DEVOTED TO THE INTtRESTS OF CANADIAN PULP AND PAPTR MAKING.

THIE OUTLOOK.
C T FEEL confident that the paper manufacturers need have
no fear of any disturbance of the tariff t their detriment
so far as the new Government is concerned," said Mr. Buntin,
of Buntin, Reid & Co., this week. "I have carefully enquired
into the matter asd I am safe in iaking the statement-base
upon information which, although not directly obtained from
the Premier, is yet derived from a source suffiiently direct to
give it all the imprint of an authentic and officia announcement
-that the tariffon paper and manufactures of papet mil not be
touched. None of the lines which are to-day turned out by the
Canadian mills will be touched. The Government, I am
assured and firmiy believe, are not only willing, but prepared so
far as they can, to help the Canadian manufacturers in very
way possible, where an eorbitant protective tariff is not
required or monopolies do not exist."

THE FOREST WEAI.TH OF ONTARIO.
Mr. Thomas Southworth, clerk of forestry in the Ontario
Crown Lands Department, has just issued his annual report for
1895. It contains much valuable information concrrning the
forest wealth of the province, and bears upon its pages the i-
prnit of much careful thought and conscientious study of the
great problem of utiliizng our timber to the best advantage and
preservtng it from destruction.
Dealing with questions of more immediate interest to our
readers, Mr. Southworth says:
"By far the most significant and far-reaching change, how-
ever, arises from the rapid and extensive growth of the wood
pulp and paper-making industry. The great expansion of daily
journalism in Canada and the United States bhas created an
enormous demand for white alter, various kinds of wood being
brought into requisition as the invention of new pross ren-
dered them available for the purpose. With the rapid exhaus-
tion of the forests of the United States the wood products of
the Dominion are being more and more drawn upon to supply
raw material for American paper mills as well as to meet an in-
creasing home demand for the same purpoe. The result has
* been to largely inerease the market value of great areas of timber
formerly held in very slight estimation. In some sections of
Canada there are extensive growths of poplar, generally con-
sidered as an almost valueless tree-fit only for fuel, and so in-
ferior in quality even for that purpose as to be seldom used
when any other was available. The discovery that by a chemi-
cal process the fibre of this wood could be used in the manu-
facture of paper caused a revolution and brought the previously
despised poplar into the market. Another tree which, like the
poplar, is apt to spring up profusely in the wake of a fores fire,
and resenbles it also tl its reputation for general inutility, is

the Pinus Banksiana, or ' ack' pine. This has also been found
to be a valuable wood for paper-making, and the large quan-
tities of it in Ontario may justly *be regarded as a source of
future wealth.
" While poplar, basswood and jack pie are used in the manu-
facture of paper pulp by the chemical process, for the cheaper
mechanical process, by whieh most of the pulp used in news-
paper making is produced, spruce is alinsotexusiv ely employed .
The spruce forests of Ontario are of vast extent and strethe to
the far north surrounding Hudson's Bay. Many of tese north-
ern forests are composed exclusively of spruce trees, growing so
densely that, although very old, they do not in some sections
attain a diameter that would makle them available for lumber.
Until the rapid strides of the pulp industry drew attention to
this raw material awaiting the future denmand these forest were
not largely taken into account in the stock-taking of the pro-
vince. This is now changed, however, and spruce ria the
great white pine in its value to the state. It is no petty g
erally conceded that Canada has the largest supply of
the great paper-making material, in the world As the supply
in the United States becomes exhausted there can be no doubt
that the spruce forests of Ontario will prove a source of wealth
to the province, the extent of which it is difficult to estimate.'

A SUICIDAL POLICY.
Mr. F. H. Clergue, president of the Sault Ste. Marie Pulp
and Paper Co., writes this journal in reference to tte questlonl of
putting an export duty on pulp-wood: "You know my views rer
garding the best course to be taken by the Government for the
benefit of the pulp and paper industry, and I am glad to ob-
serve from the paper comments that the new Government are
likely to concur in them. It would certainly be suicidal to the
industry I represent if the Government should continue lo
allow pulp-wood to be exported free of duty whi e the American
Government impose an import duty on pulp. If the Caaladiains
were to exact from the Americans, in return for the free export
of pulp-wod, the free importation into the United States of pulp
and paper, they would certainly succeed in their demands, and
the result would be an immediate large increne in the manu-
facture of pulp and paper in Canada."
The writer of the above is especially well qualified to ex-
press an opinon un up the matter, and his views agree with those
expressed by many other manufacturers. Some go so far as to
demand a material reduction in the duty on those classes of
machinery used in the manufacture of paper which are not
manufactured in Canada.
There is also a prospect that with the change in the per-
sonnel of the Government of Ontario the provincial regula-
tions respecting timber cut on Government lands may be
amended in the direction of preventing its exportat ion in og.