466 USES OF WOOD PULP. 



boxes are so arranged that only one at a time will become empty, 

 and it is thus never necessary to stop the stone, as each box can be 

 filled without interfering with the others. Immediately above these 

 feed boxes (so called) is arranged a water pipe, from which a small 

 stream of water is forced continuously upon the grindstone, which 

 carries off the coarse ground mass into troughs. The mass is ground 

 again between two stones, which are so cut as to transform the same 

 into the very finest pulp. It then passes through filterers of various 

 fineness. The water is pressed out, the pulp is cut into slabs, and is 

 then ready for use or shipment. The mass too rough to be pulped 

 is formed into bricks and dried in a kiln until very hard. These are 

 called in the market wood bricks, and are used by builders in the 

 inside walls of houses. The only places in Bohemia where wood 

 pulp is manufactured are in Kamnitz, in Kienberg, and in Vestersitz, 

 where it is used in the manufacture of paper. 



HUGO DONZELMANN, 



PRAGUE, November 8, 1898. Consul. 



TRIESTE. 



In response to the inquiry made by circular, I have to report that 

 the wood-pulp industry does not exist in this district. 



BASIL BRYCE, 

 TRIESTE, December 5, 1898. Vice and Deputy Consul. 



BELGIUM. 



ANTWERP. 



As far as it has been in my power to ascertain, and from informa- 

 tion gained from those in the best position to know, the use of wood 

 pulp is confined in this country to the manufacture of paper. I 

 have been told, however, by a Paris importer, with whom a sample 

 lot of about 200 tons of the American product has been placed, that 

 there are manufactories of cardboard in France using the brown 

 wood pulp (half chemical) in making leather cardboard for furniture. 

 I have not been able to ascertain the quantity consumed in this way. 



Within the past year, my attention has been directed to the fact 

 that many varieties of so-called wood pulp exist, prepared chemically 

 or otherwise, according to the use for which they are destined for 

 instance, dry ground pulp, sulphite, soda, and wet mechanical-ground 

 pulp. 



The only inquiry that has been made at this office for the Ameri- 

 can product has been for the bleached dry-soda pulp. The great 

 bulk of the pulp imported into Belgium is, I am informed, of the 



