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saves these trees, thereby increasing the timber producing territory very 

 materially. Could the total area of the ground made useless by this stand 

 of trees be computed, the figures would be quite startling. If any of you 

 have failed to notice this feature, I earnestly urge you on your next trip 

 through old cuttings to note the amount of territory actually rendered use- 

 less in consequence of the large number of trees of the class above de- 

 scribed occupying the ground. 



When to all this is added the amount of timber available for paper mak- 

 ing, but useless for sawmills now standing in the thicket growth previously 

 mentioned, it seems beyond argument that were it a question of the ''Sur- 

 vival of the fittest," it should be the saw mill, rather than the supplying 

 mills for paper making to be driven out. This is not the question at issue, 

 however, because there is room for both, and unquestionably, to my mind, 

 there is much timber more valuable for the saw mills than for paper mak- 

 ing of the species used for paper making. The two styles of manufacturing 

 should work in harmony, exchanging their wood products for mutual benefit 

 and for the benefit of the lands operated. By such an arrangement the 

 woods products or crop could be very materially increased, and the forests 

 materially benefited, rather than injured. 



The fact that the volume of the forest growth in cut-over lands will 

 increase on an estimated stand of one and three-quarter thousand feet per 

 acre, fifty-two feet annually, has been previously mentioned, but as all 

 practical foresters well know, if proper regulations are established and 

 proper supervision exercised to carry those regulations into effect, it will be 

 possible, in the course of a period of years to double, or even treble, this 

 annual growth, because the basis upon which to reckon percentage will have 

 been made two or three times as large as to-day. This is what the paper 

 mills are trying to do, and to that end are expending large sums of money 

 in experimenting, testing and supervising their woods operations by the 

 best practical foresters to be obtained. With such enormous amounts in- 

 vested in plants, it is only provident for them to seek to have a supply of 

 raw material for an indefinite ueriod, and this one fact accounts for their 

 active interest in conserving the forest products. 



I wish to emphatically dispute an asertion frequently made to the effect 

 that the paper makers strip the lands that they operate. While it is true 

 that they cut small trees in some localities, it is done advisedly and for the 

 express purpose of increasing the rapidity of growth, rather than wanton 

 destruction, as has been charged. The only exception to the above is when 

 operating certain tracts having only a thin, scurf soil, and where, if the 

 thinning process is followed, the balance is sure to blow down, that defor- 

 estation is allowed. 



If it is admitted that the facts with reference to the possibilities of for- 

 est production are true, and I think no man can intelligently d'eny them, the 

 argument is conclusively in favor of conducting a large amount of our lum- 

 bering operations for supplying paper mills, and this leads to the second 

 branch of the pulpwood question, viz., as to whether or not it is advisable to 

 allow the exportation of pulp wood from this Province. One of the chief 

 arguments in favor of such prohibition is the fact that while the cost of 



