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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 w r ill 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 Report 

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

 these figures it appears that the total cut of lumber and pulp 

 wood from the Adirondack and Catskill forests amounted to 

 651, 1.35,308 feet P>. M. Adding to this 349,000,000 feet B. M. cut 

 for firewood, we have a total cut of, roundly, 1,000,000,000 

 feel B. M . The cut of spruce for pulp mills was 230,049,292 feet 



