Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-11-27
PAPER PRODUCTION.
The Enormous Quantity TuTneo
Out Daily by American MINIS


II ia curious and rather startling
fact that next to the articles enter-
ing into food and clothing paper Is the
most universally used commodity IN
the world. 1t would be an almost I'M
possible task to find in any civilized
community q person or business con-
Germ that does not to greater Oh less
degree make use of paper in some Oh
its various forms Some philosophe.
has said that the civilization ana
prosperity of country may DC
measured by its consumption OF
paper. II this is as fair an index
as seems upon reflection to be reason
able. saws the Philadelphia Times,
statistics prove the United States TO
have distanced all the other nations OF
the world in the race Of true develop
ment. Perhaps no line OF business mas
had moro remarkable growth in the
United States the past ten years than
the paper-malsing industry. This 10
true in all branches, but especially 80
in the line of book and news print pa
pers. The American people are ma
ton of readers, and the rapidly de-
.reasing prices Of books and newspa-
pers have greatly increased the con-
sumption of paper in these two lines.
One or cents will purchase mass OF
reading matter in the form of our great
dailies, consisting Of from eight to six
teen pages, while IL to go cents will
purchase handsomely bound and at
tractive books of standard and popular
authors. The daily output of news
print paper in the United States is
about 1900 to 1900 tons. just think
of 1875 or $50 carloads Of newspapers
mentally dcvoured each day in this
country! The production of news print
is larger than any. other grade. That
of book paper is probably as much as
900 tons and of writing $50 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
piled by the Paper Trade Journal. Th'
gross daily capacity of the paper mill
of the United States in operation dur
ing 1923 for all kinds and grades Q
} paper was estimated at about 1000
tons. OF this amount nearly $500 ton
represented news print and book pa
q per, 1900 tons wrapping paper, $50 ton
y strawboard, $50 tons writing paper an
= almost 2, 400 tons of the various othe
. kinds and grades. The states whic
! rank first in the production of pape
"a are New York, Maine, Massachusetts
q Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio & Ill
\ nois. From these seven states com
"a nearly three-fourths of the entire p;
"a per supply of the country. BY far tn
4. greater part Of the vast output is col
:. sumed in the United States, tt
w greatest paper using country in Il
ne world. In foreign markets, howeve
n. American paper is gaining firm foo
+. ing. The greatest consumption
id printing paper is in the Sunday edition
" Of the metropolitan dailies, which ofts
n. require from 60 to 100 tons for n sing
he issue. With the rapidly increasil
output prices have as rapidly decline
10. until to-day grade of news print T
%. per worth twenty-five years ago
or cents or IA cents per pound is now SO
,er at 211 cents to 3 cents-a decline
m price unequaled in the history OF a
,rs other industry. This enormous {
nd crease in the cost of paper is due
!. pecially to the introduction Of wood
,er paper stock. To-day it is the princiI
.L. material used in the manufacture
,st paper for all but the highest grades
or. book and writing. News print and I
IN. only ordinary but even very attract
on qualities of book paper are made I
ost tirely of wood. Another means ct
nh ducive to this phenomenal reduction
he cost has been the Improvement
ex. methods of making wood pulp. 7
lis perfection and greater efficiency
mt tanned in paper-making machine
Get rendering much larger product
md easily possible in n given time, ha
added materially in this downwa
20 trend Of price.