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Show GREATEST MENACE TO FOnCSTa. Maktnc or Taper from Wood Cnusei IVholesale Ireatmvtlnn of Trees. Tho uxtciiKlvo uw?pf wood in making mak-ing the cheapest grades of paper ofTcrn ono of tho scriojiiitthiitacjys to forest preservation, snysTtili" llillnrlelphla Telegraph. In t'io la-1 tivoortluco years thogrovvth cif tlio wood-pulp Industry In-dustry Iihr been enormous, n ilorcu p;rcnt mills, each mnnufaettiring from llfty to threo hundred to-is of pulp n day, have been liuBt on the IliuUon river, to feed principally on th Adirondack forests. The wood chiefly used Is spruce, mid the especially ill . nstrotis odect, of tho industry on the forests results not? only from the cx-trcmo cx-trcmo demand for' tlio lumber, but from tho fact thnt "while the demand is especially for (reel of thirty to thirty-five yoois growth, tho younff treosaro also cut. 'In ISSl the capacity of tho pulp mills of the I'nltod States was about teventjritvio thousand tons per annum. Tho iftcscnt capacity is soven hundred thousand toni. And in this remarkable growth tlio Industry has been accompanied by theso threo desirablo tlnnr Incrcnso in quantity, decrease In price, nnd no diminution In the. compenBiition of labor. The MJimd of thn iix, tho barker bark-er and tho grinder Is heard In twenty-two twenty-two states. Tho neighborhood uf Niagara Ni-agara and tho Adirondack In Now York, tho territories of tho Ifennebeo. Androscoggin and Penobscot rivers in Maine, tho Fox river valley of Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, tho hills of New Hampshire nnd Vermont and tho natural gns belt of Indiana nre the greatest puTp-produc-Ing regions of tho I'nllcd States. About thirty-flvo hundred cords of wood nro required 'dally to supply tho demand of the mills. |