Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-01-08
WOOD FOR PAPER COSTS
$20, OOO,O0O--Publisher Has to ray
Much Moro than He Did Last Year.

To-day there is general complaint
among publishers that printing pa
per is constantly growing tisaFer. IN
the Middle West many local papers
are raising their subscription price
DO per cent In order to pay for the
paper, From the time when Guten-
burg hrst used movable tyne. made
8 OF wood, to the present day of metro-
politan papers, some of which con-
sumo the product Of acres Of spruce
in single edition, printing has in
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 1899 from 2 million to
"a million cords. The year 1906
marked an increase of $4,000 cords
In the imports of puipwood, the
highest average value per cord for
all kinds, and consumption greater
by 46S,063 cords than that OF any
previous year.
Spruce, the wood from which In
1899 three-fourths of the pulp was
manufactured, is still the leading
wood, but 1t now produces a little
less than 70 per cent of the total.
How well spruce Is suited to the
manufacture OF pulp is shown by the
fact that during perioo in which
the total quantity of wool used has
doubled and many new woods have
been introduced, the proportion of
spruce pulpwo.'d has remained near
ly constant in spite Of the drains
upon the spruce forests for other
purposes. During this time three
different woods, from widely sepa-
roto1 rnOfnno t,, A.
rank OF leader in the lumber supply.
Since 1899, poplar, which for many
years was used in connection with
spruce to the exclusion of all other
paper woods, has increased in total
quantity less than 100,0 900 cords, and
is now outranked by hemlock. Pine,
balsam and cottonwood are used in
much snu Her amounts.
New York alone consumes each
year over a million and quarter
cords of wood in the manufacture Of
pulp, or more than twice as much as
Maine, which ranks next. Wiscon-
sin, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania,
and Michigan 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
consumption for the State shows a
small decrease since 1905, whereas
the other States named have all in
creased their consumption. Other
States important in the production
of pulp are: Massachusetts, Mime
sofa, Ohio, Oregon. Vermont, Vir-
ginia and West Virginia.
The average cost of pulp delivered
at the mill was s7.2l. The total
value Of the wood consumed IN 1905
was S2G, 100000. The chief item
determining the price of paper Is the
cost Of pulp. An example Of the in
creased price of paper IL found in the
case OF a publisher Of a daily in the
Middle West, who recently paid ST.
200 for carload of paper. The same
quantity and grade Of paper cost a
year ago but $500.
The chemical processes of paper
making. which better preserve the
wood fiber, are gaining over the me-
chantcal process. In 1899, 65 per
cent of the wood was reduced by the
mechanical process; In 1906, less
than SO per cent.
All importations of wood for pull,
are from Canida, and comprised, in
1905, $4,000 cords, nearly all Of
which was spruce. tour and a half
million dollars worth Of pulp was
imported in 1906, a slight falling off
from 1905.
Circular 100 Of the Forest Service
contains discussion Of the consump-
tion of puipwood in 1906, based on
statistics gathered by the Bureau of
the Census and the Forest Service.
The pamphlet can be had upon ap-
plication to the Forester, United
States Department OF Agriculture,
Washington, d. G..
Itching piles provoke profanity,