ENHANCED VALUE OF CANADIAN TIMBER AND WOOD-PULP. 99 



In our country, since the year 1885, no less than one Royal 

 Commission, two Departmental Committees, and one Select 

 Committee,! have taken voluminous evidence and reported 

 exhaustively to the Government on the subject : but our 

 Society has not yet succeeded in inducing either landowners 

 or the Government to take the measures which are necessary 

 for the development of our forest industry. May we venture 

 to hope that the notable example set by the Japanese may 

 have the effect of awakening them to the great national 

 importance of the forest question ? F. B. 



13. Enhanced Value of Canadian Timber and 

 Wood-Pulp. 



The following extracts from the Times are given as showing 

 the increased value, due of course to diminishing supply, which 

 the wasteful practices of former years are conferring on Canadian 

 timber and wood-pulp. Species, such as hemlock, jack-pine 

 and spruce, which, until recently, were neglected, are now 

 coming into general use for purposes for which pine has 

 become too expensive. These developments cannot fail to 

 affect the cost of timber and pulp imported to this country 

 across the Atlantic. It is consoling to know that in Canada, 

 as in the United States, the preservation of natural resources has 

 become a fixed object of public policy. Hon. Ed. 



The Export of PulpWood. 

 The determination of the Quebec Government to prohibit 

 the export of pulp-wood cut on Crown lands, must affect many 

 American mills devoted to the manufacture of paper which 

 secure their raw material from Quebec. The province of 

 Ontario also prohibits export from public lands, and New 

 Brunswick will do likewise. The mills of the United States 

 have thousands of miles of pulp-wood limits in Quebec, Nova 

 Scotia, and New Brunswick. In some cases the pulp-wood is 

 shipped twelve or fourteen hundred miles to the mills at 

 American industrial centres. One result must be to transfer 



^ I. Select Committee of the House of Commons, 1885. Reported in 1887. 



2. Departmental Committee on British Forestry, 1902. Reported in 1903. 



3. Departmental Committee on Irish Forestry, 1907. Reported in 1908. 



4. Royal Commission on Coast Erosion appointed in 1906, scope enlarged 



to include afforestation in 1908. Reported in 1909. 



