The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1915-12-23
ALL PRICES GO SKY-HICH
ON MOST LINES OF PAPER
PRINTERS GIT 1T I'm THE NECK"
ALL AROUND.
Sharp Advance in Type. Machinery.
Paper and Other Things
Necessary


bear in the way Of increased cost OF
production in the last year as the
newspaper and printing business. The
price Of type and paper has been adj
yanced two or three times since the
European war began, and now notice
comes that there is TO be q still fur
Their advance.
The demands Of the munitions man.
ufacturers for metal TO make bullets
and other death-dealing missiles has
been so great that there has been a
steady increase in the demand. The
principal ingredient used in bullets is
lead and tin, and these are the con.
stituent elements in the manufacture
Of type and linotype metal. For many
years the type founders have had a
printed price List on type, from which
ten years ago, discount Of as per
cent was given. This discount was
gradually reduced from year to year,
and when it got down to Is per cent,
printers thought they were being rob
bed, but now all the discount has been
wiped out, and all prices are list,
with a threat that even these prices
may be advanced at any time. In
other words, the price of type has
nearly doubled in ten years, which
means an advance OF nearly 100 per
cent.
And this is also true of paper For
the past year there has been steady
advance in the price of all kinds Of
paper, and all the big houses are now
sending out notices that there is like
| " to be still further advance, be
cause Of the difficulty Of securing the
necessary dies used in the manufac
ture of certain grades of paper for
commercial printing.
Has the increase in the price of the
finished products of newspaper men
and printers been advanced to meet
this increased cost in production Not
on your tintype. The poor, deluded
printer man, fearful that he will lose
an order, goes right on and prints let
ter heads, envelopes and the thousand
and one other kinds of printing that
comes into printing Office day by
day, at the same old prices that he
received one, two, three, or four years
ago, and as a result large majority
Of the printers, especially those known
as country editors" are on the rag
ged edge" financially all the time,
unable to meet their just obligations,
and wondering why they are so hard
up. The answer may be read in the
following notice, similar to many the
Sentinel has received, just at hand
from the Graham Paper Co., the larg-
est house of its kind in the world.
viii the newspaper men of Missis-
sippi wake up and meet this increased
cost like other business men, by de-
manding a sufficient increase in the
selling price Of their wares to meet
the increased cost in producing them:
"To Our Customers: Important in
formation regarding co,ored papers
and prices: Every one is more or less
familiar with the present scarcity Of
dyes. the majority Of which have been
imported from Europe, and manufac-
turers Of colored goods of all sorts
have been warning the American pub
lie of the constantly increasing short
age.
paper manufacturers especially
have been up against it on account /
Of the large quantity of color neces-
sary TO dye paper pulp.
For the past year they have been I
getting along after fashion by trad I
ing with each other and by buying 1
any available stock at largely increas-
ed prices, some having paid 1000 per
cent advance over former prices to Sc
cure some particular shade. Under
these conditions the cost of many va
rict;es of papers has advanced con-
siderably.
Bond papers Of the medium grades,
such as Arcadia and cheaper, cost &c
more for all colors except Goldenrod,
which is iisc more than the price Of
white.
~Colored Poser Colored NJ. F. and
S. & S. C. Book and S. & S. c. Covers
have advanced from &c ID. for light
colors to 2isc for Mandarin and Ok
blood lthe latter is no longer obtain
able and we can supply only what We
have in stock.)
Amber Traffic Writing. Magnolia
Colored Laid. Check Superfne have
advanced &c a ID. and after a short
time Amber Traffic viii be made in .