The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-12

bringing the annual output up TO 100000
tons q year o. more. The improvements
include one new fifty ton machine In
the Brompton Pulp and Paper Com.
papy's mill at East Angus, Que, al
ready installed and In operation one
new fifty ton machine In Price Bros. a
Co.'S mill Mt Kenogami, which Will be
In operation by December /; two new
nifty ton machines in the Spanish River
Pulp. and Paper Mills, Ltd, mill al
Saulte ste. Marie. Ont, to be in opera
ton this fall; two new fifty ton ma
chimes In the Laurentide Company, Ltd,
mill. at Grand Mere, Que, to be in
operation by July 1. 1920. There Ia
talk Of new 400 ton mill for the In
ternational Paper Company at Three
Rivers, Que, and OF a 100 ton mill at
Port Arthur. Ont, although It Is gen.
orally understood that these are merely
tentative projects as yet '''.
American expansions now under way
or in contemplation will increase this
added output to probably 500 tons
day, which viii all help to relieve any
stringency which may develop -
Lower Prices Not Expected.
As to prices. It is true, as stated, that
conditions do not favor an immediate
reduction. Industrial demands. the rise
in transportation rates and the in
creased cost Of raw materials are all
opposed to II. On the other hand, the
majority Of the manufacturers are not
disposed to take undue advantage of
the situation. Publishers who are will
ing to be fair and reasonable are having
no difficulty In securing fair and reason
able contracts. Some contracts already
made for next years supply show no ap-
probable advance over this years prices.
Certainly few II any of the larger manu-
facturers desire to see runaway mar
ket with prices advanced beyond all rea-
son, nor viii they do anything to help
bring about 30 undesirable q situation.
Manufacturers, as a rule, prefer to do
business with customers who are pre-
pared to be reasonable and who have
shown In the past a willingness to rec
ognize existing conditions. There is no
disposition on the part Of the large
producers to gouge such customers or to
take the least advantage afforded by abb
normal conditions. They recognize the
fact that the good will Of the customer
Is worth having and are willing to make
temporary sacrifices in order to secure
and retain 1t. There are preferential
buyers In the paper business as in every
other business-customers who contract
Tor large supplies. who accept deliveries
as agreed upon, who meet their obliga-
tons promptly and who do not haggle
Tor impossible concessions or bubble
over minor and inconsequential matters.
such customers are always sure of Sc
curing favorable contracts. the mills
being only too anxious to obtain their
custom and keep It when once obtained.
But, as said at the outset. pre-
dieting what Is going to happen In the
paper market is decidedly dangerous. I
90 not want to pose as prophet. I can
only say that conditions as I sec them
do not call for undue alarm or sensa-
ttotdi declarations Of an approachino
ydnhne. They do NOT call for STORM o
dtody large stocks Of paper In the err
pectdtfon OF a famine or for undue par
Simohy IN the present day use of pdper.
A great deal is being said about pub
nshers who are using paper needlessly
or recklessly. The paper manufacturer
Is not voicing any criticirm of this kind.
He comedies that the publisher knows
his own business best and he UNDER
stands that the publisher who fails to
take advantage of to-dav's plethora of
aoVerusng may tomorrow have no
choice in the matter. Advertising is
subject to fluctuations the same as is
the demand for PAPER; and no one can
say with certainty that to-day's big
volume Is going to continue indefinitely.
But questions OF that kind are for the
paper consumers to deal with exclu-
sively. Whatever the demand ,nau be
the manufacturers are gong to do their.
oest 10 meet 1t; and, so far, theu hare
Hever failed to rise to the occasion,
Mr.. Carvalho's Views.
The opinions of newspaper publishers
OF the experience and standing of s s
Carvalho are certainly entitled to the Mt
most consideration, and when he SAYS
that an increase of 100 per cent. in the
paper manufacturers costs for labor. the
doubling OF the price of his coal, of
which 1t takes practically one ton TO
produce a ton OF paper. the added ex-
pense OF wood gathering due to the more
extended areas from which Il has to be-
brought, and the fact that the foreign
markets are Offering to pay almost twice
what domestic consumers are now pay
Ing for their paper must inevitably result
In higher prices for domestic consumers
no sensible man will desire to dispute
him.
Mr.. Carvalho urges conservation and
the cutting out of waste as proper
means to meet the situation. Certainly
waste and unnecessary boarding will not
help. Sound business would also sug-
gest that waste is not justihable under
any circumstances. but II is for the con-
sumers themselves to define what is
waste and to take whatever helps may
be necessary to forestall 1t.
In the various Government INQUIRIES
into the news print industry the manu-
tacturers have made attempts to show
that all publishers were not making
careful use of their raw material, but
publishers themselves resented any such
suggestion coming from the manufac-
turers. They have always maintained
that they know their own business best
and undoubtedly they do. Statements,
however. which represent the manufac-
turers as Indifferent to the situation and
to the possible difficulties that await
publishers in getting their paper supplies
do the manufacturers an absolute in1us-
tice. The only criticism the manufac-
turers have TO offer is that the policies
pursued by certain newspaper publish
ers in the United States and Canada
during the last three years in bringing
about Government regulation OF the IN
dustry are reacting upon the publishers,
since without such regulations the Cana
dian end Of the industry at least would
now be in a much better position to sup
ply the increasing demand for paper.
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