. Canadian forest industries 1908. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 25 Pulp Wood Growth. United States Consul Felix S. S. Johnson, of Bergen, in transmitting the following report, says that at- tention is now being directed to the rapidly increasing competition of the pulp industries for the world's available supply of white wood: A forest in which small-sized trees are regularly cut to supply pulp wood will not be thinned out, as reports say about the Norwegian forests; on the contrary, a large number
. Canadian forest industries 1908. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 25 Pulp Wood Growth. United States Consul Felix S. S. Johnson, of Bergen, in transmitting the following report, says that at- tention is now being directed to the rapidly increasing competition of the pulp industries for the world's available supply of white wood: A forest in which small-sized trees are regularly cut to supply pulp wood will not be thinned out, as reports say about the Norwegian forests; on the contrary, a large number of trees will grow in such forests after a while and trees will grow more rapidly, but in such districts, from which logs of small dimensions may be cheap- ly delivered to the pulp mills, it will not pay the proprietor tc let his trees remain growing until they attain full size for the sawmills, unless the consumers of goods manufactured from fully manured trees are prepared to pay a sum- ciently high price for the article they need. If a tree is large enough at a certain age to be cut for the pulp mills, and it takes, say, another ten, fifteen, or thirty years for the same tree to attain the size re- quired by the sawmills, the value of the tree to-day must be taken as the basis of calculation, and it will easily be seen that with com- pound interest and with the risk attendant upon letting the tree re- main standing for many years in the forest the price of the tree for the sawmills may become a pretty stiff one before it is properly ripe for their use. It seems most likely that at a time which may not be so far re- mote the bulk of the whitewood of not only the Norwegian, but large parts of the Swedish and Finn- ish whitewood forests, will be used for making wood pulp, and that for sawn wood the world will have to go far afield for its supplies, to regions in which it will be next to impossible to start pulp mills, to say nothing of cellulose and paper mills. For ins
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