El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-03

VIE meeting of the International
4 Association of Pulp Sulphide
and Paper Mills Workers in an
nual convention at Albany. Ne'v
York, today, and the labor trou-
bles now on between the paper
mill workers and the mills. no less
than the declared intention of Quebec
10 follow the suit of Ontario in pro-
hibiting the expectation of unmanu-
featured wood and pulp from its crown
lands, all together serV to bring the
paper question again t6'the front New
foundland will not allow unmanufac-
tured wood to leave the colony. and
Ontario, with the 100000 acres of
timber suitable for paper making. pro-
hibits its expectation. With Quebec
following suit and British COLUMBIA
likely to fall in line at no distant day.
conditions are rather gloomy for the
manufacturer of pulp and paper. as
well as for those who have to bny
either.
Print Paper May Cost More.
1t was stated freely in the course of
the debates on the tariff that if Can
ada should decide to forbid the export
alton of manufactured wood from lis
provinces. as had already been dore
in the case of two. it might force the
has been. Heretofore Quebec i-2s lad
a license tax of 40 cents a cord on ali
timber cut on crown lands, with an
added tax of % cents if it were cut for
manufacture outside of Canada. This
has meant that the United States has
had TO pay a Canadian export duty of
25 cents a cord for all pulp wood re-
ceived from there. What the outcome
of the present legislative situation in
Canada will be no one can pred ct
with safety. but many believe that it
will force publishers TO pay more than
ever before for print paper.
VIII Affect Newspapers.
And this falls particularly hard upon
newspaper publishers. They cannot
very we'll increase their selling price,
as the tendency seems to be down in
stead of up. Some industries may find
the rise in the price of raw materials
an excuse for making a two-fold in
crease in the price of the manufac-
tured product. But this is not true of
the publisher. 1t was one instance
where the ultimate consumer" the
newspaper subscriber in this case, was
not the sufferer when print paper went
up so sharply two years ago. The adj
vance was variOusly estimated TO ag-
gregate from s1O.OOO,OOO to $4,000. 900
a year. and it came at time when
the advertisers were cutting down their
contracts and the sales of papers were
falling off The burden all fell on
the publishers themselves.
Process of Manufacture
In order thoroughly TO understand the
basic principles of paper making from
wood it must be remembered that wood
consists of fiber and binding materials.
the fiber corresponding 20 the brick
and the binding materials to the NOR
tar in a brick wall To make pulp for
paper it is necessary to separate the
fiber from the binding material: the
former being used and the latter ex-
Guided from paperma king. This is ac-
by three different processes.
The vast majority Of the pulp used in
print paper making is produced by a
mechanical process. Much of the high !
Pr grade paper is produced by an acid |
process. while the remainder is pre-
pared by the use of an alkali. The sui +
phite workers make pulp by the acid /
process. sulphurous acid being the
chemical agent through which the
binding materials are separated from
the fiber
Paper made by the sulphite method
usually is Of higher grade than that I
made by the mechanical process. and /
the pulp costs just about twice as
much. or upwards of $50 a ton. II is
lsed mainly in the production of book
PAPER. though a small percentage of II
s used to mix with mechanically pro-
uced pulp in the manufacture of pulp
or newspapers. Anyone who has
watched a small boy turning A grind
tone while his father sharpened an
axe. has fair Idea Of the way in