4 "j A PAPER :iN] FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



What are tne special requirements as to quality, weights, sizes, etc.? 



What are the market prices for each class or kind? 



What are the terms of sale? 



What are the quantities and values of paper consumed for the whole country, 

 for each class or kind, for each year? 



What is the total number of paper firms, companies, or brokers ? 



What are the names and locations of the principal ones, and their relative im- 

 portance? 



What is the total number of publications of all kinds, and of the several differ- 

 ent kinds? 



What is the total number of printers ? 



What is the total number of publishers? 



What is the total number of each of the other classes of users of paper? 



What are the chief articles manufactured from paper, from pulp, and their sev- 

 eral amounts? 



Is the consumption of paper likely to increase? 



What nationality dominates the paper trade, and what is the relative impor- 

 tance of different nations? 



Please answer such of the above questions as apply to articles manufactured 

 from paper. 



PRODUCTION. 



How much undeveloped water power is there, and what is its location as re.- 

 gards railways and navigable water ways, markets, and sources of materials for 

 paper? 



He v much developed water power is there? 



What fuels are there, what is the cost of each to the manufacturer, and the 

 facilities for their transportation ? 



What raw materials are there suitable for paper making, such as: First, trees; 

 second, other vegetable fibers, as grasses, etc. ; third, rags or waste materials ? 



What are the available quantities of each? 



What is the cost of each to the manufacturer, and the facilities for their trans- 

 portation ? 



What are the facilities for making paper machinery, and what, if any, is made? 



What is the cost of labor in paper mills, and the efficiency of labor? 



What are the quantities and values of paper, of each kind, produced each year 

 for the last five years ? 



What is the number of paper mills and the output at present of each kind of 

 paper? 



What kind of power do they use? 



What are the methods of manufacture ? Is the paper hand made or machine 

 made? 



Are the processes and methods of manufacture modern? 



What are the tendencies in production that is, are the methods improving, and 

 the production likely to increase? 



Please answer such of the above questions as apply to pulp mills also. 



IMPORTS. 



What are the classes or kinds of paper imported? 

 What are the market prices of each? 



What are the sources or countries from which each class of paper comes, and 

 what are the several amounts from different countries? 



What are the banking facilities or financial connections with each country? 

 What are the import duties or tariffs on each class? 



