A CACTUS-SLAB FAN 



The fibrous portion of this fan repre- 

 sents the fiber of a cactus leaf from 

 which the pulp has been removed. In 

 the young slab, these fibers are tender 

 and fragile, but they become tense and 

 rigid in the old slabs. An excellent 

 paper may be made from this fiber, and 

 it will doubtless, in time, be put to 

 many other economic uses. 



