Canadian Forestry Journal^ June, I(^l6. 



567 



Consumers Must Pay Higher For 

 ^^^ Canadian Wood Supplies =^-= 



Pulp Mills Going Farther Afield For Their Raw Materials Will 



Tax Canada's Spruce Resources 



(By Cyril T. Young, In Charge of Ontario and Quebec Land and Timber 

 for the Canadian Northern Raikvay System.) 



[The following- article, prepared 

 on request by Mr. Young, is a mili- 

 tant call for protection of our Can- 

 adian timberlands from every form 

 of waste. Mr. Young has gained a 

 close and accurate knowledge of the 

 , forest resources of Northern On- 

 tario and Northern Quebec from 

 Lake St. John through to the Mani- 

 toba boundary, and from the Ot- 

 tawa River and the Great Lakes 

 through to James Bay during his 

 twenty-two years of field experience 

 and subsequent contact with trans- 

 portation interests. 



If, as Mr. Young- declares, the 

 consummer must pay more for his 

 paper and the paper mill must spend 

 more cash on the raw supplies of 

 pulpwood from the Canadian for- 

 ests, then must follow a higher 

 valuation on spruce and balsam and 

 other pulp producing areas, render- 

 ing their protection and perpetua- 

 tion a matter of greater urgency on 

 governments and limit holders. — • 

 Editor.] 



The same awakening is coming to 

 us later on our pulp wood area as 

 we received in our high-class white 

 pine area a few years ago ; and 

 American mills are now going far 

 afield for their wood, one rail haul 

 delivery this winter being 846 miles, 

 and quite frequently 700 miles. This 

 is due not only to the constant erec- 

 tion of more mills but to the in- 

 crease in the capacity of mills al- 



ready erected on the American side. 

 To date it has been the short log 

 haul and easily driven timber and 

 the 13 to 16c rate wood that is 

 reaching these American mills. Sup- 

 plementing this rail haul timber is 

 the St. Lawrence and Anticosti 

 wood which before the war was 

 reaching points as far west as Erie 

 on a $2.00 per cord boat rate prior 

 to the present scarcity of bottoms 

 and also though a much less 

 quantity of Nipigon. Port Arthur, 

 Knife River wood reaching Erie 

 ports at the same figure or towed to 

 Ashland on Superior and getting in- 

 to Green Bay section by rail haul 

 from Ashland South. 



Lake Shipping Scarce. 



The European conflict has not 

 only afifected shipments of pulp 

 from Norway, Sweden and Russia, 

 but the removal of the bottoms 

 from the Great Lakes for either 

 Transatlantic or coastwise trade has 

 resulted in making Great Lakes de- 

 livery of pulp wood practically im- 

 possible in cost, except to the mills 

 who own their own vessels and 

 their loading and in some cases dis- 

 charging equipment. This is result- 

 ing in increased demands — very 

 strong at the present time — for rail 

 haul wood from settlers' lands and 

 patent lands in Northern Ontario 

 and Northern Quebec, which can be 

 exported to the American mills, and 



