by William Lafferty » October 24, 2011, 9:14 pm
Deliveries to the Chicago Tribune ceased at the end of 1983 with the demise of Q & O, which had become a consistent money loser and unable to compete with the railroads for delivering newsprint. The Chicago Sun-Times had begun using rail, as would the Trib, in the late 1970s. Paterson handled most of that trade from the early '60s, and before that the Chicago Daily News received newsprint by Paterson, CSL, other Canadian canallers and U. S. Steel Products crane boats from the late 1920s until 1959 when it was absorbed by Marshall Field's Sun-Times. Paterson also delivered to R. R. Donnelly and Cuneo Press (both involved in magazine printing) through a warehouse way down the South Branch just above Cermak Road. Return cargoes for the paper boats were invariably grain, and on rare occasion coal or coke. I believe Time-Life also ran a barge to that warehouse from Canada to supply Donnelly with paper for Time, Fortune and Life.
Deliveries to the [i]Chicago Tribune[/i] ceased at the end of 1983 with the demise of Q & O, which had become a consistent money loser and unable to compete with the railroads for delivering newsprint. The [i]Chicago Sun-Times[/i] had begun using rail, as would the Trib, in the late 1970s. Paterson handled most of that trade from the early '60s, and before that the [i]Chicago Daily News[/i] received newsprint by Paterson, CSL, other Canadian canallers and U. S. Steel Products crane boats from the late 1920s until 1959 when it was absorbed by Marshall Field's [i]Sun-Times[/i]. Paterson also delivered to R. R. Donnelly and Cuneo Press (both involved in magazine printing) through a warehouse way down the South Branch just above Cermak Road. Return cargoes for the paper boats were invariably grain, and on rare occasion coal or coke. I believe Time-Life also ran a barge to that warehouse from Canada to supply Donnelly with paper for [i]Time[/i], [i]Fortune[/i] and [i]Life[/i].