. Canadian forest industries January-June 1923. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 86 CANADA LUMBERMAN Selling the Great Heritage of our Children for Mere Mess of Pottage By Fred. Brown, Fort Frances, Fred. Brown, Fort Frances, Ont. On the financial and market pages of some of our leading Canadian papers appear the half ^P**-- jMfcK f yearly returns of exports of j^klK pulp wood. For the first 6 months of 1922 Canada exported 506,012 cords of pulpwood, valued at $5,229,901, or an average return of $ per cord. For the correspo
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1923. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 86 CANADA LUMBERMAN Selling the Great Heritage of our Children for Mere Mess of Pottage By Fred. Brown, Fort Frances, Fred. Brown, Fort Frances, Ont. On the financial and market pages of some of our leading Canadian papers appear the half ^P**-- jMfcK f yearly returns of exports of j^klK pulp wood. For the first 6 months of 1922 Canada exported 506,012 cords of pulpwood, valued at $5,229,901, or an average return of $ per cord. For the corresponding- period of 1921 the figures are 421,388 cords, valued at $5,546,785 or $ per cord. During the first 6 months of 1922 we exporter) 84,624 cords of pulpwood over the amount ex- ported during the corresponding period of 1921. Surely a won- derful achievement, considering that one cord of pulpwood, man- ufactured into paper, brings ac- cording to quality from $50 to $75 per cord. We have de- liberately deprived, the people of Eastern Canada in the first 6 months of 1922 of something like from $25,300,600 to $37,950,900. If this amount of money had been put into circulation in Canada, it would have affected a good many wage earners; it would have affected our publicly owned railroads; it would affected business in general, retail, wholesale and manufacturing; it would have been an effective boost towards continuous prosperity. And what did we get in return for our 506,012 cords of pulpwood, besides the pottage of $5,299, We have acquired, to be sure, about 126,- 000 acres of stumps, a lot of tops and branches, an extremely fertile ground for fires and one of the best breeding places for injurious insects. We are having the best chances, under present prevailing con- ditions, to stand a further loss within the next 30 years, on these very same 126,000 acres, of at least thirty million dollars in potential timber values destroyed by fires. Viewing Grave Problem With
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