The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-07-28

it has become an international question
The governments of both the United
States and Canada are besieged by petit
tons from those interested in the ques-
ton to legislate on the matter In the
United States their forests of poplar,
spruce and hemlock are fast diminishing
and the people are unit in desiring the
free entrance into their country of pulp
wood and lumber. In his report at the
last session of Congress, n NJ Jones,
president of one of the largest pulp and
paper concerns in the world, said: eve
have very soon got to depend on Canada
for our pulp wood, and get it as cheap
as the Canadians do, or we have got to
get out of business and go over to
Canada and get our paper. But in
Canada the interests are conflicting; the
pulp and paper manufacturers want the
Government to prohibit the export of
pulp wood altogether, while in Quebec,
where they are making a good thing out
of exporting pulp wood to the States,
they are equally insistent that things
shall remain as they are. Sir Wilfred
Laurier has promised to appoint com
mittee to consider the matter from the
various viewpoints and report to the
Government. 1t is impossible to esti-
mate what this industry may eventually
become. We may yet see American
newspapers printed on Canadian paper.
Another Of the industries that is bring
ing Canada into prominence is the iron
and steel works. Canadian ore is capa-
BILE of being made in Canadian works into
almost anything in the shape of iron and
steel, except steel plates for ship build
ing. There are u iron and steel plants
and 500 iron foundries and works which
have developed in Canada within few
years. About fourteen years ago the
Government passed law granting subsi-
dies to certain industries engaged in de-
veloping the natural resources of the
country, and bounties amounting to
twelve millions of dollars have been paid
on iron, steel and lead, beside those on
crude petroleum and manila fibre. These
bounties will be discontinued at the end
Of the present fiscal year, as the prosper
Gus condition of these industries makes
it unnecessary. The Dominion Iron and
Steel works in Cape Breton are by far
the largest in the Dominion. They have
four blast furnaces on one of the finest
harbors in America, and hundreds Of
miles nearer transatlantic ports than
its American competitor, Pittsburg
The yearly output from these steel
works in Nova Scotia is estimated at &c.
600, 900.
The 500 works have been the most
talked of in Canada, but the era Of spec
ulation has passed with them and they
are now turning out steel rails, and reen-
forced by British capital are on their
feet again. would like to write more
about this industry, but must hurry on to
the biggest of all the industries in Can
ada-the -four mills If there is any ro-
nance in milling it will surely be found
here. The grinding of wheat is very
old industry. Ever since Abraham's
time, when his wife Sarah was command
ed to make ready three measures of fine
meal, knead it and make cakes upon the
hearth, milling has been an industry, but
great changes have taken place in the
methods of converting cereals into bread
stuffs. In Abraham's time rough stones
were used, now we have the roller mills,
which are the most wonderful and COM
plicated things in the world, and it is only
within recent years that Canada has
demonstrated its supremacy in the mill
ing industry. The largest of the Cana
dian mills are the Lake of the Woods
mills, situated near the Winnipeg River,
and which are claimed to be the largest
operating under the British flag. Ten
years ago the daily output was 300 bar
rels; today it is nearly 10000 barrels.
Ten Thousand barrels don't seem to he