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valley of the St. Lawrence River. The location of the industrial center 

 of the manufacture of wood pulp is attributed directly to the fact that 

 raw material is available in this section and the great paper mill centers 

 have been developed there. 



1 Included with all other species in 1916. 



New York occupies the commanding position in the manufacture of 

 wood pulp and paper. It now has about seventy-five pulp mills and con- 

 sumes more than 1,000,000 cords of wood annually. The centers of the 

 industry in Xew York are in the upper Hudson River and Black River 

 valleys, the latter centering around the cities of Watertown and Carthage. 

 Maine is the leader in the consumption of wood, using over 1,198,000 

 cords of wood annually. In 1911 there were thirty-eight pulp mills in 

 Maine and in 1916, thirty-two mills. Wisconsin is third in order of 

 importance. 



Owing to the decrease of available material in the northeast, the 

 industry has exhibited a tendency to move to Canada, the Lake states 

 and the northwest and it is estimated that in a few decades many new 

 pulp mills will be located in the Lake states, the Far West and even in 

 the South where new developments in the reduction of southern pine 

 waste give excellent promisV Other leading states in order are New 

 Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Michigan, Oregon, West Vir- 

 ginia, Virginia, Vermont, North Carolina and Massachusetts. 



Consumption by Processes. 



Most of the pulpwood is reduced by the sulphite process. In 1916 



