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owing to the continual demand for new patterns. In former years, 

 cards were used till worn out, but now they are laid aside in a com- 

 paratively short time and replaced by new ones. This change has 

 created a demand for Jacquard cards of inferior quality at a lower 

 price. 



United States linen importers now require their goods put up in 

 packages, with paper of special shades or tints as called for by their 

 different customers in trade. To supply this demand, the linen 

 manufacturers are often obliged to place special orders for paper 

 and to keep on hand a more varied stock of colors than in former 

 years. 



PRODUCTION. 



The 9 paper mills of this district are all operated by steam power, 

 there being practically no water power in the district. They are 

 located, equipped, and manufacture as follows: 



Inverkeithing Paper Mills, Inverkeithing, Fife; i machine, 92 

 inches; half a mile from railroad station; blotting papers (white, 

 colors, and interleaving), special parchment grease proof, imitation 

 parchment, white and silurian parchment, writing papers, and wax 

 parchments. 



Balbirnie Mill, Markinch, Fife; 2 machines, '64 and 88 inches; 

 cut paper; railroad siding into mill; machine glazed and unglazed 

 double small hand, royal hand, and cartridge, cap, and grocery 

 papers in sheets or rolls, and machine-made bags. 



Millfield Mills, Leven, Fife; 2 machines, 84 inches each; railroad 

 siding close to mill; machine-glazed biscuit cap and envelope papers. 



Guard Bridge Paper Company, Limited, Guard Bridge, Fife- 

 shire; 4 machines; railroad siding into mill; fine printing, news, 

 drawing, music, plate and chart papers, E. S. writing and tinted 

 papers (plate super and friction glazed surfaces). 



Crook of Devon Works, Fossoway, Kinross; i machine, 52 inches; 

 railroad siding one-fourth of a mile distant; lapping and manufac- 

 turers' paper. 



Auchmuty Mill, Markinch, Fife; 2 machines, 72 and 92 inches; 

 railroad siding into mill; printing, E. S. writing, long elephant, 

 middle, blotting, and filtering. 



Rothes Mill, Markinch, Fife; 2 machines, 48 and 60 inches; rail- 

 road siding into mill; gray, double small hand, fine royal hand, 

 middle, pressing, colored long elephant, and glazed casing. 



Forth Mills, near Alloa, Clackmannan; 2 machines, 66 and 92 

 inches; railroad siding into mill; fine printing and E. S. writing. 



Strathendry Mills, Leslie, Fife; i machine, 62 inches; railroad 

 siding; i mile from mill; E. S. writing and envelope papers. 



Coal is the only fuel used here, and is very abundant. This 



