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low citizen, S. T. Merrill, president and chief proprietor, to 
whom we are indebted for the following statements coneeriiing 
the business done by the company in 1869: 
Cash paid for straw (at S8 per ton).$13,856 51 
Cash paid for labor of 75 to 100 hands... 37,'730 63 
Incidental expenses at mill. 8,000 00 
Total paid out at Beloit, upwards of $5,000 per month, or . .$61,159 14 
Among other items of expenditure for material I mention 
the following: 
Cash for soda ash. $12,840 38 
bleaching powder. 11,081 24 
fuel. 22,610 24 
lime. 3,323 95 
acid. 1,062 28 
oil. 1,136 40 
Product of the year in building and printing paper, principally the former, 
about 1,500 tons. 
The company is now sending this pasteboard for house 
covering, not only to nearly all parts’of the United States, but 
likewise to foreign countries—of late quite extensively to the 
Sandwich Islands. As the process is patented, they have a 
monoply of the business in this country, and it seems probable 
.that the business is to become one of great magnitude.] 
