*4 Ml Wtmr "." INTERNATIONAL FALL? PRESS INTERNATIONAL FALLS AN INDUSTRIAL CITY. KETTLE FALLS TRIP (Continued from Page 7.) The following table will give you an idea of the approximate The editor of this paper recently amount of ground wood produced from the various kinds of raw enjoyed a trip to Kettle material. Falls, through the kindness of proprietors Eck and Smith of the I cord of rough wood will make 1800 pounds of ground wood. excursion boat "Koochiching," I cord of peeled wood will make 2250 pounds of ground wood. which makes regular return trips It takes 70 horsepower to grind one ton of ground wood. to that beautiful lake and forest The following- table will give you an idea of the approximate resort between Rainy lake and lllllllllllllllllt amount of sulphite produced from the various forms of raw material: VI Lake Manitou under the direction I cord of rough wood will make 900 pounds sulphite pulp. of Captain Thompson. 4 w&rrj I cord of rossed wood will make 1150 pounds sulphite pulp. The boat left the dock about 10:00 o'clock a. m. and reached its The acid used in cooking the sulphite is manufactured by ourselves destination, fifty miles away, by out of sulphur and lime. We burn 280 pounds of sulphur for one .jP*' the middle of the afternoon, returning ton of sulphite pulp* We use 210 pounds of lime for one ton of sulphite again the following day pulp. It takes 1200 pounds of coal for steam to cook one ton in time for dinner. of sulphite pulp. Kettle Falls is perhaps the In the manufacture of news print paper we use 25 per cent sulphite most scenic part of the lake. It pulp and 75 Per cent ground wood. We also put in about 5 per is at this point where the stone cent of clay for filling. That is shrinkage which goes in the waste and concrete dams are being View of power house and paper mill from down river. in the water. We also- put in certain chemicals, color and alum. built on both the American and Canadian sides, to conserve the The color is used, of course, to bring the paper up to the shade we waters of the upper lakes and rivers want. The alum is used to set the oolor to prevent fading. for use through the summer Our paper machines are running at a speed of 600 feet per minute. months for navigation and power We purposes. have the largest machines running in the .world. These machines These dams have been solidly produce a sheet which trims 176 inches. and rapidly constructed under the Eight hundred pounds of coal are consumed for every ton of direction of Supt. J. A. Smith, and paper made in order to furnish sufficient steam to run the machines foreman John Flynn, who are the best men for this kind of work and for drying the paper. in the state. Mr. Flynn was foreman News print paper can be made of various kinds of wood. The on the construction of the best wood is spruce second best is balsam and then hemlock and large power dam at this city, and poplar. also for the construction of the It can be made of other kinds of wood but as long: as the fine stone Catholic church in this above mentioned kinds, can be secured, the paper will be manufactured city. therefrom. However, when the supply of that wood is exhausted There is quite a good colony of the following can be used: Cedar, tamarack, yellow birch, white people living at Kettle Falls, some birch are homesteaders and others such and gray birch. Not as much success has been met with in as William Randolph and Bergstad, these of the later mentions kinds of wood. who do a good business The'se mills are classed with the largest plants of their kind in the fishing in the upper lakes. Book paper and other grades 220 tons There is also good hotel accomodations for transients owned To keek these industries in operation the following amount of raw and operated by Mr. W. E. Rose material is required annually: of this city, and all kinds of boats Pulpwood required for pulp, sulphite and paper mills in operation. and fishing tackle for the guests 160,000 cords use. A few days spent in the forests and on the lakes and streams around Kettle Falls makes the finest outing possible and is recommended to all. here P00 aLLTi^f JOHN J. ROSS General Superintendent oi Minuesot a& Ontario Power Company. -J VVew of paper and pulp mill at Fort Frances, Ont. vr •i: 1 1 4,. ,.!* _* /v. y'! -s %t J* JS* International foot, wagon and railway bridge, built by M. & O. Power Company. View of bridge and dam—Fort Frances in the distance.