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40 The Beaters. 



41 The Paper Press. Wet end. 



42 The Paper Press. Front view. 



43 A High Stump. 



44 Wasted Tree-tops. 



45 Tree cut but left standing. 



46 Skidways left in the woods. 



47 Road-bed made of spruce trees. 



48 Trees cut for the brush. 



49 Table of Rate of Growth. 



50 Yield Table. 



51 Reading Room, Booth & Gordon's Camp.. 



52 Wallace & McCormack's Reading Camp.. 



53 Hale & Bell's Camp. 



54 Ontario Lumber Co.'s Reading ROOHK 



55 Portable Reading Camp. 



56 The Laurentide Mills. 



THE WOOD PULP INDUSTRY OF CANADA 



The history of paper - making carries us back about six thousand years 

 ( 3966 B. c. ) to the time of the ancient Egyptians, whose use of a material 

 which required no special fabrication may be held to constitute the primitive 

 form of an industry which has now come to rank among the foremost in the 

 world, and the products of which not only represent a great diversity of raw 

 materials and finished fabrics, but which also call for great skill, the utiliza- 

 tion of large capital, and the employment of costly and intricate machinery 

 for their development. The contrast between the primitive papyrus paper 

 obtained by the expenditure of Comparatively little labor, and the highly- 

 finished product of today as resulting from a series of laborious processes; 

 probably affords one of the most conspicuous examples of industrial develop- 

 ment which the world can show. 



PAPYRUS (CYPERUS PAPYRUS) 



Papyrus was widely employed throughout India and Egypt as a paper 

 until about 190 B. c., when its use was displaced by parchment. Since then the 



