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TURKEY IN EUROPE. 



In compliance with the requirements of the Department's circular 

 instruction, I submit the following information. 



POPULATION. 



The estimated population of Constantinople is about 900,000. 

 Of this total, probably 50 per cent are illiterates. The people could 

 easily learn the paper trade, the Greeks and Armenians being fair 

 mechanics. 



CONSUMPT-ION. 



Paper is put to general uses in Constantinople, being employed 

 for newspapers, circulars, writing purposes, tradesmen's bags, ciga- 

 rettes, and as wall paper. The only peculiar industry which would 

 necessitate the use of paper is the silk trade; for, owing to the dis- 

 ease among the worms, each moth is inclosed in a linen bag to lay 

 her eggs, and these are afterwards examined for disease. Perforated 

 paper for bags could well replace linen. 



All kinds of paper are imported, the strawboard trade being 

 especially large. Thick strawboard is imported in sizes 19^ by 

 28^ inches; thinner strawboard, 12^ by 16% inches. (Sizes may 

 vary.) 



The price for the above sizes is $1.75 per TOO pounds, wholesale; 

 news paper, 28^ by 43^2 inches, is sold at $1.50 per 500 sheets 

 (all market selling prices). 



No statistics are available as to the quantities of paper imported. 

 There are some 70 first-class paper sellers in this city, among whom 

 are Chiminaghi, Vrouye, Economic Cooperative Society, of Galata, 

 and Siegfried Adler & Co., of Stamboul. These last sell at whole- 

 sale only. 



There are 42 newspapers published and 37 printing establish- 

 ments. 



No especial industry for manufacturing goods of paper ware 

 exists; all papier-mache goods are imported. 



Austrians and Belgians predominate in the paper trade. 



PRODUCTION. 



No practical statistics can be given as to the amount of undevel- 

 oped water power, the principal fall being a stream which has a 

 descent of 1,500 meters (4,922 feet) down the Olympus, near Broussa, 

 70 miles from Constantinople. Very little water power is utilized. 



