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nature of the wood—particularly its high content of resins—have demanded
many years of painstaking investigation to make the project a commercial
possibility. The advantages of being able to use trees which grow to maturity
in a dozen years or so have been a very attractive goal in developing this under-
taking, and the new factory now in operation near Lufkin, Texas, may well
be the forerunner of an important Southern newsprint industry.