Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry2111915amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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CANADIAN LUMBER COMPETITION 135 development. One paper mill is now producing 225 tons daily. A siilphite fiber plant is producing 40 tons of fiber per day. "A small portion of this suffices to supply the Provincial market, while freight rates prevent the shipment of newsprint to points east of Alberta. A small quantity of newsprint is shipped to be distributed from Calgary and Edmonton, the balance (comprising over 75 per cent of the output) being marketed in the North- western States. About 25 per cent of the sulphite fiber is sold to paper mills in the same market."^ This in the face of the fact that pulp logs in those States cannot be sold for enough to return the cost of logging. The first shipment of wood pulp from British Columbia to the Atlantic coast was consigned to New York in September of this year. CANADIAN MARKETS In 1911 the poptilation of Canada was 7,207,000. The five western provinces with an area of 1,723,700 square miles had 1,321,748 people or less than the present estimated population of Phila- delphia. But diiring recent years there has been an unparalleled influx of settlers into that territory seeking homes on the boundless prairies within the range of grain production. A great boom was experienced. Railroads were built and towns followed. The vacant places were sparingly peopled. As a result an enormous demand for lumber was created—greater per capita than was ever before known. To the west was the almost untouched forest reach- ing to the sea and the government invited its exploitation, dollars were invested in manufacturing equipment, ficient to supply the normal demands of ten million people were erected in frenzied haste to supply one and one-half millions. Then, by 1913, immigration practi- cally ceased. Stagnation followed infla- tion and in rapid succession the mills went down, leaving capital and labor unemployed. In 1910 there were 225 saw mills in British Cokmibia with a Millions of timber and Plants suf-
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Report of the Minister of Lands. 1913. A Perfect Douglas Fir. THIS IS ON VANCOUVER ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA. SUCH SPECIMENS ARE LESS COMMON IN THE PROVINCES THAN IN THE STATES.

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