I2O PAPER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



water to Russia, France, Belgium, England, etc. Paper is seldom 

 sent overland into Russia or France. 



The freight rates from Dresden to Myslowitz (Russian boun- 

 dary) are 2.19 marks (52.1 cents) per 100 kilograms; from Dresden 

 to Metz (French boundary), 3.64 marks (86.6 cents) per 100 kilo- 

 grams. 



The freight rates on the River Elbe vary a good deal, according 

 to height of water. The rates are calculated according to special 

 schedules from point to point. A rate per 100 kilograms per 100 

 miles was not obtainable. Freights from Hamburg to other coun- 

 tries are not obtainable here in reliable figures. 



CHAS. L. COLE, 



DRESDEN, February 25, ipp. Consul- General. 



CHEMNITZ. 



Saxony, in a certain sense, may be looked upon as the center of 

 the Empire's paper trade. Leipzig is undoubtedly the world's larg- 

 est book center. There is scarcely an industry in which paper is 

 used that is not found here. 



RAW MATERIAL. 



The use of wood pulp for purposes of paper production had its 

 origin in this Kingdom. To-day, there are 260 mills 45 per cent of 

 Germany's total number (580) engaged in its production. Saxony 

 is rich in water power (at least 50,000 horsepower are now in 

 use), and it is the proximity of these to the mills that has made 

 possible her wonderful development in this line. The wood pulp 

 produced runs up to 300,000 to 360,000 long tons, seasoned, valued 

 at about $2,500,000. Of these 100,000 to 120,000 tons are put into 

 pasteboard at the mills, 60,000 to 80,000 tons are taken by the paper- 

 making plants, and 150,000 to 160,000 appear on the market. Ex- 

 ports go to various parts of the Continent and, recently, to the United 

 States. Of Germany's 33 straw-stuff mills, Saxony has 9; and 9 

 of the Empire's 69 cellulose mills. Out of 346 pasteboard mills 

 in Germany, Saxony has 102, or 30 per cent. Of Saxony's 102, 

 39 make leather boards. The Kingdom has 85 paper mills, with 

 204 machines, these figures being, respectively, 17 and 20 per cent 

 of the total number in the Empire. The year's product in paper 

 and pasteboard is about 200,000 tons, worth from $14,000,000 to 

 $15,000,000. Most of the paper manufactured is of the poorer 

 grades, used for newspapers, etc. Dresden and Leipzig lead in 

 specialties, among which may be mentioned photographic paper 

 (albumen). Exports to the United States in this line, once large, 



