Title: Canadian forest industries January-June 1921
Identifier: canadianforjanjun1921donm (find matches)
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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The Laurentide Company's logging depot at Gatico, Quebec, 200 miles from Grand Mere, one of its most important stations. The log conveyor is at the right with the engine house in the centre. The conveyor can load 28 cars daily and the company expect to move 40,000 cords this summer. The cut is presented in this issue through the courtesy of "The Digester. her own manufacturing interest, and henceforth depend on the energy and brains of the Canadian people. Mr. Taschereau is proving himself an able administrator and fast gaining the confidence of the people. * =K * How B. C. Forest Wealth Grows The total value of forest products of British Columbia for 1920 is placed at $92,628,807, against $70,285,094 for 1919, according to annual figures made public to-day by Hon. T. D. Pattullo, Minister of Lands. Last year's total is practically twice the total of the forest pro- duction of the province three years ago, the minister points out. The value of the lumber cut has advanced by nearly $16,000,000 over last year, while the increase in the value of pulp and paper pro- duced amounts to more than $9,000,000. "The pulp and paper output again shows an increase, both in volume and value, compared with the previous year," said Hon. Mr. Pattullo, in making public the returns. "During the year the department has had many encjuiries re- garding pulp and paper possibilities of the province and a very consid- erable increase in capacit)^ in this industry is looked for." * * * Pulpwood Pile Nearly 500 Miles Long The pulpwood cut of Northern Ontario last year would, if gathered together, stretch out in a line four feet high from Iroquois Falls to Toronto, so Public School Inspector Wilson told the pupils of the Haileybury High School recently. The distance between the points mentioned is approximately 460 miles. Pulpwood is cut in four-foot lengths. * * * Urges Conservation of Pulpwood Stocks "What the Pulp and Paper Industry Means to Ontario," was the subject of an address given by Mr. Edward Beck, of Montreal, at the annual dinner of the Foresters' Club of the University of Toronto recently. The industry represented a capital investment of $95,281,- 040 and a total of 38 establishments in Ontario, he said. Something of Ontario's pulpwood resources, their consumption and the means that were being taken to replenish the stocks were outlined by the speaker. The estimated annual consumption was 1,200,000 cords, and allowing for all waste, it was estimated that the present supply may last for sixty or seventy years. In 1919 Ontario produced approximately 498,792 tons of paper of all descriptions, 246,430 tons of chemical pulp and 351,572 tons of mechanical pulp, or approximately 50 per cent, of all the paper, 34 per cent of the chemical pulp and 35 per cent, of the mechanical pulp produced in Canada. The value of the paper produced in Ontario amounted.to $39,930,474, the largest item being 342,254 tons of newsprint, valued at $23,958,566. Against the practise of exporting unmanufactured logs, the speaker uttered a word of warning". The United States was con- fronted with the necessity of stopping the practise and Canada would have to follow in their footsteps. "We are just as tardy as they have been in coming to a realization of the limitations of our forest wealth, and to a knowledge that we cannot continue indefinitely slaughtering and wasting our forests without an intelligent effort at renewal and replacement unless we want to encounter ruin," Mr. Beck said. * ^ Pulpwood Men Object to High Freights The lumber and pulpwood interests of the Abitibi district on the line of the Transcontinental Railway are up in arms against the excessive charges that are bing imposed by the C. N. R. manage- ment on transportation. A deputation, composed of some thirty settlers from Amos and Abitibi, arrived in Quebec recently to inter- view Sir Hormisdos Laporte, vice-president of the C. N. R. Board of Directors, respecting the high cost of freight on lumber and pulp- wood being charged on the Transcontinental Railway, which is calculated to ruin the wood business. The Abitibi District, which was a wilderness some five or six years ago, is now peopled by 15,- 000 new settlers, who have been encouraged to settle there by the Quebec Superintendent of Colonization, and have done wonders in the development of that northern section of the province within such a short period of time. The makers of pulpwood complain that they are charged $9 per cord by the railway for its ti-ansportation to the paper mills at Three Rivers, and $10 per cord to La Tuque, and owing to the drop in the price of pulpwood, only receive $16 from the mills for their product. They request that the rate of freight charges be reduced by one-third; otherwise they will be forced to stop making the wood. The executive officers of the Quebec Board of Trade formed part of the deputation that waited upon Sir Hormisdos Laporte, and in a memorandum read, backed the x\bitibi deputation in their de- mand. Mr. Norman Brown, of the Brown Corporation, with mills at La Tuque, informed the vice-president of the C. N. R. Board of Directors, that unless the railways came down in their prices of trans- portation, the pulp and paper mills would have to stop rail shipments, and obtain their supplies by water. He pointed out that Norway and Germany were now supplying paper to the United States for Zjic per lb., which was a vital factor which the Canadian mills would have to contend with, and unless the railways curtailed their prices for transportation, they would lose the haul of freight. Sir Hormisdos Laporte expressed his sympathy with the Abitibi settlers, and, though he offered no encouragement as to an amelior- ation of their grievance, said he would place the matter before the next meeting of the C. N. R. Board of Directors. He pointed out the difficulties the railways were meeting with these days to^over- come the exigencies of deficit and the intention of the C. N. Ry. executive in its new schedule to cut off train services that were not paying expenses. He instanced several trains on the Transcontinen- tal Railway and the Canadian Northern running from Shawinigan to Quebec.

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