United States, our cut-over lands in the United States 

 would produce in the next 50 or 60 years if properly 

 protected and cared for, over 60,000,000,000 feet of 

 lumber a year without lessening our forest capital. 

 And this would be done without using agricultural 

 land for the purpose. 



Canada has 5940 miles of high tension pole lines 

 carrying currents of from 10,000 to 100,000 volts. 

 Minnesota has tremendous water power sources in 

 the north which will some day be utilized in this 

 way to the great advantage of Minnesota industries. 



In 1918 the United States imported from Canada 

 1,370,027 cords of pulpwood valued at $13,362,566. 

 This was an increase in amount of 47 per cent over 

 the 1910 importation and an increase in value of 119 

 per cent. In the same year we also imported 516,258 

 tons of manufactured wood pulp valued at $31,477,175. 

 "Why should we not raise this pulpwood on our own 

 waste lands, which are now lying idle, and keep these 

 great sums of money at home? 



Leaders of the Southern Pine Manufacturers Asso- 

 ciation state that the bulk of the original supplies 

 of yellow pine in the south will be exhausted in ten 

 years, and that within the next five to seven years 

 more than three thousand manufacturing plants will 

 go out of existence. 



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