. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Should Place Embargo on Pulpwood By Frank J. D. Barnjum, Annapolis Royal N. S. Anyone who can travel on our railroads and see the immense amount of pulpwood piled alongside the tracks all through Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick for shipment out of the country, or who will visit Sherbrooke, Campbellton, or McAdam in the busy seasons and see trainload after trainload of pulpwood being shipped away from our Canadian mills, or will visit our seaports and
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Should Place Embargo on Pulpwood By Frank J. D. Barnjum, Annapolis Royal N. S. Anyone who can travel on our railroads and see the immense amount of pulpwood piled alongside the tracks all through Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick for shipment out of the country, or who will visit Sherbrooke, Campbellton, or McAdam in the busy seasons and see trainload after trainload of pulpwood being shipped away from our Canadian mills, or will visit our seaports and see steamer- load after steamerload shipped to Portland, Maine, knowing that every trainload and every steamerload is shortening the life of our pulp and paper and lumber industries, and can see this all going on and not lift a hand to help stay the same, is to say the least, not a good Canadian. The American mills in their activity for the removal of the em- bargo on the shipment of Crown land wood do not expect to succeed in having any restrictions removed, but are simply agitating this queston wth the hope that it may prevent the placng of a further embargo or export tax on the shipment of fee land wood, which is now furnishing them with a million and a quarter cords of pulpwood annually and shortening the life of our own mills to this same extent. This agitation is instigated principally by one of the larger American paper companies that has a small supply on its own lands in the United States, and is, therefore, selfishly interested. Many American manufacturers freely admit that they are surprised that Canada has not taken steps to prevent the export of pulp wood long before this. "Our first duty should be to stop the shipment of raw wood out of the country; our second, renewed and increased fire protection for our forests; our third, reforestation. I say first stop the shipment of wood. Why should we protect our forests from fire and plant seedlings while we are cont
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