The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-11-07
COMMISSIONERS To
TREAT WITH CANADA
Reciprocity Will Be Thorough.
ly Investigated by United
States at Ottawa

washington, NOV. 1.-Actual negO.
tiations for the establishment Of re-
ciprocity between this country and
Canada will be begun at Ottawa on
November 10. Henry NJ. Hoyt, coun-
sellor. and Charles NJ. Pepper, COM
mercial adviser, of the state depart
ment. will leave Washington today for
Ottawa, and. after the negotiations
are under way, Secretary Knox will
Join them.
Both Mr.. Hoyt and Mr.. Pepper go
to Ottawa bearing President Taft's
instructions. and his confidence that
reached. They have been in confer
ence with the president with regard
to reciprocity almost constantly for
the last two weeks.
Advices from representatives of
Canada to the United States govern
ment have been to the effect that the
officials at Ottawa will meet this coun-
try half way, and that the men who
will represent Canada will be author
lied to arrange all details. The one
thing that will remain to be done
after the negotiations are concluded
will be ratification by Canada's par
Lament. and on this side by con-
gress.
1t can be stated that the negotia-
tions already have progressed so far
that the officials on both sides are
confident that, within a short time.
there will be full reciprocity between
satisfactory agreement will be
this country and Canada. Since last
spring negotiations have been under
way, and the fact that President Taft
is sending his representatives to Can
ada is evidence that q satisfactory
treaty is in sight.
Opposition that has been coming
from manufacturers in Canada and in
the United States is not expected to
cause any serious hitch in the ar
rangements. From outside sources,
the state department has been warned
that Canada would seek to demand
big concessions from the United
States in return for the lifting of
the embargo on the expectation Of
pulpwood, cut on its crown lands un-
up on and after September /, 1910.
The representatives Of the state de-
partment, however. go to Ottawa with
the knowledge that the action of the
Canadian government in this respect
will not have the effect of reducing
the quantity Of pulpwood for export
for years to come, and that the prob
ability is that it never will do SO.
The conclusion that the expectation
of pulpwood would diminish, they
say, might be justified il settlers
lands staked prior to September 1,
1910, could have been made subject
to the restriction, but that cannot be
done, for legal and other reasons. To
deprive such settlers of their lands,
the officials hold, is not practicable
nor even contemplated.
Consul Willrich, representing this
government at Ottawa, has furnished
the officials here with information
that convinces them that the wood
pulp item will not dominate the ne
gotiations. In his special report. just
received by the officials, he quotes
from the Pulp and Paper magazine Of
Canada as follows:
From conservative estimate
there are more than 1000, 900 acres in
forest lands on the seigniories in Que
bee and about 100000 acres of pat
ented and located lands, none Of which
will be subject to the prohibition.
This would approximately give 50,-
100000 cords of pulp wood free to go
to the United States, which means
that we can supply the United States
market Oaking as an average the
greatest quantity already shipped in
one year to the United States, namely,
100000 cords) for fifty years to
come"