128 PAPER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Some of the newspapers have a large circulation, and the Frank- 

 furter Zeitung in particular is widely read throughout Germany. 

 The principal papers are: Frankfurter Zeitung, General Anzeiger, 

 Intelligenzblatt, Lokal Anzeiger d. Stadt Frankfurt. 



It is the opinion of the paper manufacturers with whom I have 

 talked that the gradual increase in the consumption of paper in Ger- 

 many, which has been maintained for years, is bound to continue. 

 There exist, however, no statistics by which the rate of increase can 

 be gauged. 



The entire paper trade of this country is in the handsof Germans. 



PRODUCTION. 



I was informed at Aschaffenburg, where the principal paper fac- 

 tories of this district are located, that water power is not used in 

 this part of Germany. 



The manufacturers of paper in this district use coal exclusively 

 as fuel; it costs from $4.04 to $4.28 per long ton at the factories. 



The raw materials used in the manufacture of paper are spruce 

 or pine wood and rags. 



There exist no exact statistics as to the amount of wood suitable 

 for the manufacture of paper in the German Empire, but, owing to 

 its admirable system of forestry, the forests of Germany are slowly 

 increasing and the wood used for the manufacture of paper is nearly 

 all produced within the country at present. Rags are exported to 

 a considerable extent. Wood for pulp costs, first quality, $4.50 per 

 cubic meter (35.6 cubic feet) and, second quality, $4 per cubic 

 meter. Mechanical wood pulp costs, first quality, $4; second, $3.50. 

 The railroad facilities for the transportation of wood are good, and 

 some of the factories in this district, as for instance those situated 

 at Aschaffenburg, get some of their wood by water. 



The rags of this district are distributed from Frankfort to the 

 factories and are gathered in the country. A great part of them go 

 to the Palatinate, an adjacent province, and to the United States, as 

 most of the factories of the district use wood only. For the follow- 

 ing list of prices to manufacturers in southern Germany at factory, 

 I am indebted to a large dealer Mr. Ignatz Berger, 13 Friedbergstr: 

 Price per 100 kilograms (220.46 pounds), dark old cotton, $1.62; 

 middle old cotton, $2.75; light old cotton, $3.50 to $3.75; old gray 

 and blue linen, $4. 75 to $5 ; old white cotton No. i, $8 ; No. 2, $3. 75 ; 

 old white linen No. i, $8.75; Nos. 2 and 3, about $6.50; old jute 

 No. i, $1.50; No. 2, 80 cents. Less than 5 per cent of the rags sold 

 to German factories are new. New white cotton costs $9.50 to$io; 

 linen, fine, $10; coarse, $12. 



