The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-01-08
Gbe Yourt Girtle.
Paper--Its Cost, and How it AT
fects Printing.

tectS Pr1nClng.
There is no subject which concerns
newspaper and book publishers more
than the cost Of paper. The great in E
crease in the cost--over thirty per cent.
has set all the printers aud publish
ers to discussing the question of a
cheaper supply or corresponding ad-
vance in the price of books and printed
matter. Many of the newspapers have
advanced their price. Some have en-
deavored to meet the difficulty by in
creasing the price Of advertising, 9TH
ers reduced the size oftheirjournalS, but
still the price of paper is upward and
where it will stop while the war con.
tinues cannot be easily foreseen. One
journal discussing the subject says:
We have fifty million dollars worth
of paper manufactured in the United
States annually. Printing paper is
is made from cotton and fax. Cotto
in its raw or manufactured state-cot-
ton waste or rags--is the chief article.
We import two million dollars worth
of rags yearly, and thousands of men
collect rags about the country, while
cotton waste from the factories comes
in as large supply of material. Now
whatever diminishes cotton, or raises
its value, diminishes paper or raises
its value. At present there is little
cotton waste and fewer cotton rags than
formerly: and the price Of rags in those
countries whence we import them must
60 up, since there is scarcity of mate
rial for paper manufacturing in Europe
as we'll as here. If the price advances
sufficiently there will be less printing,
since books will not pay; the size of
newspapers will be diminished and the
price raised, or they will stop. Very
many of the papers that were printed
at small profits, aud depended on sim
gle sales, do not at the present cost of
paper'meet their expenses, and the lar
ger their circulation the worse it is for
the publishers. The cost of printing
paper has not been so high before for
many years, and this, with the prospect
Of its q srOwing much higher, the increased
price ofink and printing material, and
ho national tax, has for the prese Mt
"done up" newspaper publishing
Thousands of papers that have managed
to live arc now losing concerns.
for newspapers has averaged
two or three cents pound less than
cotton, Paper has been selling from
ten TO eleven cents, when cotton was
worth twelve or fourteen. Now cotton is
sixty cents. Butpaper will not follow
far after cotton, for when it reaches
soytain point there is less consumption,
and other materials are used. 1t can be
made Of many hbres as sI5stitutes.-I
Stray giyss . good psper for common
use; 50 does the iugsF bark of forest
trees, and even the WOOD itsclf and
corn huskS will do the same. Mr.. Nor.
ril, in his Chronology Of Paper Max
ing" cnumetstes 103 substances which
have been experimental upon ip yari
GUS countries by paper makers. In the
Smithsonian Institution there is work
on the manufacture Of paper made from
other materials than rags, which is
printed ON more than sixty varieties Of
paper made from as many different ma
tsrials. The works of the MARQUIS do
Xillstte, published in London 10 1856,
in 24mO., are printed on paper made
from marsh.m mallOW: and at the end are
livhy F@-Es s-t.I %, rhs t' 81, 81 ~