PULPWOOD FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA 



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is weak. The purchase of pure pulpwood in the 

 open market in a large measure obviates such necessity. 

 These recent developments tending to enhance the 

 value of the formerly despised western hemlock furnish 

 a situation which was hardly dreamed of only a couple 

 of years ago. The timber investor who once thought 

 himself "stung" and found too late that he had bought 

 timber licenses with little or no market value in spite of 



Photograph by Arthur Newton Pack. 



NEWSPRINT IN THE MAKING 



A heavy stand of medium sized but very tall hemlock on Vancouver 

 Island which will furnish pulpwood for the making of newsprint. 



not unfavorable location and good logging chance, now 

 finds that he has a valuable investment. The logger who 

 was accustomed to entirely overlook the little patches 

 of pure hemlock and balsam along the creek bottoms 

 except when he needed boom sticks, now leaves his cedar 

 for the time being and builds his road so as to reach 

 all the pulpwood he can. Lately even the sawmill 

 operator who counted hemlock lumber his most paying 

 line, because he could buy the logs cheap and sell the lum- 

 ber at fir prices, has begun to look around for a location 

 where the pulp mill buyer offers less keen competition. 

 There are such locations. The British Columbia coast 

 has several distinct natural barriers which tend to form 



separate districts each with slightly different logging and 

 marketing conditions. 



The first district, and best known, is that frequently 

 called the Sheltered Waters district. It extends from 

 Vancouver north and west along the mainland coast 

 taking in the many inlets and islands as far north as the 

 end of Vancouver Island. Where the Gulf of Georgia 

 ends in a maze of small islands and channels near Camp- 

 bell River on Vancouver Island this district extends 

 across and includes the northeastern section of that 

 island up to the northern end. Of this district Vancouver 

 is the marketing center and the open market for logs 

 generally prevails with competition between sawmills and 



Photograph by Arthur Newton Pack. 



BALSAM IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 



A large stand of balsam in British Columbia will help to supply the 

 demands for pulpwood in the United States and Canada. 



paper mills for the pulpwoods. There are four pulp 

 mills in this region : The Mill Creek plant of the Whalen 

 Pulp and Paper Mills, Ltd., on Howe Sound; the former 

 Rainy River Pulp and Paper Company, Ltd., now being 

 reorganized, at Seaside Park ; the Powell River Com- 

 pany, Ltd., at Powell River, and the Beaver Cove Pulp 

 and Lumber Company, Ltd., at Beaver Cove. The 



