The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-11

~ wrong in principle, and unendur-
able and eXtortionate in practice.
Canada had an investigation into
the subject in 1901. which showed that
the American mills had an advantage
of So per ton In the cost Of production
OF print paper. Following that report,
the manufacturers of Canada petition
ed their government to continue the
25 per cent ad yalorem duty on paper
impOrtatIoDs
THE statement of the Booth Mills
in Canada shows the cost OF produc-
tion TO be S34.11 per ton. The testi-
mony before the house committee
shows the cost per ton OF the print
paper made by the International Pa
per company of the United States. TO
be S27.7i Another significant fact
shown in the hearings before the CON-
mittee is that western publishers tes-
tilted that they bought paper from the
| Booth Mills III Canada and paid the
| duty, and then got it for less than
/ they could have purchased it from the
| trust
Our consul in the province of Que
| bee, reported that the laborers in the
| Canadian mills receive as high If not
| higher wages than those in Ameri
can mills. 1t is undisputed by the tes-
| timonv taken by this committee that
| many of the worlemen in the Canadian
mills are American citizens, and re-
| ceive higher wages than when In the
United States
In ffty-nine news print paper mills
in this country, he said, there are 49,"
| 4i9 employees. while the newspapers
| and periodicals, using their output,
employ 1858 persons.
Every one OF these newspaper en-
ployes. he said. is affected by the in
crease in the price of paper which has
taken place in the last few years. The
print paper mills in 1908 had an an.
nual payroll of s10,330,6S2, while the
payroll of the newspapers and period
icals in 1906 was $106.9i9, ,199
"The testimony before the house
committee said Mr Brown. "shows
that the International Paper company
itself went into Canada and purchased
large amount OF print paper to keep
the American publishers from buying
it and this they parcelled out among
| their foreign customers. Because of
| this purchase of foreign paper. the
trust had too great a supply on hand
| and WAS compelled TO shut down twen-
ty-four paper machines while the sur
plus was being consumed In Ameri
can presses. And the protected labor
crs on these twentyfour machines
were compelled 10 find other jobs"
The paper industry has grown and
prospered, he said, until today Ameri-
can mills produce more than 100000
tons OF print paper annually, and are
able to supply the American market.
Ground wood pulp is made very
largely from the spruce tree, with a
limited amount from the nemlock
tree" he said THE spruce is al
ready nearly exhausted in the United
States. The government forest SER
vice estimates that there are fifteen
million acres of spruce forests east of
the Rocky Mountains. the spruce on
the Pacific coast is moro valuable for
lumber, and is used only in limited
quantities for making paper
Senator Brown drew the following
conclusion at the end of his argu-
ment,
"our pulp supply is nearly exhaust
| ed.
THE pulp wood supply of Canada is
apparently inexnaustible.
"Frce pulp would tend to conserve
our pulp wood
1.-THE production cost of print paper
is less in the United States than it
( Is in Canada.
"a ton of news print paper costs in
Canada S29.54 TO manufacture; in the
United States it costs s27.74 per ton.
1.-The print paper market is controH'
ed in the United States by a combln-
ation and whatever duty the law may
fix, will assist the combination In
| that control in violation of the law, to
the injury and outrage of the public.