To follow up what I just posted on paper production in Holyoke...
In all my time focusing on Holyoke and its paper mills there is no records (that I have come across) on the prices of paper's major input (prior to the days of wood pulp), cotton rags.
I would think that the scraps left over from textile mills would vary dramatically in price depending upon many factors. One that really stands out is that within Holyoke a single firm (Farr Alpaca) dominated textile production. Would they have abused their monopoly power to over charge Holyoke paper mill owners? Of course, this is capitalism!
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