506 USES OF WOOD PULP. 



The estimated pulp wood in this district is as follows: 



This only represents the first cut. It is known that spruce for- 

 ests grow up again in twenty years, and, estimating i^ cords to the 

 ton of pulp, it is clear that this district is able to produce 1,000,000 

 tons per annum for sixty-five years. So far as the quality of the 

 pulp is concerned, it will suffice to say that a late number of the 

 Paper Makers' Journal gave the average price of Canadian pulp in 

 England as $24.80 per ton, and that of the Scandinavian as $20.77. 



Lime is also an important element in the manufacture by the 

 bisulphite process. This is to be found close to all the above- 

 mentioned water powers. 



On the i8th instant, Attorney-General Longley laid before the 

 Nova Scotia legislature an agreement entered into on the ist of last 

 month, by which the Queen grants a thirty-year lease of two immense 

 tracts of Crown lands, comprising altogether nearly 1,000 square 

 miles, to three American capitalists Edward L. Sanborn and Robert 

 B. Blodgett, of Boston, Mass., and Daniel F. Emery, jr., of Portland, 

 Me. The lands are leased for the purpose of converting the timber 

 thereon into pulp and paper, and the lessees must have two such 

 mills in operation within a period of two years and have expended 

 at least $10,000 in the operation of the business for which the lease 

 is granted. The lessees agree to pay the government of Nova Scotia 

 $6,000 per year, and to do all their manufacturing within the Prov- 

 ince. One provision of the agreement prohibits the transfer of the 

 lease to any person or corporation except the North American Paper 

 and Pulp Company, Limited, without the consent of the attorney- 

 general of Nova Scotia. The government reserves the customary 

 mining rights over all the property granted, but agrees to sell the 

 land or any portion thereof to the lessees for the purpose set forth 

 at 40 cents per acre, the prevailing price of Crown lands in Nova 

 Scotia. If the terms of the agreement are fulfilled, as regards the 

 erection of pulp or paper mills, and the same are operated through 

 the stipulated period, the lessees may obtain a renewal of the grant 

 for a further term of thirty years at $6,000 per year. 



JOHN L. BITTINGER, 



MONTREAL, April j, 1899. Consul- General. 



