The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-10-31
MARKET
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PULP AND PAPER

WASHINGTON, Oct. S1.-Two-
thirds of the news print used in the
United States in 1890 was made from
wood grown on foreign soil. Out OF
more than 100000 tons Of wood
pulp consumed for all purposes 35
per cent came from foreign markets.
Over $1s1 100000 was paid for the
wood. wood pulp. and paper import
ID. To this extent the United States
has become dependent upon markets
outside its control. This country
can no longer draw its supply from
our rapidly disappearing eastern for
ests. As result primarily Of forest
depletion the cost Of pulp wood rose
more than 10 per cent in the five
year period 1s16-1s20. and Of wood
pulp IS per cent since 1918. These
and other facts are presented in
bulletin Pulp Wood Consumption
and Who'd Pulp Production, 1890"
prepared by the Forest Service, Unit
cd States Department OF Agriculture,
In cooperation with the American
Pulp and Paper Association OF New
York.
Prior to 1909 practically all the
paper consumed in this country was
manufactured here. This is no long
or true. The United States is now.
becoming more and more an import
ant Nation. and the paper making in
dustry has grown until its capitaliza-
ticn approaches the billion dollar
mark.
"The trouble in BRIEF" says the
bulletin, rs that we have mills with
out forests. in the East and forests
without mills in the West" In New
England and New York where the
forests have been largely worked out,
there is the heaviest concentration OF
mills. In Alaska, where there is
enough spruce and hemlock to supply
present American news print require
ments Indefinitely. there is only one
mill. The industry has remained
stationary in the East while the lum-
ber industry has moved West.
"In Minnesota, for instance, where
domestic spruce forms S5 per cent
Of the consumption, pulp wood cost
5000 per ton less than in New
York, II New York pulp mills could |
have bought their spruce from native
forests at saving Of $40 cord the
savings on their imports alone would
have been $4,000. 900 during the year
1920"
Expensive Eastern mills can not
be moved West nor hn the great
forests of Alaska and the Pacific
slope be set down in New England
and New York. Nor can the United I
States count upon reducing the
amount OF pulp wood necessary to
meet present requirements. Furth-
er, Canada cannot be depended upon
indefinitely, as a source OF supply. for
Canadian forests are no more limit
less than those of the United States.
The remedy is two-fold:, locate
more mills on the Pacific slope and
reforest the East.
"Reforestation will take not only
skin. energy and money" say the
but most serious of all,
many years must elapse before the
East can be put on thoroughly self
basis. Yet there is no
choice left to us. The work must be
We must have pulp
md for every year of delay we must
pay increasingly heavy penalties for
,eglecting to restore the forests as
asst as the wood Ia consumed"
As the result OF unregulated lum-
,ering, it is pointed out, followed
~ fire. more than 60,000,000 acres
II potential forest lands, most ac-
essible to Eastern and Lake state b
Mills, are now producing nothing or q
growth Of little use ex- Z
ept for firewood. II they were pro- II
lucing only third Of cord of pulp v
vood an acre, every year, the total Il
'leld would be 20,000.000 cords, or
pproximately twice the amount s.