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ED, NOTE: A short time ago, a series of ar- ticles an-eared in some of our Canadian news- rarers that made reference to the oreration of the Puln & Farer Industry in Northwestern Ont- ario. The articles referred to, to sav the least, did not contain anything that might have been construed as being commlimentary, rather, they rortraved a verv dull victure and at that - without fact content. Thev made snicy reading alright, but it's a shame that the truth wasn't more rigidly adhered to. We now take the rrivilege of re-rrinting an article as it arreared in the Geraldton Times Star. This article may not b+ juicy reading or have that fictional touch to it, but it does smack of the truth and the information con- tained therein is most definitely authentic. It tells in facts and figures, the other side of the story. Well said, Mr. Goldie!! "SNAFU - SAYS GuERALDTON TIMES STAR An answer to Toronto Star Weekly's Charges Against _" Forest Plunderers" by Doug Goldie. "Your can fool some of the reovle all of the time and all of the neornle some of the time, but you can't fool all of the reople all of the time," The nbove quotation, from another t ime end age, might justly be addressed to a certrin Mr. Leslie Roberts who, in an article headed 'They're Plundering Our Forests! which apperred in a recent issue of the Toronto Ster Weekly critisizod unmercifully and with little knowledge of the facts, the policy of our pulp firms - making particular mention of the Longbac Pulp nnd Paper Compe Any. Whenever a politician wishes to get the feeling of his constituents on certain matters, it is said he 'goes back to the grass~roots', Because of the apparent pol-~ itical background of Mr, Leslie Roberts! charges in the 'spruceroots,' He should have shifted off his comfortable seat in the metropolitan aren ond headed North in «a bush jacket, We feel quite sure that the local boys wouldn't mind him kicking cround the district for a few days..».as long as he reported the truth of what progress he saw and smoked 'makings' to cut down on the fire hazard, He might then have written an article on 'Forest Conservation Keynote to Modern Canadian Logging Operations. ! If Mr, Roberts accepted our invitation, he could see the 90,000 seedlings which have been planted on LongLac limits since the foll of 1950. He might learn that the company initinted this program as far back article in question, we would suggest thet he should have gone back to the Page.) h as 1948 when they started to collect cones for black and white spruce;seed, And ho might be interested to know that 265,000 further transplants will be mede in the immedicte aren by this company in the fall of 1951. 'Longbac Pulp and Paper will make plantings annually...the number of trees being set out in each year increasing with the availability of planting stock till the target of one million trees per year is reached', (Quoted from the Thunder Bay Timber Operators Associntion LOG BOOK, ) This transplanting information is inter- esting when one considers the paragraph in which Mr, Roberts has written, 'Under present (Forest) harvesting conditions Canada's supply of merchantable timber will vanish within 60 years'. We believe that Mr, Rob- erts culled this from Major-General Kennedy's Royal Commission Report of 1947. But a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then, It was interesting to me though, to find the Spruce Falls Pulp and Paper, another company mentioned in the article, has exper- imented with nurseries and transplanting methods for nearly 20 years..,long before the report of Major-General Kennedy, tNow they heul them (railwey ties) East from B,C, to carry their tracks through the heavily forested pulp-wooders' empire north of Superior' Mr, Roberts seys of Canadian railroads. We can't help but wonder where the hundreds of thousands of railwey ties are being used that we have seen cut and trimmed from time to time in past years at LongLac Camp 35 sawmill, Surely the Can- adian Netional Railway didn't lay them on the other side of the Rockies? We know that LongLac saw mills have supplied lumber, stulls and timbers to dis- trict gold mines in recent times, During the week of December, 1950, the Star Weekly's daily counterpart published a story on their financial page about a new saw mill to be erected at LongLac, The cost to be over half a million dollars, The Star Weekly writer surely didn't do too much research for his article in the home office, Otherwise he couldn't heve missed this imp- ortant item which confirms the efforts of the pulpwood operators to integrate pulp and sew log operations, to get the most out of Can- adian forests just as he demands, This saw mill at LongLec which is rapidly taking shape under the direction of the able Kristjanson family of Geraldton Millworks should be in operation by the summer of 1952, It will employ about 50 men and have 2 capacity of 50,000 board feet per day when it is in full swing, Already the company is separating its (cont, on page 5)