once begun and the attention of chemical engineers 

 and financial men has been drawn more generally 

 to the huge potential values now ignorantly thrown 

 away we may expect the rapid development of these 

 by-product industries and the initiation of many 

 new ones to the great enrichment of the South and in 

 somewhat less degree, that of the Northwest. It 

 would doubtless be too sanguine to expect the direc- 

 tive impulse for this new development to come from 

 the lumbermen themselves. They are too close to 

 the wastes. They are blinded by the sawdust. But 

 if they fail much longer to grasp the opportunity 

 which has been so long beside them they must be 

 content to see others reap the benefits and profits 

 which will come through control of processes, special 

 apparatus, and, above all, of technique. 



ARTHUR D. LITTLE 



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