Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-01-10
WOOD FOR PAPER CGsTs s26,OCo.oOO
The Publisher Pays Much More For
his Stock Than He Did Last Year.

nlS S'OCA llldn ne Dl0 Last rear.
Today there is general com.
plant among publishers that print
ing paper is constantly growing
dearer. 10 the Middle West many
local papers raising their SUBJ
scription price so cents in order to
pay for the paper. From the
time when Gutenberg FIRST used
movab'e type, made of wood, to
the present day of metropolitan
papers some of which consume
the product of acres Of spruce in
a single edition has in very large
degree depended upon the forest.
In the face of a theartensd shor-
tage Of timber amount of wood
consumed each year for pulp has
increased since 1899 from 2 million
to 8 million cords. The year
1905 marked an increase of SO, 900
cord in the imports OF pulp wood,
the highest average value per
core. for:all:kinds. and.consump
ton greater BY 469,O53 cords than
that Of any previous year.
Spruce, the wood from which in
1899 three fourth..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 we'll spruce is suited to the
manufacture of pulp is shown bv
the fact that during a period in
which the total quantity of wood
used has doubled and mapy new
woods have been introduced, the
proportion of spruce pulp wood
has remained nearly constant in
spite of the drains upon the spruce
forests for other purposes. During
this time three different woods
from widely seDrated regions have
in turn held the rank of leader in
the lumber supply. Since 1899
poplar which for wears was USED
in connection with spruce to the
exclusion OF all other paper woods
has increased in total quantity
less than 100000 cords and is now
outranked by hpmIock, pine,
balsam. cottonwood ere used il
much smaller amounts.
New York alone consumes each
year over million and quarter
corus of wood in the manufacturing
of pulp, or more than twice a!
much as Maine which ranks next
Wisconsin, New Hampshire. Penn
sylvania, and Michiagn follow in
the order given Sixty per cent
of the wood used in New York
was imported from elsewhere,
and even so the supply appears to
be waning since the total con
sumption of the State shows
small decrease since 1905. where
as the other States named have
all increased their consumption
Other states important, in tn,
production of pulp are; Massachu
settts, Minnesota. Ohio. Oregon
Vermont. Virginia, West Vir
GINA. The average cost of pull
delivered at the mill was 81 81.
The total value of the wood con
sumed in 1905 was S26, 100000
The chief item determining thu
price of paper is the cost of pulp.
A example of the increased price
of paper is found in the case of
publisher OF a daily in the Mi dbl
West. who recently paid Sl20I
for carload of paper. The sam,
quantity and grade of paper cost
a year ago but $500. The chemi
cal processes of piper making
which better preserve the wood
fiber, are gaining over the mocha
meal process. In 1S99,65 per cen
of the wood was reduced by tn,
mechanical process; in 1905, les
than so per cent. All importation
of wood pulp are from Canada
and comprised in 1906. 1900
cords nearly all of which was