The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-06-09
GROWING USE OFF PAPER.
ONE OF THE GREAT AMERICAN
INDUSTRIES.
over Eight Thousand Tons Daily-This
ls Now the Wonderful Cap2city of
j, american Mills-Wood Largely Used
in Its Manufacture.


Is Now the Wonderful Cap2city of
| American Mills-Wood Largely Used
in Its Manufacture.
1t is curious and rather startling
| :act that next to the articles enter
! ing into food and clothing, paper is
| tne most universally used commodity
IN the world. It would be an al
most impossible task to find in anv
civilized community person or
business concern that does not to a
greater or less degree make use of
paper in some Of it's various forms.
some philosopher has said that
the civilization and prosperity
! OF country may be measured
Dy It's consumption of paper. If
this is as fair an index as it seems
| upon reflection to be reasonable.
statistics prove the United States to
have distanced all the other nations
or the world in the race of true de-
Eve]opment. Perhaps no line of busi-
ness has had a more remarkable
growth in the United States the
past ten years than the paper
making industry. This is true in
all branches, but especially so in
I the line of book and news print
Ipapers. The American people are a
natlon OF readers, and the RAPIDLY
decreasing prices of books and news
papers have greatly increased the
consumption of paper in these two
lines One or two cents will purchase
a mass of reading matter, in the
form OF our great dailies. consisting
OF from eight to sixteen pages, while
twelve to twenty cents will purchase
handsomely bound and attractive
books of standard and popular
| authors.
The daily output of news print
paper in the United States is about
l,2O0 to 1000 tons. Just think of
1926 or $50 carloads of newspapers
mentally devoured each day in this
country. The production of news
print is larger than any other grade
That of book paper is probably az
much as 1000 tons, and of writing
450 tons each daily.
1t will be interesting here to quote
some of the figures of the paper in
dustry in the United States, as COM
i piled by the Paper Trade journal,
ts.The TT gross daily capacity of the
! paper mills Of the United States in
1ffs,poration during 1929, for all kind 8
and grades of paper, was estimate d
at about 10000 tons. Of this amount
nearly $500 tons represented news
print and book paper, 1900 tons
wrapping paper. $50 tons straw
board, 45O tons writing paper, and
almost 2,400 tons of the various
other kinds and grades. The states
which rank first in the production of
paper are New York, Maine, Massa-
chusetts, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania
Ohio ane illinois. From these seven
states comes nearly three-fourths of
the entire paper supply of the coun-
try. By far the greater part of this
vast output is consumed in the
United States-the greatest paper
using country in the world In for
elen markets, however, American
paper is gaining a firm footing.
For some years paper has been ex-
ported in quite large quantities from
the United States to South America,
and the low prices which at present
obtain will doubtless tend greatly to
Increase this demand. The increas-
ing popularity of newspapers in
South and Central America and the
absence OF vigorous local competition
in the manufacture of paper have left
the field open to the producers of the
United States. American paper is
now beginning to be sent in large
quantities to Europe, a new and
promising field for the absorption of
the surplus in the home market.
Many OF the leading paper concerns
in this country have established
agencies in England and elsewhere in
Europe to foster and promote the
already increasing trade
| The greatest consumption of print
ing paper is IN the Sunday editions
Of the metropolitan dailies, which
often require from fifty to 100 tons
for single issue. With the rapidly
increasing output prices have as
rapidly declined. until to-day a
grade of news print worth twenty
| five years ago thirteen or four
teen cents per pound, is now sold
at two and half to three
cents-a decline in price uneoualled
in the history of any other industry.
! This enormous decrease in the
price of paper is due especially to
the Introduction of wood as paper
stock. To-day it is the principal
material used IN the manufacture of
paper, for all but the highest grades
of book and writing. News print,
and not ordinary, but even very at
tractive qualities of book paper are
made entirely of wood Ana her
means conducive to this phenomenal
reduction of cost has been the i'm
Frovement in methoos of making
wood pulp. The perfection and
greater efficiency attained in naper-
making machinery, rendering much
larger production easily possible in
a given time, have added materially
in this downfall trend of price.
! The man who thinks the how who