The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-11-22
DEMAND FOR TIMBER.
Again Turning to United States for
Forest Produce.

The world is again turning to the
United States for its supplies of for
est products and our exports of tim
ber, lumber and other forest products
will aggregate about $200000,000 in
the calendar year 1920 against an sv-
erage of S70,000,000 per annum dur
ing the war period.
Our exports of forest products, says
statement by the National City Bank
of New York, have aggregated more
than a billion dollars in the last de-
cade despite the partial interruption
by the war and are now running at the
rate of S200.000,000 year or nearly
four times as much, in STATED value,
as in certain of the war years when
the natural reduction in world demand
was intensified by the lack Of transpor-
tation facilities. In the pre-war years,
our exports of lumber and other for
est products aggregated about $4,000
600 per annum, and were steadily ad-
vancing so that in the year immediate
ly preceding the war the total value
of all forest products exported was
Sll5,000,000. But, with the opening of
the war, the demand temporarily de-
clined, especially from Europe and the
total value of the exports of this class
dropped in 1915 and 1916 to just one
half that of the year preceding the
war. Now. however, all parts of the
world and the Russian supplies tempo
rarily cut off, the world again turns
to the United States and her neigh.
Dor, Canada, and our exports of lum-
Der and other forest products which
advanced from S55,000,0o0 in 1915 to
ss7 100000 in the closing year of the
war. was sl37 100000 in 1919 and
promises to be about S200,OO0,O00 in
the calendar year 1920
Russia, adds the banks statement,
with her big timber surplus and prox
unity TO the European market. was,
prior to the war, our chief rival in
the lumber and timber markets of the
world, her exports of wood in all forms
having aggregated S75.000,000 in 1918. !
those of Canada S47 100000 and the
United States Sll5,000,00 With Rus
sis's supply not now available to her
European neighbors, they are calling |
upon the. United States for supplies, |
while Asia. Oceanic South America and |
even South Africa. are also taking |
largely to our forest products, and also 1
calling upon Canada. WHOSE exports Of |
lumber and other forest products in |
1919 we're sl96.0 600. against our
Sl37 100000 in that year and a pros
pect Of 5000. 600. 900 in 1920
Oriental demands for our lumber and /
other forest produce have rapidly in.
creased in recent years. In the eight /
months of 1920, for which details are /
now available. the Orient, including
Asia and oceania in this term. took
Sl0.0O0.000 worth OF
this class Of material from the United 4
States. against less than s3.000.000 in
the same months of the Immediately
preceding year. Our Latin-American
friends at the south took. in the eight
months ending with August Of the cur
rent year, over s2O0OO.OO0 worth Of
pitch pine lumber alone, against 81
600 900 worth in the same months of
last wear. and this total was materially
increased by the demand for certain
other classes of lumber. and specially
slaves. Europe. which relied largely
upon Russia for her forest products
and nearly all Of the 5000 900 worth
which she exported. now turns to the
United States, taking largely of our
oak and pitch pine lumber and timber.
and the total Of these two groups sent
to Europe in the eight months ending
with August Of the current wear was
Si3 600 600 in value, against less than
So 0o0OO0 in the same month OF 1918.
Curiously. our importation Of forest
prodpc;s Is nearly as large in value IS
our exports. but in large degree Of =
different character. We have imported
in the eight months ending with Au-
gust, for which details are available.
s4s. 100000 worth Of wood pulp alone.
chiefly from Canada. Norway and Sve-
den. and approximately s7.O0o000
worth Of cabinet woods. chiefly from
the tropics, and in addition to this
about s400O0.oo0 worth of humber COM
ing chiefly from the Canadian for
ssis whose proximity % our people
along the northern border iustifes them {
In huvinr outside the United States