USES OF PULP | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 15, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 50.

USES OF PULP.

It almost looks as if the old saying, “Cotton is king,” might be revised to apply to wood pulp. Wood pulp has been used as a substitute for iron, steel, wood, stone, glass, ivory, and innumerable kinds of animal and vegetable fiber. As a material for car wheels the manufacturers have found it superior to any kind of metal, being about three times as durable as steel and much more elastic. It has been found available as a material for paving bricks, drain tiling, and conduits for electric cables. For ivory, which is becoming scarcer every day, cellulose is the best substitute that has yet been found. When properly treated, it is practically proof against heat and moisture, hence it has been found superior to timber as a material for telegraph poles and screws. Cannon, too, and bicycles are made out of wood pulp in Germany and Chicago, respectively; while a Frenchman has succeeded in producing a thread from the same substance, which he declares can be worked up into all sorts of fabrics. A Vienna inventor declares that his wood-pulp leather is superior to animal leather in fineness and durability. Among the other articles made of wood pulp are boats, canoes, cuspidors, pails, flower-pots, tables, chairs, bureaus, barrels, wagons, horseshoes, and imitation porcelain ware. The manufacture of silk from wood pulp is now an important industry in England and France. And in wood pulp the resources of Maine seem to be almost limitless.

—Lewiston (Me.) Journal.