THE WOOD PULP SUPPLY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 972, 12 November 1910, Page 4

THE WOOD PULP SUPPLY.

WHEN WILL IT GIVE OUT? ' When will the supply of'sprnce fof wood pulp give out was tie question submitted to Mr. Louis Armstrong, assistant treasurer of the Lanrentide Paper Company, of Quebec, Canada, who is at present visiting' Wellington. The visitor replied that he could not very well name a definite time, but it was certainly not a very remote contingency in Canada. "We try to conserve it as much as possible," said Mr.Armstrong, "by cutting trees above a certain size only, and by leaving tie cone-bearing trees alone, so that there is always a natural growth going on, but really that only about represents the destruction caused hy forest firea every summer."

He added that there was bo afforestation 6ystem in practice as far as his company was concerned. At one time the United States fancied that its supply of white pine was inexhaustible -to-day it is all gone. "Our case," he continued, "cannot be much different. In Canada the population is increasing all the time, and not only is the use of paper increasing on that account, but owing to the advance in education the' amount of paper pert capita is largely on the increase. We now produce twice as much paper as we did ten years ago. If wo do that year after year practically no area of timber country will meet the demand in twenty or thirty years' time. It is a case of an ever-increasing demand upon a raw material, of which there is a limited supply. So far nothing has been discovered that will exactly fill the place of pulp made from spruce.