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PAPER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



The cheapest straw paper is sold at no marks ($26.1 8) per ton of 

 1,000 kilograms (2,204.6 pounds). Prices range up to 1,600 marks 

 ($380.80) per ton for finest copper-printing and illustration paper. 

 Paper is sold mostly on three months' credit or 2 per cent off if paid 

 within thirty days sometimes, six months' credit and in the book 

 trade one year's credit is given. 



The quantities and values of papers consumed per year for the 

 country can not be given even approximately, there being no statis- 

 tics on the subject. The total number of paper manufactories in 

 Wurttemberg is 43. There are no brokers for the paper trade, but 

 some of the larger firms have agents in the city of Stuttgart. 



The names of the principal manufactories are: 



Papier Fabrik, Baienfurth. 

 Moritz Fleischer, in Eislingen. 

 Chr. Weiss & Co., Enzweihingen. 

 C. Bukh Sohn, Fauendan. 

 Mech. Papierfabrik, Goeuningen. 

 G. Krumm, Goppingen. 

 Gebr. Rauch, Heilbronn. 

 Gebr. Schamffelen, Heilbronn. 

 A. Bezner & Co., Kirchheim. 

 P. Lemppenan & Co., Neuenburg. 



Gebr. Miiller, Moch~nwangen. 



Papier Fabrick, Mockmuhl. 



C. Schoufelen, Oberhemingen. 



I. Krauss Erben, Pfullingen. 



Gebr. Laiblin, Pfullingen. 



Deutsche Verlags Anstall, Salach. 



Papier & Fellstoff Fabriken, Unter- 



kochen. 



Pappen Fabrik, Uhingen. 

 Papier Fabrik, Wangen. 



There are about 150 printing establishments for books, 100 for 

 lithography, and 200 publishing firms in Wurttemberg. There are 

 some 50 factories of paper ware, paper bags, envelopes, paper boxes, 

 lamps, etc., and about 200 bookbinderies. 



The chief articles manufactured are news paper and cheap print- 

 ing paper, unbleached wood-pulp paper for paper bags and light 

 wrapping paper, to the value of about 20,000,000 marks ($4,760,000) 

 per annum. 



The consumption of paper is slowly but steadily increasing. 



England dominates the paper trade for fine correspondence and 

 drawing paper, watman and blotting paper; Germany, for medium 

 fine correspondence paper (median and billet size), but mostly for 

 export through the paper dealers in London ; France, for ornamented 

 correspondence paper (coquille size); Austria-Hungary, Belgium, 

 Switzerland, and Sweden send medium qualities. 



PRODUCTION. 



The fuel mostly in use is coal of the Saar and Ruhr region, cost- 

 ing 800 to i, ooo marks ($190. 40 to $238) per 100 tons (of 2,200 pounds), 

 according to quality. The principal place for the sale of coal is 

 Mannheim, the coal being shipped there by water from Ruhrort and 

 thence' to Wurttemberg partly by water to Heilbronn and then by 

 rail, or all rail. For coal trains, a specially low tariff exists. For 

 paper making there are also used: (i) Pine and aspen trees for eel- 



