The Tupelo journal., 1904-02-12
cANADA'S FOREST WEALTH.

cANADA's FOREST WEALTH.
Making Use of the Worlds Fair to Ex-
tend knowledge of Her Great
Resources.
Canada intends to spring a surprise
at the exposition next year with her
exhibit of lumber and timber. OF
most direct interest to the people of
the United States, perhaps, is the rec
ord of Canada in the wood pulp indus
try last year. The Statistical Year
Book of Canada, compiled by George
Johnson, F. S. S., the official statisti-
clan of the Dominion Department OF
Agriculture, summarizes wood pulp in
dustry as follows:
The value of the wood, blocks and
other forms of crude export for pulp
was $1,315 ,03S in 1902, of which the
United States took $1,194 ,593, and
Great Britain only 1920 ,445-other
countries nothing. OF the prepared
wood pulp the export from Canada
was valued at $2,046,398 for the same
year, the United States taking $1,170,-
| 400 worth, and Great Britain S818,580;
| other countries, $57,418 worth.
Other interesting facts connected
with this growing industry among our
northern neighbOrs may be summar.
lied as follows:
The wood pulp industry of Canada
for the calendar year 1902 was carried
on by thirty-five mills, which had an
output of 240, 1889 tons of wood pulp.
OF this quantity, 155, 210 tons were me-
chanical pulp, 1915 sulphiIe, and 81
044 soda. The corresponding quanti-
ties for 1901 were: Mechanical, 169,-
$50 tons; sulphite, $4,000 tons, and
soda, 1910 tons. The total value of
the output was $4,3S3, 1872.
The growth of the industry is con-
siderable. In the census of 1881 there
were five establishments with an out
put of $4,000. In 1891 there were
t~wenty-four with an output of S1,057,-
$40. The census for 1901 has not yet
been tabulated. For 1902 the returns
to the statistical branch preparing the
Year Book. show, as given above, thir-
ty-five establishments with an output
Of $4,383, 1872.
Of the product of Canadian mills
the customs returns show that during
the calendar year 1902 the exports
amounted to s2,511,664, leaving ST.
S71,518 for home use. In a general
way, therefore, Canada exports about
81 per cent of her production.
The market for this product in the
United Kingdom is large. In the cal
endar year 1902 the requirements Of
| Great Britain were of the value Of
$11, 81 1867. of which seven-elevenths
were chemical pulp. Canada's export
in 1902 to Great Britain was about
8R per cent Of her needs.
AS seen by the foregoing figures,
forest products of Canada are one Of
her main features, and her commits
sioners intend that next years show
ing at the Worlds Fair will yield the
palm to no other country.
Idaho's Beautiful Scenery.
The windows of the Idaho building
at the Worlds Fair will be veritable
works of art. C. B. HURT, the execu-
tive commissioner. has caused photo
graphs of beautiful Idaho to be made
and transferred to transparencies.
Some of the views possess wonderful
beauty. Shoshone Falls. on the Snake
river, have a fall of 220 feet. as COM
pared with 100 feet. for the famous
Niagara Falls. The mountains and
lakes of Northern Idaho. for beauty.
are surpassed by none in the world.
Worlds Fair News Notes.
The steel frame work of the Be-
GUM building at the Worlds Fair has
been finished. Workmen are now
erecting the great dome that will rise
$50 feet from the foundation. The
main part of the building is ready for
the reception of the staff and orna-
mental work.
The scenic railway on the Pike, at
the Worlds Fair, is so long that it
crosses the steam railroad tracks and
runs for more than a thousand feet
outside of the exposition grounds prop
er. The trip over this scenic gravity
railway is more than a mile.
The dome of the Brazilian building
at the Worlds Fair will overlook all
of the structures on the foreign sec
ton. Brazil's building is south of
China's national pavilion. 1t is one
of the most p~retentious among the
buildings erected by the foreign gov
ernments.
The admissions department of the
Worlds Fair has made the official an
nouncement that season tickets will be-
sold at $25 each. These tickets are
good for each day of the exposition,
from April 80 to December 1. The
tickets, of course, are not transfera-
BILE, and the purchasers photograph
will be attached to each ticket for
Identification purposes.
Maj. Agar M. Wheeler, of "a Trip
to Siberia" a concession on the Pike.
at the Worlds Fair, who reached st.
Louis recently after a trip to Siberia.
says that seventy-five students and
several professors from the Russian
Imperial School Of Engineering will
spend two months in America this
year. and that they will visit the
Worlds Fair in a body and remain for
two weeks studying the exhibits of in.
terest peculiar to their profession.
INTERNATIONl ELEc-
TRIcAL CONGRESS.
Remarkable Gathering of Eminent
Scientists VIII Assemble at the
Worlds Fair.