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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



"Many of the United States mills have 

 abundant supplies of pulp wood for many 

 years to come. This is true of many of 

 the Eastern mills, and in the West there 

 is an enormous supply. In Oregon and 

 Washington the pulp mills are cutting the 

 largest and finest spruce, capable of mak- 

 ing the longest and largest of dimension 

 timber, into pulp wood for their immedi- 

 ate and prospective wants, and for a few 

 years back have been buying some pulp 

 wood in Canada, cut almost entirely on 

 private lands, and the cheap price of Scan- 

 dinavian pulp enables them to import from 

 there. But many of these mills suffer 

 another and most serious disability, viz., 

 a shortage of water for grinding the wood, 

 and this shortage is becoming more in- 

 tense as time advances. There is the 

 further condition that many of the Amer- 

 ican mills, and particularly those who have 

 but a limited supply of wood ahead of 

 them, are but temporary, and one by one 

 will go out of existence. 



"With our very large resources in pulp 

 wood and our numerous and never failing 

 water powers, particularly in the province of 

 Quebec, there is but one sequence to this 

 question. The ultimate destiny of a large 

 share of the pulp and paper making of 

 North America will be in Canada. But 

 this result will come automatically and by 

 evolution. Mills will gradually disappea.- 

 in the United States, and excepting In 

 places where there is a future supply of 

 wood no new mills will be built there, 

 and as fast as market demands their con- 

 struction they will be built in Canada; but 

 the construction in Canada will not be 

 hastened one day by the provincial restric- 

 tion existing, but otherwise. It will be 

 retarded just as long as the maintenance of 

 the American duty remains a consequent 

 provision, and Canada will be most seri- 

 ously injured. Freedom of entry into the 

 United States for pulp and paper would 

 encourage the construction of mills in 

 Canada, but the reverse will deter judici- 

 ous Canadians from so investing. 



"That it is wiser that the transference 

 of that large part of pulp and paper mak- 

 ing that is to come to us should come 

 fairly gradually, I personally feel no doubt 

 of, and if the American market is open 

 to us I am certain that the paper making 

 will come to us as well as that of pulp, 

 for apart from the transportation condi- 

 tion so favorable and advantageous to paper 

 over pulp, there is the water power ques- 

 tion I have mentioned, which is very es- 

 sential. 



"And in the meantime, as this auto- 

 matic transference goes on, a rich harvest 

 can be obtained by those who have spruce 

 which they wish to dispose of, as the Am- 



ericans who need the pulp wood -vflll pay 

 during the lifetime of their mills, a high 

 price for it, and earn even small dirldendB 

 on their properties rather than no divi- 

 dends." 



A Gift to the Yale Forest School 



The gift of ?100,000 for a building for the 

 Yale Forest School is announced. The name 

 of the donor is not made public. The 

 building will be erected upon the Pierson- 

 Sage square. Following so closely upon 

 the gift of $100,000 by Mrs. E. H. Harri- 

 man, to endow the chair of forest manage- 

 ment, in memory of her husband, this in- 

 dicates the interest which those of large 

 means are beginning to take in forestry, 

 and the recognition of the profession, and 

 the need of thorough training therefor. 



Conservation in Hawaii 



On Wednesday afternoon, November 16, 

 1910, there was held in Honolulu, Hawaii, 

 a public meeting to consider the local 

 application of the five cardinal points of 

 conservation — the right use of lands, 

 waters, forests and minerals, and the safe- 

 guarding of public health. It was under 

 the joint auspices of the Territorial 

 Board of Agriculture and Forestry and tha 

 Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. In 

 the audience were a majority of the sugar 

 plantation managers and other members 

 of that association, but in addition there 

 was also present a goodly company of per- 

 sons representative of the best thought 

 and influence in the territory in other 

 lines. Short addresses were made by Gov- 

 ernor Frear, Messrs. Marston Campbell, 

 Ralph S. Hosrner, Dr. E. V. Wilcox, Hon. 

 W. O. Smith, Dr. W. C. Hobdy, Prof. C. H. 

 Hitchcock, and Mr. Alonzo Gartley on vari- 

 ous phases of the conservation problem 

 in its local aspects. 



In the speaking, mention was made of im- 

 portant co-operative work by the terri- 

 torial bureaus, the United States Forest Serv- 

 ice, and the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey. Ralph S. Hosmer, superintendent of 

 forestry of the territory, spoke on the part 

 played by the forest in conservation. He 

 summed up the importance of forestry to 

 Hawaii in these sentences: "In Hawaii 

 forestry is a business necessity. Wood and 

 water are the first needs that must be satis- 

 fied in any community. Both are products 

 of the forest. Wherever it can be got water 

 is the most valuable product that the na- 

 tive Hawaiian forest can be made to yield. 

 In Hawaii, without the native forest we 

 should be without water. And in our 

 planted forests, we have, too. an asset 

 constantly increasing in value; for the pro- 

 duction of wood is one of the pressing needs 

 of local conservation." 



