That sprucewood is being consumed in this country faster than it is grown, is indicated by the recourse to less-favored species, as well as by the steadily increasing imports, both of pulpwood and wood-pulp.
Brand, concluded: “There is some skepticism as to the failure of pulpwood supplies, but this is certainly poorly grounded.
Some of the paper mills in British Columbia are now using these species of pulpwood and report that they make high-grade paper.
There would be special rules regulating the disposal of slashings, methods of cutting timber, and of extracting forest products such as pulpwood or naval stores.
Not that he neglected his hardware store, but from its porch, and later from a post beside its big stove, he recruited men for his camps and directed the labor of cutting and piling pulpwood along the banks of Coldriver.
Then I'll take the job of loggin' for you and layin' down the pulpwood at sidings.
I've got options on better than half a million acres of pulpwood lyin' between Hayes River an' the Shamattawa.
An' when you've finished that, you can make a survey of thepulpwood available outside our present holdin's.
That size is not attractive to lumbermen; but cutters ofpulpwood find it valuable and convenient, and much of it is manufactured into paper.
This is apparently an error, as the wood is not even mentioned in statistics of pulpwood output in this country.
Cutters of pulpwood probably take more than sawmills, and are satisfied with smaller timber.
The decrease in area on account of fires, and in quantity because of pulpwood operations, indicates that forest grown Fraser fir has seen its best days.
About three per cent of all thepulpwood cut in the United States in 1910 was from this species.
Next to spruce and hemlock, it is the most important pulpwood in this country, and it is coming into considerable use as lumber.
The cutters of pulpwood in the southern Appalachian mountains take Fraser fir wherever they find it, mix it with spruce, and the two woods go to market as one.
Other provinces impose an export duty on pulpwood cut on crownlands, as does also Ontario.
Mr. Thibaudeau describes the country from Split lake and extending to The Pas, ten miles in width on each side of the proposed route of the Hudson bay railway, as “a pulpwood belt”.
In general the timber is rather small, in most parts of the district at present too small even for pulpwood or ties.
