LUMBERING AND FORESTRY 



WORK OF THE INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY AND CHAMPLAIN REALTY 

 COMPANY IN FORESTRY IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR LUMBERING OPERA- 

 TIONS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT * 



BY GEORGE A. CHEDEL, Superintendent 



acreage of timberlands owned 

 by the International Paper Com- 

 pany and its subsidiary Company, 

 the Champlain Realty Company, in New 

 Hampshire and Vermont States is 147,- 

 085 acres of which 79,723 acres are in 

 Vermont and 67,362 acres in New 

 Hampshire. 



The average consumption of spruce 

 wood in the mills of the International 

 Paper Company in this division, under 

 normal conditions, is 45,000 cords per 

 year. During the thirteen years which 

 the International Paper Company has 

 been cutting, or since its formation, 

 there has been cut on the lands in this 

 division approximately 312,000 cords, 

 or an average of about 24,000 cords per 

 year, or less than two-tenths of a cord 



per acre per year this is probably 

 about equal to the natural growth. The 

 balance of the supply, or 21,000 cords, 

 per year has been purchased mostly 

 outside of these two States. Following 

 out their policy of conserving their own 

 supply the cuttings by the Company for 

 the past two years have been only 32,- 

 339 cords and the purchases 54,783 

 cords, a total of 87,122 cords. 



Before the Company was formed 

 little or no attention had been given to 

 the conservation of timberlands in the 

 lumbering operations in that vicinity. 

 A great increase in the stumpage value 

 of lumber, however, caused the Com- 

 pany to look forward with greater care 

 to their future supply for the different 

 mills in this division. With the in- 



GROWTH OF SMALL SPRUCE AFTER LARGE TREES HAVE BEEN CUT FOR PULP 



WOOD. 



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