Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1899 — Italian Paper. [ARTICLE]

Italian Paper.

The manufacture of paper, cardboard and kindred articles is becoming in Italy an important and growing industry, the annual exports amounting to $2,500,000, an increase of 50 per cent, in white and packing paper within five years, and of 25 per cent, in cardboard. Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy and Venetia are the principal centers of this manufacture, but there are a number of mills at other points. There are now about 450 paper mills, employing some 20,000 horse-power, and 20,000 hands, over 50 of the establishments manufacturing wood pulp.—Detroit Free Press.