Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 26, 1898, Page 4

a Grand Rapids Heraias"Review {Published Every Saturday. F By E. C, KILEY. saree TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Six Months ..... $1.00 } Three Months........ 50¢ Entered m the postomcc at Grand Rapids ‘Minnesota, as secoud-class matter. —_—_—_—_—— There are three hundred tons of garden seeds in the department of agriculture at Washington, from which free distribution to the farm- ers is’ being made. Persons desiring ‘some of the seeds should write to “Hon. Page Morris, Washington D. C.,’’ or, if they reside in some other congressional district, they should address the congressman of the dis- trict they reside in. Every shouter for Van Sant, Eustis, Weaver and Collins is howl- {ng himself hoarse to prove that the “other fellows” are ‘‘machine” candidates for the republican gruber- natorial nomination, and curious it is that each of the prospective nomi- nee’s supporters vow that it will be a fallacy for the republican party to nominate any of the ‘other fellows,” and all are equally vehement in the assertion that it were foolhardy ' to nominate a candidate who is nota clean, honest man if John Lind’s defeat is to be compassed. ‘Now, mark you the unanimity of their declaration that “none but a clean, honest man can defeat Honost John Lind.” Is thisnotan tnwitting as- sertion that Lindis a clean, honest man? and this being the unanimious Opinion of not only the democrats, populist and free-silver republicans. but the republican goldites as well —all the people of the state—what. in the name of reason is the use of our republican friends tearing out each others hair and quarreling about who shall be their nominee for g over- nor? Ifthey cannot agree that any oneof the numerous aspirants for]the nominations at their hands is ‘a clean honest man,” and on the other hand avow that Honest John Lind fills the bill, why don’t they end the matter and make Lind’s election by acclamation? You might as well get on the band wagon now, as wait until after the November election, for your post-convention assertions; friends, cannot be overcome or contradicted in the campaigne. You assert that your candidates are “machine” tools—ahd people of the state are thoroughly convinced that -for once you speak truly. You say John Lind is pre-eminently the man for govern- ‘or of the great North Star state, and so say we all. The Land of Christ. Under this title, the Passenger Department or the Chicago, Bur- lington & Northern Railroad has issued a splendid series of views made by the half-tone process from photographs taken in Holy Land. ‘The subjects embrace people, scenery and cities, as they exist today in phat famous country. The work is published in twelve parts, each con- taining from twelve to fifteen views. Each picture is fully explained by descriptive reading matter. A sam- ple part will be sent to any address on receipt of two cents in postage, and the complete set will be forward- ed, postpaid, on receipt of ninety-five cents. Postage stamps will not be received for the full set, but remit- tance must be made to the under- signed by draft, posta! order, express money order, or registered letter. This is a rare chance to secure more than two bundred views of the Land of Christ for less than one dollar. C= Address Gro. P. LYMAN. G. P. A,CB&N.RR, St. Paul, Minn. Only Three Traine on Earth Worthy of comparison with the Burlington’s ‘Minneapolis and St. Paul-Chicago Limited.” One in Eu- ope; two east of Chicago—none west. So beautiful, so luxurious, so costly a trajn has never before been at the disposal of the traveling public of the Northwest. Palaces On Wheels The Burlington’s new Minneapolis and St. Paul-Chicago and St. Louis train consists of: A buffet library car. A combination sleeping car. A Standard sleeping car. A compartment sleeping car. A dinibg car. A reclining chair car. A day coach (high back Seats.) The most costly, beaatifal, luxrui ous six cars on earth.” Steam heated. Electric lighted. Wide vestibuled. Agextra fares. eaves Minneapolis 7-20 p. m., St. Paul, 8:05 p. m. daily. 7 Tickets at 306 Nicollet Ave., Min- Bet ois 400 Robert St. (Hotel Ryan,‘ aul. Homeseekers’ Excursion Rates Via the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad. On April 5th and 19th, 1896, the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad will sell Homeseekers’ excursion tickets to palate in Arkansas, Colorado, Texas, ndian Territory, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, North & South Caroline, ‘Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi and other states at one fare plus $2.00. Call on agents for particulars or address G. E. ne, G. P. A., St. Paul Minn. as bai ~ HOW PULP IS MADE. -~ A Brief Outline of the Process By Which Wood Is Transformed Into Pulp. Grand Rapids will this summer see the erection within her limits of a paper and pulp mill, and inasmuch as but very few outside of those directly concerned in the paper trade have the slightest conception ofthe method émployed in the manufacture of pulp, from which paper is made, the Herald- Review prints below a brief descnp- tion of the process by which spruce timber is transformed into pulp, there- by giving its readers an insight in- to the matter. Attention is particular- ily called to the mammoth size of the machinery and apparatus needed for the equipment of a pulp mill alcne, and when we consider that when the wood is transformed into pulp the manufacture of paper 1s but begun, we can readily see that the cost of equip- ping a combined paper and pulp mill is enormous. The process given be- low is employed in making pulp from spruce timber, and the same process is followed for poplar with the excep- tion that the latter is treated with a solution of caustic soda while bemg cooked in the digester instead of with a solution of sulphurous acid as in the treatment of spruce. The informa- tion given below is taken from that greatest of all scientific journals, the Scientific American, which in an ex- tended write up of this subject, sites the Duncan Co.’s Troy, N. ¥., mills as being one of the best equipped paper and pulp mills in the world. ‘The process employed by this com- pany in the manufacture of pulp, to- gether with a few interesting facts, we append: “There are in the United States to- day 1000 mills, whose capacity amounts to over 13000 tons of paper per day. Of this amount by far the major proportion is made from wood, an not, as was formerly the case and now generally supposed, from rags. “All paper 1s made from one or more of the various vegetable fibrous sub- stances, such as cotton, flax, straw or wood; and ifa piece of paper, par- ticularly of the finer grades, is exam- ined beneath the miscroscope it will be found to consist of a mass of fibers which are roughly interlaced and pre- sent something of the appearance of fine woven textile goods. It we simi- larly examine a section of wood we find that it consists of parallel fibers which are cemented together by cel- lular matter, and it is the fibrous ma- terial which 1s used in the manufac- ture of wood pulp, as it is called, from which the paper is made. The pre- paration of the fiber by the destruction of the cellular matter is accomplished by what is known as the sulphite pro- cess, the wood being treated in chem- ical solutions—the spruce with sul- phurous acid and the poplar with caustic soda. The pure fiber which remains being taken to the paper mill and worked up into paper. “The paper mills of the Duncan Company, situated on the banks of the Hudson river, near Troy, N. Y., is mammoth concern. Its massive stone dam is 850 feet in length, with a fall of16 feet, the energy of the impounded waters being developed in twenty turbines whose aggregate horse power is 3,500. Thisis supplemented by a steam plant of 750 horse power ‘The mills cover an area of 980x354 feet, this affording storage capictly for 20,000 cords of wood. 75 cords of poplar and 45 cords of spruce are consumed daily, which after it has passed through the various processes dnd taken up the clay, starch, alum, resin, sizey etc., which are used, is ship- ped from the mill as finished paper or chemical fiber—go tons of the former and 34 tons of the latter per day. “In these mills, the spruce logs are split by a machine into the proper size, the pieces then being placed endwise in aspout, where they bear by their own weight at an angle of thirty degrees against the face of swiftly revolving disk, in which are four knives set in radical slots cut through the disk. Each knife cuts off a, diag- onalchip from the log of 5% to 3 of an inch in length. The disk revolves at 300 revolutions a minute and it can eat up roo cords of wood in 10 hours. The chips fall onto a conveyor which takes them to the second floor of the building, where an inclined oscillating screen removes the saw dust and dirt; they pass along to an endless revolving sorting table where a set of men pick out the slivers and large knots. At the end of the table they are discharg- ed onto an inclined conveyor, and taken to a large storage bin, which has a capacity of 100 cords of chips at a time. This bin is located at the top of what is called the digester and here the chips are fed into it. When the digester has been filled, the top is boltéd, sulphurous acid is turned on from an overhead pipe connecting withvan acid tank whose capicity is in the neighborhood of 60,000 gallons, anda steam pressure of 80 pounds introduced at the bottom of the di- gester. The heating of the lower layers of liquid causes a continual circulation throughout the mass dur- ing the whole period of cooking, which varies from g to 10 hours. During the cooking the acid solution attacks and renders soluble the in- crustating, matter of the wood—resin, lignose, cellular matter—and dissolves it out, leaving only the pure fiber of the wood. When the cooking is completed, the conténts of the digest- er is removed by a “blow-pit,” a large wooden tank with perforated false bottom. Here thesteam escapes through a vertical stack and the spent hquid drains off and goes to waste. The pulp as it is now called at that stage a beautiful transparent appear- ance, due to the bleaching effect of the sulphurous acid When the pulp has been thoroughly drained it 1s taken by conveyors to the “‘wash-pit,”” where it is washed with pure water. From thence it is pumped up to a mixing box in which is is mixed with a sufficient amount of water to give it proper fluidity, and is then run into the screen room, where it passes through a three-fold system of screens for the removal of foreign bodies or or such particles as would produce blemishes in the paper. From the screens the pulp flows into copper cylinders. These are abuot 3 feet in diameter and 15 feet long. The outer shell is freely perforated and the interior is traversed by a sheet of cop- per worm whose outer edge is riveted to the outer shell and its inner edge 1s incontact with the hollow axial shaft upon which thecylinder rotates. The pulp flows into the cylinder at one end, and as it 1s guided through by the worm the water drains away leav- ing the moist pulp, which looks hke half melted snow, to fall out at the end of the cylinder. Jets of water are playing conunually upon the out- side of the cylinder for the double purpose of keeping the perforation trom being choked up and _ washing the pulp. From the cylinders the pulp falls into a conveyor end is taken to the “bleaching room,” where it is subjected to the action of chlor- ine fora period of three hours in what is known as the “bleachihg engine.” This is a large iron tank, open at the top and provided with semi-circle ends, half way across which is placed a_ revolving drum provided with transverse bars. The pulp is placed in this tank tu gether with a solution of chlorine and a little oil of vitrol to hasten the bleaching. Steam is introduced and the drum or agitator works up the contents of the tank, loosening up the pulp and causing a thorough contact with the bleaching liquor. The pulp isthen emptied into the “drainers,” in the cellar of the building, where the hquor 1s allowed to drain away. ‘Ihe pulpis then thoroughly washed with fresh water and again drained. When it is nearly dry, it is dug and sent to the paper mill. ‘The process as above descrived, trom the the ume the pulp leaves the fine fine screens is,apphcable only to such sulphite pulp as made for to be manu- factured into paper by mills connect- ed with the pulp mill. When the pulp is made for the outside market it un- dergoes different chemical treatment in its preparation. “The dig-ster is a huge cylindrical steel plate structure, 38 teet long and 15 feet in diameter. ‘The shell is one inch in thickness and it is built with butt joints, the rivets being counter- sunk on the inside, so as to secure a smooth surface for the lead lining. The latter, 5-16 inch thickness, is laid close against the shell and is seamless throught. ‘The digester is closed at both ends with covers of cast steel protected with hnings of 4 inch of lead. The shell is further protected from the acid by a thick lining ofa special grade of brick. For conveni- ence of erection and repairs the di- gester, which weighs 125 tons, is hung on trunnions, whose journals may be carried on two pairs of massive lattice girders, by means of long six- inch rods with screwed ends depend- ing from the top of the columns. While it isin operation, the digester rests upon six ten-inch cast iron columns; but when it is desired to make repaus, it can be raised by means of the screws from the columns, swung into the honzontal position (the shght brick filling of the arches in the side walls of the building being taken out), and lowered onto rollers on the floor.” Subscribe for the Herald-Review. 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