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12 REPORT OF THE No. 3 



Pulp and Paper Industry 



Pulp mills in the north are consuming large supplies of the raw material 

 and all mills in operation last year are turning out pulp and paper in quantities 

 as great as the preceding year. 



The newsprint plants are probably in a securer position than the others 

 and have expanded, while the pulp mills, the high-grade paper mills, wrapping 

 and kraft paper mills generally, are sanely cautious, the American tariff on the 

 finished product in part being the cause. The Great Lakes Company have 

 completed and are operating their new groundwood pulp mill at Fort William, 

 its capacity being 180 tons. The Guaranty Investment Company made additions 

 to their holdings at Nipigon and are on a fair road to being an important pro- 

 ducer. The Thunder Bay Paper Company in Port Arthur made an extension 

 to their mill, increasing the capacity from 65 to 120 tons a day, the new 

 equipment consisting of new pocket grinders, wet machines, hydraulic presses 

 and loose power motors. These improvements will call for an extra 2,500 horse- 

 power of electrical energy. 



The Continental Wood Products have secured their site and made consider- 

 able expenditure in extending clearances in connection with their contemplated 

 kraft mill at Elsas, on the Canadian National Railway, north of Sudbury, and 

 it is hoped that another year will see its completion' and the establishment of a 

 great industrial centre at that point. The company are now conducting an 

 extensive logging and sawmill operation, involving the employment of four to 

 five hundred men and the production of large quantities of lumber. 



The Backus interests completed their new 100 ton paper mill at Kenora, 

 and same is in operation. 



Forest Cruising and Estimating 



Mapping forest types was continued and a large area hitherto not reported 

 on in the western section of the Nipigon watershed, was mapped by means of 

 aircraft and this with an additional area on the eastern section of the same 

 waters, was covered by land parties for estimating purposes, these areas com- 

 prising roughly 6,885 square miles. The extensive work thus carried on by our 

 own staff, operating our own aircraft and supervising experienced land parties, 

 has placed the Crown in possession of much desired information. The detailed 

 data are being tabulated for the permanent records and are essential to an 

 intelligent treatment by the Government of the situation at the head of the lakes, 

 where certain established concerns are in crying need of raw material for the 

 continued development of the pulp and paper business which means so much to 

 the industrial and commercial life of the country. 



Further intensive work was done and reports made through the Crown 

 timber agents on certain isolated blocks yet to be offered for sale. Reports also 

 were made on areas where sales were carried out by public competition. 



Forest Protection 



This past season has been a very favourable one from the standpoint of 

 controlling forest fires. The total loss in acreage and timber is very much 

 below that of any previous season, since 1917. The most serious fire occurred 

 in the south central part of Algonquin Park in the pine limit of the'J. R. Booth, 

 Limited, where approximately forty million feet of pine timber was affected, but 

 due to the insistence of the Government and the active co-operation of the 

 company, a comprehensive operation was undertaken immediately after the 



