Forest to Newspaper in one Week 



One week a stately growing tree flourishing 

 in the primal fastness of some Canadian forest; 

 the next, a newspaper, quickly perused and care- 

 lessly thrown away by readers in United States 

 cities, This is the brief inner history of a great 

 industry and the record of Canadian enterprise 

 and transportation. 



The Chicago Tribune faced a sudden news- 

 print shortage which demanded immediate 

 remedying if their readers were to receive their 

 newspapers as usual. A serious situation for 

 any newspaper. Canada was the source of its 

 newsprint supply and an S.O.S. was- sent to the 

 Abitibi Company at Iroquois Falls in Northern 

 Ontario. 



The paper company passed the S.O.S. on to 

 the Canadian Pacific Railway at North Bay and, 

 as soon as they could be collected, forty cars 

 were despatched over the Temaskiming and 

 Northern Ontario Railway through two hundred 

 miles of forest and plain to the mill. Their 

 arrival was eagerly awaited and in record time 

 the forty cars were loaded with a thousand tons 

 of newsprint, a goodly cargo but merely two days 

 output of the giant plant. Away to the border 

 thundered seventy thousand dollars worth of 

 embryo newspapers. This was at five p.m. 

 Friday, March 10th. 



A "Special" Rushed Shipment Through 



A fresh engine was awaiting the special train 

 when it reached the Canadian Pacific lines at 

 North Bay and it continued on its way taking 

 precedence over all but passenger trains and 

 making, in fact, fast passenger time. Latterly 

 it changed to the lines of the Michigan Central 

 and arrived in Chicago on Sunday afternoon 

 March 12th, having accomplished the trip of 

 1,059 miles in fifty hours. On Monday afternoon 

 newsboys were carrying a part of the shipment 

 about Chicago streets in the shape of newspapers. 

 Readers in the great city received their papers 

 just as usual, little realizing how close they had 

 been to having the publication interrupted, and 

 without a thought they were thrown away. 



The wood which was pulped and latterly 

 became the paper to constitute this expeditious 

 shipment, had come to the mill but a few days 

 previous to the urgent demand so that a spruce 

 or pine standing in stately dignity in a Canadian 

 forest this week, may before the next elapses, be 

 in the wastepaper baskets of a dozen cities of the 

 United States. 



It has become a great industry in Canada, 

 the manufacture of newsprint, accounting for a 

 production of about 2,500 tons every day, of 

 which the forests of Northern Ontario supply 

 half. Taking a strip a yard wide, about the 

 size of an opened newspaper, Canadian news- 

 print mills each day encircle the globe with their 

 product. 



Industrial Outlook in Western Canada 



By John Sweeting, Industrial Agent, 

 C.P.R., Winnipeg 



It is becoming apparent that the western 

 situation is rapidly improving, with a continu- 

 ance of up-grade in trading. While the immedi- 

 ate volume of increase is small, it is being added 

 to month by month, bringing with it a more 

 confident feeling, looking to a more remunerative 

 summer and fall trade. 



The writer has been spending some weeks 

 recently touring the West, not so much with a 

 view to line up any prospective development of 

 magnitude, but to get the right focus on the 

 existing state of affairs and the possibilities of 

 building up better conditions. It may be said 

 that in the cities and towns as well as in the 

 country districts, the situation is slowly evolving 

 to one of greater confidence mental perhaps, to 

 some extent but nevertheless real in so far as 

 there is a distinct effort to increase trading and a 

 more insistent necessity on the part of the con- 

 sumer to purchase. Efforts at postponement 

 have been made, until now the time has arrived 

 when money must be spent on necessary com- 

 modities. There is nothing depressing in the 

 outlook, and it is somewhat remarkable to note 

 the uniformly expressed opinion of western 

 business men on prospective trade developments. 



The Investment of Capital 



The outlook for investment of capital in the 

 development of resources and the construction 

 of branch factory plants is not yet showing any 

 activity, although many prospects are in sight, 

 waiting possibly a more favourable opportunity 

 to carry out extensions and open up new mining, 

 lumber and other development. Recent oil 

 discoveries south of the international line in 

 Montana, have caused considerable activity in 

 the Lethbridge and south area and undoubtedly 

 some wells will be put down on the Alberta side 

 of the line during the summer. It is early yet 

 to express an opinion of the prospects, but the 

 situation appears to justify the investment of 

 some capital in this area. At the present time 

 it is being thoroughly investigated with a view 

 to determining prospective locations for drillin g. 



Conditions on Pacific Coast 



While on the Pacific Coast the writer noted 

 an improvement in general conditions with a 

 somewhat extensive building program in sight. 



The export lumber business is on the up grade 

 and while the interior mills are not yet very active, 

 some orders are coming along that will help 

 the situation in the near future. Mining is 

 distinctly better and should produce a remu- 

 nerative season, with activities in new districts 

 of considerable dimensions. In shipping circles, 

 better and more trade is being looked for and 



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