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mills is stated at $127,286,162. To the student of economics it will doubt- 

 less prove of interest to ascertain the movements of the enormous capital 

 thus employed, and from information kindly supplied by the United States 

 Census Bureau, it appears that the disbursements were as follows : 



Salaries of office staff, etc., $ 4,500,911 00 



Wa ges, 20,746,42600 



Miscellaneous expenses, _. 10,184,106 00 



Materials, supplies, etc., ... 70,530,236 00 



$105,961,679 00 



The growth of the pulp industry in Canada has been of much more 

 recent origin, but its development has followed on parallel lines and the 

 economic aspects are essentially the same, whence a study of the more exten- 

 sive developments in the United States affords an accurate indication of 

 what must follow here on a more limited scale. 



TABLE OF STATISTICS 



From information kindly supplied by the Dominion Statistician, w& 

 learn that there were in operation in Canada in 1900 40 pulp mills, while 19 

 others were projected. The total capital represented was about $20,000,000, 

 with an output of 470,700 tons of pulp, of which 300,900 tons were mechan- 

 ical and ( 169,800 tons were chemical pulp. For the year 1895 the total ex- 

 port value of Canadian pulp was $598,874, while in 1900 it had risen 

 to $1,274,376, or an increase of 113 per cent. In 1900 the total value of 

 pulp and pulp products exported was $2,718,788, and in 1901 this value had 

 risen to $3,335,265. It will thus be seen that the industry has been 

 advancing at a rapid rate within the last few years, and the perfection of 

 other large mills such as that suggested for Chicoutimi and also on the Mon- 

 treal River, as well as the very large mill now in successful operation at 

 Shawinigao Falls, seems to point to a much larger future. On the other 

 hand, the fact that a large number of mills have been idle for several years, 

 and that some of the larger enterprises have failed within the last year or 

 two, has led to an expression of the belief that the industry has reached the 

 limit of development, and that any further extension must result in disast- 

 rous consequences. It may, nevertheless, be borne in mind that much of the 

 arrested development thus indicated, is doubtless due to the employment of 

 antiquated machinery and methods which render it impossible for such mills- 



