The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-01-11
PAPER Trust and the Forests.

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Paper Trust and the Forests. *
N a rhari can forests arc being devastated
at aSrate TINT s;ahirrnlng to every think
Ing rim. 1he ollaf eatlsoof thls de- de-
struldtlon 81 Aour% 1aseryd veal Ste trees
is. the demands made for wood pulp by
tho paper-making industry. Apart from ron
tho unparalleled growth OF ciro1latto1 \, OF 9
the public pross OF America which anu
ally consumes hundreds Of SQUARE miles
or forest that cannot be replaced under
eighty; years. Il there has been q steady:
increase iii tho use or timber for building
material. Steel and Iron aro used asin'
construction to ali extent hitherto 4 un-
lrehint or, but they have by no n1e icons
superseded tho use Of lumber, md every
increase in our population REQUIRES more ORG
lunbcr{t to house them. 81, u y. SlEs
tits stated 10y. tho Chicago Tribune that
IL those areas OF our State, which arc
suitable only for propagating trees. were;
planted to-day, the population q this his.
country would be ss2s7, 900 900 be fore the
pine forests SO provided would BIO Of merl'-5
charitable size. 81 553 III 5i{
III Some years ago, when the protection e OF
our our forests was being agltated In 4 Con-
gress, IT was urged that we had better
let foreign timber lands be used to sup 8
ply part OF Our needs instead Of forcing
tho American people. 81 Ivy prohi TIVE
tariff to pay e$orbltant prices to the
Humber kings and at the same time de-
stray one or our most Important supplies
az natural wealth. 4 8 this 1T was u
swered BY a. representa- tive from Micll-
gan that Ills state salotes had lumber
enoughsto build a solid pine plank fence,
posts and all.s,ten feet high around md the
whole world, and replace It every ten en-
years. is5i4 ti iill II "a
To-day there lis no such confidence. III
fifty years, say expert lumbermen, our
forests will be cut down, ground M and
lost totus, Il HI
What shall be done IN view Of this ecu
dition Will, Which NO arc confronted? 3SS
TO replant tree for every one de-3
stroyed, to increase our Forest reserves.
both state and national; to utilize 81 all
waste places possible for tree culture
would I'LL help. But above and before all
else, we should, as q people, demand
tho Instant repeal OF tax on imported
wood pulp used for pa per-n,aasin1g. Cam
ada needs our money; we need ITO buy
her wood pulp and keen our own forests.
Nothing but the lobby Of the 33pane efr trust
prevents these benefts to both peoples
BY repeating the iDlngley law tax l on n
wood pulp, which is the basis Of I'll news
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The Cotton Milling Industry.
1T is announced that the Boot Cotton
Mills, of Lowell, II Mas, capitalized at
ST. 200, 600, have gone into liquidation, ana
tho president gives as n reason the tn.
settled condition Of the cotton market and
the growing competition OF the sonth-
ern mills with their larger buildings, more
modern machinery and lower priced help
This emphasizes 4 hat the Southern mills
have advantages other than that Of being
close to tho cotton fields Tho mills OF
the North are for tho most part old
and equipped with old machinery, II
they have put IN new machinery u has
been done at enormous expense because
| 1t meant that the old machinery must he
thrown away. The Southern mills are
new, and In constructing them the build
ers profted by the mistakes OF tho oldcr
mills. employing nll tho modern devices
and equlpplng their mills with tho new.
est machinery. Moreover, most OF the
Southern mills are now operated by clec.
tricity generated by water power, md
as a rule, they have every possible device
! for producing the best article at tho
lowest cost. In addition to all this tlle
| Southern mills have better class Of
| labor than the Northern mills and there
is less friction between employer and en-
/ ployes in the South than in the MOI tn
1 With these numerous advantages tbs
South has the cotton milling industr,
largely in its own hands and may def,
Northern competition a
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