146 NEW BRJJNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 



No one will deny that where capital is invested in expensive plant and ma- 

 chinery it adds stability to the community or neighbourhood in which it is 

 placed ; and also that the importance of an industry to a State or common- 

 wealth depends upon the amount of money which that industry pays for 

 wages or to the wage earning class. 



These comparisons are not made for any invidious purpose but simply 

 to point out the importance of the sulphite fibre industry to this Province, 

 and as plea to the Government to support and foster that industry by grant- 

 ing the pulp companies every facility, not only to conduct their business 

 without reasonable let or hindrance, but also to grant to them certain 

 privileges in respect to forest lands which will enable them to consolidate 

 themselves and become established factors in the country. Pulp factories 

 are so costly that no one can embark in the business nowadays without 

 havino 1 behind him some guarantee that the supply of raw material in the 

 form of pulpwood will be forthcoming for a long period of years, in uniform 

 quantity and uniform in price, outside the ordinary fluctuations of the labor 

 market. 



The same holds true of the lumber sawing industry, for, notwithstand- 

 ing their vested interest in plant and machinery is less than that of pulp and 

 paper mills per thousand superficial feet of lumber they consume, they 

 manufacture a much needed product and one in constant demand, and if in 

 so doino- they have hitherto neglected to utilise to the full their waste 

 material the future lies open to them to amend their ways and so become 

 more useful citizens of the State. 



For many years there has been an outcry against pulp mills wherever 

 thev have been established in countries possessing large forests, chiefly on 

 the score of cutting small trees. No doubt this outcry was justifiable in 

 certain cases but in the vast majority it was unwarranted. The illegal cut- 

 ting of small wood by any one should be stopped, be they owners of pulp 

 mills saw mills or portable rotaries. The portable rotary is a great sinner. 

 It usually leaves behind it, wherever operated, evidences of flagrant waste. 

 If the same sized lumber usually handled by these mills were passed over to 

 the pulp or paper maker every particle of the log would be utilised with all 

 the aforenamed advantages to the State, viz., more wages paid per thousand 

 feet cut and higher value of product produced. 



' As a matter of fact my experience which extends over the greater part 

 of Northern Europe (Russia, Finland, Norway and Sweden) as well as Canada 



