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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  shown 
  by 
  the 
  establishment 
  of 
  a 
  bureau 
  of 
  tests 
  for 
  making 
  

   experiments, 
  both 
  physical 
  and 
  chemical. 
  

  

  Before 
  the 
  establishment 
  of 
  the 
  International 
  Paper 
  Com- 
  

   pany 
  very 
  great 
  and 
  wasteful 
  abuses 
  had 
  grown 
  up 
  in 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  

   paper 
  by 
  the 
  various 
  newspapers. 
  It 
  has 
  very 
  largely 
  succeeded 
  in 
  

   reforming 
  these. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  general 
  account, 
  therefore, 
  there 
  may 
  be 
  placed 
  to 
  the 
  

   credit 
  of 
  the 
  International 
  Paper 
  Company 
  the 
  introduction 
  of 
  

   rational 
  forestry, 
  and 
  material 
  assistance 
  to 
  water 
  storage, 
  the 
  

   introduction 
  of 
  scientific 
  methods 
  of 
  manufacture, 
  and 
  finally 
  a 
  

   reformation 
  of 
  abuses 
  in 
  the 
  paper 
  trade. 
  These 
  improvements 
  

   have 
  already 
  been 
  of 
  benefit 
  to 
  the 
  paper 
  trade 
  as 
  a 
  whole 
  and 
  

   done 
  much 
  to 
  enhance 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  industry 
  to 
  this 
  State. 
  

  

  We 
  will 
  now 
  discuss 
  another 
  phase 
  of 
  the 
  subject. 
  There 
  is 
  

   great 
  exaggeration 
  in 
  the 
  public 
  mind 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  effect 
  of 
  the 
  pulp 
  

   industry 
  upon 
  the 
  streams 
  of 
  the 
  State. 
  There 
  is 
  a 
  popular 
  im- 
  

   pression 
  that 
  the 
  wood-pulp 
  industry 
  is 
  responsible 
  for 
  the 
  

   denuding 
  of 
  forest 
  areas, 
  although 
  anybody 
  who 
  visits 
  the 
  

   forested 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  understands 
  that 
  this 
  cannot 
  be 
  

   true. 
  At 
  the 
  present 
  time 
  nine-tenths 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  timber 
  cut 
  in 
  

   New 
  York 
  for 
  pulp 
  is 
  spruce, 
  and 
  very 
  rarely 
  is 
  the 
  spruce 
  more 
  

   than 
  one 
  quarter 
  of 
  the 
  total 
  stand 
  of 
  timber. 
  Usually 
  the 
  

   spruce 
  is 
  not 
  cut 
  to 
  below 
  eight 
  to 
  ten 
  inches 
  in 
  diameter. 
  The 
  

   effect 
  of 
  taking 
  out 
  the 
  spruce 
  from 
  a 
  timber 
  area 
  has 
  been 
  

   discussed 
  on 
  a 
  previous 
  page 
  and 
  will 
  not 
  be 
  referred 
  to 
  here 
  any 
  

   further 
  than 
  to 
  say 
  that, 
  while 
  the 
  effect 
  is 
  slightly 
  apparent, 
  it 
  

   can 
  be 
  held 
  responsible 
  in 
  only 
  a 
  slight 
  degree 
  for 
  fluctuation 
  

   in 
  stream 
  flow. 
  

  

  Moreover, 
  the 
  paper 
  and 
  pulp 
  industry 
  is 
  not 
  responsible 
  for 
  

   all 
  the 
  timber 
  cut 
  in 
  this 
  State, 
  as 
  may 
  be 
  shown 
  by 
  considering 
  

   the 
  following 
  figures 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  1900, 
  from 
  the 
  Seventh 
  Eeport 
  

   of 
  the 
  Forest, 
  Fish 
  and 
  Game 
  Commission 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  From 
  

   these 
  figures 
  it 
  appears 
  that 
  the 
  total 
  cut 
  o£ 
  lumber 
  and 
  pulp 
  

   wood 
  from 
  the 
  Adirondack 
  and 
  Catskill 
  forests 
  amounted 
  to 
  

   651,135,308 
  feet 
  B. 
  M. 
  Adding 
  to 
  this 
  349,000,000 
  feet 
  B. 
  M. 
  cut 
  

   for 
  firewood, 
  w 
  T 
  e 
  have 
  a 
  total 
  cut 
  of, 
  roundly, 
  1,000,000,000 
  

   feet 
  B. 
  M. 
  The 
  cut 
  of 
  spruce 
  for 
  pulp 
  mills 
  was 
  230,649,292 
  feet 
  

  

  