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VI. POWER PLANT. 



Steam engine for main mill, 325-horsepower 5,000 



Steam engine for wood-preparing room, 100-horsepower 1,500 



Four steam boilers, each 200-horsepower 7,500 



Feed water beater ■. 



Feed pump I 3,000 



Other boiler-bouse equipment except piping ) 



Main pump , 30Q 



Tank for fresh water 800 



Tank for weak soda washings 600 



Shaftings, belting, etc. (all power transmission), with labor.. 4,000 



Piping through mill with labor 7,000 



Filter plant 2,500 



Electric lighting plant, wiring, etc 5,000 



VII. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 



Foundations for machinery 1,000 



Labor not counted for, (erecting machine, etc.) 1,000 



Fire protection: hydrants, pipe, and pump 2,500 



Shop and tools 1,500 



Spare parts and repair stock 1,000 



Office fittings . 1,100 



Total 110.000 



Cost of construction work, buildings, installation, etc., based 

 on estimates on specifications submitted to local con- 

 tractors - 25,000 



Launch carrying supplies, towing coal and limestone barges.. 5,000 

 Barges, limekiln, trucks and portable tracking from tide 



water to mill site 20,000 



. Working capital 40,000 



Total :. 200,000 



CONCLUSIONS. 



It is believed that 200,000 dollars United States currency is sufficient to 

 build, equip, and operate a soda pulp mill of 20 tons capacity daily. 

 Such a plant built in a modern manner and efficiently operated will 

 produce unbleached air-dry bamboo fiber at a maximum cost of 21 dollars 

 per 'short ton, f. o. b. Manila. If the excellent quality of bamboo soda 

 pulp, prepared under favorable conditions is considered, a profitable export 

 trade with Japan, Europe, Australia, and the Pacific coast, in direct 

 competition with chemical wood pulp at present quotations, appears a 

 not unreasonable expectation. 



One consideration it seems to me is of especial importance, and that 

 is the reasonable possibility of obtaining the raw material in such quan- 

 tity and at such a figure as to allow of manufacture at a profit even 

 under conditions of maximum cost. 



The above opinions are the result of several years of laboratory in- 

 vestigations of the raw materials for pulp making,' and the problems 



