DEPARTMENT INSTRUCTION. 5 



What are the mail facilities with each country from which paper comes that i, 

 the frequency and time occupied? The telegraphic facilities? 



What are the quantities and valuations of importations for each year for which 

 statistics are available for each class? 



What nationality controls the import business, and what is the relative impor- 

 tance of other nationalities? 



What are other countries doing to build up their exports to your district in gen- 

 eral, and of paper and pulp in particular? 



What openings do you see for American paper, pulp, and articles manufactured 

 from paper? 



What course should the United States pursue to build up its exports to your 

 district? 



EXPORTS. 



What are the classes or kinds of paper exported? 



What are the prices of each at point of shipment? 



What are the destinations or countries to which each class is exported, and what 

 are the relative amounts to the different countries? 



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



What are the export duties or tariffs on each class? 



What are the telegraphic facilities with each country to which paper is sent? 



What are the mail facilities with each country to which paper is sent that is, 

 the frequency and time occupied? 



What are the quantities and values of exportations for each year for which sta- 

 tistics are available for each class; sources, date, reliability of the statistics in 

 question? 



Please give any other information you may have that will throw light on the 

 paper trade of your district. 



Please send any samples, publications, and lists of periodicals containing articles 

 on paper making, or other materials relating to the subject. When publications 

 themselves are not sent, please send title, author, publisher, and date of last edition. 



In all cases where figures are given, please state fully what the date of com- 

 pilation is, the sources, methods of compilation, and the amount of dependence 

 which, in your opinion, can be placed on their accuracy. 



If manufactures of paper are included in any of the figures given for "paper," 

 please so state. 



SCHEDULE FOR TRANSPORTATION. 



Class A (articles used in the manufacture of paper). 



1. Rags. 



2. Wood for pulp. 



3. Ground wood. 



4. Chemical fibers. 



5. Other fibers or stock. 



Class B (products of paper mills). 



1. Writing or fine paper. 



2. Printing paper for books. 



3. Printing paper for newspapers. 



4. Wrapping paper. 



5. Other grades. 



