The Connecticut River Pulp-Mill,
Newton Brothers, Proprietors.
This, which is the only one of the kind in Holyoke, is devoted entirely to the manufacture of wood-pulp, and has a present capacity of four and a half tons per diem. The mill was started in August, 1876, with two washing-engines, a rotary boiler, a rotary bleach-boiler, and two turbines. In September of the same year, additions were made in the shape of furnaces for reclaiming the soda; these were followed by other additions, such as bleach-tubs, tanks, and another wet-machine. In the spring of 1877 the rotary broke, and was replaced by a Dixon digester. On Dec. 1, 1877, a fire broke out in the mill, which threatened to be serious, and which was only extinguished after a loss of $3500. The principal machinery now in the buildings consists of two steam-boilers, two Dixon's digesters, 7 by 18 feet, several soda-furnaces, two washing-machines, 60 by 80, 30 feet long; and a cutting machine or chipper, which cuts up a cord of wood in fifteen minutes. The premises are on the edge of the canal, and are built of brick, two stories high. This establishment manufactures chemical spruce- and poplar-wood pulp. Capacity, two tons per day.
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