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the all important question of fire protection. The 

 maintenance of every wood-using industry, and thus 

 indirectly of the future supply of all wood products 

 for home or commerce, will depend more and more 

 upon the amount of cooperation given by the public. 



The increasing shortage of pulp-wood has had a 

 most interesting effect upon the price. In 1916 the 

 rate paid for rough wood delivered at the mills 

 varied between $4.00 and $11.00 per cord^ while 

 during the boom in 1919 the same wood brought 

 from $15.00 to $18.00. This naturally resulted in 

 stimulating the interest of the local farmers and 

 land-owners. Although a condition of temporary 

 over-production existing throughout the country has 

 since meant a practical cessation of buying wood in 

 the local market, we are no further away from a 

 paper shortage in 1922 than we were in 1919 and 

 '20. In the long run the money value of all wood 

 on the stump cannot lessen, but with a realization 

 of the diminishing wood supply is bound to increase. 



At the mill the wood bolts are stacked by ma- 

 chinery in great piles to supply the machines 

 throughout the year, and the process of manufac- 

 ture begins. The first step is the removal of the 

 bark, as the presence of bark fragments greatly 

 weakens and discolors the finished product. This 

 process is usually conducted by putting the billets 



