told that 60 per cent of the pulp and paper concerns 

 in New York have 110 stumpage of their own, and 

 that less than five have enough timberland for con- 

 tinuous future operation. The predicted life of the 

 industry in New York, New Hampshire, and even in 

 Maine, where the great bulk of our eastern pulpwood 

 still remains, is alarmingly short. 



"We have, on the other hand, large quantities of 

 suitable newsprint woods in the Pacific Northwest 

 and in Alaska. The annual growth of timber on the 

 National Forests of Southeastern Alaska alone would 

 supply half of our present American newsprint re- 

 quirements. Here the industry is undeveloped. 



"A far greater degree of independence in newsprint 

 manufacture can be accomplished by two measures 

 the development of the industry in the Pacific North- 

 west and in Alaska, and the large-scale growing of 

 timber in New England and Lake States. Both of 

 these measures would be greatly stimulated by the 

 passage of the Poindexter Pulp Bill now pending in 

 the Senate. A pulpwood survey would secure the 

 facts on which a sound development of the industry 

 in the Northwest and in Alaska could be based, and 

 it would also afford a basis for the production of pulp 

 timber in the Lake States and in the Northeast. 



"Your association has urged the purchase by the 

 Government of large areas suitable for the growing 

 of pulpwoods. The Government has made a begin- 

 ning in this direction during the past decade. In 

 New Hampshire and Maine an area of about 362,000 

 acres has been acquired admirably adapted for this 

 purpose. This area should be greately enlarged to in- 



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