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DICKSON ON THE ADVANTAGE AND COST 



A most material advantage is, that the waste or tow from 

 all these plants is admirably adapted for paper of the best 

 description, and the value of it for that purpose cannot be less 

 than from £20 to £30 per ton ; or it can be sold at a good 

 profit of ten per cent, less than the best material now used. 

 The profit of this waste* will alone pay all the first cost of the 

 material. 



As examples of the profit derivable from working these 

 patents, the following results have been obtained by the first 

 machines constructed. 



Bombay native-prepared rough hemp, at £15 per ton, re- 

 dressed by Dickson's patent machines, only at an extra cost 

 of £4 per ton, sold at £35 10s. per ton. by Messrs. Stephens, 

 Brothers, Liverpool. 



The rheea fibres can be imported here at from £20 to £30 

 per ton. The better qualities can be worked, by this process, 

 to a condition for spinning and manufacturing into silk and 

 worsted mixed goods. 



J . H. Dickson has offers from responsible parties to supply 

 a definite amount of the rheea immediately and con- 

 tinuously, 700 tons being contracted for to be delivered within 

 twelve months in London, at £25 per ton. 



It may be further stated, that several East India firms are 

 willing to supply any quantity of several of these tropical 

 fibres, delivered in London, at from £15 to £30 per ton; and 

 the whole average cost of manufacture will be only £12 to 

 £16 per ton, by Dickson's patents, when in operation on a 

 full working scale. 



A complete set of machines will cost about £3,500, 

 including the motive power, and which will work about a 

 ton a day. 



* When I say waste, I mean the shorts or sweepings of the clean floors, 

 where the material will be combed that will be too short (not half an inch long) 

 to be spun on cotton or worsted machinery, as I have had bank-note paper made 

 from it by Messrs. Grosvenor, Chater and Co., New Cannon Street, London. 



