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Appendix No. 35 



AGREEMENT made and entered into this Eighth day of March, 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; 

 — And— 



C. HOWARD SMITH, of the City of Montreal, in the Province of 

 Quebec, Gentleman (hereinafter referred to as "the Grantee") 



of the Second Part. 



Whereas by advertisement duly pubhshed The Honourable the Minister of 

 Lands and Forests for the Province of Ontario called for tenders to be received 

 by him for the right to cut poplar timber on the areas therein mentioned, which 

 said areas are hereinafter more particularly mentioned and described, subject 

 to certain terms and conditions of sale ; 



And whereas in pursuance of such advertisement the Grantee did deliver 

 his tender to the said Minister, in and by which tender he offered to pay for such 

 poplar timber on the territory in said tender and hereinafter described, the 

 prices hereinafter mentioned, which said prices were the highest offered for the 

 said timber; and whereas the tender of the Grantee was the highest tender 

 received by the said Minister pursuant to such advertisement; 



And whereas with his tender aforesaid, the Grantee did deposit with the 

 Minister his marked cheque payable to the Honourable the Treasurer of the 

 Province of Ontario, for the sum of Twenty-five thousand Dollars ($25,000); 



And whereas the Grantee is interested in and connected with the Howard 

 Smith Paper Mills, Limited, now operating a pulp and paper plant at Cornwall, 

 in the Province of Ontario, producing approximately 120,000 pounds of bleached 

 sulphite pulp per day, approximately 100,000 pounds of writing and fine book 

 paper per day, approximately 22,000 pounds of chlorine per day, and approxi- 

 mately 12,000 pounds of caustic soda per day, and having invested in its said 

 plant upwards of Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000); 



And whereas the said Howard Smith Paper Mills, Limited, employs in its 

 said plant at Cornwall 250 men; 



And whereas the Grantee is desirous of constructing or securing the con- 

 struction of a plant to be operated in conjunction with the said plant of the 

 Howard Smith Paper Mills, Limited, with an initial capacity of approximately 

 12,000 tons per annum of bleached soda pulp, the plans of such plant to provide 

 for the extension thereof to a capacity of approximately 25,000 tons of bleached 

 soda pulp per annum ; 



And whereas it will require approximately 25,000 cords of pulpwood to 

 supply the said 12,000 ton plant above mentioned, and more than double the 

 amount when the plant is extended to the full proposed capacity thereof as above 

 mentioned ; 



And whereas the proposed 12,000 ton plant will employ approximately 50 

 men in its operation, and when bush operations on the limits hereinafter referred 

 to commence, approximately 125 men will be required for such operations; 



