44 CANADIAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



The Americans want our pulpwood to save their own. We want their 

 mills, not only to increase our industrial employment, but so that they will 

 have a large investment depending on our forests and thus give them an 

 interest with us in conserving our forests. 



Let me quote a few paragraphs from statements made by the International 

 Paper Company before the Ways and Means Committee in the Tariff hearing 

 in the United States, which I think fully explains the situation and the 

 feeling of our American Cousins towards our forest domain. After naming 

 their various mills and stating where they are situated they go on to say : 



"In each of these places the Company's mill is an important factor in 

 the maintenance of the community and in many of them it is the only pro- 

 ductive agency, besides indirectly furnishing a market for the outlying farm 

 districts. The company employs normally about 7,000 persons at its mills, 

 besides its operations in the woods. There are thus directly and wholly 

 dependent upon the wages paid by the company, estimating five persons to 

 a wage earner, 77,500 people, besides to a less extent farmers, store-keepers, 

 manufacturers of supplies and transportation companies. Except for its 

 wood operations in Canada, almost every dollar it receives is expended in the 

 United States." 



"It is estimated that it furnishes annually 2,500,000 tons of freight to 

 the common carriers of the country." 



"The company owns or controls about 900,000 acres of timber lands in- 

 the United States, and 3,100,000 acres in Canada. It is operating upon these 

 lands in the United States in the most conservative manner possible, in all 

 cases leaving the small growth for the future and avoiding all the waste pos- 

 sible, felling trees with the saw instead of the axe, as formerly, and using 

 the tops of the trees to the fullest extent possible. At some points in New 

 England it has bought abandoned farms having a young growth of spruce 

 on them, and is holding them for its future needs. It is also making some 

 experiments in replanting. It is holding its lands in the United States, in 

 so far as it is practical and economical for future use. It may be added that 

 its operations in Canada are also as conservative as conditions will allow/' 



"In 1899, its first full year, the company made 380,000 tons of paper. 

 In 1907, it made 495,000 tons, an increase of 30 per cent. It makes all the 

 pulp required for this quantity of paper, and is thus not dependent upon any 

 other company or any other country for any if its requirements of pulp. It 

 does, however, get from Canada about 35 per cent, of the pulp wood 

 required, mostly from its own lands; this coming in free of duty. For the 

 handling and transportation of this wood a large amount of money has been 

 permanently invested, so that it may be laid down at the mills at the lowest 

 possible cost." 



"It, (the present duty) is not adequate to prevent extensive importations 

 of news paper from Canada, as already shown, and any reduction would mean 

 an increase in importations and loss of business for us. It would check the 

 growth of our production and the removal of the duty would close a number 

 of our mills. We believe that under any conditions the free admission of 

 paper would compel us to abandon many of our plants, and either drive us 

 out of business or compel us to build mills in Canada." 



'We know of no way by which this result can be avoided if we are 

 brought into competition with free paper, which is what Canada seeks. We 



