The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-21
PAPER AND PAPER PULP.

Prior to the session of Congress
which passed tho faith. breaking and
iniquitous new tariff law. there was an
investigation in the matter of paper
and paper pulp, the cost of its produc.
tion, the source of supply of spruce for
making the pulp. the price at which it
could be made, and the proper adjust
ment of the tariff law so as to afford
adequate protection. and at the same
time not actively favor combines and
monopoly in the production of wood
pulp for paper making. Representa-.
tive Mann was chairman of the in.
vestigating committee. Under the old
law. print paper paid an import duty
of three tenths of cent per pound, or
SO ton. The investigation of the
Mann committee resulted in the recon-
mendation f cut of the tariff on
paper to 50 per ton for common print
The law as passed put the duty at
1915 er ton, but il was so worded
that a very considerable amount of
imported paper must pay under the new
law even n greater duty than under the
old. There are so many limiting and
provisional clauses in the law that it
is often very hard to classify paper
and to determine precisely what the
proper duty is under the law Those
who drafted the paper schedule up.
parently were not well informed in the
matter of grades of paper, quality,
finish, and the like. The result is un.
satisfactory. alike to importers and to
home manufacturers and to buyers.
In the meantime a move has been in
augnrated that might have easily
been foreseen. and that was fore.
shadowed in these columns in discus
sions at the time, as 10 what could be
done, either with or without the tariff
This move is that there has been formed
New York syndicate for the manu-.
facture Of paper pulp in Newfoundland
territory. Charles h. Stanford and r.
u. Wing of Bangor Maine, arc members
and managers of this syndicate, that
has acquired huge timber land rights
in Labrador and Newfoundland The
tract they have BOUGHT comprises 1858
square miles, equal TO $500, 100 acres.
about the area of Massachusetts The
tract is heavily wooded a conservative
estimate of the present stand of trees
being 30,000,0 100000 feet. But Mr.. Stan
ford saws that thorough exploration
will disclose nearly double that quantity
OF timber. 1t is reckoned that the
natural increase will Offset the annual
cut in any part OF the territory, so that
the supply of timber is reckoned to be
lnexhaustible on the scale that the syn
dlcate proposes to operate. The Gov
ernment of Newfoundland will re
ceiye an annual rental OF 81 per square
mile for the first year, and So for each
year thereafter for fifty years, with the
privilege of renewal for forty nine wears
more. On all sawed lumber a ROYALTY
of % cents per thousand is to be paid
The syndicate proposes TO erect mills
TO export pulp TO Europe and to the
United States. This syndicate is said
to be Independent of any other syndi
cate or pulp company.
That is precisely what The Tribune
foreshadowed would be the move in case
of unsatisfactory tariff schedules being
passed. British America has an in
eXhauStible supply OF wood for the max.
ing Of paper pulp. Without regard TO
tariff laws, the manufacturers can go
TO Newfoundland. get their concessions,
and operate 10 suit themselves The
shipping of pulp in it's dry state is easy
courage the enterprise. It is practically
certain that this new syndicate viii
ally itself with some big paper concern
or perhaps make an agreement with the
paper combine, or with the chief paper
makers, for the disposal Of it's wood
pulp in this country. With an mex
haustibe supply Of pulp from Labrador.
this syndicate is Independent, both of
the laws of the United States and Of
the Dominion of Canada. Newfound-
land is not in the Dominion, and makes
its own laws and regulations in this
matter, and these appear TO be so fa
vorable that the first move is made
in Newfoundland territory. It is, how.
ever, simply An indication of a world
Industrial movement which will make
industrial enterprises independent of
local governments by SO intrenching