Canada's 1911 Pulpivood Consumption. 



Thf Fori'strv Hraiirli ol" tiic Departiiifiit 

 of thf Intorior has (inishoil the i'Oiiii>ilati(>ii 

 of the statistii's of |>iilji\vooil consuiiiiitioii 

 for 1911, aihl will shortly |iiililish thf rf 

 suits as thfir liiillftin No. M. 



The coiisiiiiiptidii of pulpwood ^hl>\ve•l an 

 increase of 7.'{,K(I1 cordfi (or iL'.Jt jifr cent) 

 namely, from ri{ts,487 for<ls in lit 10 to 672. 

 2X8 conls in I'.Ml. The avfraj^f price jter 

 cord ($6.40) was the hijjhcst paid .since 

 these statistics bej^an to l>f coinpilerl in 

 1908. The increase in the production of 

 pulp was 22,229 tons, viz.. from 474,0t»4 

 tons in 1910 to 49r),8:ia tons in 1911 (an 

 increase of 4.7 per cent). Fifty-four linns 

 sent in reports, an increase of three. 



(^ueliec mills. 2.S in niimher, consumed 5^ 

 jer cent of the total <|uantity of wood 

 Ui-eil ; Ontario, with fourteen mills used al- 

 most oiu" third; the four mills in New 

 Brunswick took (i.8 {>er cent of the total 

 and Nova Scotia's seven mills aliout half 

 that quantity. The actual <iuantities of 

 pulp consumed are as follows :— Quehec. 

 390.426 cords; Ontario. 2i:i.<i()7 cords; Nf« 

 Brunswick, 4r>..S24 corrls, and Nova Scotia, 

 22,221 cords. Pulp manufacture in British 

 Columhia is still in the e.xperimeiital sta^;e. 

 The etTect on the price of pidpwooij of 

 Quebec's prohildtory rejjulations as to ex 

 port of wood cut on crown lands has been 

 awaited with interest. The comdusion to 

 be drawn from the fij^ires of the bidletin 

 is that an increase of almost one ilollar 

 per cord has resulted. The avera>;e pri<e 

 paid for pulpwood in Quebec in 1911 was* 

 97 cents per cord jr^'ater than that paid 

 in 1910. In Ontario the price fell twenty 

 cents, whiU' .\e\\ Brunswick and Nova 

 Scotia show inj-reases of twenty \^> thirty 

 cents per cord. 



Spruce iH Ktill far in the lead an a pulp 

 wood, over four fifths of the wood nwd 

 beini; of this spi-cies. Soiiiewhat le^M than 

 (itie fifth of the total coM^umptmn wan bal- 

 sam fir, and poplar and heudork ea< h fur 

 nished le.s8 than one |K'r c<>nt of the total. 

 The proportion of balsam (ir used for pulp 

 is constantly increasing- 

 Only four s|>fcies 

 same lir, poplar an^l h' 



for pulp in 1911. Quebec UM>d nit tour, 

 Ontario and Nova Scotia all but hemlock, 

 and New Brunswick only spruce an<l bnl-um 

 fir. Thi- pro] ■ 

 woods to the t. 



ous proviuceit were as follows 

 spruce, 75 jkt cent, balsam fir. . j - . 

 cent; Ontario: .spruce, 9i' i»er cent, lials-am 

 lir 9 jH'r cent; Nova Scotia: ~ 

 per cent, balsam fir. I** \>*'t 



llrunswick: spruce, 96 per .. ..; •'■• 



f \n-r cent. 



Of the processes the 

 sixty jM-r cent of th«> ; 

 was nuide by thix )•- 

 cent of the pul|i wu- ;. ;;_ 



phite pr< ss, an>l about eight per cent by 



the soda jirocess. 



Qiudiec leads in the production of !«•• 

 • hanii-al an<l soda pulps, and Ontario in 

 the manufacture of sulphite pulp. 



The profiortions of the different 

 used in each j>rovince are as folloM" 



.Me. 



teu 



."Spruce 

 Malsam Fir 

 Hemlock . 

 I'oplar . . 



23.1% 



Soda. 

 8.7% 

 0.7% 



In 1911, 72.9 iKT cent of the pu 

 was produce<l by the mechanical ; 

 Nova Scotia ut ' 

 and over half of > 

 by this nu>thod. .New- 

 other band, manufactur< 

 of its pulpwoo.l by th' 

 with the remainder liiy 



betwft'n the «tlnT t 



The annual coi 



mill in the I>omi: 



most the same as that for 



cords) and quite an incr. . 



1910 (ll,7;i.'. cords I. n 



highest average cut per mill, stA., iu^oJ 



cords. 



The aK>crej;ate export of 

 2ri9/>14 tons, of wh ' 

 chanii-nl pul|i nnd 

 T! 

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