Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-29

sented separately for the nrst uine' fHoy
formed 26.6 per cent of all newspaper anu
periodical establishments and contrfDute.
D.6 per cent of the total newspaper ana
periodical product.
100000 Tons of Paper Used
No increase in the industry has been
more striking than that reported for the
number of pounds Of paper used. VI tne
total amount of paper manufactures II,
1905 more than 100000 tons were useu
solely for newspapers and periodicals
renresenting almost one-thrd of the en-
tire output of the paper mills OF the
United States. To make this paper re-
qured the services of nearly lo,VOO men,
and represented approximately S'VOoVVV
in wages. These mills used as raw ma
terial 1900. 900 lords of spruce, poplar ana
hemlocl logs, representing the timber
product of approximately lOoOoo acres
exclusive of the logs imported from Cah-
ada. Thus every working day in the
year the forests of New England and the
middle states, with scattered areas else
where in the north and northwest, yielded
approximately 1,765.000 feet Of timber to
be transformed into the newspapers ana
magazines required to supply the people
of the United States.
The great increase in the amount OF
paper used is due as much to the lncreas-
ing size of newspapers and perioulcals as
to increasing circulation This increase
in size results not only from the con-
stantly extending use of typesetting ma
chimes. but also from increasing re-
sources acquired during an unusuaily
long period of prosperity.
During the twenty-five years from 1881
to 1905 the number of newspapers ana
periodicals of all classes in the united
States practically doubled. OF the lO,OOO
publications thus added, one-third was
contributed by each of the first two de-
cades and the remaining one-third by Inc
half decade from 1900 to 1905. The increase
in number of publications, therefore was
twice as rapid during the last fve-year
period as during the two previous de-
cades.
The changes in the proportions of morn
ing and evening newspapers were much
less rapid during the five years from lsOU
to 1905 than during the previous decade
Morning newspapers increased IL per cent
in number and evening newspapers 11.S
per cent, as compared with ga per cent
and 55.2 per cent during the previous de-
cade. Thus, while the evening news
papers continued to increase in number
somewhat faster than the morning news
papers, the excess of the increase of the
former over the latter was but It's In
1906, as compared with 1896 in 1900.
Probably the earliest returns of any
branch of Industrial statistics, possessing
even approximate value, Is the table pub
lished in the compendium of the seventh
census, presenting statistics of aggregate
circulation of all classes of publications
in 1910. From this table 1t appears that
practically century ago there were S5s
newspapers in the United States, having
an aggregate circulation per annum OF
22,321, 700
The aggregate number of copies of all
newspapers and periodicals in the United
States published during the census year
1905 was 10,325, 143,1SS. This was an in
crease of 31.4 per cent during the five
year period, or practically one-third.
There were sixty-eight copies of daily
papers issued in 1900 for every inhabitant
of the United States, per capita which
rose to eighty-eight copies in 1905; for the
weekly the corresponding per capita was
twenty.three in 1900 and twenty-four in
1905, and for the monthly six and nine
respectively.
Circulation Statistics
The aggregate circulation per issue Of
all publications more than quadrupled
from 1880 to 1905, an increase which ap-
peared with noteworthy uniformity in all
geographic divisions, the total reaching
139, ,9S9, ,229.
In 1880 but six states reported an aggre-
gate circulation per issue for all classes in
excess of 1.006,OOO copies, and but two
New York and nnsylvania-reported an
aggregate circulation in excess of 500o,-
900 copies. In 1905 eighteen states report
ed an aggregate circulation in excess of
100000 copies, and seven had circula-
ton in excess of 100000 three having
circulation per issue of 15000,000.