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tion of pulp and paper in Canada, but that should not prevent them from 

 laying' the facts of the case before the government, because naturally they 

 know most about it. We have stated that in our opinion this exportation 

 is causing the destruction of large areas of Canadian forests and that Can- 

 ada can not afford this. We have admitted that our ideas of the pulp wood 

 resources of Canada are based only on estimates and consequently we have 

 not urged the Government to prohibit immediately the exportation of pulp 

 wood, but not to lose any time in finding out how much pulp wood Canada 

 possesses. If she has enough to supply the world's demand for paper there 

 is no serious objection to the United States' mills being allowed to take 

 what they want, except the injustice to the Canadian manufacturers in 

 allowing those of the United States to have the advantage of our wood and 

 their own great market while we have only the one without the other. 



Our pulp wood resources and our pulp and paper industry are now prin- 

 cipally situated in the area between the Lievre River on the West and the 

 Batiscan River on the East. In that area there are 18,000 square miles under 

 license, of which 14,000 square miles are owned by pulp and paper firms, 

 and I believe that will always be the heart of the pulp and paper industry 

 of America. Outside of this area there is growing up another section to 

 the East, including the Lake of St. John District, on the North shore, and 

 another district still further to the East, running from Rimouski into New 

 Brunswick. The North shore will develop comparatively slowly on account 

 of the lack of transportation and other facilities, and because the spruce is 

 scattered. The Eastern Quebec and New Brunswick Region is also of a 

 lower class because the spruce is a little soft and not so plentiful, and is 

 also further from the great market the United States. West of the great 

 spruce region is the pine area of the Ottawa Valley and the Province of 

 Ontario, and apparently we do not find much spruce again until we get 

 beyond Lake Temiskaming, and even then it is not in ver,y great quantities, 

 except in the region near Lake Nepigon. North of the explored areas in 

 Quebec, and northwest of those in Ontario are great areas of which little 

 is known, and unless these contain great quantities of pulp wood, then Can- 

 ada has none to spare. This question ought to be settled . 



The Ontario Government, the much-discussed one of 1901, 288 millions of 

 cords in the area north of the C.P.R. from the Quebec line to the Manitoba 

 line. They don't mention any large area except that one near Nipigon, 

 which they estimate at 35 million acres, which I think is very high. We have 

 had some direct experience of that. Senator Edwards spoke of exploring. We 

 went up there to buy pulp wood, and we found before we got to the height of 

 land the stand of pulp wood on the land near the railway was not sufficiently 

 great to support continuous production of pulp wood. 



I think, then, that the pulp and paper industry has most at stake in the 

 forest and is likely to adopt conservative methods in the use' of it in so far 

 as cost and profit will permit, and that they will do this even more than our 



