The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-01-16

wOOD 'ROR PAPER COSTS
TwENTY-YIx MHxtONs:
neEuBilshen Pays Much More
for His Stock Than He. Did Last
,yc,. g Year. r.2 e, .4 =.
i To-day there is general complaint
4nongpu6lisheDs thsf ! ? ming pa.
tper IL constantIy growiuy dearer.
1 In the Middle West many local papers
are raising their subscriptions, price
so per centin order to pay for the pa
per. From the time when Gutenberg
first used movable type. made OF
wood. to the present day Of metro
pohtan papers, some of which con-
sumo the product ofRcres of Spruce
In single edition, printing has in
very large degree depended upon the
forest.
In the face OF q thehtened shortags
Eof timber, the amount'of wood con-
sumed each year for pulp has increas-
ed since 1889 from million to 8H mil
iton cords. The year 1905 marked an
insrease of 81. 900 cords in the imports
OF pulpwood, the highest value pr
cord Tor all kinds and a consumption
greater by 489. .053 than that Of, any
previous year.
Spruce, the wood from" which in
1899 three-iourtbs of the pulp was
manufactured, Is still tho leading
Wood. but 1t now produces a little
Tess than 40 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 near
ly constant In spite Of the drains up
on the spruce forests for other pur-
poses. During this time three differ
ent woods. from widely separated
regions, have In turn held the rank
of leader In the lumber 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
quantity less than 100, 900 cords. and
=. ,fs now outranked by hemlock. Pine,
balsam. and cottonwood are used In
much smaller amounts. b..
New York consumes each year over
million and a quarter cords Of
wood In the manufacture of pulp. or
more than twice as mnch as Maine,
which ranks next. Wisconsin. New
Hampsh're, Pennsylvania, audMicA.
follow in the order given. Sixty per
B., cent of the wood used in New York
was. imported from elsewhere, and
.even go tue supply appears to lie
waning, since the total consumption
for tla State shows a small Decrease
!: Since 1905, whereas the other States
pamed have Al increased their con-
sumption. Other States important
:. In the production of pulp are: Mass-
aclrhsetts, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon,
i. Vermont, Virginia, and West Virgin
liza. ~. :.
+ The av,r'ge cost Of pulp delivered
at The niei was $721. The totaI val
ue of the wood consumed in 1906 was
t$26, 400 900. The chief item deter
llp'e'ug the price Of paper is the cost
TO pulp. An example of the INCREASED
prsce OF paper is found IN the case sf
IA publisher of daily in the Middle
West, who recently paid 81, 200 foria
carload OF paper. The same qua..-
ttty and grade OF paper cost a year
ago but $500. y
The chemical processes or paper
making, which better preserve the
wood fiber. are gaining over the me-
chanical process. In 1899, IS per cent
OF tie wood was reduced by the me-
chanicai process; In 1905, less than so
,per cent. ''... {
All importations OF wood for pulp
are from Canada. and comprised, in
! 1905, c39, 900 cords, nearly all OF which
was spruce. Four and a half million
dolla rs'worth Of pulp was imported
in 1905. a slight falling off from 1905
! Circular 1a0 OF the Forest Service
contains q discussion of I he consunp
tion ot pulpwood In 1905, based on
statistics gathered by the Rureau of
the Census and the Forest Service.
The pamphlet can bad upon appli-
cation to the Forester, United States
Department Of Agriculture, Wash
linston, ID. G. 49,. - :,
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