Arizona republican., 1899-01-17
AND ENGLISH TRADE
 IN CANADA.

United States Consul General Bittin-
 ger writes to the sta.e department from Montreal an interesting account of the
 growth of American trade in Canada
 land makes an argument in favor of a IpOlicy of reciprocity. He thinks that Jour trade in Canada would be greatly Increased if the duties on some of the Iarticles imported from that country
 were lowered. Even as matters stand, however. we are extending our trade rapidly in the dominion, while Eng land is approximately losing ground there Consul General Bittinger gives
 a list of the leading manufactured ar ticles in which our Canadian commerce has increased during the past four
 years while that Of Great Britain has
 fallen off. The latter has lost ground
 rapidly in iron goods, her trade having
 shrunk some four millions of dollars
 during the short period named, while
 our Canadian trade in iron goods has | increased more than a million and q half The fact that the growth of our trade has not been half as great as jEngland's less is probably due to the development of manufacturing in Can ada and to the almost total suspension
 of railroad building in that country.
 It is a curious fact that wood and man. ufactures of wood have been bought in this country Ey our Canadian neigh ;bors in greatly increased quantities during the four years covered by these statistics. This seems strange because wood is so abuEdant and cheap in Can lada. The report under consideration
 points out that the wood pulp and pa per industry of the province of Quebec, started orly a few years ago, is advanc- ing with giant strides, and shows how vast are it's possibilities Of develop
 ment On this point Mr. Bittinger says:
 English and Canadian syndfcates are being organized with immense capital ito erect new mills and purchase vast areas of spruce timber lands. The ex- tent of the pulp wood resources of this country is enormous. F'r,m Hamilton Inlet, on the northeast coast of Labra- dor, one might travel southwest around James Bay and then northwest to the valley Of the Yukon river and never in that great distance be out of the re- zion of spruce forests. Or a journey might begin near the southern bound ary of New Brunswick and continue northwest to Portland promotory, more than halfway up the east coast of Hud- son bay, and thence across the coun- try again in an easterly direction to Ungana bay, ard still the traveller would never be out of a sprUce-bearing territory. In these vast reserves of spruce timber, many citizens Of the United States have already secured large holdings and are engaged in the pulp industry, and the water power util- lzed in connection herewith is unsur- passed in the world. By far the great CT part of the product of the pulp mills now goes to the United States, but England is beginning to stretch out eager hands to lay hold of a share of it. The consumption of paper is grea1- | CT in the United States than in. any other nation on earth.
 It is obvious that the development of | this industry, for which Canada pos sesses so many advantages, is of inter | est and value to the United States. Any | thing that helps Canada in an indus | trial way is certain to benei. our trade r interests. MT. Bittingsr thinks that the duty now imposed upon wood pulp | imported into the United States from f Canada should be materially lowered.