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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



years, is as deserving of the consideration and help of 

 the State as is the land that produces its annual crop of 

 foodstuffs and which receives, and properly so, the 

 solicitous care of our Government. 



While this program, both State and National, may 

 hold out hope for the future in making permanent the 

 industries utilizing forest products, it would be futile 

 and holding out false hopes if the general public were 

 led to believe that the present actual shortage in pulp 

 and paper products could be easily and quickly relieved. 

 Whatever steps are taken, whether temporary, or for- 

 ward-looking, there will inevitably be necessity for 

 economy in the use of paper, and the publishers and 

 users of paper will display not only regard for the public 

 welfare, but intelligent selfishness so far as their own 

 interests are concerned, if they will co-operate in a move- 

 ment to avoid waste in every manner that will not 

 jeopardize their real service to the general public. 



I can speak for the industry which I represent in this 

 country in promising the hearty co-operation and prac- 

 tical help of the industry to all bodies and agencies that 

 are approaching this subject in the same spirit as I have 

 outlined. 



No consideration of the pulpwood supply for Ameri- 

 can mills would be complete unless note were taken of 

 the Canadian situation from which source large quanti- 

 ties of this raw material have come in the past and are 

 still coming. The growing realization by Canada that 

 her own pulpwood resources are not unlimited must be 

 her excuse for not only prohibiting the export of un- 

 manufactured pulpwood from Crown Lands, but to 

 seriously suggest an embargo on wood from private 

 lands also. I have no intention of entering into discussion 

 of the merits of this situation other than to quote from 

 my own remarks at the last convention of the American 

 Pulp and Paper Association: 



"The markets of America have been freely opened 

 to the products of Canadian mills and the industry there 

 owes its phenomenal development to that fact. It is 

 further true that Canadian industry must have Ameri- 

 can coal of which several million "tons annually are sent 

 across the line. There should be no clashing of interests 

 through misapprehension, but full recognition of the 

 similarity of the problem on both sides. Co-operation 

 on a large and magnanimous scale and in the most sym- 

 pathetic spirit must be the rule if the industry is to 

 prosper in both countries. Common fairness indicates 

 that access to raw materials needed should not be denied 

 on either side, and a restrictive policy in excess of what 

 is fairly necessary for national requirements is not in 

 accord with the co-operative spirit which must hereafter 

 rule in international relations." 



It is unfortunate indeed that some in Canada should 

 have so misinterpreted the spirit in which the Americans 

 have taken up this question and particularly that certain 

 financial interests have given currency to statements that 

 appear to question the motives and the business ethics of 

 the Americans who even attempt to discuss the situation 

 in a fair and dispassionate way. If those who are more 

 interested in the financial exploitation of the industry 



than in its practical building up and operation would 

 leave the adjustment of this matter to the actual manu- 

 facturers of pulp and paper in both countries, such ad- 

 justment to be brought about by amicable business con- 

 ferences, it is my opinion that some arrangement mutual- 

 ly satisfactory and mutually helpful could be worked 

 out. America does not desire to rob Canada of her 

 birthright in her pulpwood resources and no suggestion 

 of retaliation was ever intended in the fair statement that 

 both countries needed raw materials which are produced 

 or exist in the other country, and that arrangements for 

 interchange of such resources should be upon some fair 

 plan of co-operation that would be helpful to industry 

 on both sides of the line. 



I venture to commend for most careful consideration 

 the very practical suggestions offered by Colonel Graves 

 as to a conference by qualified representatives of the 

 United States and Canada and to congratulate myself 

 that, to use the words of a noted personage, my mind 

 has seemed to "go along" with his as to the desirability 

 of an amicable business-like conference, undertaken in 

 a spirit of co-operation and good will. 



Speaking for the manufacturers of pulp and paper, let 

 me give assurance of our entire readiness to assume obli- 

 gation and render full measure of service in the practical 

 execution of a program that will be continent-wide in 

 its scope, all-embracing as to wood-using industries and 

 dedicated in its last analysis to the permanent service of 

 all the people. 



* Extracts from an address at the New England Forestry 

 Conference in August, 1920. 



FOREST RECREATION THE MIGHTY 

 ROCKY MOUNTAIN TROUT 



(Continued from page 664) 

 dollars will build and equip very nicely a small hatchery 

 where from four to five hundred thousand fish may be 

 hatched annually. I would favor the construction of a 

 great number of hatcheries in our mountains rather than 

 just a few large ones. By this method a great deal can be 

 saved in transportation of eggs and hatch, and each 

 locality would be in a position to better know just how 

 many fish can be taken and supported. If the whole 

 United States goes fishing, and certainly it should, we will 

 need these hatcheries by thousands. I will venture the 

 statement that every mountain stream in the United 

 States will need have several traps and one hatchery 

 sufficiently large to handle all the fish trapped on the 

 drainage. 



Next summer when you come to the mountains for 

 that trout, remember his struggle for existence, his in- 

 nocence, his value, and let not one be wasted. Remem- 

 ber, if you are fortunate enough to camp within one of 

 the National Forests, that there are a number of brown 

 skinned men who know nothing of an eight-hour day 

 working, perhaps within a few miles of you, who will 

 willingly tell you more of your playground and the 

 denizens of stream and forest. 



