The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-09-17
NO SCARCITY
OF PULP WOOD
SAY WITNESSES
Enough for This and Coming
Generations in Now in
Existence
CHEAPMEss OF THE PRODUCT
IN CANADA DANGEROUS
President Jones of the katahdin Pulp
Company Says We Must Get Raw
Material as Cheap as in Canada to
Compete.


there is an ample supply OF pulp
wood in the country available for the
paper industry to outlive this and
coming generations. was the gist OF
the testimony of the witnesses before
the congressional investigating COM
mfttee in session at Menasha this
morning.
Charles Smith, president of the Me-
nasha Wooden Ware company. testi-
fed that within six townships, lccat-
ed not more than fifty miles north Of
Appleton, there are three billion feet
of standing timber, one-third Of
which is hemlock which is used in pa-
per mills.
The committee spent this afternoon
examining the mills in the Fox river
valley and tomorrow will complete
the work Of taking testimony.
Cheap in Canada
Because raw material is cheaper in
Canada and labor is considerably
cheaper, we would have to go out of
business if the tariff on wood pulp
were to be cut off. unless we could
obtain higher prices for our output
than we are receiving at the present
time,"' said N. NJ. Jones of Bangor,
Mo-. manager of the Kathahdin Pup
and Paper company at Lincoln, Mo-,
before the congressional investigating
committee today. Continuing, Mr..
Jones said:
Unless We can get out material as
cheaply as the Canadian mills do,
We would have to quit business for we
could not compete with them"
Chairman Mann, of the ;nvestigat-
ing committee asked Mr. Jones il, in
his opinion, the pulp, wood supply is
ample in this country for an almost
indefinite period. Mr. Jones replied
by saying that in Maine the supply is
perhaps practically inexhaustible but
in the middle west. especially in Wis
consin. Michigan and Minnesota, the
manufacturers will soon be obliged to
procure their pulpwood from Canada.
'The only thing see to do," said
Mr.. Jones. "is to make a treaty with
Canada Not as a tariff, not as a Ee-
publican party today and Demo-
cratic party tomorrow, but treaty
whereby the tariff on wood pulp
would be cut off if our mills were al
lowed to purchase pulp wood in Can
ada at the same figures that Canadian.
mills do, but would also increase the
duty on European pulp 100 per cent
Europe is our greatest competitor. not
Canada. The market of the United
States and Canada is large enough TO
use all the wood pulp. sulphite and
paper manufactured in this country
and Canada if a treaty were made the
duty on European goods increased. I
came before this committee prepared
to show figures concerning pulp and
sulphite importarions from European
markets. From January l to August
l, this year, the ports at New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore
received 1886 tons of unbleached
sulphite from Scandinavia In the
same length Of time. the Canadian
mills shipped in 1924 tons"
Mr.. Jones explaiend to the commit
tee that these figures were obtained
from the bureau Of statistics at Wash
ington and stated that the sulphite
manufacturers have had men at work
on that subject several months get
ting together this data for the COM
mittee. The Maine man was the only
witness today, the committeeman de-
voting much of the day to inspecting
the mills at Kaukaukana, Combined
Locks. Kimberly and Little Chute.
The taking Of testimony will be re-
sumed tomorrow at Menasha.