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Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1919 



Getting rid of the fire menace. 



Clean brush disposal, settlers' cuttiiiK. rorcui)iiu- Forest Reserve, Saskatchewan. 



CANADA'S WOODPILE AS AN INDUSTRIAL 



MAGNET 



The attention of the Canadian Forestry Jour- 

 nal has been called to a new campaign, launched 

 by certain United States paper manufacturers, 

 to bring such influence to bear upon the Domin- 

 ion Government as to "persuade" the Govern- 

 ment of Quebec to upset the embargo on the 

 export of Crown Lands pulpwood which was in- 

 stituted in 1910 in order to compel the manu- 

 facture of raw materials into the finished pro- 

 duct within the boundaries of Canada. 



From the memorandum of the American paper 

 men the Forestry Journal prints the following 

 excerpts: 



"The two-foJd effect of the legislation in Can- 

 ada in 1910, and, in the United States in 1911, 

 has been greatly to stimulate newsprint produc- 

 tion in Canada, to depress it in the United States 

 and to advance the cost of what pulpwood is 

 obtainable to a point that makes the cost of 

 manufacture in the United States excessive. 

 Canadian Income Cut, Too. 



"The release of the pulpwood reserves owned 

 by our manufacturers on the Crown Lands of 

 Quebec would afford an indefinite supply of raw 

 material at moderate cost to our paper mills, 

 would reduce and hold stable the selling price 



of newsprint and would insure the permanent 

 price-regulating competition of our mills with 

 the Canadian mills which are not subject to our 

 laws or regulations. 



"United States paper interests began to pur- 

 chase the leases of Crown Land limits in Quebec 

 soon after the use of pulpwood for the manu- 

 facture of newsprmt became general, and up to 

 1910, had acquired in the aggregate leases of 

 some 10,000 square miles, or only a little more 

 than 5 per cent of the spruce Crown lands of 

 the province. 



"These limits of ten thousand square miles 

 are equal to 6,400,000 acres. 



"On the conservative estimate of five cords of 

 spruce timber to the acre, these limits carry a 

 total of 32,000,000 cords of wood. 



"Figured at 4 per cent a year, which is only 

 26.6 cubic feet per acre, the annual forest 

 growth on these limits would aggregate 

 1 ,280,000 cords, or, sufficient to insure an ade- 

 quate supply of pulpwood for the newsprint 

 mills in the east indefinitely. 



"The stumpage fees from this quantity of 

 would produce $1,288,800 a year for the pro- 

 vincial treasury. 



