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Show NO WASTE OF PAPER. Every Scrap of White Writinjr Material laud Over and Over Again. "There is no such thin as waste paper," aid a junk dealer to a writer for the Press and Printer. "Hardly a scrap of white paper Is ever wasted. Every bit of it that is thrown away is carefully gathered up and finds its vay eventually to the mill again, to be made over. The note-book in yeur hand may furnish material for the paires on which you may write a letter six months hence, and perhaps a year laUir you will unknowingly End it incorporated in a summer novel with yellow covers. Thus the stock of paper that supplies the world is used over and over again indefinitely through the medium of cavengers, the dealers in junk aud the factories, fac-tories, which are continually ensaged in transforming the discarded material into fresh and clean sheets. Brown paper, however, is different. Because Be-cause it is composed of nothing more valuable valu-able than straw it ia mostly thrown away and never used again. You could not get 125 cents a ton for it. A few years ago old newspaper news-paper were worth 4 cents a pound, being made of rag. Now they are made of wood pulp and straw, and their market value is only a quarter of a cent a pound. Oftice papers, such as old bills and such scraps, are wor4 the same as newspapers, whiie that which is called "office sweepings" composed largely of envelopes is quoted at lo cents a hundred. The paper drawing the . highest price is ledgers with the covers torn oft and One writin? paper. It is worth $1.25 a hundred. Ordinary mixed papers are Worth 15 cents a hundred. - - |
