Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-01-27
CHEMICAL VS. LAW.
An Answer to the Claim of Spruce
Depletion.
The Pulp Manufacturers Believe This indus.
thy Must Help the Community.

50 much has been said of late of the pulp
industry and of the saw mills, together
with the discussions on the industry
in connection with the spruce question.
that President Frederick S. Lyman of
the Cushnoc Paper Co, refers the
Journal to an interview that appeared
first in the Bangor Commercial and
later in the Paper Mill. This answers
some of the arguments used by the
saw mill men and is in itself very in
teresting.
The Paper Mill last week printed an
interview with President Chisholm of
the International Paper Company, in
which he said regarding the spruce
supply in Maine, he believed that
while protection was necessary, the
idea of preservation had been carried
to panicky extent which was working
distinct injustice to the paper trade of
thu country.
Now the Bangor Commercial inter
views Hon. Nath1 NJ. Jones, Of Lincoln
and Bangor, the executive head of the
Katahdin Pulp and Paper Company.
one of the men who are looked % as
the leaders in the great business at
which he is engaged.
Senator Jones spoke with freedom on
the subject. He was asked, just as
Mr.. Chisholm was, What about the
proposition that the paper trade is de-
nuding the forests Of Maine?"
Like the Internationally president,
Mr.. Jones expressed the idea in the
beginning that a good deal Of common
sense was lacking from the arguments
being used against the paper mills by
the people who arr working for the
safety Of spruce. He believes in for
rstrv systems ana in scientific pro
grams for the cultivation of timber
and it, preservation. but is prepared
to make complete denial of the idea
that the paper trade is destroying the
forests of Maine to the alarming eX-
tent mentioned in the press throughout
The country. Moreover. H. backs mp
his arguments With figures.
..One might suppose" said senator
Jones. that the saw mills We're using
~ lumber nowadays. The paper trade
is getting all the abuse. while not a
word is uttered about the extent -
which thr lumber business is cutting
,f the forests This is simply the re
.uIt Of discussion by people Wh" afr
not prepared with the facts of the case
..I..t MS look at a few figures. How
much spruce DO You suppose the "fdl-
nary saw mill uses in season. We'll
that isn't fair question. bul I"f an
average. it would be somewhere near
% 900 900 feet less in some cases ana
more in others. What will you thlhk
when I tell YOU that the entire con
sumption of spruce in the PenohScot
valley is only 80, 800, 0o0 feet?
..rrhat isn't all of it. Let's look al
| tho mills There are six Of them OF
tha river and they use spruce IL IN
| f,1o,vinr amounts: Lincoln uses 5000
ooo. Montague. $500, 900: Rowland. ~
! ooo 400. Webster. 5000, 600; Basin Mills
/ , ooo ooO Then there is the Eastern
Manufacturing Company in Brewer
about which l will tell you something
later.
..\ow that gives us total consump
.ion IF 70 500. 900 Of spruce annually tol
IL penobscot pulp mills. But 1O,o0o'
ooo If this comes from the Piscataqul'
| IL tha Rowland mills-so that the
.o+,r ,pust be reduced to 22.50O,o00 tol
th;c river. A good 30 per cent. OF tina
.nount is made up OF Seamy logs
rocked or otherwise unfit for the saw
nils and which would be left IN th'
woods did not the pulp business MAKE
thar, valuable for sale. They have NJ
,.a1ra whatever to the lumberman %
J.. IA landowner, so that their sale 4
lin mill is a matter of clear prom
.ba latter in an amount that can
- racloned but which must be large.
The Eastern Company uses n
snr,,ca ont of the forest directly. II:
s,nnIv comes from Ayers mills, tn