Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-12-05
INCREASED COST
OF PAPER.
Millions of Cords of Wood Used An.
nualIy In Making Paper.

Washington, Dec. 3.--Today
there is general complaint among
the publishers that printing paper
constantly grows dearer. In the
middle west many local papers are
raising their subscription price
fifty per cent in order to paw for
paper. From the time when
Gutenberg first used movable type,
made OF wood, to the present day
metropolitan papers, some OF which
consume the product OF acres OF
spruce in a single edition, printing |
has in very large degree depended
upon the forest.
In the face of a threatened short
age of timber, the amount OF wood |
consumed each year for pulp has
increased since 1899 from two
million to three and a half mill on
cords. The year 1907 marked an
increase of $1,000 cords in the inn
ports of pulpwood The highest
average per cord for all kinds and
consumption greater by 400, 053
cords than that of any previous
year.
Spruce, the wood from which in
1889 threc-fourths of the pulp was
manuf actured, is still the leading
wood but it now produces a little
less than seventy per cent of the
total. How we'll spruce is suited
to the manufacture of pulp is
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period in which the total quantity
of wood used has doubled and many
new woods have been introduced,
the proportion of spruce pulpwood
has remained nearly constant in
spite of the drains upon the spruce
forests for other purposes. Dun ing
this time three different woods
from widely separated egions,s
have in turn held rank of leader in
the lumber supply.
Since 1899, poplar, which for
years was used in connection with
spruce to the exclusion of all paper
woods, has inr eased in total guam
tity less than 100, 600 cords, and is
now outranked by hem ock. Pine,
balsam and cottonw ODD are used in
smaller amounts.
New York alone consumes each
year over million and a quarter
cords of wood in the manufacture
of pulp, or more than twice as much
as Maine, which ranks next. Wis
consin, New Hamsh;re, Penn
sylania and Michigan following in
order given. Sixty per cent of the
wood used in New York was i'm
ported from else where, and even
SO the supply appears to be waning
since the total consumption for
the sta e shows a small decreass
since 1905, whereas other states
named have all increased their
consumption. Other states impor-
tant in the production of pulp are
Massachusetts, Minnesota, Ohio,
Oregon, Vermont, Virginia and
West Virginia.
The average cost of pulp de-
livered at the mills was 81. 21.
The total value of TIE wood con-
Su ucu III iSuO was pzO, fUU, UOU.
The chief.item dete mining the
price of paper is the cost of pulp.
An example of the increased
price of pape.' is found in the case
Of pu' Usher of daily in the
middle west who recently paid
$1,000 for carload of paper. The
same quantity and grade of paper
cost year ago $500.
1 The chemical processes of paper
making which better preserve the
wood fiber arc gait3ing over me,
chanical process. In 1899, 65 pei
cent of the wood was reduced by
the mechanical process; in 1905
less than SO per cent.
All imrortations of wood for pulE
ate from Canada and comprised II
io06t730, 90 cords, nearly all o
which was spruce.
Four and a half million dollars
J worth of pulp was irnpor ted II
1906, slight falling off from 1905
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