EXHIBIT A.-Wages I, fourth quarter 1907, sulphite factories-Continued.

Christiania, March, 1908.

For the Norwegian Division of the Scandinavian Cellulose Company.

EXHIBIT B.-Rate per hour from records obtained from Norwegian mills in comparison with hourly rates now in force at an American mill.

EXHIBIT C.-Domestic production, bleached and unbleached, as shown by Lockwood's Directory.

Total production capacity of sulphite fiber in the United States..
Consumed by manufacturers or associated companies.

Tons daily.

Tons per

year.

4,096 1,228,800 3,056 916,800

Balance available for open market to mills not manufacturing pulp...

1,040 312,000

The 1,040 tons daily capacity available for the general market are divided as follows:

Foreign sulphite was imported during the year 1907, according to report by Department of Commerce and Labor, as follows:

Tons.

110,000 43,000

PROPORTION OF ACTUAL DOMESTIC SALES COMPARED WITH CAPACITY.

An actual record of the sales of all domestic mills compared with their manufacturing capacity is not available, but we have actual records of 13 of the principal mills, with a daily capacity of 539 tons, or 64 per cent of the total 840 tons.

A comparison of their actual sales and capacity is as follows:

Assuming that the experience of all domestic mills was no different from that of mills having 64 per cent capacity of the total, and whose records are shown above, an estimate of actual sales of all domestic mills, compared with capacity, is as follows:

This record indicates that foreign unbleached sulphite was imported to the extent of 110,000 tons during a period when the sales of domestic mills were short of their capacity to furnish 80,640 tons.

MARKET CONSUMPTION IN THE UNITED STATES OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMBINED.

From the above records a summary of bleached and unbleached sulphite consumed in the United States during the year 1907, by mills buying in the open market, is as follows:

It will be noted from the above that foreign manufacturers sold 39 per cent of all the unbleached sold in this country, and 42 per cent of all the bleached, and the percentage of foreign, as compared with the percentage of domestic pulp sold, is:

As regards foreign bleached sulphite, it is admitted that a considerable portion of the importations are of a higher grade than has heretofore been made in this country, but that this proportion of high-grade bleached sulphite is not large, and that the large importations of unbleached fiber are not because foreign unbleached is of a greater value than the domestic unbleached will be shown by valuations of imports given in the Department of Commerce and Labor reports for the year 1907, to which we have added duty, estimated average freight to mill, and total cost delivered mill, with comparison of the average price obtained by a representative American mill, as shown by the following tabulation: