COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE OF WHITE MOUNTAIN FORESTS. 

 Table 5. — The paper and pulp industry in New England.® 



State. 



Year. 



Average 

 X umber number 

 of mills, of wage- 

 earners. 



Total 



Total 

 capital. 



Value of 

 product. 



New Hampshire 



Maine 



Vermont 



Massachusetts.. 



Connecticut 



Totals 



1900 

 1905 



1900 

 1905 



1900 

 1905 



1900 

 1905 



1900 

 1905 



1900 

 1905 



s: 



50 



223 

 227 



520 

 2.391 

 2,522 



4.851 

 7,574 



1,216 

 1,280 



9,061 

 17, 705 



1.425 

 1.750 



18.944 

 30,831 



8220,122 

 1,036.856 

 1,315,310 



2.162,972 

 4,052,919 



571,018 j 

 616,735 



3.938,400 | 

 5,587,862 ! 



633.413 

 843,333 



8,342,659 

 12,416,159 



SI, 221, 491 

 8,163,081 

 14,041,014 



17,473,160 

 41,273,915 



4.853,806 

 5,628,676 



26.692.922 

 41,073,769 



3,968,152 

 5,892,684 



60.931,121 

 107,910,058 



81,282,022 

 7,244,733 

 8,930,291 



13,223.275 

 22,951,124 



3,384,773 

 3,831,448 



22,141,461 

 32,012,247 



3,565,021 

 5, 639, 147 



49.559.263 

 73,364,259 



a Table compiled from U. S. Census reports. It includes paper mills with pulp mills; there are much 

 fewer mills that produce pulp alone — in New Hampshire only four. 



The capital invested in this industry in New Hampshire has in- 

 creased in fifteen years at the rate of nearly $1,000,000 a year and 

 the value of the product half a million. In Maine the increase of 

 capital has been from $17,000,000 to $41,000,000 in five years, and 

 the value of the product from §13,000,000 to $22,000,000. The 

 number of wage-earners in 1905 was more than 30,000. It is signifi- 

 cant that in Massachusetts and Connecticut, which are not large 

 spruce-producing States, the paper industry is well developed. 

 This shows the interstate relations of the industry. The $41,000,000 

 invested in Massachusetts and the nearly 86,000,000 in Connecticut 

 depend for supplies of pulp upon the forests of northern New Eng- 

 land. The total investment in New England in 1905 was $107,910,058. 



THE USE OF SPRUCE FOR LUMBER. 



The number of sawmills cutting spruce for lumber and the amount 

 cut in the New England States are given in Table 6. 



Table 6. — Mills cutting spruce, 1907. 



State.t 



Sawmills. 



Amount 

 cut. 



Number. Mboardfeet. 



Maine 596 528.013 



New Hampshire 279 203,092 



Vermont 457 156, 354 



Massachusetts 101 43. 141 



Total 1 . 433 930, ( 



a Massachusetts produces some spruce in Berkshire County, 26,068,000 feet in 1906. 

 b Mills in Connecticut are included in "All other States" by 



by the Census and could not be segregated. 



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