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Show 6 PAPERMAKIN IN INDO-CHIN of great long masses of the limber material upon whic the boatmen lived in little thatched huts built upon th curved tops of thesilently floating craft. According to th Chinese scholar, Su Tung-p'o (1036-1101), bamboo a afiber for making into paper was in general use in Chin as early as the beginning of the twelfth century In 1912 the defuné Dap Cau paper mill became th property of M. Bouvier,a retired French industrialist o Dauphiné; this gentleman, although in advanced years founded the Société des Papeteries de I' Indochine,an organization that remains to the presentday(1935). Thisven erable paper mill owner passed away while aboard a shi barelya yearafter he had established this highly respecte socicty. The Dap Gau machine paper mill prospered t such an extent that the French company was soon abl to purchase the Viétri bamboo pulp mill, enabling th owners of the paper mill to produce their own pulp. I the year 1935 the Viétri establishment had a capacity o three thousand tons of bamboo pulp. At this same tim the Da Ca mill, locate betwee Lang Thuon an Bac Ninh, on the navigable Song Cau River, produce about four hundred tons of finished paper each month the bamboo pulp being mixed with stock made from ric straw. The Dap Cau plant wassaid to be the only machin paper mill in that part of the Far East regularly makin use of bamboo pulp. A large par of the paper produce by this mill goes into the manufacture of firecrackers o which commodity the Anamese makea billion each year ‘Digital mage © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, Allrights resarved |