The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1908-01-05
WOOD FOR PAPER COSTS
TWENTY-SIX MILLION
The Publisher Pays Much More For
His Stock Than He Did
Last Year.

per is constantly growing dearer. In
the middle west many local papers
are raising their subscription price
so per cent in order to pay for the pa
per. From the time when Gutten-
berg first used movable type, made Of
wood to the present day OF metro
p0litan papers, some of which con-
sumo THE product OF acres of spruce
in a single edition, printing has IN
a very large degree depended upon
the forest
In the face OF threatened short
age OF timber, the amount OF wood
consumed each year for pulp has in
creased since 1900 from million to
3 and II million cords. The year
1906 marked an increase of $4,000
cords III the imports OF pulpwood, thu
highest average value per cord Tor
all kinds, and a consumption greater
by 46o,o53 cords than thai OF any pre-
vious year
Spruce, the wood from which in
1900 three-fourths of the pulp was
manufactured, is still the leading
wood, but 1t now produces little
less than 70 per cent OF the total. How
well spruce is suited to the manufac
ture OF pulp i shown by the fact that
during period in Which the total
quantity OF wood used has doubled
and many new woods have been in
,roduceb, the proportion of spruce
puIpwood has remained nearly con-
slant in spite of the drains upon the
spruce forests for other purposes.
During this time three different
woods, from widely separated regions
have in turn held the rank of leader
in the lumber supply,
Since 1900 poplar, which for years
was used in connection with spruce
to the exclusion of all other paper
woods. has decreased i'll total guam
tity less than 100000 cords, and is now
outranked by hemIock., Pine. bal
sam. and cottonwood are used in
much smaller amounts.
New York alone consumes each
year over d million and quarter
cords of wood in the manufacture OF
pulp, or more than twice As much
as Maine, which ranks next Wiscon-
si;l, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania
| and Michigan follow in the order Civ
| Ell.
Sixty per cent OF the wood used
in New Y ork was imported from else
here, and even so the supply seems
to be waning, since the total consun
ton eof the state shows a small de
| crease since 1905, whereas the other
states named have all increased their
consumption. Other states import
ant III the production OF pulp are
| Massachusetts, Minnesota, Ohio, Ore
gion, Vermont, Virginia, and West Vii
ginia
The average cost of pulp delivered
at the mill as Sz.2I. The total valuy
of the wood consumed in 1906 wa:
S26.4oo,ooo. The chief item determine
ing the price OF paper is the7eost o
pulp. An example of the Increase
price Of paper is found in the CASE
OF publishing of daily in the. mid
die west, who recently paid $1,000 fot
a carload OF paper The same guam
tity and grade of paper cost a yea,
ago but $500
The chemical process OF paper max
ing, which better preserves the. woo,
fibre, are gaining over the mechani
cal process In 1890. O. per cent o
the wood was refused by the mechai
ical process; in 1906, less than so pc
cent
All importations Of wood for pull
are from Canada, and comprised il
1906, 10000 cords, nearly all .
which was spruce. Four and ha'
million dollars worth OF pulp was i'm
ported in 1906, 4 slight falling 9:
from 1905.
/ Circular 40 of the Forest Servie
contains a discussion of the consuln
ption Of pulpood III 1906. based o.
statistics gathered by the Bureau o
Census and the Forest Service
The pamphlet can be had upor
application % the Forester. Unite
States Department of Agriculture
Washington, d. c.
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