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Canadian Forestry Journal, March, 1918 



\voul(l have happened here had it been 

 in liie power of the manufacturers to 

 siuit off the press of this country, and 

 we were to find some mornin.i^ that 

 the press had been obliterated, and 

 no news could reach us, can hardly 

 l)e thought of." 



Consequently, when it was repre- 

 sented to the Government that a con- 

 dition had arisen which might en- 

 danger the publication of newspapers, 

 the Government did what every gov- 

 ,ernment was doing today under war 

 conditions. They investigated whe- 

 ther they should drop the laissez faire 

 attitude and intervene to see that an 

 adequate supply of news print was 

 furnished to the newspapers through- 

 out Canada. 



As a result, in April, 1917, an or- 

 dor-in-council had been passed au- 

 thorizing the Minister of Customs to 

 fix certain prices at which news print 

 could be supplied to the press of Can- 

 ada. The manufacturers took the 

 ground that these prices were un- 

 rcasona])le, and that if they were 

 given an investigation, they could 

 show that, with the increase in cost 

 of i)ulp and everything else going to- 

 ward production of news prmt, they 

 could prove their contention. 



^riiat investigation had been grant- 

 ed, and had gone on, said Mr. Pringle, 

 but he regretted to say that it was 

 still pending, and no official de- 

 cision had yet been arrived at. 



A Huge Industry. 



Proceedmg to give some of the re- 

 sults of his enquiry, Mr. Pringle said 

 that in 1870 there were only 21 pa- 

 per mills in Canada, and these had 

 grown to 52 in 1917. The capital in- 

 vested in 189(3 had been $4,672,211, 

 which by 1915, had grown to $86,110,- 

 56(), and it was at present wtII over 

 3100,000,000. 



In 1870 there were 760 men em- 

 ployed in the industrv, with annual 

 wages of $197,815. By 1915 this had 

 grown to 10,952 employees, and the 

 wages to $7,57'1„856. The value of the 

 product was, in 1870, $1,071,676, 

 which had grown by 1915 to $29,395,- 

 535, and had shown still greater in- 

 crease in 1917. In .July last, there were 

 being manufactured in Canada 1,900 



tons of news print every day, and 

 today the figure was over 2,100 tons 

 daily. 



Similar progress, said Mr. Pringle, 

 had been shown in the pulp industry, 

 and he quoted elaborate figures to 

 show the reasons for this growth, 

 with its natural result in a great in- 

 crease in the production and value of 

 pulpwood. 



Without attempting to criticize any 

 provincial arrangements, Mr. Pringle 

 insisted upon the necessity of a 

 scheme of co-ordination with a view 

 to conserving the national lumber re- 

 sources and preparations for refor- 

 estation. This, he argued, was not 

 merely a national question, but an 

 Imperial necessity, since Canada was 

 the greatest source of lumber in the 

 British Empire, and with the deple- 

 tion of resources that had gone on 

 during the past few years. Great Bri- 

 tain would in the future inevitably 

 look to Canada for supplies, espe- 

 cially in the reconstruction period 

 after the war. 



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