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Crown lands. Sixty per cent of the remaining spruce pulp- 
wood in New York is on the State Preserves, where no cutting 
is allowed. 
Pulpwood Consumption in New York 
Wood | Total Pulp 
YEAR Mills consumed, cost, produced, 
~ (cords) (dollars) (tons) 
Slot eno. OOO ces a 90 921,882 9,630,575 686 , 323 
STL ee ARERR Ne citys cvapens ta s ceo ees E 75 1,094,513 12,098,608 787 ,397 
UTS cls Sac. Gi ee 79 1,056 , 556 15,270,142 798,616 
USS De, 5 eras otto eee 75 1,003,742 17 , 954,934 749 ,176 
The amount of pulpwood produced annually by the State is 
now utterly insufficient to supply the mills, as indicated by the 
following statistics of the Conservation Commission for 1918, 
being less than 50 per cent of the annual consumption. 
Species Cords 
SILIGEMPUE a ei eercicrs| fcr cused «ao spe big oh crs a Mowsrecharweus ¢ 335, 423 
Ee aS IIE IM Stes ir e',5, a) cis. reijoc Sa iota m Ab uum choneretene ecnsucnae 54, 460 
TElavaailoelle 2. PRES ee Aan ae Pe Neu NDT an STA Se ayes, <a 85, 054 
TESONDL UTM Meter Gk c alia) aaifests « Bes) cealey sje eaealayansicte tora m em 22, 925 
JETS RO OVE: 4b ae el Rybes RITE NIG oh Men ng ie 8 tn 3, 780 
501, 642 
Like the secondary industries, the wood-pulp manufac- 
turers are already restricted in their operations for the lack 
of raw material. Some firms are moving to other regions where 
a greater supply of pulpwood is in sight. The last great areas 
of forest remaining are in Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. 
Apparently New York must eventually lose to the other States 
a large part of this great industry, with all the laborers, wages, 
and wealth production incident to such loss. The only way 
to win back this source of prosperity is through reforestation 
on a large scale. Many years will be required to increase the 
annual supply to its maximum, and the New York mills can 
always handle any amount which the forests of the State could 
conceivably produce. Therefore the market for pulpwood will 
always be active and its production profitable upon the farm 
woodlots or on larger forest tracts. 
