The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1916-04-21
SURE PAPER FAMINE
Countt, Paper MAY Have to Cut
Down IN Sisrs


= Salt Lake city's Tribune notes .
= that unprrrc,l=ntc conditions =
= p,lst iu the paper trade all over =
= the world. The shortage which =
= h,,am, acute In some ~ the hcl- =
= liE'rrut countries ut IN" out .
4 break uf the war has spread Co =
= co.. United States and nvWEpu. =
= rrrs which were paying 90 ana =
= o.. cents q pound year aEu are =
= meow paying four and five cents. Z
= The consequence b. that many Z
= newspapers In the smaller towns I
= are reducing the size OF. unable I
= Co stand the strain. are ccnHing
= publication 4 short time agn I
= Japanese sent twenty thousand
= dullntH In gold a. this country 60 4
= buy paper. hut the money was I
= returned e. them Japan. Aus
= trnlin aud South America de- 4
= pended for their paper On DER 4
= many ana ns soon ~ hostilitics 4
= began the supply stopped. Then 4
= IN. trade turned a. this country I
= and for u time our paper makers I
= met the demand. hut now they 4
= cannot supply the demand at
= home, IN" average man won.
= dcrs perhaps how the war can
= affect the paper trad" pa Heri-
= uuslN IT," explanation h. Hlm-
= pie Wood pulp " employed In
= the manufacture of explosives 4
= and even rags which are needed I
= tor the production uf the better I
= grades of paper bring higher !
= price Tor the manufacture of !
= guncotton than Tor the making !
\ ut paper There h. an even more
= pronounced shortage IN colored :
= paper than IN any other variety
= ana n. too. h asCrihahle O. the
= manufacture 81 explosives. Coli
= ored news print h dyed with
4 chlorine and all available chlor-
= Inc h. now being employed In
= ammunition factories
= Th. papeTmaker has been
= compelled 10 take loss on the
= supply of papers O. customers
= with long time contracts lie has
= kept Co his contract In most In
= stances, hut now has been com-
= PEELED Co admit that he can no
= longer furnish the dyed paper
= Much 0f the wood pulp that
= went into American paper came
= rom the russian forests THE
= wood was shipped o. Germany
= and Sweden aud ground Into
= wood pulp which was transport
= ID a. this country and turned in
= Ia paper. This supply has now
= been wholly cut off, Formerly
= our paper mills drew largely on
D a -. a.. h.. IlNHFfah
= government D. now using the en-
= tire supply M making cprditc and
= other explosives. American for
= rfts have not been conserved as
= Wcll az the forests 81 Europe In
= European countries two trees
= were planted for every tree cut
= down. only la recent years have
= the European methods ~ COM
= serNation been applied In this
= country and the results are not
= YET of substantial character
Z Entire forests have been trans
= formed into wood pulp and NO
= stops taken a. repair the vast
= age.
10 No paper houses are quoting
= prices except for instant pur-
= chase. No contracts are being
= accepted al any named Figure,
= The price Il dependent on the
= price that prevails az the mill
= al the moment of shipment Job
= hers have taken their statesmen
= OFF the road as a useless expense.
4 while mail orders flow In on the
= mills In excess Of the supply
q . 4