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border and it is much cheaper in Canada than in the United States, both 

 on account of the less demand compared with supply and because the Provincial 

 Governments own the larger part of the timberlands and they sell the 

 pulp-wood at a nominal price. This is known as Crown-land wood. As a 

 matter of fact, most of the pulp-wood imj^orted has come from private lands, 

 but the competition of the Crown-land wood has heretofore fixed the price of 

 the private-land wood. Canadian wood can be laid down at some of our mills 

 a little cheaper than domestic wood — just enough to make it available. Only 

 about 20 per cent of all our pulp-wood comes from Canada, and only a small 

 part of this has been coming from Crown lands, so that the Canadian re- 

 strictions on the exportation of pulp-wood, which only apply to Crown-land 

 wood, will not deplete our supply, although the result may be a slight in- 

 crease in value. 



VAST RESOURCES OP THE UNITED STATES STILL UNDEVELOPED 



If no Canadian wood whatever were imported here, it would not jeopardize 

 either our paper industry or our forests, provided we were protected in our 

 market by a fair duty. Vast timberland areas throughout the Southern and 

 Northwestern states, as yet unexploited for pulp-wood, would supplement our 

 present domestic sources of supply. Under the stimulus of adequate protec- 

 tion many new varieties of wood would be demonstrated to be usable. Almost 

 the whole vegetable kingdom — hundreds of fibres of plants and trees — awaits 

 only the commercial incentive to be of service in making papers of all kinds. 

 There is an everlasting supply of raw material in the United States. Less 

 than 2 per cent of all the wood cut in the United States is pulp-wood, and 

 yet, because at the present moment through a practical subsidy by the Canadian 

 Provincial Governments paper made in that country can be delivered to our 

 newspapers, if it pays no customs duty, cheaper than we can deliver it and 

 pay American prices for labor and materials, our politicians, at the behest 

 of the publishers, seem ready to turn over the industry to Canada on the 

 specious plea that we lack the raw material here at home. Half of our 

 various industries would be blotted out if the same fallacious argument 

 prevailed generally. 



