EUROPE: AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. 



PRAGUE. 



POPULATION. 



The city of Prague, with its suburbs, has 333,000 inhabitants, 

 and the estimated population of this consular district is 3,500,000, 

 of which fully 25 per cent are illiterate, and only those who have 

 technical knowledge of the manufacture of paper or the necessary 

 means to venture upon such undertaking are producers. 



CONSUMPTION. 



Paper here is principally used for printing, writing, packing, 

 toilet purposes, and for manufacturing cartons. Industries requir- 

 ing paper are printing offices, the textile branch; glass, porcelain, 

 and metal ware factories; box factories, playing-card factories, etc. 

 Paper made wholly out of rags is used the least here, and the most 

 salable paper at present is that manufactured out of wood pulp 

 alone, of cellulose and tatters, and also of straw. 



Only in writing paper is it possible to give sizes and names of 

 qualities, and this only, to a limited extent. The following are most 

 commonly known here: 



Centimeters.* 

 Klein Stempel ................................................................................. 34 by 42 



Neu Stempel ................................................................................... 35 by 43^ 



Register ......................................................................................... 41 by 51 j 



Median .......................................................................................... 46 by 59 



Royal .......................................................................................... 50 by 66 



Super-royal .................................................................................. .. 53 by 69 



Imper-royal ................................................................................... 55 by 



Prices vary from 9 florins ($3.60) per 100 kilograms (220.46 pounds) 

 to 125 florins ($50) per 100 kilograms. The usual terms of sale are 

 four months' credit or 3 per cent discount for cash within thirty days; 

 but very frequently, longer time is given. 



It is not possible to find out the quantities and values of any class 

 of paper consumed in this district for each year, no statistics being 

 kept. 



There are in Prague about 2,000 printers, but I am unable to as- 

 certain the number in the whole district. In this district, there are no 

 articles manufactured from paper except boxes of various sizes and 

 kinds. The consumption of paper in Bohemia is growing steadily 

 and will increase still further after the law has been passed here 



* i centimeter=o.3937 inch. 

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