Paper From Wood Pulp

Coinparatively little paper is made out of rags nowadays exclusively, a fact which is fortúnate, as the quantity of paper now used is so great that there would not be enough wom out clothing or shoddy to supply the demand. The strangeness of it is th;it while paper is being used f or dozens of pnrposes f ormerly monopolized by wood or even a harder material, such as car wheels, boxes, barrels, tubs, pails and so f orth, wood is rapjdly driving other ingredients to the wall iii the manufacture of nearly aU tho cheaper grades of paper. Wood pulp is made by a comparatively lengtky process, but by taking the milis to river banks where there is raw material and water power at hand, it eau le produced at less than half the price rlycharged,