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PAPER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



The telegraphic facilities with all the principal countries to which 

 paper is exported are good. 



Mention has already been made of the mail facilities with Ger- 

 many, Italy, France, and Great Britain. As regards Turkey, there 

 is a daily mail to Constantinople ; time required, two days. There is 

 also a weekly direct and a biweekly or triweekly indirect mail to 

 Egypt; time required, from three to five days. The mail service 

 with British India is less satisfactory. The steamers of the Austrian 

 Lloyd sail twice a month and require about twenty-four days to 

 make the journey to Bombay. By the Brindisi route, letters go 

 weekly and reach Bombay in nineteen days. This route also serves 

 China and Japan. 



GENERAL. 



The paper industry of Austria seems to prosper. The output of 

 the Leykam-Josefsthal Paper Company alone was 18,187 metric tons 

 in 1897, representing a value of 6,328,250 florins ($2, 569, 669). While 

 this is the strongest company in Austria, it is only one of many. 

 The total production of paper is certainly increasing. Austria's 

 undoubted success in this particular industry is, in my opinion, due 

 to cheap power, cheap labor, and the export duty on rags. This 

 country at present dominates the paper trade in Turkey and other 

 countries of the East. 



SCHEDULE FOR TRANSPORTATION. 



(i) The principal mills in this consular district are those in the 

 vicinity of Gorizia and Laibach. The following table gives the rates 

 for carload lots (10,000 kilograms=22,4o6 pounds) on wood for pulp, 

 cellulose, rags, and vegetable fibers. Rates for smaller quantities 

 are about one-third higher. I am told, however, that these arti- 

 cles are never shipped to the mills mentioned in less than carload 

 lots. 



Rates per ton of 2,204.6 pounds (in carload lots). 



The mode of transportation is all rail. 



(2) All grades of paper pay the same freight, which is for car- 

 load lots 2.60 florins from Gorizia and 4.80 florins from Laibach to 

 Trieste, per ton of 1,000 kilograms (2,204.6 pounds). Rates for less 



