From data collected by the twelfth census the daily capacity 

 for 1899 may be estimated at round 12 million pounds. In 

 other words, in the last ten years the capacity of the mills 

 has been trebled. 



The census statistics unfortunately are not collected in a 

 manner which makes those of one census comparable with 

 those of others, as they either combine or separate paper and 

 pulp, the raw and the finished product. This combination is 

 explained by the fact that many mills produce their own pulp. 

 Only the census of 1870, 1880, and 1890 separate the pulp 

 business, showing respectively value of products of round 

 $49,000,000, $57,000,000 and $79,000,000 for wood pulp alone. 

 For the census of 1900, the manufactures of paper and pulp 

 were reported together as representing a product of $127,326,- 

 162, from 763 active establishments and 29 idle ones. There 

 is no possibility of differentiating precisely how much of this 

 value is to be credited to wood pulp, but apparently only 

 $28,000,000 are so credited as the cost of the wood materials 

 to the manufacturers, while only $14,000,000 represent other 

 materials, and $27,000,000 are for chemicals, fuel, etc. The 

 total product of the wood pulp is given in amount as round 

 1 180 tons, of which nearly one-half was produced by the es- 

 tablishments using it, about one-half of the total being ground, 

 the other chemically prepared pulp. In another table it is re- 

 ported that 1,986,310 cords of wood were used by establish- 

 ments using wood, and also 630,000 tons purchased wood 

 materials, which may in part have been covered by importation. 



The amount of other paper stock used is only 1,000,000 

 tons, valued at $15,000,000, indicating that about one-half of 

 our paper is made of wood. 



