Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-09-16
CANADA SUPPLIES
U. s. PAPER TRADE


ported into the United States during
the fiscal year ending June so, 1916
and used in the manufacture of paper
came from Canada" according to |;
communication to the National Geo
graphic Society from John Oliver La
Gorce and issued by the society a.
bullinetin in connection with the
governments inquiry into the increase
in the cost of newspaper.
"The pulp importations for 1915.
1916 have been 1870 million pounds
less than for the previous II month
yet the amount shipped to us from
Canada during the past year is 100 mil
lion pounds in excess of her 1914
1915 shipments.
During the year closed nearly T
per cent of our 1,l35,0OO,OOO pounds
of pulp came from our neighbor tc
the north, while most of the remain,
ing 80 per cent came from Norway
and Sweden.
"The enormous volume and import
ance of the paper manufacturing in
dustry in the United States in seldom
realized by the chief beneficiary, tho
average reader. According to the most
recent figures of the United States
department of commerce Qo14) thu
value of the annual production of tho
paper mills of this country exceed:
| $330.0O0,OO0. Over $50000,000 of thi.
sum is represented in newspaper
l.3l3,284 tons, or enough to print
10 and one half billion l4-page, eight
column papers. The book paper
(plain, coated and cover) output was
valued at $73,OO0,0OO in 1914, an in
crease of 81 per cent over 1909. The
weight of this class of paper was
1865, 5o8, 900 pounds-enough to prin'
80 standardseized magazines of 12(
pages each for every man and chile
in the United States.
"For the manufacture of coated OF
calendered paper two essential ingre
dients-casein and kaolin-are extern
siyely imported For the nine months
ending March 81. 1916, our receipts
or casein from abroad reached the
enormous total of 7, 1894 pounds
valued at $50208o, much of which, o.
course was used in other arts as well
as ia paper manufacture. Casein is
the principal ingredient in cheese
and in its pure form is white crumb
ling acid substance. Most of our i'm
ported kaolin or China clay, which
is used in the manufacture of porce,
ain as well as in paper-making, comes
from England, the shipments from
that country for 1915 amounting te
over 500,000000 pounds, valued a.
81 ,478.o05. Our total imports Of
Aadlin from I'll countries for Ahe
year ending June 80, 1916, were valu-
ed at 100000 less than the ship
ments from England alone the year
before,
However much we deplore the
stringency in raw material for the
paper market brought about by tho
European war, it should not be for.
gotten that to the benehcent result:
of battle fought nearly II centurie:
ago can be traced the introduction o.
the art Of paper making to the West
ern world. China is credited with
haviag nutured the genius who first
conceived the idea of writing ma
tesial made from hbrous pulp, and
some investigators profess to have
fon0A evidences that paper existed il
the Celestial kingdom at least two
cepturies before the Christian era
WhetAer these claims Of centuries Of
priority will endure the hight of fur
Their research, or whether they will
be discredited just IS have been the
same nations claim to the invention
Of the neariners compass and gun
powder, the fact is fairly well establ-
ished that when the Arabs defeated
raiding army of celestials before
the gates of Samarkand, in the middle
of the eighth century, they captured
a party of Chinamen who we're skill
ed paper makers. 1t was from this
city of Russian Turkestan, once the
capital of that most ruthless OF
Mongol princes Tamerlane, that thu
art of these captives spread through
out Asia Minor and Northern Africa
into Moorish Spain and finally into
Italy, where the first extensive fac
tories were established in 1876 a
Fabriano, still center of the paper
industry in Southern Europe.
"The Arabs and their Persian as
sistants are supposed to have uset