The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-18
REPORT ON PULP AND NEWS PRINT PAPER SUBMITTED Paper Is Made in Canada Cheaper Than in
 United States COST OF LABOR SHOWS SMALL DIFFERENCE Wood Pulp Costs Half As Much In Canada As In United States
 and American Mills Are
 Less Efficient

Washington. May 17.-President Taft today sent to the Senate the tariff boards full report of its investigation of the pulp and news print paper in dustry in the United States and Can ada.
 Summarized briefly, the report says that ton of news print paper Is made
 in Canada for $5.35 less than 1t Is made in the United States. The average Canadian cost Is given at $27.5S and the average cost in the United States at $32.Ss. The duty upon ton of news print paper under the present tariff is $3.75.
 The document presents extensive ta- bles. comparisons and other tabula- tions. It Is declared to be the most complete thing of it's kind ever at tempted. The entier force of the tariff board has been engaged upon it for months
 Several factors entering Into the in creased cost of manufacture In the United States are taken up exhaustive ly in the report.
 The principal increases are said to be due to the fact that ton of pulp wood costs nearly twice as much in the United States as 1t does in Canada and that many of the American mills have much older and much less eff ficient equipment than the Canadian mills, which Is said to be responsible for a large increased manufacturing cost.
 In the cost of labor employed. the differences in the two countries are shown to be very small. Taking all the items into consideration as the re- port enumerates them, the comparative costs follow:
 The total average cost of a ton of ground wood pulp in bulk at mill in the United States is $1459; in Can
 ada 1t Is $9.56. The total cost of ton of sulphite fibre in the United States | Is s31.39; in Canada 1t Is $26.47. The total materials entering into the man. ufacture of a ton of news print paper in Canada are shown as s16.s9, and in
 the United States as $22.74. The labor
 cost of ton of paper in the United States is shown to be $3.27, and In Canada 3319. All other allowances for
 manufacturing In the United States are sS.S7 and in Canada $745 Labor costs l in all the items concerned run very
 closely alike.
 Wide Variance One feature of the report shows that | the cost of manufacturing news print paper in the United States varies vide fly. The lowest cost recorded is s24.5o a | ton; the highest, $4S. From this the tariff board strikes an average Of $32.88.
 | At the Canadian mills the lowest price
 recorded for producing ton of news print paper is s2497 and the highest Is
 $3O19; average. s2753 In accounting for the increased cost oi the pulp wood 1t is shown at an Ameri can mill the average cost for ton o wood for ground wood pulp is No23; 1T Canada, $5.70. The average cost of thu
 ground wood pulp entering into a ton o | news print paper in the United States i' given at $1327; Canadian values. S.49 | The average cost of the sulphite fibre ir
 ton of paper at mill in the United States Is given at $s.63; Canadian valua l ton. 0.A manufacturing labor in thu United states, $S.27 and in Canada, $3.1S. To the question of how far American
 mills are on an equal basis for competl | ton with the Canadian mills In the mat ter of equipment. the report presents thu | answer that the total average of equip ment and efficiency is slightly better fo Canada than for the United States.
 It is declared that in A per cent of thu