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In 1911, 1,229,719 tons of mechanical pulp were produced, an increase 

 of approximately 50,000 tons. 



While the industry has developed very rapidly in the United 

 States, tho rate of development has not kept pace with the rate of 

 consumption of tho product. This is evident from a consideration 

 of the imports and exports of both mechanical and chemical pulp 

 over a period of years, as shown in figures 2 and 3. Figure 2 shows 

 tho imports of mechanical pulp, both free and dutiable, by months 

 for a period of years, while figure 3 (curve B) shows the imports of 

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Fig. 1.— Average contract prices for news-print paper 1878-1912. 



interesting, because it shows the seasonal fluctuation of imports. 

 Figure 3 (curve A) shows the imports and exports of wood pulp, 

 both mechanical and chemical. The increase in the amount of pulp 

 imported is very marked, while the exports are comparatively small. 

 It is evident from these curves that considerably more pulp will have 

 to be manufactured at home before there can be any material expan- 

 sion into the export trade. 



Spruce furnishes by far the greater part of the wood at present 

 used for mechanical pulp. Of the 1,314,141 cords consumed in the 

 United States by the mechanical process in 1911, spruce supplied 

 1,121,703 cords, or 85 per cent, 822,743 cords of which were native 



