Since then you have heard, by the
Dutehen ovens of the roundup fi-e
£°°klS yelP of "chuch" or on
shipboard you have sprung to the gal-
ley boys beckoning wake; you hava
dropped most willingly ln'o place at
the logging camp long table, or tired
and spent by 'a day of strenuous
business, n the club cafe you have
. „hed with relief as the silent wait-
er boro in the soup and breadsticks
l.utmothers smiling "Come out, all,"
can never be o'ershadowed.— Ed win
... " In ",e November I.ippin-
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With the cornstalks however, 110
such fear need be* entertained. I?I1-.
'ions of sta'ks arc yearly used as fod-
der, hut besides these, statistics of the
forestry bureau show that there are
more than enough annually* going to
waste to supply twice the annual"de-
mand for pulp, it is a source which
has mil only been untouched, but
which can be employed at a very low
cost to the producer, with the best re-
suits, and which has the Inestimable
advantage of offering a new supply ev-
orv yetr. ,\ tree takes fn.m eight to
fifteen years to mature, once cut down
>t cannot be replaced before that time
rolls A corns. iiK. how-
ever, matures in a single season, in-
deed, in some sections of the corn
eu there are two annual supplies.
What this means to the farmer can
be read illy realized. Heretofore, with
« M ','TPti"n "f a ver>' Kn,a" Portion
which he utilized in feeding his stock,
thousands of stalks were left to rot
on the fields. Dr. Bristol'* discovery
expected t® convert this waste Into
a useful and marketable product.
There Is no more interesting depart-
ment of the government service than
the little one-story brick building in
which Dr. Bristol and his assistants
have made these discoveries, which
"ill revolutionize the pulp industry. In
an iron shed just outside the building
are stored the wood samples used-
tor they are still experimenting for
hotter and cheaper results with spe-
cies that have- heretofore been con-
sidered worthless. The^c samples
consisting of about 1,000 pounds of
each species, are being continually
collected by the forestry usslatants in
the field and are shipped to the lab-
oratory in Washington for future use.
use.
Inside the buildirg proper are the
engines, vats, rigesiers, strainers' in
short, everything th.it Is necessary to
the equipment of tile fullfledged pa-
per mill, and besides there are a great
many things which would be consid-
ered unnecessary in a large plant that
they Ose there for the furtherment of
their experiments. Just at present the
walls are lined with great bundles of
into JiCh arP da"y beln«  «ae
into pulp and paper.
Only the sulphite and the soda pro-
factor* are "I6" at thlH Kovefrnment
tactorj so when the laboratory is
eady for a test the material is bark-
ed in regular factories this is done
eLZT y> bUt 'n this government
establishment by hand—and is sawed
with the grain, into disks Le-e ghth3
of an inch thick. These disks are
then fed Into a machine which reduces
hem to chips of a uniform size and
th ' ''l0.h'S' A wo'ghed quantity |a
then taken to the digester to be what
u t< clinically termed "cooked " The
rest of the sample is examined for a
determination of the moisture contaln-
Cooking the Pulp.
The chips to be "cooked" are treat-
ed with a mixture of liquid sulphur
2S£ ir"-h
aestroys the cementing material of
the bers and leaes practically pure
cellulose. The "cook" lasts for vury-
iPT engths of tibic, according to tiie
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