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The wages paid per week to the working people in the various 

 departments of those mills which manufacture the better grades of 

 writing and printing papers are as follows: 



This table of wages was prepared by the assistant manager of 

 one of the mills and was verified by the manager. 



In the mills making wrapping paper and other coarse grades, and 

 also in the millboard mills, the average wages are somewhat lower. 



CONSUMPTION. 



The total number of printers (printing houses), large and small, 

 in Edinburgh and district is 168. There are 80 publishers, including 

 publishers of newspapers. There are 27 regular publications news- 

 papers, magazines, and reviews. The compositors in this cuy num- 

 ber 2,400 about 1,700 males and 700 females. 



In the printing and publishing trades, there are several huge 

 concerns, each of which has a history running far back into the last 

 century. They have made Edinburgh famous as a center of produc- 

 tion of educational works of every description, of all classes of books 

 found in a general library, of encyclopedias, of maps and atlases, 

 and of lithographic and art printing. The books published here do 

 not represent the whole amount of book printing done. A great 

 deal of printing is done for London. Practically all of the books 

 issued by some of the well-known London publishers come from 

 Edinburgh presses. Last year, the enormous editions of the Ency- 

 clopaedia Britannica for the Times were worked off by three or four 



