Italy.

THE Company trading as "La Cellulosa," at Milan, has decided to increase its nominal capital from 500,000 to 1,000,000 lire (£40,000). The company manufactures pulp from poplar wood.

Canada,

AMERICAN and Canadian capital, according to a correspondent writing from Montreal, is being interested in an important pulp enterprise involving from one million to two million dollars, to be established in the Black River district in the neighbourhood of St. Jerome, Quebec. The principal mover in the matter is Senator Mason, of Newhaven, Conn. It is considered that an excellent location is available for new pulp mills in the district in question, there being a good timber supply and abundance of water.

A CORRESPONDENT, writing from Toronto, states that pulp is in good demand and is holding up well, though for the most part there has been no advance in price. At present the situation in the woods looks like high prices for pulp before the end of the year. Almost no snow has fallen along the south shore of the St. Lawrence. Along the Upper Ottawa the situation is very little better, and unless there is a change soon there will be a shortage of logs on the banks of the streams next spring as well as a shortage of water to float them down. The outlook generally for the pulp wood harvest is not good.

BOTH in Quebec and Ontario the proposal to place an export duty on pulp wood is meeting with strong support. Opposition, however, is likely from farmers and owners of large tracts of timber lands. According to Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Russell, of the Laurentide Pulp and Paper Co., Canada loses 1,792,000 dols. a year through the exportation of pulp wood to the United States. An export duty adequate to put a stop to this outflow of raw material would, in their opinion, be productive of large industrial results in Canada, and further, it is contended that a change is necessary as a matter of justice to existing mills in Canada. latter have to pay a duty on their machinery, their product cannot get into the United States without the payment of stiff duties, and the competition of the manufacturers of that country is encountered abroad. In that competition special advantages in the matter of freight rates are enjoyed by the Americans. Mr. Calhoun thinks three or four dollars a cord would be an adequate export duty.

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MR. G. B. KIRKPATRICK, Director of Surveys for the Province of Ontario, estimates the amount of red and white pine still standing in New Ontario at 6,000,000,000 feet, board measure, worth 42,000,000 dols. The amount of pulp wood he estimates as much greater and worth nearly two and one-half times as much.

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RUSSIA.

NOTWITHSTANDING the troubles of the past couple of years, the Papermaking Company of Virkow, in the Warsaw Government, made a profit of £11,000 during the financial year 1904-5, and is thus enabled to pay a dividend of 5 per cent. to its shareholders, as compared with 7 per cent. in the year previous.

GERMANY.

THE employees of the Patent Papier Fabrik in Penig, Saxony, received 10,000 marks as a Christmas present. A local publication endeavoured to discount the gift, but a committee of workers made clear that any agitation was unwarranted, and that excellent relations had always subsisted between employers and employees.

THE duty on cigarette paper has been petitioned against by the Association of Makers of Fancy Boxes and Bookbinders' Papers. It is feared that the duty will handicap the cigarette trade, and box makers and makers of folding boxes for cigarettes and coloured and surface papermakers supplying the linings of cigarette boxes and other auxiliary trades would be injured.

PAPIER KALENDER, 1906.-We have received from Hellmuth Henkler's Verlag, Dresden, the Papier Kalender for 1906, which has now reached its 20th edition. This publication is of great interest to members of the paper trade able to read the German language sufficiently to be able to follow the text. Amongst the numerous articles we may mention those relating to the German paper trade in 1904 and 1905, development of the German chemical pulp trade in 1904, the educational arrangements for German papermakers, new inventions, examination of various fibres used in papermaking, new test for blottings, and a number of statistical tables. A companion publication to the Kalender is that of a Directory of Paper Mills in the German Empire, Austro-Hungary, and other papermaking countries. Lists are given of pulp, straw stuff, pulp board makers, and rag sorters, also the names of surface, chromo and fancy papermakers, etc.

UNITED STATES.

AMERICAN PAPER AND PULP ASSOCIATION. The twenty-ninth annual meeting and dinner of this Association will be held in New York on February 8th. Members have been supplied with copies of the constitution of the Association, together with

a list of proposed amendments. The principal change proposed is in regard to membership, an amendment providing a division into active and associate members. It is the intention of the Association to give more attention to the consideration of trade matters, and to provide headquarters and to employ such a staff as may seem advisable.

THE properties of the Muncie Pulp Co., Muncie, Ind., which were offered for sale by auction recently, have been purchased by Mr. John H. McClosky, of Philadelphia, Pa, Mr. The price paid was 28,500 dollars. McClosky is said to be interested in the manufacture of a "new pulp."

THE DUTY ON COATED PAPERS.-President Fischer, for the Board of General Ap. praisers, has handed down a decision sustaining in part the protest of Messrs. Hensel, Bruckmann and Lorbacher against the assessment of the duty by the collector on certain surface coated papers at the rate of 3

cents a pound and 20 per cent. ad valorem. The importers claimed that it was properly dutiable at 2 cents per pound. The decision pointed to the fact that a portion of the importation consisted of glazed surface paper with a damask effect, which was applied by rollers and not by printing. The paragraph quoted levies a duty of 3 per cent. on surface coated papers, when the surfacing is done by printing.

THE J. F. NUTTING CO., of Dayton, Ohio, have, it is stated, perfected a machine for making fillers for egg cases, the cardboard being manipulated in a remarkable fashion. The machine picks up the different parts of cardboard and puts them together and turns out the fillers complete at the rate of 120 per minute.

A SHIPMENT of five beating engines has been made by the Dayton Globe Iron Works, Dayton, Ohio, to the Tugi Paper Co., of Tokio, Japan.

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