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but the problem begins to take on a more concrete aspect when we say- 

 also that more than 0,000,000 cords of wood — chiefly spruce and hem- 

 lock — was used to make this quantity of pulp. 



The magnitude of the paper industry assumes further proportions 

 when we enumerate the different classes of paper produced last year: 



Tons 



Paper board 2,313,000 



Newsprint 1,512.000 



Book 1,104,000 



Wrapping 832,000 



fine • • 389,000 



Felts, etc 367.000 



Bag- • • 212,000 



Other grades 605,000 



Total 7.334,000 



In addition to this tremendous production of paper in the United 

 States, imports (chiefly newsprint from Canada) amounted to 760,000 

 tons and exports to but 360.000 tons, making a visible supply in the 

 United States in excess of 7,830.000 tons for the year, or 147 pounds 

 per capita. 



It is truly a paper age and even more truly a newspaper age. News- 

 print consumption was 3 pounds per capita in 1880, 9 pounds in 1894, 

 and 40 pounds in 1920. Last year was abnormal in many respects, 

 yet there is no reason to think that the newsprint consumption in 1921 

 will be less than 35 pounds per capita. 



It will be 217 years on the 24th of next month since the first news- 

 paper was printed in America, and now our daily newspapers have a 

 circulation in excess of 28,000,000 copies and there are more than 60 

 dailies between the Atlantic and Pacific whose circulation exceeds 

 100,000 copies, while some of them have several times this amount and 

 one Sunday paper claims more than 1,000,000 circulation. 



To most readers the daily newspaper is a transitory thing, hastily 

 scanned and thrown aside, and the man who runs while he reads never 

 stops to think what a wonderful co-ordination of service from lumber- 

 jack to newsboy is required to produce and give to him for two or three 

 cents an up-to-the-minute resume of world happenings in politic?, 

 industry, science, and education. Still less does the hasty reader realize 

 that the newspaper which he holds in his hand is a 100 per cent product 

 of the forests of North America, for unlike some other kinds of paper, 

 wood fiber is the only constituent of newsprint paper. This is why 



