The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-10-27
u DEPENDENT UPON FOREIGN MARKETS FOR
PULP WOOD AND PAPER SUPPLY

Twothirds of the newsprnt used in the United States
l920 was made from wood foreign soil Out of
than 100000 pulp consumed all pur
poses 80 per cent from foreign markets Over $751;
ooooo was paid for the pulp wood wood pulp and paper inn
ported To this extent the United States has become depend
ent upon markets outside its control This country no
longer draw its supply from rapidly disappearing
forests AS result primarily of forest depletion the of
pulp wood thon Ito in the five period
9l6l920 and of wood pulp 30 cent since 1918 These
and other facts presented in bulletin pulp Wood Con
sumption and Wood Pulp Production 192O prepared b the
Forest Service United States Department of Agriculture
cooperation with the American Pulp and Paper Association
New York
Prior to 1909 practically all the paper consumed in this
country was manufactured here This is longer true
The United States becoming more an irpor
ting nation and the paper making industry has grown until
the capitalization approaches the billion dollar mark
The trouble In brief says the bulletin, lis that we have
mills without the forests in the East without the
mills in the In New England and New York where
the forests have been largely worked there heav
lest concentration of mills In Alaska where there enough
spruce and hemlock to supply American print require
nents indefinitely there is only MILL The industry has
renamed stationary in the east while the lumber industry has
moved
n Minnesota for instance where domestic spruce forms
80 cent of the consumption pulp wood cost $14O Der ton
less than in New York If New York pulp mills could have
bought their form native forests savings of So
cord the savings their imports alone would have been
$5OOO,OOO during the year 1920"
Expensive eastern mills be moved west nor can the
great forests OF Alaska and the Pacific slope be set down in
New England and New York Nor can the United States
count upon reducing the amount Of pulp necessary to
meet present requirements Further Canada can not be de
pehoeo upon indefinitely as source OF supply for Canadian
forests mess than those of United States
Inc remedy Is twotod: locate more mills the Pacific
slope and reforest the east
Reforestatlon will take not only SKILL energy and money!
90! " out most serious OF all, many years must
p oe Tue east can De put on thoroughly fsupport
s OASIS 1eI here is no chance left Tn work must be
undertaken We must have pulp and every year Of de-
lay we must pay increasingly heavy penalties for negectng
TO restore tn FORESTS fast the wood consumed
As the result of unregulaed numbering it is pointed ont
ny hie 'nore IMAM ooOOOOOO of potential for
est lands most accessible to eastern and lake state mills are
~ pouu.ns no'ninS Vi supporting growth OF little
excepting for fire wood If they producing only third
~ % pup WOOD an acre, every year. the total yield
W 1oooouo corus or approximately twice the amount
needed to supply the entire American CONSUMPTION at tho
ent time. " r
Wood pulp production in 1920 placed at 1921 o4 tons
40 se "i al Tue nll at $Iz2O per ton increase
OF $l9o2 per ton, or 81 per cent 1918 figures