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Mystery industry has Canton folk buzzing

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  • ROAMING THE MOUNTAINS Mystery Industry Has Canton Folk Buzzing By JOHN PARRIS CANTON—The main topic of conversation here this week would be familiar to the townsmen of 60 years ago. Now, as then, folks are talking about the coming of a new industrial plant. But the folks today are a lot more enthusiastic, for the new industry is something they've been working to get and will mark the first real one to locate here in 60 years. Folks really didn't get too excited back in 1905 when Peter Thomson, a printer turned paperTmaker, came down from Ohio and decided to build a pulp mill here. This was an agrarian settle ment then. The population was less than 200. And it was up to its wheel-hubs in mud and mortgages. The magnet which drew Thorn- son to the region was its virgin forest — a fabulous, untouched empire of red spruce, balsam, oak, poplar and hickory. Other things that attracted him to investigate a possible mill site here were clear mountain waters, availability of good workers, and the reasonably short freight haul to his paper mill at Hamilton, Ohio — The —Turn To Page Two
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