The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-24
Possibility
Present For
Big Industry
Five Billion Feet of Pulp
Wood Timber in North
west Montana.
Numbered BY
CANADIAN MILLS

That there are five billion feet of pulp
wood timber in the district extending
from Glacier national park to the west
Montana line and tributary to the Great
Northern railway, is statement made
recently by the Libby office of the
Kootenai national forest. This is an UNI
developed resource of great potential
ity. The supply of pulp wood in this
area would be sufficient to keep a pulp
or paper mill of considerable size in
operation for many years
If conditions were such that a mill
could be induced to locate in this ter
ritory or if the timber could be logged
and sold to existing mills, it would add
another large industry, labor and
money to district badly in need of it.
Such an industry might eventually
be induced to locate in the district were
it not for the stiff competition provided
by Canadian pulp and paper mills. The
Canadian government not only imposes
stiff tariff against paper imported
from this country but it does many
other things to favor this Canadian in
dustry
A paper giving much information
relative to the competition the Ameri-
can newsprint industry has to face from
Canadian sources has come into our
possession. Because this competition Is
having sitting effect on the possible
development of local resource, we re-
print the paper below. 1t reads:
The primary causes of all foreign
competition in the newsprint industry
are az follows.
!. Admitting newsprint into the Uni
ted States free of duty pursuant to Acts
of Congress in 191l-13 The only one of
all the different kinds of paper to be
stripped of such protection
Q. Large increasing annual consump-
ton from 1914 to 1880.
g. Propaganda founded on erroneous
ideas that the timber resources of the
United States were insufficient to take
care of increasing consumption over a
long period. There is now and has al
ways been ample timber resources in
the United States for all purposes-can
be perpetuated.
4. Desire on the part of Canadian
provinces to get the benefit Of large
new enterprises and for that purpose
offered practical freedom from taxation
for timber land, low power rates and
lower wage schedules.
5. Promotional schemes on the part
of Americans and American banking
institutions which supplied the money
for these new Canadian industries at
a large profit
g. Interest Of the consumer in the
United States, especially the large pub
Usher, in promoting an excess supply
in order to keen the prices low as well
as to provide for future increases in
demand
T. Differences in policy
(a) In the United States free mar
ket with no control of imports even
under anti-dumping conditions, while
the scale Of living was continually on
the uDtrend
(b) Canada on the other hand does
what il can to lower costs for Canadian
manufacturers by lowering stumnage
rates, by renting taxes and by other
direct and indirect subsidies.
g. Having passed the United States
mills in volume of production in 1926,
Canadian mills are now making every
effort to continue the price control of
| the market and thereby hold all of the
tonnage taken at dumping prices. This
effort is now linked up with pressure
| by large consumers against the NRA
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