. Canadian forest industries January-June 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 48 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER February 1, lt»20 of the future would be not one of price, but of obtaining paper at any price. That prediction has already proved only too true in a much shorter time than I anticipated. I have devoted the pest 28 years to the study of the one subject of timberlands and wood supply, and during this period I have seen lands go from $1 to $15, $20 and up as high as $50 per acre for the same lands; and stumpage go for $
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 48 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER February 1, lt»20 of the future would be not one of price, but of obtaining paper at any price. That prediction has already proved only too true in a much shorter time than I anticipated. I have devoted the pest 28 years to the study of the one subject of timberlands and wood supply, and during this period I have seen lands go from $1 to $15, $20 and up as high as $50 per acre for the same lands; and stumpage go for $ for a mark of logs that only took 4 to the thousand, to a price of $20 per 1000 for a mark of 12 to the thousand; pulpwood from a low price of four dollars to a high of thirty-two dollars per cord, and spruce lumber from a low of twelve to a high of sixty dollars per thousand. Stumpage in New Brunswick even has been sold as high as $15 per thousand during the present year. In 1890 they were cutting trees that took not more than six or seven to make a thousand feet of lumber, while to-day they are cutting to such a small diameter limit that in many sections it takes 40 trees to make a thousand An Active Official in Lumber Arena Paul G. Owen, the energetic secretary of the local committee of lumbermen, Quebec City, who have conducted the arrangements for the twelfth annual meeting of the Canadian Lumbermen's As- sociation which will be held in the Ancient Capital on Feb- ruary 4 and 5, is well known to the lumbering interests of the province by reason of his long association and intimate acquain- tance not only with the men in the trade but also their problems, work and expansion Mr. Owen, who was born in Liverpool, Englrnd, came to Que- bec when he was twenty-one years of age, after having been five years as an apprentice of the timber trade with Carter, Tyrer & Parker, Liveroool. He was Paul G. Owen, Quebec, with Price Bros. Co., Quebec until 1887 and then be
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