News and Notes 771 



"One of the best mills in Canada today is obtaining a wood supply 

 on a two-years' drive" and others are not certain of a sufficient 

 supply for many years. 



The Dominion of Canada is out on the same inquiry : the cause 

 of high price for newsprint paper. 



The question of growth is also gone into, and quite properly 

 dismissed as having hardly any bearing on the question of present 

 prices, net growth being a negligible quantity if occurring at all. 

 Altogether the situation of pulpwood supplies appears decidedly 

 appalling. 



In connection with the above we note that at a hearing before 

 the Dominions Royal Commission lately Mr. Ellwood Wilson, 

 Forester of the Laurentide Paper Company working in Quebec, 

 is reported as having made a statement that unless more vigorous 

 efforts are made to protect pulpwood lands from fire, the supply 

 in the St. Lawrence Valley will be exhausted within 15 years, at 

 present rate of consumption. 



In this connection also we may quote from a paper read by 

 Prof. P. S. Lovejoy, of the University of Michigan, on pulpwood 

 supplies before the Paper and Ptdp Association. 



He asserted that we did not know now within 25 per cent what 

 our stand of saw timber is for any given region or State. [This 

 would be, indeed, close enough !] Mr. Lovejoy urged the need of 

 systematically growing pulpwood material which for an annual 

 consumption of 5 million cords (we are already using 6 million) 

 in a 50-year rotation may be secured from 100,000 to 200,000 acres 

 each year, or, say, a reserve of only 5,000,000 acres, if the 100,000 

 acres to be cut can be made to produce at the rate of one cord per 

 acre per year. 



There are, of cotirse, other conditions besides the waning wood- 

 pulp supplies that tend to increase paper prices, increased demand 

 and the disturbed market conditions and increased prices of com- 

 modities going into paper making, as well as lack of labor and 

 transportation due to the war. 



According to the Swedish Chamber of Commerce, the rise in 

 prices may be estimated for the year : 



