Quantity And Cost Of Paper Used
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This section is from the book "Scientific American Reference Book. A Manual for the Office, Household and Shop", by Albert A. Hopkins, A. Russell Bond. Also available from Amazon: Scientific American Reference Book.
Quantity And Cost Of Paper Used
Kinds. | Pounds | Cost. | Average cost per pound. cents. |
News | 956,335,921 | $22,197,060 | 2.3 |
Book and periodical | 202,196,263 | 9,356,490 | 4.5 |
Job printing | 74,510,004 | 6,270,306 | 8.4 |
Total | 1,233,142,248 | $37,823,856 | 3.1 |
Our figures show the quantity and cost of paper used and the average cost per pound in 1900.
In this table is presented a division of the paper used in 1900, according to the several classes of products which, combined, produced the total value of products of newspaper and periodical establishments. About one and a quarter billions of pounds was used during the year in which the census was undertaken. This large quantity was utilized in the following proportions :
News | 77.6 |
Book and periodical | 16.4 |
Job printing | 6.0 |
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