CANADIAN FOBESTEY ASSOCIATION. 1 



up his work in July, he will leave behind him some of his former ideas, and 

 that we will be able to make of him within a very short time a loyal sup- 

 porter of our contention. 



When we consider what Mr. Oak has _said as an argument why we 

 should allow our lumber to be transported across the border, it is well to 

 look up what the International Paper Company said before the Ways and 

 Means Committee, in the tariff hearing in the United States, which 1 think 

 fully explains the situation and the feeling of our American cousins towards 

 our forest domain. It is well to consider what arguments they brought for- 

 ward. I would like to read you a few extracts from the evidence given by 

 the International Paper Company, of which Mr. Oak is such a strong sup- 

 ported to-day and in whose employ he is still : 



"In each of these places the Company's mill is an important fac- 

 tor in the maintenance of the community, and in many of them it is 

 the only productive agency, besides indirectly furnishing a market for 

 the outlaying farm districts. The Company employs nominally about 

 seven thousand people 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 woods opera- 

 tions 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 conserva- 

 tive manner possible; in all cases leaving the small growth for the 

 future and avoiding all the waste possible, felling trees with the saw 

 instead of the axe, as formerly, and using tEe tops of the trees to the 

 fullest extent possible. At some points in New England it has bought 

 abandoned farms having a small 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 is practicable 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 its 

 requirement 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 mill at the lowest possible cost. 



