HOW UNITED STATES CAN MEET PULP-WOOD REQUIREMENTS. 13 
volume of pulp-wood requirements partly through pulp-wood imports, which 
probably began as early as 1S95, and since 1912 have ordinarily exceeded 1 
million cords a year 
Stated in another way, our paper industry in 1922, manufactured more than 
7 million tons of paper from domestic and foreign supplies, but we consumed 
8 million tons. Our pulp industry manufactured 3-| million tons of pulp, in 
part from imported wood, but 5,847,000 tons were required for our total paper 
consumption. Finally, we cut from American forests 4| million cords of wood, 
but the total consumed in the United States and elsewhere to meet our paper 
requirements was 9,148,000 cords of domestic and foreign wood. Only 88 per 
cent of the paper consumed in 1922, was manufactured in the United States; 
only 60 per cent of the pulp used in making the paper consumed was a home 
product; and only 49 per cent of the wood used in meeting paper requirements 
MILLION 
CORDS 
''PULP WOOD REQUIRED IN THE PAPER CONSUMED 
!N THE UNITED STATES, AND ITS SOURCE 
I 
ATotai paper consumption 
*From domestic sources 
a From Canada 
° From all other countries 
I 
Total consumption 
1925 
Fig. 5. — The gradual parting of the curves representing total pulp-wood requirements and the pulp 
wood secured from domestic sources shows strikingly the growing volume of imports. The contribu- 
tion of the Canadian forests supplied in the form of paper, pulp, and pulp wood is increasing more rapidly 
than that of our own. 
came from our own forests. These figures indicate specifically the extent to which 
American paper mills, pulp mills, and forests, respectively, now fall short of 
meeting national needs for paper. 
Hardly less important than the extent of our present imports from foreign 
sources is the rate at which they are increasing. As recently as 1899, little more 
than two decades ago, American forests furnished 83 per cent of the wood for 
our paper. (Table 10.) Imports have since been increasing at the rate of about 
192,000 cords a year. The outstanding fact to-day is that more than half of the 
forest materials for all the paper used in the United States comes from outside 
our boundaries. The curve in Figure 5 which indicates domestic pulp wood 
has been gradually flattening since 1905, while those indicating all pulp wood, 
pulp, and paper imports from Canada and from other countries converted to 
pulp wood, for comparison are still rising rapidly. The growth, present extent, 
