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USES OF WOOD PULP. 



to regard it in another way: The Glen Manufacturing Company, 

 Berlin Falls, N. H., in a letter to the Boston Globe, says that it 

 requires 1,200 acres of trees annually to keep that journal supplied, 

 which means some 60,000 trees per annum. Le Petit Journal, Paris, 

 is said to require 25,000 acres of timber land to be thinned out to 

 keep up its pulp supply. At a conservative calculation, the daily 

 press of the United States uses 40,000,000 trees, which, at 50 trees 

 to the acre, means the thinning out, if not the clearing, of 800,000 

 acres per year, or 1,250 square miles. In view of the numerous other 

 demands for pulp viz, ware, cornices, conduits, poles, horseshoes, 

 bricks, tiles, and a thousand other things it is self-evident that the 

 only countries which can have any part in the trade are those with 

 great forests, such as Canada. 



As might be supposed from its great natural forest resources and 

 wonderful water power, the Province of Quebec has the greatest 

 number of pulp mills. Although every endeavor has been made for 

 over three months to obtain a complete list of the mills in Canada, 

 I have thus far only been able to get a partial statement, as follows: 



Pulp mills in Canada. 



