PAPER PULP.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 157, 27 March 1908, Page 7

PAPER PULP.

DIMINUTION. OF THE TOREST RESERVES.

A 'SUBSTITUTE, a : : ■V V . v . - . ROOSEVELT AND THE DUTY. DY TELEGHAWI —ME63 ASSOCIATION^-COPYMOnT. •••! ' (Rcc. hlarch 2G,»11.<M p.m.) •• New YorUi March 26. ' In his—Messago to Congress, President Roosovelt'urges.-tliat' wood'pulp bo immediately placed on the'free list, and that tliore be a corresponding reduction of; tho duty on paper mado from such material, when it is imported from a country .' that does not iiri--poso an ojiport duty on it; ' SUGAR CANE A SOURCE OF SUPPLY. ;;' v ■, : - London,' March 25.. . Renter reports that M. Lamarre, .proprietor of-the, Tacarigua estates, 'Trinidad, has succeeded in converting 84 per cent, of megass into paper pulp. Ho declares it will 'pay-:,to . grow -sugar cane : for . tho..sake"'bf 'megass, . His- mills are producing fifteen t-ons daily. ' • -. ''. w V WOOD PULP SHORTAGE. ; , ■ '■ Megass. (rnega'sso, or. bagasse) is .the sugars cane after-it-has , been, crushed/and. the juice, ■ extracted'. .In the past it,-lias been used as, -fuel 'iri heating the .boilers and pans, in tho sugar-manufactory,' and sometimes as manure. ; If the ndsv process of converting megass. into 'paper pulp is : a. commercial'success, it'.will •bring relief to newspaper proprietors the world oyer. At present 'wood pulp is used for the purpose, and .the forests of suitable'timber in Cadanda, United' States 1, and'! in Norway are being -rapidly , used up;,, and . several -British newspaper,'prpprietors, foreseeing; the possibility -of an ; ; increasing scarcity', , havo acquired 'forest' areas which: .aro ibeing reserved for future . ; use.' '..The new,; process'..should .materially' help; the sugar planters\of the Commonwealth'- and! Fiji;' :• - • '.' - Some light is thrown on President. Roosevelt's message by the following cablegram from Ottawa; 'dated, December -8' In- consequence of the. decreasing supplies of wood, pulp— , which is causing a-rise in'the price of many ' halfpenny,;papers;.in l 'the"United States, and also -a proposal to remove-the States' -import ' Sir, Wilfrid ( Laurier (Canadian Prime Minister) ,is boing -urged'.to impose an export duty on wood pulp/'"' ' - : '■• ' j