. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 180 Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1919. Getting rid of the fire menace. Clean brush disposal, settlers' cuttiiiK. rorcui)iiu- Forest Reserve, Saskatchewan. CANADA'S WOODPILE AS AN INDUSTRIAL MAGNET The attention of the Canadian Forestry Jour- nal has been called to a new campaign, launched by certain United States paper manufacturers, to bring such influence to bear upon the Domin- ion Government as to "persuade" the Govern- ment of Quebec to upset the embargo on the export of Crown Lands pulpwood which was
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 180 Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1919. Getting rid of the fire menace. Clean brush disposal, settlers' cuttiiiK. rorcui)iiu- Forest Reserve, Saskatchewan. CANADA'S WOODPILE AS AN INDUSTRIAL MAGNET The attention of the Canadian Forestry Jour- nal has been called to a new campaign, launched by certain United States paper manufacturers, to bring such influence to bear upon the Domin- ion Government as to "persuade" the Govern- ment of Quebec to upset the embargo on the export of Crown Lands pulpwood which was in- stituted in 1910 in order to compel the manu- facture of raw materials into the finished pro- duct within the boundaries of Canada. From the memorandum of the American paper men the Forestry Journal prints the following excerpts: "The two-foJd effect of the legislation in Can- ada in 1910, and, in the United States in 1911, has been greatly to stimulate newsprint produc- tion in Canada, to depress it in the United States and to advance the cost of what pulpwood is obtainable to a point that makes the cost of manufacture in the United States excessive. Canadian Income Cut, Too. "The release of the pulpwood reserves owned by our manufacturers on the Crown Lands of Quebec would afford an indefinite supply of raw material at moderate cost to our paper mills, would reduce and hold stable the selling price of newsprint and would insure the permanent price-regulating competition of our mills with the Canadian mills which are not subject to our laws or regulations. "United States paper interests began to pur- chase the leases of Crown Land limits in Quebec soon after the use of pulpwood for the manu- facture of newsprmt became general, and up to 1910, had acquired in the aggregate leases of some 10,000 square miles, or only a little more than 5 per cent of the spruce Crown lands of the province. "These limits of ten thousand square miles are equal to 6,400,000 a
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