76 PAPER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



for flat paper to 20 to 30 cents for the higher grades of linen paper; 

 1,000,000 pounds of cardboard at from 7 to 14 cents per pound ; and 

 8,000,000 pounds of wrapping paper at from 2^ to 5^ cents per 

 pound. Nine-tenths of this paper is of domestic production. The 

 finer grades of linen and bond paper are imported from France, 

 and the better grades of book paper largely from Germany. But 

 little paper from the United States is consumed in this district. 



There are 84 retailers, 9 wholesale houses, and i very large paper 

 mill, where all kinds and grades of paper, excepting the finer linens, 

 bonds, and stationery papers, are made. The wholesale dealers are: 

 Dupont-Toussaint, Defrays Brothers, Faust-Martin, Widow Protin, 

 Liege; E. Gilon, Verviers; Papeteries Godin, Huy. The latter is 

 one of the largest manufacturers and dealers on the Continent. 



There are 1,065 printers employed, at from 3 cents to $1.55 per 

 day, as follows: Three at less than 10 cents per day, 116 at less than 

 20 cents, 129 at less than 40 cents, 214 at less than 60 cents, 296 at 

 less than 80 cents, 151 at less than $i, and 158 over $i. 



There are 217 publications in this district, as follows: Sixteen 

 dailies, 113 weeklies, and 68 periodicals. Their circulation is small 

 as compared with like publications in the United States. 



The greater part of the paper consumed in this consular district 

 is of Belgian production. Germany furnishes more than one-half 

 of the imports, with Holland second and the United States seventh in 

 the list, the latter having $6,442 out of a total of $363,136 imported 

 in the year 1897. 



The exports of paper from Belgium for the year 1897 were con- 

 siderably more than double the imports. 



PRODUCTION. 



Water power is very largely utilized, and I doubt if any remains 

 that is worth developing. 



Coal is the only fuel used, and a good steaming quality can be 

 had, delivered at the works, for from $1.75 to $2 per ton. 



An inexhaustible supply of a species of fir is found near the paper 

 and pulp mills in this country, and is delivered at the factory on 

 trucks. Large quantities of esparto are imported from Spain, Italy, 

 and Algeria. The cost of this can not be learned. Rags and waste 

 can be secured very cheaply. 



Thiry & Co., at Huy, are large manufacturers of all kinds of the 

 most improved paper machinery. 



There is but one paper mill in this consular district E. L. Godin 

 & Co., at Huy which employs 1,800 persons, and produced in 1898 

 about 16,000 tons of paper, worth $1,600,000. It manufactures the 



