Show GREATEST MENACE TO FORESTS madlne of paper from wood causes wholesale destruction of trees the extensive use of wood in making the cheapest grades of paper offers one of the serious obstacles to forest preservation says the philadelphia telegraph in the last two or three years the growth of the wood pulp industry has been enormous a dozen great mills each manufacturing from fifty to three hundred tons of pulp a day have been built on t the he hudson river to feed principally on the adirondack forests the wood chiefly used is spruce and the especially disastrous effect of the in industry austry on the forests results not only from fro inthe the extreme demand for the lumber but from the fact that while the demand is especially for trees of thirty to thirty five years growth the young trees are also cut inissa in 1831 the capacity ol of the pulp mills of the united states was about seventy two thousand tons per annum the present capacity is seven hundred thousand tons and in this remarkable growth the industry has been accompanied by these three desirable things increase in quantity decrease in price and no diminution in the compensation of labor the sound round of the ax tb the e barker and the grinder is heard beard in twenty two states the neighborhood of niagara and the adirondacks in new york the territories of the kennebec androscoggin and penobscot rivers in maine the fox river valley of wisconsin the hills of new hampshire and vermont and the natural gas belt of indiana indiana are the greatest pulp prodie ing regions of the united states about thirty flie five hundred cords of wood are required daily to supply the demand of the mills mill |