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Show After Us, What? Very fovv peoplo reallio tho extent to which newspapers nro drawing upon the world's: titnlicr resources for pulp material ma-terial for tho papers upon which their editions nro printed. It It estimated that tho while paper for the daily supply ol the several editions ol tho New York World requires nil tho mnrkrlnbloeprucc lumber lit In cut which gion on secn acres ot nvr'd 'pmc fmr t. The UuMun lib!', edition requires tho growth nf tlmt'MPiiM uf Now England Dprnt-o fnrestM, Tiicwiwid pulimow used In tin" I'nllfl S'ntrs require iiNmt 2,200 cords of spruco daily, or 1,700,'JOO feet of spruce logs for ccry twenty-four hours, amounting to 500,000,000 feet per annum. That amount of lumber, now-going now-going to wnste ns soon as the newspaper Is a day old, used to sulVico to build houses intended to Inst hnlf n century or more. Ttic pulp drain upon spruce forests uses up the mature timlier of 1,000 ncres n jear. , |