The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-06-10
REDUCE PRINT PAPER OUTPUT
On April 80 There Was Less Than
Five Days Supply in America.

Five Days Supply in America.
Washington, June 1O.-That the sup
ply of news-print paper in the Ameri-
can mills has been still further de-
pletcd since March 80, so that on APP
ril 80 there was less than five days
supply on hand, is the purport of a
statement made public by Herbert
Knox Smith, commissioner of corpora
tiOns. The last statement, as of APP
ril showed but 19,9O7 tons on hand;
since then there has been a decrease
of 1,S47 tons. The decrease since
April 80, 1909, has been more than
$4,000 tons.
The normal consumption per day is
said to be about 1000 tons; the pro-
duction about 4,125
Following is the commissioners
statement:
statistics of news-print paper for
April, 1910, as compiled by the Ameri-
can Paper and Pulp association and
! filed with the commissioner of cor
porations, show sharp decline in
production and a further drain upon
| stocks. The total supply on hand on
April 80, 1910, was only $1,000 tons,
| reduction of 1,S47 tons since April
| /. On April 80, 1909, the stocks were
36133 tons Stocks have been stead
| lily decreasing ever since the end of
last August, when they exceeded 3d.
| GOO tons.
CAS- late as January /, 1910, they
In Of lie
continued decrease has, as is known,
been accompanied by a considerable
increase in prices.
"This reduction in stocks is the
more significant in view of the fact
that during the period from January
to April 80, 1909, there was an in.
crease from 20,376 to 36,133 tons, or
over 1900 tons as compared with a
decrease of over $500 tons for the cor
responding four months of 1910.
This reduction in stocks is chief
| ly due to the reduction in output,
which fell from S42l9 tons in March,
1910, to so, 4S9 in April, a net decline
of 1880 tons. In April, 1909, the pro-
duction was 80 AIS tons. The statis-
tics for 1910 show a decrease in pro-
ductiOn in April as compared with
January of 4,O5S, whereas, the same
comparison in 1909 shows an increase
of over 1000 tons. The normal out
put for the month of April, 1910, as
compared by the association, it may
be noted, is 96,53S tons; the actual
output, therefore was only SO percent
of this normal. The decrease is
chiefly attributed to strike in some
of the large mills; the production at
the end of May is said to be close to
normal.
The months shipments were 3d.
1856 tons, or 1,S47 tons more than the
production. The shipments were,
however, only 50 percent of the esti-
mated normal for the month, and
are considerably less than those for
proceeding months of the current year
which have ranged between $4,000
tons and $500
THE stocks on hand as above Civ
en- do not include paper stored by the
manufacturers at destination for ac
count of specific customers, but the
amount of such stored stocks at the
present time is said to be negligi
BILE.
in this general connection it is
really remarkable to note upon how
narrow a margin of supply this in
dustry operates. The average stock
held by manufacturers in the past
year and half would not exceed al
best three weeks consumption, while
the manufacturers stocks on Apr
30, 1910, would not give more thar
p weeks supply. This situation nee
essarily tends toward excessive fluc
tuations in price"