CANADA AS A PAPER PRODUCER.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1920, Page 3

CANADA AS A PAPER PRODUCER.

I Canada, is the second largest produc- | or of newsprint in the world, and it is only it matter of a fow years before she j' will occupy the first place —a position . to which her vast natural resources of forest and water power fully entitles i her. The principal timber used for the j manufacture of newsprint is spruce, | next- in order are balsam, hemlock, jackpine, and poplar. In 1908 spruce ■ formed 87 per cent, of the total con- , sumption for pulp-wood, | The total consumption of pulp-wood • not including exports to United States, amounted to 483,000 cords, (a cord ; equals 128 cubic feet) in 1908, and in ! nine years ,had increased to 2,100,000 I cords. j The tremendous increase in con- • sumption of newsprint in the United States in the past few years has resulted in large profits to the Canadian manufacturers. It is anticipated that ip ten years time the annual output of the Canadian mills will aggregate 2,000,000 tons." The extraordinary development of the industry, can, by. gauged from tile export o.f thy commodity. In 1913 thy United States re-, ciqved 109,000 tons, and in 1919, 000,. 000 tons. The exports to other-.coun-tries did not increase in the same ratio, for in 1913 the quantity was 37,000 tons, and in 1919, 68,000 tons. Since the war started in 1914 Canadian newsprint lias established itself in Australia and South Africa, For the nine months ended September 30th, 1919, Australia imported 24,000 tons and South Africa 3,500 tons. Paper prices had soared to unprecedented heights. The only paper procurable for early delivery was quoted at £95 a ton, as against the pre-war figure of £lO 10s per ton, and some newspaper proprietors had beep compelled to purchase at this extravagant, figure.