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A Chemist's Dream Brings South Vital New Industry
A $6,000,000 mill near Lutkin Texas begins commercial newsprint from pine. Southland Paper Mills uses slash pine after Dr Charles Herty's discovery, with RFC funding and private capital backing. Groundbreaking was Jan 14 1939, capacity ~50k tons annually, 120 tons daily of pine pulp plus chemical pulp, water from five wells.
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Texas
Southland Paper Mills, Inc
Lutkin
United States
Charles Holmes
Herty
Lufkin
Southern Publishers
Dallas
Southern Publishers, Newsprint
FERA
Ernest Lyon Kurth
R. W. Wortham, Jr
J. H. Kurth, Jr
Arthur Temple
Albert Newcombe
Dr. Herty
Washington
Jesse Jones
Cheirran
RFC
SEC
East Texas