The farmer and mechanic., 1909-03-16
Neither Reduces Price
nor Preserves Forests
WANTS FREE pulp WOOD
Declares That United States hu~I
Have Access TO Canadian IOre~J~
Until Some Other Paper-Matlu-
Material Be Found-TOrest Con
seryation With Lumber Men,

Material be Il Ollnu-i oIeSt ttit-
seryation With Lumber Men,
CBy the Associated Press.)
Washington d. c., March III
removal Of the tariff on lumber Woul-
neither reduce the price TO the cog
sumner or preserve our forests accolu-
ing to the opinion expressed by ls.-
ford Pinchot. Chief OF the CAtl.
states Forest Service, in ietIer {"
Serene E. Payne, chairman OF IL.
House Ways and Means Commute
made public tonight,
Mr.. Pinchot holds that the tund.-
mental question at issue in the lu-a-
Der tariff is forest conserve. H.
saws that he would favor removal
OF the tariff if he were OF the opn-
| ion. which he thinks is the cause ol
| the demand for free lumber th5t Il
would offer a way 10 protect our ioE
4 ests. but I am unable to see. IL
/ saws. how free lumber Will prom
/ forestry.
.-Thera is only one way to s-|
o,,,, forests he~adds. THAT is to
that they are kept at work gro"
/ new crops OF timber as the old q
cut away.
AIr. Pinchot says that ''most o.
lumber we now import comes H.
canada. as most Of it would Il
ine from Canada only ABOUT
+ cent a. much lumber as we are
/ ting from ON own forests. It.. is
)! likely that under free lumber IT
than per cent as much would co.,
from Canada - We would cat
home.
Canada Needs Her Own.
Canada, ~ compared with t.
United States. has no great TIM.
supply" continues Mr.. Pinchot. IL
total amount Of standing timber
probably not more than One-third d
what is left OF ours. In the end tn
Canadians viii undoubtedly reQuu
for home use all the timber they ca
produce. Imports from Canad<
therefore. would not be enough
limit the cutting Of our forests or I
reduce the price OF lumber in any i'm
poftant decree
Air. Pinchot is of the opinion thu
: if the duty We're removed there WOul
be little. if any benefit to the ultima
consumer in the United States.
Free Pulp Wood.
! The waste in logging, according
] Mr. Pinchot. is already enormous, te
; in" several times larger than our in
4 portation from Canada. Il do ~
; believe he says, that the increase
| use Of Canadian wood under free luu
( ber would equal the increased waste.
) The Chief Forester thinks it "hisiH
: important that We should have trt
pulp wood in the future as in I'll
past. and that Canada should imp0s
+ no export duty upon pulp wood.
TINS respect. he continues, the pul
and naper-making industry is in
different position from the otht
great aWood-using industries OF Il
United States. The latter can be sul
piled wholly from our own forest
while the former must have free a.
cess to the Canadian spruce fOre@
50 long as spruce is the chief pu
wood. He declares that ground woo
should be admitted free ''prOVidt
that It comes from q country viii
does not in any way restrict the {
portation Of wood pulp or grouI
wood. and that there should be q T.
duction in the duty upon neWspap'
providing that it comes from cOui
/! Try which does not in any way 7
strict the expectation Of pulp woo
wood pulp or printing paper"
MI. PlnchOt places the first du
Tor conserving the forets upon I.
fuinDermeG themselves, declaring tn
bE asking Tor the retention Of u
tafiH IN order to protect the fOrest
the iumberm en- have in substance g
tefeu INTO an agreement with the pc
e pie Of the United States to perpetu"
their forests by wise use
He declares that If the 1un1bernl.
Go not make the most of this Opp"
tuhlty, legislation is coming, and COZ
ing very soon. which will force tn
TO do clean work in the woods, 0t
TO leave their cut-over lands in CO"
aiiion 70 produce q second crop.
On Wif1, RnSI,