The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-18
TARIFF BOARD
MAKES REPORT
President Sends Figures on
Pulp and News Print Paper
Industry to Senate.
COST LESS IN CANADA
THAN IN UNITED STATES
Greater Efficiency and Expert
ence i'm First Glass Mills
in This Country.

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 industry
in the United States and Canada.
Summarized briefly, the report says q
ton of news print paper is made in Can
ada for $3.50 ess than II is made In the
United States. The average Canadian
cost is given as S2I.5 and the average
cost In the United States at S32 49, The
duty under the present thrift is $50,
The document presents extensive tables,
comparisons and other tabulations. II Is
said 10 be the most complete thing of
the kind ever attempted, The entire
force of the tariff board has been en-
gagged upon IL for months
Several factors entering into the in
creased cost of manufacture in the United
States arc taken up eXhaustively in the
report, The principal increases are said
10 be due to the fact that a ton of pulp
wood costs nearly twice as much in the
United States as 1t GOES In canada and ana
much older and much less efficient equip
ment than the Canadian mills
The cost of labor In the TWO countries
is shown TO differ little.
The Cost Compared.
Taking all the items into considera-
ton as the report enumerates them the
comparative cost follows
The average cost of a ton OF ground
wood pulp at a mill In the United states
is s14,59 and in Canada it is s9.5S; The
total cost of n ton OF suphite fiber in
the United States is s3l.39 and In Canada
It is S26.47.
The total materials entering into the
manufacture of ton Of news print paper
the United States as s22.I4. The labor
cost of ION OF paper In the United
States is shown TO be $3.27 and in Can
ada s3.19. All other allowances FOR manu-
featuring costs in the United States are
s6 81 and in Canada S745. Labor costs
In all the Items concerned run very close
ly alike.
One feature OF the report shows that
the cost OF manufacturing news print pa
per In the United States varies widely.
The lowest cost recorded is $3.50 ton:
board strikes an average of s32 SO.
At the Canadian mills the lowest price
recorded for producing ton Of news
print paper is S24.97 and the highest is
s30.1S. The average is S2I5S.
In accounting for the increased cost of
the pulp wood II is shown at an Amcri
can mill the average cost for ton OF
wood for ground wood pulp Is Sl0.23; in
Canada s5.I0.
The average cost OF the ground wood
pulp entering into ton of news print
paper in the United States Is given at
1891: Canadian value sSi9. rhe av-
crage cost of the sulphite fiber in n ton
OF paper at a mill In the United States
Is given at $3.50. Canada s7il; manu-
and in Canada s3 319.
Labor Efficiency.
In treating upon the subject OF the
labor efficiency in Canada the report
says.
1T would seem then. with modern
mills, American machinery. American
trained managers and superintendent
and American skilled operatives. togeth-
er with lower rates OF wages for un
skilled men. the Canadian manufactur-
ing labor cost per unit OF production In
the modern and we'll equipped mills Of
Canada would be considerably lower
than In the modern and we'll equipped
mills of the United States"
The tables show, however, that the
Canadian labor cost per ton OF news
print paper is only slightly lower on the
average, That 4l,5 per cent Of the tom
mage in the United States carries a man
ufacturng labor cost OF less than IS per
under So. The total average for the
United States is S3.27. as against 1913
In Canada s advantage in average equip
ment. This indicates there is greater
efficiency and experience in the first-class
mills of the United States. Regarding
American labor. the report says:
The wages In the groups OF occupe
tions in which the proportion OF skilled
| employees is larec-as. for example. oc-
cupation in news print paper mills-are
! the lake states while the contrary is
true OF the wages In the groups OF oc-
cupatlons In which most Of the en-
ployees do work requiring little skill or
training. This is probably due TO rel
ative scarcity in Canada OF skilled work
ers'
The boards report makes no attempt
TO go into the subject Of profits Of news
print paper mills. but II refers to II in
treating on depreciation