Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-10-10
INTERESTING SKETCH
OF MAKING PAPER
Present Shortage and the High
Price Basis of Article.

twolhirds Of the more than billion
pounds OF wood pulp imported into
the United States during the fsca
year ending June 80, 1916, and used
in The manufacture of paper came
from Canada according to com
munication to the National Geograph
ic Society from John Oliver La Gorcc
and issued by the Society As Il hulle.
tin in connection with the govern.
ments inquiry into the increase in
the cost of newspaper
The pulp importations for 1915.
1916 have been $50 million pounds
less than for the previous twelve
months, vet the amount shipped to
us from Canada during the past year
was $50 million pounds in excess OF
her 1914-1915 shipments.
During the year just closed near
ly 20 per cent of our 1,135,000,0o0
pounds of pulp came from our neigh
Dor to the north. while most of the
remaining 80 per cent came from
Norway and Sweden
"Fhe enormous volume and import.
anee Of The paper manufacturing in
dustry in the United States is sci
dom realized by the chief beneficiary.
the average reader According To .the
most recent figures of the United
States Department of Commerce
G91B the value of the annual pro
duction Of the paper mills of this
country exceeds $4,000, 0o0. over $50.
000, 000 of this sum is represented i'll
newspaper 1.3I3.2Si tons. or enough
to print ten and half billion four
tecn.page eightcoumn papers. The
book paper (plain, coated and eover)
output WAS valued AT $4,000, 900 in
1914, an increase Of 81 per cent over
1909. The weight OF this class of pa
per WAS 1850, 95S,600 pounds enough
to print % standard-size magazines
of 120 pages each for every man wo-
man and child in the United States.
For the manufacture of coated OF
calendered paper two essential in
gradients Casein and kasoln are
extensively imported For the nine
months ending March 3lst 1916. our
receipts OF casein from abroad reach
ed the enormous total of 7s1S5,794
pounds, valued al $59S.979. much of
which. OF course. was used in other
parts as well as IN paper manufacture
Casein is the principal ingredient in
cheese, and in its pure form is a
white crumblHe acid substance. Most
of our imported taolin or china clay.
which Is used in the manufacture of
porcelain as we'll as in papermaking,
comes from England, the shipments
from that country for 1915 amounting
to oner 500.00o.o00 pounds, valued at
$1.47S.905 our total imports OF kao
lin from all countries for The year
ending June Goth, 1916, were valued
at 100000 less than the shipments
from England alone the year before.
However much we deplore the
4aiaeeney in raw material for the
Haper market brought about by the
European war, if should not be for
gotten that 10 the benefcient results
of battle fought nearly Il centur-
les arc can be- traced the introduction
Of the art of paper making to The
western world China is credited
with having nurtured the genius who
Grsi conceived the idea OF a writing
material made from fbrous pulp, and
some Investigators profess to have
found evidences that paper existed
IN the Celestial kingdom at least two
centuries before the Christian era.
Whether these claims Of centuries of
priority viii endure the light of fur
cher research, or whether they will
be aiscreditcd just as have been the
same nations claim 10 the invention
of tho mariners compass and gun.
powder. the fact is fairly we'll cstab-
lished that whom the Arabs defeated
raidine army Of Selestals before
tho gates of Samarkand, in the mid
die of Che eighth century, they cap
tured party Of Cinnamon who were
skilled paper makers II WAS from
this city Of Russian Turkistan, once
the capital of that most ruthless OF
Moneol princes, Tamcrlane, that the
rrf Of these captives spread through
Iou Asia Minor and Northern Africa
into Moorish Spain and finally into
italy. where the FIRST extensive fac
tories were established in l276 at
rabrano. stu confer Of the paper
industry in Southern Eurare.
"The Arabs and their Persian as
s-stants are supposed to have used
Gav ard cotton in the manufacture Of
their frsi paper, and subsequently,
RAYS were extensively utilized Cotton
and linen RAGS are still the basis Of
the baat grades of paper, but tho ar
HeIc used bv tho newspapers is made