286 PAPER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



days, according to place. The telegraphic service is under Govern- 

 ment control and is excellent. 



The use of American paper is growing, and can be increased. If 

 our manufacturers wish to build up their exports to Ireland, they 

 should send competent travelers with a full supply of samples and 

 prices. Dealers expect manufacturers to bring their goods to their 

 notice. An able traveler will do this. Catalogues usually go into 

 the waste-paper basket. 



There are practically no exports of paper from Ireland. 



JOSHUA WILBOUR, 



DUBLIN, March ij, 1899. Consul. 



DUNFERMLINE. 



Thereare no papermills in the city of Dunfermline, but in the coun- 

 ties of Fife, Kinross, and Clackmannan, with a total area of 61 1 square 

 miles, which fully covers this consular district, there are 9 mills. 

 The population of the three counties, according to the census of 

 1891, was 230,178, and is now estimated at 245,000, a good percent- 

 age being engaged In agricultural pursuits. The proportion of 

 illiterates is comparatively small about i in 5,000 and the people, 

 as a rule, are intelligent, industrious, and enterprising, and many 

 have mechanical traits adapted to the manufacturing industries. 

 Technical education is growing in popular favor and is being encour- 

 aged and stimulated. 



In my first endeavors to gather information relative to the paper 

 industry of this district, I learned that it was useless to try to obtain 

 the desired data direct from the paper manufacturers. The paper 

 industry of Scotland is a very extensive one, competition is close, 

 and the secrets of the trade are jealously guarded when a disposition 

 to be inquisitive is shown by an outsider. 



This being an inland consulate, no statistics of the consumption, 

 production, exports, or imports of paper are available. 



CONSUMPTION. 



Aside from the general uses of paper in the ordinary forms, 

 weights, and sizes called for by printers, publishers, and the whole- 

 salers and retailers in the various classes of trade, the linen industries 

 annually consume large quantities of paper and paper articles, such 

 as Jacquard cards, casing paper, lining paper, tar paper lined with 

 scrim for lining cases, press boards, and pasteboard boxes of various 

 sizes and shapes. 



Jacquard cards are manufactured in England and cost the linen 

 manufacturers about 22 ($107) per ton f. o. b. Dunfermline. 



