New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-03

1OunO IL Increasingly uiiuCuit W OO-
tain all Of their supplies under con-
tract, and have been forced to get the
remainder In the open market. 1t Ii
In the open market that the full ef-
feet Of competition for inadequate
supplies is shown, and this 10 reflected
In the much higher prices.
Unfortunately 1t Is upon the spot
market that the smaller newspapers,
least able to increase returns by In
creasing advertising and raising their
rates, must depend" The result has
been that many of these small papers
have been forced to curtail their Is
sues and have had the greatest diff
Guilty in obtaining enough n%ewsprint to
continue publication.
1t has been possible for the lumber
industry to move to more remote
timber lands as forests have been cut
away, but the heavy investment re-
quired for paper plants has made 1t
impossible for the paper industry to
do this. The result is that existing
mills are finding 1t necessary to Sc
cure their supplies of wood from In
~creasIng distances. Spruce from Min
nesota and Canada, for example, Is
being hauled from 700 to 1900 miles
to paper mills in Wisconsin.
Timber In the East Nearly Gone.
The timber is going fast. the report
says. 1t is reported that in New York.
where nearly so per cent of our news
print is produced, 60 per cent Of the
pulp paper mills have absolutely no
! timber supplies OF their own. For
these mills there seems to be no other
prospect than to close down In a com
paratively few years. In New Hamp-
| shire the coniferous pulp wood has
been cut heavily, and 10 or ID years
will see the end of the supply. Aside
from the state preserve In New York.
in which no cutting is allowed, the
bulk Of the coniferous pulp wood In
| the east Is located In Maine. One
company there has enough timber for
40 to 90 years cut. Others are esti-
mated to have enough to last Is to
| 20 years, but there are about IS com
panies which have no lands OF their
own and which will have difficulty In
| purchasing material within 10 years.
In general. the pulp and paper mills
Of the Northeast are becoming more
and more dependent upon Canadian
wood. Such dependence. the report
points out. is extremely dangerous
All exports Of pulp wood are prOhib-
tied from Newfoundland. The Cana
dian provinces have prohibited the ex'
port Of pulp wood from crown lands,
which form a very considerable part
Of the tImberlands in eastern and
western Canada.
Old Campaign Cries Unheard.
It looks now as II the United
States would go into the presi-
Dental campaign with some of the
old familiar campaign cries absent,
Apparently there is to be no cry
Of ''panic" and the accompanying
effort Of laying the responsibility for
1t on one party or the other. Neither,
so far as anyone can see now. will
that old campaign friend the "full din
ner pail" get a hearing in the cuin
palgn. While there is possibly a
slight reaction in business and u ten
dency toward tightness In the money
market. the campaign approaches with
the country on a high wave of pros
perity. This is n statement to which
everyone can subscribe regardless OF
his political affiliations. There will
not even he any crop failure to be-
come a disturbing factor in the cam
| palgn this year. II is now settled
that the harvest of 1920 will be one of
the greatest In the history Of the
| United States.
May Not Mean Lower Prices.
swell, such enormous crops should
bring down the price Of living" This
Is the comment that naturally finds
Its way to the tongue Of every person
who Is confronted with the cOst Of liv-
ing problem. Whether ii will do II or
not is a question which the experts
here do not pretend to answer. They
admit. along with the average citi-
zen, that such generous crops should
result in q reduction In the price Of
| foodstuffs in general, but they point
out that with the world, or q consid-
cradle part of IL. clamoring for these
products of the soil Of the United
States, 1t Is not at all certain that a
fall in prices cnn be counted on.
Certainly there is a general hope
among the people of the land that
normal conditions with respect to liv-
ing costs may be speedily restored.
The abnormal conditions that sprung
10 during the war and have cOntin-
ned unbroken relate not only TO the
| costs of all food. of fuel and of @
ing apparel. but also to housing prob
lens.
All these phases Of the economic
| situation will undoubtedly he more or
less discussed as the presidential cam
paign proceeds. but through all the
discussion there will inevitably be a
note Of gratitude owe the general
prosperity that abounds everywhere.
No such good fortune with respect to
the outlook for food and fuel (though
as to fuel II is not all II might bel and
for all the other things that go to
produce comfortable living confronts
any European country. Indeed. no
other nation Is as fortunate in all re-
spects as the United States Is today.
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