The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-11-16
Paper Making
in the South
Production Of Wood Pulp II
Southern States Increasing
Rapidly

New York. Nev. 11.-Ele.en
mills in the yellow pine states cor
sunaed 297 $50 cords OF ra]a wood,
at a tota! cost of S3.1l4,ISS in
! 1920. The total pulp oatput was
i 144.604 tons. valued at Sli.V33-
$40 as compared with l0t.232 cons
in 1919 and a vallc OF s. 24o.222%.
The total consumption Of the Init
. Cd States was 6.1Il.o12 cords Tai-
ucd at $1!6.495,772D. b;:t the rapid
growth Of the industry in t:?c sou;E
/ is one of the most significant phases
I OF the report just made by TIE
Forest Service of the nations Pulp
wood consumption. indicating
great future III the yellow N:2e
states.
The United states in 1920 import
cd SS5. 200 ,0G0 worth OF news 9rIn.
paper. $S2.0o0,o09 worth OF wood
/ pulp, ard $2S.0o0, 900 Worth Of pulp
wood to operate its paper mills.
while III 1918 the importation cf
/ Canadian pulp wood was only $l4.-
f; O06 .000.
These striking liSUres relative 10
the PAPER industry, are included in
a pamphlet just published b% the
American Paper and Pulp -Associa-
ton. and prepared by the United
States Forest Service in co-opera-
ton with the paper Industry. These
figures, says the Forest Service IN
analyZing the statistics given In THIS
complete review OF the use OF
wood in paper making, are cNl-
dencc OF the iced for reforestation
Of the cut over lands OF the United
states. In It's summary the For
. cs; Service says:
We cannot count upon reducing
the amount OF pulp used. That
would be not only~undes!Vble bat
probably impossible as We'll. We
cannot count upon Canada inde:i-
nitely as source of supply. fer the
Canadian forests are no more
hmitless than our own have proved
to be.
The great eastern pulp mills
cannot be moved to the timber OF
Alaska Or the West Coast.
The trouble IS, in brief, that we
have mills Without forests. in the
east and forests without mills IN
the west. The obvious solution will
be to supply the deficiencies il
both parts Of the country. More
mills will no doub, DC located even
, tually on the Pacific slope AID in
Alaska. But what OF the east,
with it's heavy investments OF CAPT
tai and its millions oN waste acres?
.Reforestation will rake rot
! not only skill. eaergT. anc money,
but most serious OF all. many years
must elapse before the east can be
put on thoroughly self-support-
ing basis. Yet there is no choice
left to us. The wori; must be un-
dertaken. We must have alp, and
for every year OF delay we must
ipay increasingly heavy penalties
for neglecting TO restore the forests
as fast as the wood is consumed.
The states included IL the south
ern pine group ere Georgia, Della
ware, Maryland, Mississippi. Sot'th
I Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
With the District OF Columbia. The
eleven mills in this group, secured
their wood at minimum OF cost,
the average cost per cord beinS
1921 as compared with q national
average Of S19.G3. This is due to
the ability TO use the southern
woods, and only the states CT Wash
ington and West Virginia can APP
proach this low cost for the raw
material. The 279,955 cords used
arc divided as follows: i.
Yellow pine, 1C0.1S9 cords; pop
lar 4.704 co: is: yellow poplar -
311 cords: gum 39.S26 cords; cot
tonwood $500 cords; basswood 4
O02 cords; beech birch and maple
21,73 cords and mil! waste and
slabs 1879 cords.
The wood was reduced almost
entirely lSy the soda or the su!Ehatc
processes. IN 1916 the states n
this group produced Only S1.S%9
tons OF pulp, valued IL S3.4ol.3333,
and the product was considerably
less valuable than that produced
by the new modern mills.
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