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perforce, be equally concerned in 

 what happens to the nation's greatest 

 inheritance, next to our fertile lands. 

 In every country on earth, where 

 the Forest Filler has been under- 

 mined, the people have been forced 

 either to buy back an equivalent of 

 the lost timber from foreign lands at 

 an exorbitant cost, or they have 

 meekly accepted commercial an- 

 nihilation. In 1914-15, the Brit- 

 ish Government paid $40,000,000 

 more for imported timber than home 

 grown timber would have cost. 



The Wherefore of Profits'? 



Still richly stocked, especially in 

 eastern paper-making spruces and 

 in the big saw timber of British 

 Columbia, Canada faces an opportun- 

 ity to take profits from her forest 

 possessions unmatched in previous 

 history. Eastern United States spruce 

 forests have been heavily reduced 

 and upon that failure of raw materials, 

 Canada has reared a paper-making 

 industry selling abroad this year 

 $35,000,000 of manufactured paper. 

 (Eighteen years ago the paper sales 

 to Uncle Sam were just $122.00 

 Figures may not look impressive, but 

 they are sometimes the synonyms 



for a thriving and contented popula- 

 tion. 



If Canada can keep her forests un- 

 impaired she will collect profits from 

 the United States and Europe far 

 exceeding the great financial toll of 

 the past. With the forests destroyed, 

 (or even below their present produc- 

 tiveness) we would blindly forfeit to 

 Russia and Scandinavia and the 

 United States, Canada's most power- 

 ful claim (outside of farm produce) 

 for world trade. We would surrender 

 out of sheer prodigality the only large 

 timber supply in the British Empire. 



The maintenance of the raw mater- 

 ials — the Living Forests — is the pre- 

 cise gauge of our future industrial 

 advancement in pulp, paper and 

 lumber, and the great range of 

 activities to which they contribute. 



What of Foreign Traded 



The deterioration of the living 

 forest, by fire and otherwise, is at the 

 present time the GREATEST MEN- 

 ACE TO CANADA'S INDUSTRIAL 

 EXPANSION AND EXPORT 

 TRADE. When munitions exports 

 evaporate with the declaration of 

 peace, the nation's financial position 



