. Canadian forest industries January-June 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. March 1, 1921 CANADA LUMBERMAN 59 Timber Gives Permanency to Many Activities While the Axe of the Woodman Cuts Out Present Crop for Use of the Mills it Must also Cut Out the Pattern of a Future Forest—The New Dispensation. Robson Black, Ottawa Secretary Canadian Forestry Association The Associated Boards of Trade in Northern Ontario re- cently held a successful and well- attended banquet at Cobalt. The various interests of the northern country, its develo
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. March 1, 1921 CANADA LUMBERMAN 59 Timber Gives Permanency to Many Activities While the Axe of the Woodman Cuts Out Present Crop for Use of the Mills it Must also Cut Out the Pattern of a Future Forest—The New Dispensation. Robson Black, Ottawa Secretary Canadian Forestry Association The Associated Boards of Trade in Northern Ontario re- cently held a successful and well- attended banquet at Cobalt. The various interests of the northern country, its development and pro- gress were ably presented in a number of timely a,nd\ Iprceful addresses. Among the speakers at the function, was Robson Black of Ottawa, secretary of the Canadian Forestry Associa- tion, who touched particularly up- on the timber and pulpwood re- sources of the north and the im- portant part they were playing in the expansion and activity of the iMliterland, and the necessity for the preservation and perpetua- tion of the wooded wealth of New Ontario. Mr. Black re- viewed briefly the part played by the forest resources as a contrib- utory factor to all constructive activities in the Dominion of Canada. It was impossible, he said, to operate the Canadian railways without twenty million ties for replacements each year, or to run even one telegraph system without fifty thousand poles for maintenance, or to lift from a soft coal nvine one ton of coal without first putting into the mine seven lineal feet of wood for pit prop purposes. The service of the forest extended in an equally significant way to the fisheries and manufactures. "I am purposely putting into the background" said Mr. Black, "the direct utilization of forests in such substances as pulp and paper and lumber in order that we may see that if we kick out the forest-prop we not only destroy forever the wood-using industries, the towns they have built up, the vast army of their employees,
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