The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-03-07
MATERIAL PRICES
STILL ADVANCING
JOB PRINTERS AND STATIONERS
ARE DISTURBED.
Paper and Inks Rise RemarElbly-NO
Standing Quotations on the
Latter Offered.
The State.

much QlStQrDeQ over llLc u1iN0A Ce14A No11
dition Of the market in everything used
il the manufacture of printed wo!k,
and of the standard lines carried by
stationery stores. Paper prices have
advanced sharply, and as rule rates
on printing inks are given only on re-
quest. al standing quotations being
withdrawn. a prominent ink maker
writes that one ingredient entering
into the manufacture Of black inks has
advanced 800 per cent.
Unprecedented Advances.
January and February witnessed
continuous and unprecedented ad-
vances in the price of raw material,
and the failure q sulphite importers
and rag packers to make adequate
deliveries on existing contracts forced
writing paper mills making higher
grades to obtain a large portion OF
raw material on the open market at
current prices, necessitating the most
marked advances that the writing pa
per business has experienced in years
Manufacturers Of high explosives
find that they can buy rags, process
them and utilize them as base for
guncotton at a cost Of , cents to 3
cents less per pound than the pres
ent price q raw cotton, and thus offer
a new outlet for packers of the bet
ter grades.
The further fact that Great Britain
on February l. placed an embargo on
the export of all paper makers ma
terials, and that Sweden placed one
on the export Of all pulp, has not help
ed in holding down prices. Those
grades in which new rag cuttings are
largely employed have had to take the
sharpest and heaviest of the advances
made
To aggIavate further the situation,
the demand for bond and writing pa
pers has been increased by leaps and
bounds. so that manufacturers are
sadly behind their orders, and many,
on account of their inability to secure
deliveries of raw materials are unable
to obtain full production from their
mills.
The demand for these grades FOR ex-
port has reached a point where prices
Offered for immediate deliveries are
alluring to some of the manufacturers
and adds another bull factor to the
general situation.
Practically all manufacturers have
advanced prices 20 to 80 per cent, the !
market showing examples where even
hayir advances have been made on
medium priced grades heretofore sold
at prices slightly under market for
similar qualities.
Some Increases Cited.
One Of the largest paper mills in the
country recently wrotes as follows: |
Realizing that it may be diffifult for :
You to explain to your customers the !
advance in prices of papers, We are
giving you be'ow the old as we'll as
new prices on various materials which
We use in making coated and uncoated /
papers:
Casein vas ID cents, now II to.23 !
cents; alum WAS cent, now cents;
soda ash was 65 cents hundred, now
2 1-2 cents pound; rosin was $3.75
barrel. now $500 barrel; bleached sui !
phite was $265 hundred, now ga to /
4 IA cents pound; satin white dry !
weight was cents, now cents; ami
line color was 40 cents per pound, now i
$40 pound; fourdrinier wire was 90 !
cents square loot now 80 cents; wool |
en- and cotton ielts have advanced 10 !
per cent to 40 per cent; thirds and
blues were $135 per hundred, now , |
is cents pound bleach was l IA
cents pound, now cents (unobtain-
able) If YOU will make use O, this in
formation. We belieTe you will find it
easier TO explain to your customers
tie advance in the cost of papers"
The color situation grows more diff |
ficuit-some dyes and colors formerly
employed are no longer obtainable at
any price. Manufacturers are compell-
ed to use substitutes, less reliable in
the matter of uniformity in strength I
and density, and variations in shade !
are common and must be expected
White paper also must be expected to
show some variation in shade, as prac-
fically all whites are artificial and the !
delicate corrective colors formerly en-