Canadian Forestry Journal, April, ic)20. 



157 



How Paper is Made 



SyJ- jV. Stephenson, M.S. 

 Editor of the Pulp and Paper Magazine of Canada 



An Interesting Description Following the Process from the 



Tree to the Finished Roll 



To tell how paper is made in the 

 space of a brief article is a difficult 

 problem, but it will be possible to 

 describe at least some of the more 

 important and interesting features ot 

 the manufacture of Canada's most im- 

 portant manufactured product. Can- 

 adian paper mills manufacture every 

 standard grade and many special 

 varieties of paper, but the kind which 

 makes up the greatest part of the 

 production is newsprint paper. The 

 annual output of newsprint is not at 

 the rate of 800,000 tons, and within 

 another year will be 900,000 tons, or 

 more. It is this kind of paper which 



doubtless is most interesting to read- 

 ers, because about 15 per cent, of the 

 output is used for printing the news 

 of the day in Canadian newspapers, 

 and the rest is exported principally 

 to the United States at a rate which 

 ])ractically amounts to the shipment 

 of $5,000,000 of gold each month, with 

 a consequent stabilizing effect on the 

 rate of exchange. It will be appro- 

 priate therefore, if this description is 

 limited to the manufacture of news- 

 print paper, although the making of 

 other grades involve processes and 

 machinery of a most interesting char- 

 acter which cannot l)e explained here. 



A river of wood destined to feed the daily demand for 4O million newspapers in Canada and the 



United States. 



