The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-03-16
PRINTERS SARECATCHINGIT
PRICE OF PAPER GOING Up BY
LEAPS AND BOUNDS.
War is the Chief Cause.-Al Manu-
facturers of Paper and Other
Material Have Raised Prices.

Job printers and stationerS are
very much disturbed over the uncer-
tain condition of the market in every
thing used in the manufacture of
printed work, 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 request, all stand
ing quotations being withdrawn. A
prominent ink maker writes that one
ingredient entering into the manufac-
ture of black inks has advanced 800
per cent
Unprecedented Advances.
January and February witnessed
continuous and unprecedented ad-
vances in the prices of raw material,
and the failure of sulphite importers
and rag packers to make adequate
deliveries on existing contracts forced
writing paper mills making the high
er. grades, to obtain large portion
of raw material on the open market
at current prices, necessitating the
most marked advances that the writ
ing paper 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 cast of two cents to
three cents less per pound than the
present price of raw cotton, and thus
offer a new outlet for packers of the
better grades.
The further fact that Great Brit
ain, on February /, placed an embar-
go on the export of all paper makers
materials, and that Sweden placed
one on the export of all pulp, has not
helped in holding down prices. Those
grades in which new rag cuttings are
largely employed have had to take
the sharpest and heaviest of the ad-
vances made.
To aggrevate further the situation,
the demand for bond and writing
papers has been increasing 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
export has reached point where
prices offered for immediate deliv-
cries 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 heavier advances have been
made on medium priced grades here
tofore sold at prices slightly under
the market for similar qualities.
Some Increases Cited.
One of the largest paper mills in
the country recently wrote as fol-
lows:
"Realizing that it may be difficult
for you to explain to your customers
the advances in prices of paper, we
are giving you below the old as we'll
as new prices on various materials
which we use in making coated and
uncoated papers:
"Casein was II cents, now II to %
cents; alum was 1 cent, now 3 cents;
soda ash was 65 cents hundred, now
21h cents pound; rosin was 1915
barrel, now $3.50 barrel; bleached
sulphite was $3.50 hundred, now 3 II
to AZ cents pound; satin white dry
weight was 5 cents, now 9 cents;
aniline color was 40 cents per pound,
now $40 pound; fourdrinier wire was
29 cents square foot, now 80 cents;
wooden and cotton felts have advahc-
ed 10 per cent to 40 per cent; thirds
and blues were $1.35 per hundred,
now 2H cents pound; bleach was
IL cents pound, now cents Gun
obtainable). If you will make use of
this information we believe you will
find it easier to explain to your GUS
toners the advance in the cost of
papers,.
The color situation grows more diff
fcult-some dyes and colors former
ly employed are no longer obtainable
at any price. Manufacturers are COM
PEELED to use substitutes, less reliable
in the matter of uniformity in
strength and density and variations
in shade are common and must De
expected. White paper also must be
expected to show some variation in