. Review of reviews and world's work. , must suddenly pay, in 1917,from 75 to 100 per cent, more for their rawmaterial—paper—than in any year for thelast decade. The Trade Commission reportin its remarks on the mill costs of paper man-ufacture made the striking statement thatduring the Hrst half of 1916, when the pricesof paper to the consumer were soaring, thecost of producing the paper Avas actually lessthan it had heen at any time during the pre-ceding three years. This remarkable findingin the face of claims by the manufacturersthat the prices of their raw materials hadrisen extravagantly,
. Review of reviews and world's work. , must suddenly pay, in 1917,from 75 to 100 per cent, more for their rawmaterial—paper—than in any year for thelast decade. The Trade Commission reportin its remarks on the mill costs of paper man-ufacture made the striking statement thatduring the Hrst half of 1916, when the pricesof paper to the consumer were soaring, thecost of producing the paper Avas actually lessthan it had heen at any time during the pre-ceding three years. This remarkable findingin the face of claims by the manufacturersthat the prices of their raw materials hadrisen extravagantly, is explained simply andfinally by the following facts: The ingredi-ents for which the mill had to pay higherprices made up only a small percentage ofthe aggregate cost factors; and that disad-\ antage was more than swept away by thegreat cost reductions resulting from operat-ing the mills twenty-four hours a day sixdajs in the week, with every pound of paper Cowlitz County Advocate ^ «•« «M>w*^ ••«, »i • te JSJSS. JtfW riioUicraph by American ircss Assuclallon A PRINTED ON A SHINGLE (This reduced facsimile shows a news|>ai>er, the en-tire edition of which was printed on shingles, lastmonth, at a town in the State of Washington. It isone of the curiosities of a paper famine that remindsus of conditions in the South in 1863) sold without effort or expense to clamoringbuyers. In spite of this fortunate situationof the paper makers, buyers of news-printnot protected by contract arrangements havehad to pay as high as six and even seven centsa pound for paper that would have cost themunder like conditions in 1914 less than threecents. The Trade Commission finds thatthe 1916 mill cost of producing this news-print paper is about cents. „ „ Nothing in the present seething Our New . P , . . . Shipbuilding industrial activity or America ,ent, ^^^^ striking than the sudden expansion of the business of how fast and f
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