3i8 Forestry Quarterly. 



The following item is from the New York Times of April 12, 

 1912: 



Considerable interest is evinced in the New York paper market 

 in the report from Pascagoula, Miss., that the Southern Paper 

 Company has awarded contracts covering the erection of a large 

 paper mill at that place. The plant is on the Escawtapa River, 

 near Moss Point, and when completed will be the largest of its 

 kind in the South. Waste from the mills of the J. L. Dantzler 

 Lumber Company of Moss Point will be utilized as raw material. 



The Southern Paper Company is capitalized at $750,000, a good 

 part of which represents English investments. 



The Office of Wood Utilization of the United States Forest 

 Service is making an exhaustive study of the wood-using in- 

 dustries in all the states. The investigation has been concluded 

 already in a number of states and the reports have been published. 

 In others the work is going on, and it is planned to conclude it in 

 every state in the Union as quickly as possible. As a result of all 

 this fundamental work the Forest Service will issue two sets of 

 publications, one dealing with the uses of the principal commercial 

 woods, the other showing the kinds of wood used in the principal 

 wood-consuming industries, such as furniture, agricultural imple- 

 ments, etc. The list so far published includes Washington, 

 Oregon, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, 

 Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Kentucky. 



From the Bulletin of the Bureau of Statistics, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture we learn that the export of forest products 

 for 1910 amounted to $85,030,230, an increase of $12,587,776 over 

 1900, although not quite one-tenth of the very much lessened 

 export of farm products. But this export is offset by an import 

 of $178,871,797, an increase of nearly 55 milHon dollars over 1909 

 and 81 million dollars over 1908. This includes, to be sure, India 

 rubber and many other articles which we do not produce. 



Even though the wood preserving industry in the United States 

 has developed at a remarkable rate, or from 11 plants in 1900 to 

 loi plants in 191 1, conditions arise from time to time which 



