Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-17
Now World Demands Upon Our Forests

The world is again turning to the United States for it's supplies of forest products, and out exports of timber, lumber and other forest products, will aggregate about $2OO, 900, 900 in the cal endar year 1920 against an average of $70, ,000,0 900 per annum during the war
 period.
 Our exports of forest products, says a statement by the National City Bank of
 New York have aggregated more than
 billion dollars in the last decade de- spite the partial interruption by [ va and are now running at the rate of S20J,- 000,000 year or nearly four times as
 much, in stated value. as in certain or the war years when the natural reduc- ton in world dema06 was intensified by the lack of transportation facilities. In | the pre-war years, our exports or lum-
 Der and other forest products aggregated about 75,000,000 per annum. and were steadily advancing so that in the year | immediately preceding the war the total value of all forest products exported was S115 ,000,000. But, with the oDen-
 ing of the war. the demand temporarily
 declined, especially from Europe, and the total value of the exports of this
 class dropped in 1915 and 1916 to just
 one-half that a the year cedfBF the
 war Now, however. with the resumption
 of building in all parts of the world and 2, the Russian supplies temporarily cut off.
 the world against turns to the United States and her neighbor, Canada, and cur exports of lumber and other forest products. which advanced from S55000,- GOO in 1915 to SS7, ,000. 900 in the closing year of the war. was S137,000.000 in 1919 and promises to be about S20O, ,O0O,- GOO in the calendar year 1920.
 RuSSia adds the Banks statement,
 with her big timber surplus and proxim- ity to the European markets. was. prior to the war, our chief rival in the lum- ber markets of the world her exports of wood in all forms having aggrega ted $75 GOO. 900 in 1913, those of Canada , SAT 000 900 and the United States S115.-
 000 O00 With Russia's supply not now available to Ter European nei@hbors they are calling upon the United States
 for supplies. while Asia, Oceania. Soutt America and even South Africa. are a's- calling upon Canada whose exports Of
 lumber and other forest products in 19l! were $106.000.0 900 against our $137 000
 900 in that year and a prospect of $2O0
 900, 900 in 1920.
 Oriental demands for our lumber ant
 other forest products have ranidly in
 creased in recent years. In the eigh
 months of 1920 for which details arr 4 7 and Oceania :n this term, took approXi O mately $10,OOO.00O worth of this clas 4 of material from the United State 4 against less than $3,00o00 in the sam c months of the immediately precedin: s year. Our Latin-American friends at tn
 south took, in the eight months endin: s with August of the current year, owe
 S20. .000, 900 worth of pitch pine lumbe : alone, against S7000, 900 worth in tn same month of last year, and this tota r was materially increased by the deman for certain ether classes of lumber, an . especially slaves. Europe, which relic ,- largely upon Russia for her forest pro II i ducts and took nearly all of the $75,00O, z. coo worth which she exported, now turn
 to the United States. taking largely o
 our oak and pitch pine lumber and tim
 Der and the total of these two group
 sent to Europe in the eight months end , ing with August of the current year wa ' S13.000. 900 in value against less tha T.. s2.000.O00 in the same months of 191' 't Curiously, adds the Banks statement 'f our importation of forest products = nearly as large in value as our export. 'I but in large degree of a different char U. acter. We have imported in the eigh 'e months ending with August. for whic details are available $4S000,O 900 wort 'i of wood pulp alone chiefly from Cana da. Norway and Sweden and approx le mately s7.0o0, 900 worth of cabinet wood o' chiefly from the tropic. and in additio i to this about $40 00000 900 worth of lum - Der coming chiefly from the Cenedia Y j.forests whose proximity to our peopl = ialong the northwestern border justife |, them in buying outside the United State - :. especially as our own supply is bein '' rapidly depleted by the renewed demand 2. from abroad. even at the higher price o~ which are now approximately 50 per cer F. greater than those of year ago.