NOTES UPON THE PAPER INDUSTRY AND THE 

 PULPWOOD SUPPLY^ 



By R. S. Kellogg 

 Secretary, News Print Service Bureau. 



No other method of wood iitihzation approaches that of pulp and 

 paper manufacture in the completeness with which the raw material 

 is used and no one can set a limit to the number of articles of daily 

 utility that it is possible to manufacture from pulp and paper. These 

 articles will be manufactured in greater quantity and variety as our 

 knowledge increases and as higher values of forest products lead to 

 more scientific utilization of the timber supply. 



Pulp and paper manufacturing is the one great industry using wood 

 as a raw material in which there is much hope for the practice of 

 forestry as a commercial undertaking upon privately owned land. 



The production of large-size timber is too long an undertaking with 

 too great hazards and too low a rate of return to attract the investor 

 or to appeal to the practical sense of lumber manufacturers. On the 

 other hand, the production of pulpwood of rapid growing species is 

 a matter of much shorter time than the growing of sawtimber, and the 

 amount of capital invested in a pulp and paper mill is so great as to 

 require a long period of return. 



Hence it is to the pulp and paper industry that professional foresters 

 of the country turn most hopefully for the practical application of their 

 principles. 



The most superficial survey of the situation shows the urgent need 

 of immediate and large scale efforts to provide a permanent supply of 

 raw material for the basic industry of paper manufacture. We have 

 become so accustomed to using paper extravagantly for a multitude of 

 purposes that we do not stop to think that in most cases the piece of 

 paper which we handle carelessly and cast aside is a forest product, and, 

 \vhat is more, a product of a rapidly disappearing type of forest. 



To say that the production of wood pulp in the United Str^es last 

 year was 3,800,000 tons does not convey m,uch to the ordinary reider, 



'Resume of an address delivered before the Washington Section of the So- 

 ciety of American Foresters, March 24, 1921. 



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