PRIVATE FORESTRY. 5 



import their pulp wood from a long distance or liquidate investments 

 of great value in water power and plant and move to new sources 

 of supplies. Partly owing to the rapid exhaustion of the old sources 

 of wood-pulp supply and partly owing to the tariff laws of Canada, 

 American capital is going into that country to build mills to supply 

 this country with wood pulp and paper. Within the last 10 years 

 new mill development for news-print manufacture in this country 

 has almost wholly ceased, while in Canada during that time no less 

 than 28 mills have been built, largely with American capital. It 

 would be possible for me to describe the acute situation confronting 

 many of the other industries that use special classes of forest prod- 

 ucts, due to the uncertainty in regard to supplies in the future. I 

 refer to industries that use oak, hickory, cherry, yellow poplar, 

 walnut, and ash. 



Douglas fir from the Pacific coast is already coming into the New 

 England market. This means that because of the diminishing sup- 

 plies in the East the prices have risen to a point where it is possible 

 to ship lumber 3,000 miles in competition with that produced locally. 

 With the further reduction of home spruce supplies, the approach- 

 ing exhaustion of white pine in the Lake States, and the withdrawal 

 within a few years of southern pine as a competitive factor, the 

 East will be turning more and more to the Pacific coast. It is esti- 

 mated that the Lake States, which a few years ago were the greatest 

 producers of timber, are to-day paying a freight bill of about 

 $6,000,000 a year to bring in lumber and other products from out- 

 side sources. 



NEW ENGLAND NO LONGER SELF-SUPPORTING IN TIMBER 



RESOURCES. 



About 30 years ago New England was not only self-supporting in 

 her timber resources, but exported large quantities to other parts of 

 the country and abroad. Within the last 15 years New England 

 has become an importing region and looks more and more for timber 

 supplies to the South, to the Lake States, and even to the Pacific 

 coast. It is estimated that fully 30 per cent of all the lumber used 

 in New England now comes from outside the region. This is in 

 addition to the importations of large quantities of pulp wood. New 

 England is one of the important centers for wood-using industries. 

 Heretofore many of these industries have drawn upon local sup- 

 plies. It is estimated that the annual growth in New England of 

 forest materials that will be suitable for lumber or other higher 

 uses is less than half of what is being cut. These are facts of vital 

 interest to a region that has about $300,000,000 invested in the wood 

 and forest industries and employs in this connection over 90,000 wage 

 earners. 



