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THURSDAY EVENING 



11th JANUARY. 



A Banquet was held at the Russell House, which was presided 

 over by the Premier of the Dominion. After the toast to His 

 Majesty the King, followed that to His Excellency the Governor 

 General, which was pleasantly responded to. 



"The Forest Interests of Canada" were replied to by Hon. 

 W. C. Edwards and Hon. F. J. Sweeney, Sur\'eyor General of 

 New Brunswick. 



"The Allied Interests" brought responses from Mr. B. E. 

 Walker, General Manager of the Bank of Commerce and Mr. J. D. 

 Allan, President of the Toronto Board of Trade. 



The toast of "Our Guests" was proposed by Sir Wilfrid 

 Laurier in a felicitous speech and was responded to by Mr. 

 GifTord Pinchot, Dr. B. E. Femow and Dr. C. A. Schenck. 



"The Press" was responded to by Mr. J. F. Mackay, Busi- 

 ness Manager of the Toronto Globe. 



Over two hundred were in attendance and the banquet was 

 a great success. 



FRIDAY MORNING 



12th JANUARY. 



Mr. Joseph Hobson, Chief Engineer of the Grand Trunk 

 Railway and Mr. L. O. Armstrong, Colonization Agent of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway gave interesting papers showing the 

 railway requirements for timber. The Grand Trunk requires 

 95,000,000 feet annually, and the Canadian Pacific 244,000.000 

 feet. These papers contained a great deal of interesting material 

 which space forbids us to reproduce at present. 



"The Pulp Indtistry of Canada" found an exponent in 

 Mr. E. B. Biggar, Editor of the Pulp and Paper Magazine. The 

 first part of the paper briefly reviewed the history of pulp and 

 paper manufacturing, which had its inception at St. Andrew's 

 in Quebec, in 1803. The first paper mill in Upper Canada was 

 erected at Ancastcr in 1820. In 1888 there were 34 pulp mills 

 with a total capacity of 154 tons every twenty-four hours. Last 

 year the number had grown to fifty-six mjlls, with a capacitv 

 of 2,470 tons. There wore in 1888, 40 paper mills with a capa- 

 city of 1 73 tons per twenty-four hours. Last \'ear the number of 

 mills was 38, and the daily capacity 854 tons. It would, there- 

 fore, be seen that the capacity of the Canadian pulp mills had 

 more than doubled, and the capacity of the paper mills increased 

 still more the last six years. There are now in course of construe- 



