1927 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS 81 



Appendix No. 30 



AGREEMENT made and entered into this twenty-seventh day of February 

 A. D. 1926. 



Between 



HIS MAJESTY THE KING, represented herein by the 

 Minister of Lands and Forests of the Province of Ontario, 

 hereinafter referred to as "the Minister," 



Of the First Part, 



PROVINCIAL PAPER MILLS LIMITED, hereinafter 

 referred to as "the Company," 



Of the Second Part. 



Whereas the company is now operating a pulp and paper plant at the City 

 of Port Arthur, in the District of Thunder Bay, and paper plants at the Towns 

 of Georgetown, Thorold and Mille Roches, all in the Province of Ontario; 



And whereas the company now employs in its plants at Port Arthur and 

 elsewhere in the Province of Ontario, approximately 800 men, and also affords 

 employment for approximately 400 men in the woods' operations carried on 

 to provide the said plants with a supply of wood ; 



And whereas the Company's present plant at Port Arthur has a capacity 

 of 30 tons of mechanical pulp; 50 tons of bleached pulp and 30 tons of paper; 



And whereas the Company has already expended in the erection and equip- 

 ment of its said plant at the City of Port Arthur upwards of $3,000,000; 



And whereas the Company is desirous of enlarging its plant so that the same 

 will comprise a ground-wood pulp mill with a capacity of 70 tons of mechanical 

 pulp per day, a sulphite pulp mill with a capacity of 50 tons of bleached pulp 

 per day, and a paper mill with a capacity of 90 tons of newsprint per day, said 

 plant to include the necessary machinery and equipment for the manufacture 

 of book paper of a quality equal to that now used in publication of school books 

 in the Province of Ontario; 



And whereas the expenditure involved in enlarging the Company's plant 

 to the extent and in the manner above described, and in undertaking and com- 

 pleting other works necessary or advisable for the efficient operation of the said 

 enlarged plants, will exceed the sum of $1,000,000; 



And whereas the plant and works of the Company enlarged as aforesaid, 

 will employ approximately 200 additional men and afford employment for approx- 

 imately 400 additional men in woods' operations; 



And whereas it is estimated that it will require approximately 2,400,000 

 cords of pulpwood to keep a plant of said capacity operating continuously for 

 a period of 40 years; 



And whereas the Company is now entitled to the right to cut pulpwood 

 on the following concessions: The "Nipigon Concession" consisting of 1,240 

 square miles, upon which there is estimated to be 319,560 cords of pulpwood; 



