li.rperiinenl Xrttlnl m J'ulji MaJ^my. 



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<'iii(l improve the iiiiniiitj niclhods iiii<l 

 inetallur*ric;il pioccssos of ( 'aiiailii. 

 Tlio siiit'lltTs and iron ami steel mills 

 ol" ('aiiaila have been rendered pos- 

 sible I'V lai-f^e cash subsidies. The 

 prodllctioii of crude peholenm has 

 boeli eueonivij^'iMl by a sul»sid_\' from 

 the fedei'ai <,'overiimeut. The one 

 grear industry which has received no 

 direct iroveriniient assistance is the 

 nianufaelui-e of wood-pulp and paper. 



The pulj) industry does not n<'ed 

 the ivind of assistance ^iveti to the 

 owners of smelters, oil wells and steel 

 mills — a cash sidisidy paiti tu en- 

 couratre the investment of capital in 

 plants which catmot. without artili- 

 cial needs, both for the <rood of the 

 eounti\ and the gooil of the pulp in- 

 dustry, is the type of assistance <riven 

 to a«rrieulture. that is, the establish- 

 ment and uudntenanee of experimen- 

 tal lalmratories where skilled chemists 

 and pulp and paper e.\pei-ts will be 

 eiicouiajred to develop uses for woods, 

 and wood waste now thouprht unsuit- 

 al)le fur use in wood-pulp manufac- 

 ture. 



Public a.SsislJdIi !• eMc'llciril i.. ill.- 



l>ulp iutlustry will profit the country 

 one hundred fold, both dii-ectly and 

 indirectly. The direct ret\irn will 

 come from a closer and wider utiliza- 

 tion of the forests of ( 'anada whi«di 

 are owned by the ditTerent Ljovern- 

 ments auil which are large sourc«'s of 

 revenue tor the goverrunenls. There 

 ai'e three trees in Canada which occur 

 in pulpwood forests that are not 

 adapted for pulp under |»resi'nt iik: 

 thoils of numufacture and which, hv- 

 cause of their low value foi* any other 

 j)urpo.se. are at present, to a larg«' 

 extent, wasted when pulp limits ar<' 

 loLTired over. These trees are jack 

 June, liendock and tamarack. If any 

 government experiments «'ould tle- 

 vi.se a eonuiiercial means of convert- 

 ing these trees into pulp and pjiper. 

 the added reviMiue ac«'ruiiig to the 

 government from tlie who of the«e 

 trees would pay the cost of these ••\- 

 ]>eriments. Similar tn>es in western 

 Canada whicli await experimenting 



are Western hinh, Douglas fir, wi-st- 

 ern heiidoi k and l<>dge|H»lc pine. 

 These Iret's jn',. eul for .it 



pre.sfiil, and a great w • .. j^.. 



cause the snudl logs. and 



other porlioriH cannot 1 ,| an- 



left in the woods, mid on ' 

 royally paid. If fh.- - a 



wotdd demonstrate and ei, ^ i,e 



u.se of these specieH. the clfMier logging 

 of the forest would mean a great in- 

 crease in due.s. 



The pi-otit which wooM <<ii.... - 

 government and th' 

 fiom the establishment of more pulp- 

 mills cannot be estimated. In I'Mo 

 there Wile j»roduced in Canada alNMit 

 M0:2{){) tons of meclianiral aii<l H»|.- 

 400 tons of f|„. rheMdcal ftiilp. In- 

 vest igat ions by the Cnilej S 



tariff board show that if ...sT, in 



and <»ther expenditun ■> to pn»- 



iluee a ton of mechunieai pulp in 

 Canada and $2<).47 to jjroduee a ton 

 of sulphite cliemical pulp. Tl. i. v - 

 a total expenditure of alMuii 

 00(» for IJH' nuinntai lure of pulp iii 

 <'ana.!a in l!>lo. The av.ratre inill in 

 < .inada produces 7.2»iO ions of in.- 

 ehanical pulp and 2<H) tons << 

 cal pulp per year. In t' 

 it means an expenditurr ..i .i 



per year, in the oth.-r case ai ,1 



expenditure <»f $4..UH». Cov 

 investigatioi:s in the num .f 



pulp would surely leail i.. m;. 

 lishnig of mon- mills. When 

 mill means $7.{.S(H) p«.|- year lo llie 

 country in which if is liN'ate«l, surely 

 government a.ssistanee to the pulp in- 

 dustry is worth whilf. 



Mnih in the Tnileil StnUs nnd in 

 India, when' the ronditionN are not no 



favorable fo the pulp in<l n 

 Canada, th«' governm»-nl> 

 lislied InlNtratoricN and ei 

 perls for the study o( 



eal methods . *' ' ,j 



learn, if po-.- r 

 Hhres. 



At Wnusiiu. Wis \., n 



w'round w«M> I pii' t by 



the federal go\ • . "X- 



press purpn««' of r. |. 



