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SELLING LUMBER 



Turpentine 

 and Rosin 



Possibilities 

 in Ethyl 

 Alcohol 



have demonstrated these papers on a commercial scale, in co-opera- 

 tion with one of the Southern mills with which we are now work- 

 ing. There is a tremendous opportunity for manufacturers to make 

 Kraft paper from Southern pine waste. Raw pulp is being shipped 

 from Norway by steamer to New York City and hauled by rail 

 to Chicago and then on local freight to Wisconsin and there being 

 manufactured. It grieves me to know that eighty per cent of the 

 wrapping paper used in Brazil and Argentina and other South 

 American countries comes from Germany, and we have the finest 

 material for wrapping paper in the world. I believe this is a great 

 opportunity to convert a large proportion or this waste into this 

 particular product Kraft wrapping paper. 



Then there are two other lines, proceeding from the distilla- 

 tion, largely, of stumps turpentine and rosin. Just before I left 

 I had the pleasure of talking to some Milwaukee capitalists in re- 

 gard to the operation of two plants in the South for making turpen- 

 tine and rosin. They told me that even with the very low prices 

 that have been prevailing they have been able to make a good 

 profit on their investment and they are now considering the in- 

 stallation of five more plants, to be erected in the Florida territory. 



The third product which is now being made commercially from 

 wood waste is ethyl alcohol grain alcohol. One company that I 

 know of that is doing that successfully is the Du Pont Powder 

 Company at Georgetown, South Carolina. They are turning out 

 this ethyl alcohol which had formerly been dissipated in smoke. 

 And now we are operating with the Foreign Products Company in 

 regard to the Fullerton plant; and you know those very extensive 

 alcohol plants at Fullerton, Indiana, never made any money up to 

 date ; but I believe, within a year that plant is going to be put on an 

 operating basis and is going to pay and that we are going to see the 

 installation of quite a number of these grain alcohol plants, not only 

 in the South, but in the northwest territory, up in Idaho, Montana, 

 and the Pacific Northwest. It is a tremendous field for the manu- 

 facturer of this ethyl or grain alcohol from this waste. The total 

 chemical utilization of Southern pine waste now amounts to only 

 250,000 gallons an insignificant item. 



I want to show you a product that is being made from this 

 waste, not only on a laboratory scale, but on a commercial scale ; 

 and right here I would like to interject one remark, so that I will 

 not be misunderstood : It is one period of our organization 



