The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-03
Wood for paper costs $25nIIlion
The publisher payS much more for lis
Stock th2n he did last year


I r,,d,F there IS general cNmp'a'nt
among publishers that printing
paper is constantly growing dearer.
IN. the Middle West many local
papers are raising their subscrip-
tion price SO per cent in order to
pay for the paper, From the time
when Gutenberg fist used movable
type, made Of wood, to the present
day of metropolitan papers, some If
which consume the product of acres
of spruce in a single edition, prime
ing has in very large degree dePsn-
ded npon the forest.
Ia the face Of a threatened short
age Of timber, the amount of wood
consumed each year for pulp has
increased since 1890 from mil
lion to 31l million cords The yo
1os6 marked au increase of 93,oco
cords in the imports of pulpwood,
the highest average value per cord
for all kinds, and consumption
greater by l59,o53 cords than that
Of any previous year.
Spruce, the wood from which in
1890 three-fourths of the pulp WAS
manufactured, Is still the leading
wood, but-it now produces a little
less than 10 per cent of the total.
How well spruce is suited to the
manufacture Of pulp is shown by
the fact that during a 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 constantln spite OF
the drains upon the spruce forests
FOR other purposes. During this
lime three different woods, from
wild ely separated regions, have in
turn Id ..s rank Of 'cA.'er in lff
lur Der supply.
Since 1899, poplar, which for
years was used in connection with
spruce to the exclusion of all other
paper woods, has Increased in total
a antity less than 100, 900 cords
and 10 now outranked by hemlock,
pine, balsam and cottonwood are
used in much smaller amounts.
New York alone consumes each
year over million and quarter
cords of wood in the manufacture
of pulp, oa more than twice as much
as Maine which ranks nezt. Wis
:onsin, New Hampshire, Pennsy H.
yania and Michigan follow in the
rider given. Sixty Psr cent of the
vood used in New York was i'm
,orted from elsewhere and even SO
he supply appears to be waning,
S nee the total consumption for e
tate shows a small decrease since
roo5, whereas the other States
iamed have all increased their con
,umption. Other States important
the production of pulp are: Mass
ichusetts, Minnesota, Ohio, Ore
ION, Vermont, Virginia and W,st
Virginia.
The average cost of pulp de-
livsred at tie mill was S7.2I. The
total value of the wood consumed
in 1906 was Sac, 400, 900. The
chief item determine the price of
paper is The cost of pulp. An ex-
ample of the increased price Of
paper is found in the case of pub
Usher daily in the Middle West,
who recently paid St,aoo for car
load of paper. The same quantity
and grade of paper cost year ago
but $500.
The chemical processes of paper
making, which better preserve the
wood fiber, are gaining over the
mechanical process. In Itoo, 6s
per cent of the wood was reduced
by the mechanical process; in 1896,
less Than so per cent.
All impcrtatiOns of wood for pulp
are from Canada aud comprised, in
1926, 739, 900 cords, nearly all of
which was spruce. Four and half
million dollars worth of pulp was