Not only would such a speech be true, but it might be 

 added that there are dozens of other uses to which poplar 

 might be put, such as making staves and headings for barrels 

 and manufacturing other containers of a like kind. It has 

 been the custom of many lumber companies to leave the 

 poplar, birch and balsam go to waste while the more valuable 

 timber is cut away. 



Factories to Utilize the Birch Now Going to Waste, Are 

 Needed. 



The amount of birch untouched in Minnesota is appalling. 

 No wood is so good as birch for the manufacture of spools, 

 rollers, clothes pins, tooth picks, toys, woodenware and kin- 

 dred articles. Manufacturers in the East are paying big prices 

 for a poor grade of birch and transporting it many miles from 

 the woods of Maine and New Hampshire. And yet, here in 

 Minnesota, are vast qaimtities of the finest birch that ever 

 grew in America, standing idle and even going to decay in 

 the forests for want of manufacturies. Some day, of course, 

 this birch will be as much in demand as the birch of New 

 England and command a still greater price. Some day some 

 manufacturer will come in and "discover" it and it will be 

 used. 



Last Chance in America for Establishment of Paper-making 



Mills. 



No place in America offers the inducements for establish- 

 ment of paper mills where poplar and spruce may be used, 

 that Minnesota offers. In Maine and New Hampshire, just 

 as much is paid for poplar for pulp, as is paid for spruce. 

 One important article of daily life is wood-pulp for paper. 

 It first came into prominence for general use in the middle 

 Seventies. Soon it was found that wood-pulp, especially that 

 from spruce and other softwoods, was the cheapest satisfac- 

 tory material from which newspaper could be made. With 

 the use of wood-pulp in this connection, the cost to the reader 

 of his newspaper became less, and he received more reading 



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