Show I NEWSPAPERS FAST EATING UP OUR SPRUCE FORESTS fr 11 III 4 US ys 10UE3TS f i r II fOR T 111 f I I I I I ll1 i i 4 J I 1 TICK rapidity with which tho newspaper news-paper Is eating up the American spruce forests hus caused some alarm among officials of the government who have been looking Into the thing Tho conversion of spruce timber Into paper Is going on at tho rate of 1765 000 foul for every working day In the year And most of this timber Is cut I In tho United States although a few wood pulp logs are Imported from Canada During 1905 the newspaper demand alone consumed 000000 tons of manufactured manu-factured white paper This was one third of tho output of all the paper mills In tho country To make It requited re-quited an army of in000 men who drew 9000000 In wages Tho mills used raw material amounting to 1300 000 cords representing tho cut of about 100000 acres The present tariff on lumber causes this enormous drain to fall almost entirely en-tirely upon the forests of tho United States It has been suggested that It would bo a wlso political and economic eco-nomic leave to remove this lumber duty and let the paper mills begin to cat Into the almost limitless forests of Canada Incidentally the price of paper would drop some nnd the paper trust would not have quite tho monopoly on affairs which It has today Increased size of newspapers and magazines Is laid by government exports ex-ports to the introduction of the typesetting type-setting machine In 1890 newspapers and periodicals averaged E7 pages each on a basis of weight and In 1900 66 pages 1905 they came to 85 I pages During the 25 years from 1880 to 1905 the number of newspapers and periodicals of all classes In the United States practically doubled During that time 10000 publications were added During the Inst decade the number of morning newspapers Increased In-creased 71 per cent while the number num-ber of evening newspapers increased 113 per cent During the last 20 years the evening newspapers have Increased more rapIdly rap-Idly than morning newspapers A hundred years ago there were 359 newspapers In the United States havIng hav-Ing an aggregate circulation of 22 321700 copies per annum |