19th century pulp and paper — Capital improvements at Palmer Falls

Major capital projects were under way at Palmer Falls in Corinth.

“Work was begun Monday on the extension of the railroad track for the Hudson River Pulp and Paper Company’s mill at Palmer Falls. Ground has been broken for the foundation of another mill for the company,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on Aug. 28, 1895. “There are 20,000 markets of logs at Palmer Falls ready to be drawn from the river to the mills.”

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

1895

• “The Sandy Hill iron and brass works have just received an order for a large paper machine and will commence work on it today. A number of extra workmen have been hired,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 26.

1882

• “The Lake George Pulp Company (at Ticonderoga) is about to increase their business, that is, they are branching out. A paper mill will soon be added to their business, the capital stock is to be increased, and two more partners are added to the firm,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on April 22. “They will commence the new mill as soon as the water in the creek with admit.”

1880

• “DuPoutre, Wyman & Scott’s new patent pulp mill works like a charm. They are already shipping a splendid quality of fiber to market,” the Crown Point Centre correspondent reported in the Elizabethtown Post & Gazette on July 8.
• “The pulp mill at Westport is in full blast and they are making a very excellent quality of pulp,” the Post & Gazette reported on Sept. 16.

1861

• “Negotiations for the occupation of the old factory building as a paper mill are in progress by a company formed in Troy and Ballston. The foundations of a large factory building near the dam are to be laid during the low water of next summer,” The Fort Edward Ledger reported on May 17. “The gentlemen interested in this valuable property are men of means and enterprise, and there is no doubt but what they will carry what they have undertaken to a successful conclusion. The power and location is one of the finest in the country, and nothing is needed but the application of money and skill to become a large manufacturing village.”

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