tgio Forest Stnlnhcs of Canada-/ 



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HUiii|>ti>)ii WHH of thiM RpocioH. Ttie quanti 

 tioH of poplar hikI hemlock wore Ptirh 

 about Hix ttMitliH of one |H>r rotit of the 

 total. lltMiilock wuH r«>portt*(l hn n pulp- 

 ing wooil for the flrnt time in liXMt, nnd in 

 191U WHH us«mI to H Krvutcr rxtoiit than 

 poplar, .luck pine hnH not been reportetl 

 as n pulpwooil for thv luHt two yeara. 



The coHt of pulpwoixl vurieii very great- 

 ly, Hoine lii^ niillownerH having all their 

 own limitH and the coMt to them )iein<< 

 merely the farryinj» cont of their lin.it 

 with tranHportation chargeH added. Other 

 manufat-turerH have to l>uy in the open 

 market, and add tran.Hportation t-hargen to 

 this price. Spruce wa.s the most expen- 

 Hive apeoies at .ftt.Oo per cord, an inereaao 

 of sixty-four cents over the 1909 price. 

 Halsani fir fell fifty-five eentH, the aver- 

 ajje price being ."f">.7l per cord. The i»rice 

 of hemlock was practically the same, and 

 jioplar increasetl eleven cents during the 

 year. 



The Quebec oonHumption was made up 

 as follows: — Spruce, 70 per cent; balaam 

 fir. 2H per cent; ami the rest hemlock and 

 po| lar. .\ova Scotia also cut these four 

 species, but Ontario used only spruce, pop- 

 lar and balsam fir, and New Brunswick 

 amd Hritish Columbia usetl spruce only. 



Almost four fifths of the puljiwood man- 

 ufactured in Tanadn in 1910 was manu- 

 factured by the mechanical process, one 

 fifth by the sulphite pnwess and only 2 

 per cent by the soda process. (^ueb<>c 

 leads in manufacturing mechanical pulp, 

 but Ontario produces the greatest quan 

 tity of sulphite pulp. (Quebec makes over 

 three quarters of the pulp made by the 

 soda process. 



Spruce is used in all three procesHes, 

 find lends in all. Balsam fir is used only 

 in the meclianical and sulphite processes 

 in nearly equal tpiantities. Kighty-four 

 jier cent of the hemlock was manufactur- 

 eil by the soda process and poplar by the 

 sulphite and soda |)rocesses. Nova S«*otin 

 used only the mechanical process nn<l a 

 small (luantity only of sulphite and soda 

 pulp was produceil in New Brunswick. 



The average amount of pulp produced 

 per cord of wood by the mechanical pro- 

 cess during the year was 1,90H pounds, 

 while the sulphite prm'ess gave 997 

 1 oun«!s of pulp per cord, nnd the soda 

 process 987 poun«ls of pulp per cord. 

 Seventy per cent of the w<»od used in the 

 sulidiite mills was spruce and 29 per cent 

 balsam fir. Spruce, ]>oplar nnd hemlo<'k 

 were use<l in the soda process. 



The Ontario pulp mills have the high 

 est H\ erage consunjption, \'\f..:- nearly 14. 

 037 cords j)er mill. The avernire consump 

 tion per mill in (Quebec was 1.1,710 cords, 

 in Nova Scotia 4,934 cords and in New- 

 Brunswick 3,783 cords. For the whole 



DoiiitiMiii tilt* av»rag« eonaumption \t9X 

 mill waa 11,73.1 rurda. 



Tho ex|>ort of pulp#oo4l from <'aoaiU 

 ia ateadily growing itrrater — an unfortun- 

 ate fact, aa the wood would yield greatly 

 increased returna if nianufarture<l ia 

 C'auada. While pulpwood priMluction waa 

 \tm in Canada during lUlo than in 1909, 

 exporta of wood-pulp increaited by 4M,2SS 

 tona, an increaae of aome 6 per rent. 

 Kighty-eight per cent of the ex|N>rt waa 

 mechanical pulp, while only 78 per rent 

 of the pulp manufactured in Canada waa 

 mechanical. The export of chemical pulp 

 niHo Hhowa an increaae. 



The average value |ier ton of the pulp 

 exported in 1910 waa $14.67 for mechan- 

 ical pulp, and I.^S..!.") for the chemical 

 pul|>. Thia is an increaae of aeventy 

 cents over the 1909 price for n^echaniral 

 pulp, but the |irlce of chemical pulp haa 

 decreased ♦2.fi4, The average price for 

 all wood-pulp exported was $!7..'{|, or 

 fourteen centH lf>sa per ton than the l9tMi 

 price. 



Of the woml-puin exported during l9lo, 

 three-quarters went to the I'nited Htatf^, 

 this country taking 74.3 per cent of the 

 mechanical pulp nnd over W per cent of 

 the chemical pulp exported. Kxporta to 

 other countriea de<*reaHed. 



All the pulpW(MMl exported in an unman- 

 ufuctured state went to the I'niteil 

 8tate«. 



About 4.000 eorda more wood were ent 

 for pulp in Canada in 1909 than in 1910. 

 The total quantity of pulpwtNxl cut in 

 Canada was l,.'>41.n28 conis, and of thia 

 over three-fifths was exported. The 

 amount paid for this w<mmI exporte^I waa 

 16,210,042. If this wood had b«>en man- 

 ufactured into pulp in Canndn the amount 

 rei:eived for it. at the average pricM |»aid 

 in 1910 by the Vnited Statea im|tortera of 

 wood-pulp, would have been $13,.';28,48] — 

 over twice as much aa wast received for 

 the pulpwotxl 



The pulpwooil exportfHi from Quebec. 

 it is calculatiHl, was sufficient to aupply 

 material f«»r a year to fifty-aix pulp mills 

 of the average sire of those operating in 

 the province. Ontario's export woubi 

 have kept running five mills of the aver- 

 age sire of those operatinu in that prov- 

 ince, while, had the 9«\000 rorda ahippe<1 

 from New Brunswick been manufacture*! 

 in that province, twenty-four mills of 

 the average s^re couM have been kept 

 running and five timnt the number of 

 mills operating therf> would have )>iM>n 

 busv. 



i in- .-I V i-l;ij;i- t'XpOrt of Whili- I'llM- ■•nii«r<- 



t*mber from Canada for the d«vade 1871- 



188:) was about fift4>i>ii tinu's »li.» ouantitv 



expected in IRi''.' 



