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township through parts of Maine, and having canvassed the 

 situation in New York, comes to the conclusion that the exhaustion 

 of pulpwood supplies in the two chief pulp and paper-producing 

 States is responsible for the high price of paper. 



The following statements lend color to this assertion. Of the 

 976,200 cords of pulpwood used last year in New York, 60 per 

 cent was imported from Canada; the cost at mill being $14 per 

 cord for peeled and $16 for rossed wood. Forty-one mills in that 

 State, using 367,000 cords, are without their own stumpage, and 

 27 mills, using 350,000 cords, will be in that condition in one to 

 three years, depending then on the open market. 



On the Androscoggin River in Maine there is claimed to be only 

 sufficient standing wood to last the mills on that river, unless 

 drawing supplies from elsewhere, for only about two and one half 

 years. 



On the Kennebec River, which is credited with a stand of 

 8,400,000 cords, last season's cut was 600,000 cords, indicating 

 14 years' supply for such a cut. 



On the Penobscot River, of 1,200,000 acres on the west branch 

 nearly 90 per cent is owned by one company; the east branch is 

 credited with an average of 5 cords or total of 3,500,000 cords to 

 be divided up among a ntmiber of smaller mills. 



Taking the report of the Forest Commissioner of Maine for 

 1902, which claimed for Maine a little over 21 billion feet of 

 standing supplies, and deducting what has been cut since, namely 

 10 billion feet, there is only about 15 years' supply left for such a 

 cut. 



In a private letter Mr. Bamjum adds: "Regarding the predic- 

 tions made by the Washington forestry authorities (Senate 

 Document No. 40, Fifty-fifth Congress, 1898), that the timber in 

 the East would be exhausted in fifteen to twenty years, if you 

 deduct the amount of importations from Canada, these predictions 

 were absolutely correct, as there has been sufficient imported from 

 that source to just extend our supply a matter of about fifteen 

 years, which is just about the supply that we have left. ... I 

 marvel at the accuracy of Dr. Femow's figures!" 



As regards importations from Canada, Mr. Bamjum is not 

 hopeful, for "Canada has no more timber than she needs for her 

 own development," and it is likely that export duties will be 

 enacted; besides, much of the pulpwood is unfavorably located. 



