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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, icr3.
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PAPER SCARCITY
CAUSE GIVEN IN
FOREST REPORT
Over Development Of Pulp 'and
Paper Industry Given as Chief
Reason for the Present Need.
Washington, Au, 4. L N S.)
Tha fundamental cause for tha pres
cut shprtasa of .newsprint paper la
' the aerloua depletion of the forest
" of the Northeastern and Lake etateB,
where there is an overdevelopment
of the pulp and paper Industrie, a
cording to a report to the senate by
the forest service. United State de
Apartment of agriculture. In response
to a request for Information on tlm-
ber depletion, -prices, exports -and
ownership. The report, which : ha
' Just been made public, Is one of the
m-st comprehensive ever prepared
dealing; with the lumber resource
of the nation. ,
rouE srzcres used v f
"Since the requirements of paper mak
ing restrict Jtbs kinds of wood that esq
',. be advantageously used In making news
print, four species spruce, hemlock, bal
shv and poplar supplied 14 per cent
'of the total , amount manufactured -In
117. The occurrence of these specie
chiefly in the Lake states and New Eng
land has led to the overcsntrallaUij
of the paper making Industry there. j
"Until recently, when ' abnormal de
mands, short supplies and resulting high
prices led to: increased utilisation of
plants designed for and formerly used
in making other kinds of paper, there
has been no expansion, in the newsprint
Industry in the United atates since 1001
and we have had to Import large quan-
' titles of pulpwood and paper. The de
mand, however, has greatly Increased
and, because of excessive depletion of
, our own resources, this country now is
dependent .upon foreign sources-for two
thirds of its newsprint, or raw material.
"Kven with the imports, the supply has
been far short of the needs of the news
i papers of the country in the past two
; years. The contract price has increased
more than 10G per cent, while spot mar
'ket prices are 500 per cent more than In
f 1915. Prior to the war the larger news
- papers secured practically all of their
supplies1 under contract, and a relatively
small percentage of the total newsprint
consumption was handled on a spot mar
ket basis. During the last ye, the
' larger newspapers have found it in
creasingly difficult to secure all of their
' supplies under contract and have been
forced to secure the remainder In the
. open market, f :a j
OK THE SPOT MARKET
; Unfortunately It Is upon the spot
market that the smaller newspapers,
least able to Increase returns by increts-
tng advertising and raising their rates,
must depend.: The result has been that
many of these small papers have been
forced to curtail their Issues and have
had the greatest difficulty in securing
enough newsprint to continue publica
tion. , " -
'It has been possible for the lumber
Industry to remove to more remote tim
ber lands as forests have been cut away,
but the heavy investment required for
paper plants has made it Impossible for
the paper industry to do. this. The re
sult is that existing mills are finding it
: necessary to secure their supplies cf
wood trom : increasing distances. -.
'The timber Is going fast. - la - New
York, where nearly 60 per cent of our
newsprint Is produced. s0 per cent Of
the pulp and paper mills have absolutely
no Umber supplies of their own- For
these mills there seems to be no other
prospect than to close in a comparatively
few years. Jn New Hampshire the conif
erous pulpwood has been cut heavily
and 10 or 12 years will see the end of
the supply.! i
, "Aside from the state preserve in New
vY-rk. in which no cutting Is allowed, the
bulk of the coniferous pulpwood In the
East is located in Maine. One company
there has enough timber for iO to 0
years cut. Others are estimated to have
enough to last 15 to 20 years, but there
are about 15 companies which have no
lands and which will have difficulty in
purchastngmaterial within 10 years.
"la general the pulp and paper mills of
the Northeast are becoming more and
more dependent , upon Canadian wood,
guch dependence, the report points out,
is extremely dangerous. All exports of
pulpwood are prohibited from Newfound
land, t The Canadian provinces have pro
hibited the export of pulpwood from
crown lands, -which form a very consid
erable part of the timberlands in East
ern and Western Canada.
SITUATION TJHFATOBABLB
"On ' the whole, the situation Of the
newsprint industry In the Eastern United
State 1 very unfavorable and there is
little chance of it becoming better, the
report state. : The only thing that can
assure production of even approximate
domestic requirements are concerted ef
fort to increase the production of pulp
woods in the Northeast and the develop
ment of the newsprint Industry in the
West and In Alaska, a
Tha timber on the Tonaass national
forest Jn Alaska.-is said by the report to
be of particular importance In connec
tion With the newsprint situation. It 1
estimated that there are about 70,000.
000.000 board feet -of Sitka spruce and
Western hemlock, well suited for paper
making. " . ; -. '-i?v.
"It is estimated that the cut from this
region alone will "Insure a perpetual sup
ply large enough to meet one-half of the
present newsprint requirements of the
United States. Alaska Is one of the cen
ters to which the newsprint Industry of
the United States should look for a large
future development.
July Had 325 Hours
Of Sunshine and Its
Bain Averaged High
Three thunderstorms, three solar halos.
nearly twice the amount of average
rainfall and 125 hours -of sunshine are
among statistics which stand , out in
the July meteorological summary com
piled by Edward L. Wells, weather fore
caster. July 7 was the hottest day, the ther
mometer reaching 97 and the evening of
July 4 was the coolest, the mercury
dropping to SO , degrees. The greatest
dally rang was also on July 7. when
the extremes were 33 degrees apart. .
Twelve absolutely cloudless days are
recorded ; for the month. The heaviest
rainfall waa en July 12, when .75 of an
inch fell. The tetal for the month was
1.1 inches. . This amount has been ex
ceeded only"4 six times In July since
1871. The average July precipitation
is .M of an Inch, The prevailing winds
were from the northwest.
The report also shows but one-tenth of
an inch difftrence in height of the river
from July 2 to 17. The difference for
the entire month is but a trifle over two
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Children's Homes
To Admit Tots on
Doctor's Approval
An outcome of the recent unsavory sit
uation developed in connection with the
healing of children by a woman In whose
care they had been placed and the re
fusal of children's homes in Portland
to admit these youngsters until a lot of
red tape had been unwound, is an agree
ment whereby such delays will' be
voided hereafter.
Judge Kanzler of the court of domestic
relations announces that arrangements
have been made whereby, in emergency
cases, children Wia be promptly admit
ted '.to the children horae after, hav
ing been examined by a physician to de
termine that they, are free from con
tagious disease. . -
Train. Accidents on
S.V P. & S, Show
Slight Increases
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Although a 25 per cent reduction in
accidents bad been made on the 8., P.
& S."for the first four month of this
year as compared with the same period
last year, there has been a Blight in
crease for the first six months of this
year as compared with the first six
months last year.
I This Increase amounts to six accidents
or t.9 per cent increase over the first six
month of last year. Railroad official
ur Hi If difficult to explain this In
crease unless it is due to the number
of new and Inexperienced employes, who
have not been educated, In .safety first
work.
Boy Suspects. Are' ,
Caught Following :
Chase Near. Salem
' After a. chase through an orchard near
Salem Tuesday night Harry Samuel son,
19. of Hillsdale, and Elbert Bowman, 17,
of Portland, were captured by the sheriff
of Salem on a charge of driving a stolen
automobile. j? ;
The Salem police were on the look-
out 'for the machine after receipt of a
telegram from Lieutenant Thatcher that
the car belonging to H. W. Krussow of
Hood RiVer had been taken at Broadway
and Main street Tuesday.
Spokane Laborites
Want Third Party
Spokane, .Wash., Aug. 1 4. The Central
Labor council last night .donated f 2p0 to
ward the political campaign fund for the
triple alliance for the purpose of obtain
ing a third party ticket Jn this county, t
Increased salaried for city, employes In
certain departments will be provided
when the city's 1921 budget is made up.
At a meeting of city commissioners this
afternoon the salary - increase question
met with the approval 'of the officials,
but no formal action was taken.
Builder of Chicago
Drainage Canal Dies
(By United New)
. Chicago, Aug. 4. Isham Randolph,
builder of the Chicago drainage canal,
1 dead of pneumonia, aged 72,
To unobtrusively remove crumbs from
dining tables a device has been invented
that automatically closes as It is lifted.
Republic of -Soviets .
; Coming Government
: Form, Sayf Barthou
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Parts, Aug. 4. ft. K. -) "It Is. Im
possible to deny the fact that the repub
lic of soviet 1 the coming form of gov-
ernment declared Louis Barthou, for
mer premier of : France, Tuesday. .' M.
Barthou I chairman of the foreign" af
fair committee of the chamber of depu
ties and a leader of the French Socialist
party.' ' . '
: His prophecy was made In the eoura
of comment upon the Russian situation.
"When Russia signs peace with Poland
she will be near general peace with all
other countries. continued the former
premier. "Premier MlUerand still Op.
poses recognition ef the Moscow govern
ment, but it will come lnevl tab!. I can
not say, however, . whether U will come
at the hour when M. MlUerand la able to
dictate thK term of recognition, or at
tbe hour when events shall impose recog
nition upon AL Millirand. v.
"Japanese government expert are rais
ins; tobacco in Korea from American
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tion are collected by a big bank.
" A large part of this information is
about business conditions which
only, those in constant touch with all the
varied industries of a large; community
can know." . ... ' ' ;
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The officers of the First National Bank
make it a part of their work to supply
information , on all financial subjects to
the bank's customers. x
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF PORTLAND OREGON ,
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