FOREST COM.MISSIOXKU S HEPOKT, 



151 



CONSUMPTION OF SPRUCE ON THE ANDROSCOGGIN RIVER FOR 



THE YEAR 1895. 



Used for jiulp 

 Sawed. and piiper. 



At Berlin 40 millions 60 millions 



Gorham 10 " 



Shclburn 10 '' 



Kumford 24 " 



Canton 2 " 



Jay and Livermore 19 '* 



Lewiston *() " 



Lisbon 4 " fll " 



Brunswick and Topshani . . . +1^ " §9 " 



73J 123 



*Tliis item very variable. 



tOf this item about 1-6 in 1895 comes from the Sandy river. 



JThis conies ISflS from Kennebec river. 



§Xearly all of this item broujjht from Canada by rail. 



About ten millions sent from the neigliborhoodof Berlin to be manufactured off 

 the drainaj^e. 



Additions to mill capacity made in 1890 indicate an increase of consumption of 

 forty millions. Twenty-five of this is at Berlin, for pulp; the remainder is about 

 equally divided between a saw mill at Rumford, and a new pulp mill plant at 

 Peterson's Rips in Livermore. 



Several Androscoggin pulp mills use a small amount of pine and poplar. The 

 mill of tlie Poland Paper Company at Canton uses poplar entirely. 



