PAPER INDUSTRY AND THE PULP WOOD SUPPLY 497 



the forestry problem touches so intimately every man. woman, and child 

 ni the country, whether it be realized or not. 



The average yearly pulpwood consumption in the United States is 

 bjA million cords, of which an average of 1.1 GO, 000 cords, or 21 per 

 cent, is imported from Canada. 



Our States of greatest pulpwood consumption are Maine, with an 

 average of 1% million cords, of which 10 per cent is imported; New 

 York, one million cords, of which one-third is imported; and Wis- 

 consin. 800,000 cords, of which oO per cent comes from outside the 

 borders of the State. 



The total amount of wood used for the manufacture of paper is 

 not large compared with our consumption of forest products for other 

 purposes, but because of the concentration of the industry in the 

 Northeastern and Lake States and the large use of the three or four 

 chief species of timber in these regions the problem of a future supply 

 is particularly pressing. 



The information at hand indicates that there may be in the Adiron- 

 dack region of New York a total of H.OOO.OOO cords of privately owned 

 stumpage of spruce, balsam, and hemlock, and there is in the same 

 region about 9.000.000 cords of spruce, balsam, and hemlock stumpage 

 on the State preserve, which at present is securely locked up against 

 any use whatever. 



If these estimates are correct, the total stand of pulpwood timber in 

 the Adirondack region is equivalent to the rate of consumption of 

 domestic pulpwood in the State for 25 years. However, the larger 

 proportion of this total is on the State preserve, where all use is pro- 

 hibited. Still further, these estimates make no allowance for the 

 large amount of timber of these species annually cut for lumber. 



The latest data compiled in ATaine indicate that the total stand of 

 spruce and balsam pulpwood is about 28,000,000 cords against which 

 there is to be set an annual consumption of at least 1,000,000 cords of 

 domestic pulpwood by the mills of that State. 



The paper mills of the Lake States are using half a million cords of 

 hemlock yearly, which will probably never be replaced. 



It would seem that there will be comparatively little pulpwood of 

 the present species left in the Northeastern States and Lake States 25 

 years hence, even if throughout that period the supply of Canadian 

 wood continues in volume equal to the present, which is very doubtful. 



