19th century pulp and paper — Box company expansion

The Glens Falls Box Company was expanding, creating work for a local machinery manufacturer.

“The J. L. Dix Foundry Company is building two glueing machines for the Glens Falls Box Company,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on Aug 6, 1895. “Three more will soon be built, making in all twelve of these machines in use by the company.”

In other 19th century pulp and paper industry news collected from historic newspapers of the region:

1879

• “The mill of the Glen’s Falls Pulp Company at Ticonderoga is running night and day,” the Elizabethtown Post & Gazette reported on Nov. 26.
• “A pulp mill to occupy the place of the old plaster mill is the latest piece of news from Willsboro Falls. … W. G. Lyon of Essex proprietor,” the Post & Gazette reported on Dec. 4.
• “Prof. L. B. Carlisle bought a half interest in Norman Bly’s patent pulp machine, and they will be manufactured in this town,” the Crown Point Centre correspondent reported in the Post & Gazette on Dec. 25.

1880

• “Another invention of a Crown Point citizen, the Norman Bly pulp machine, will probably make the fortunes of at least two people — Messrs. Bly and Carlisle,” the Ironville correspondent reported in the Elizabethtown Post & Gazette on March 18. “It is said to be the best machine yet produced for the purpose. Prof. C. will undoubtedly have on his hands a more profitable business than teaching.”

1882

• “The Glens Falls Paper Company are placing a 75-horsepower steam engine in their mill at South Glens Falls to be used in low water. The engine was made by the Hartford Engineering Company, Hartford, Conn.,” the Glens Falls Messenger reported on June 23.
• “The Glens Falls Paper Company furnishes the paper for the New York Truth. The paper is made in rolls five miles long, three of which are used every day,” The Glens Falls Messenger reported on Dec. 8.

1887

• “The art of paper making has reached a point where a growing tree may be cut down, made into paper, and turned out as a newspaper all within thirty-six hours,” The Morning Star reported on Dec. 7.

1891

• “The new pulp mill of the Sandy Hill Water Power Company will be started as soon as the ice leaves the river and lets the logs run down,” The Granville Sentinel reported on Feb. 6. “Oren Shaw of Glens Falls has been secured as foreman. He formerly held a position in the late W. Bloomingdale’s sawmill on the same site.”

1895

• “Mr. Ashley, who conducts the pulp mill at Kanes Falls, one mile from the village, has received already several hundreds of pulp wood and has more coming. Mr. Ashley’s mill is said to produce more pulp per grinder than any other paper mill in the world,” the Fort Ann correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Aug. 8. ”Several pulp manufacturers from other parts of the country have made trips here for the express purpose of seeing the mill in operation and to ascertain, if possible, the source of its great productive power.”

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