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     electric energy, but now that large transfers of 
     
     leased and privately-owned limits have been 
     
     made and additional power sites developed, the 
     
     pulp and paper enterprise has proceeded apace, 
     
     additionally aided as it is by the numerous 
     
     rivers and streams which place within reach 
     
     almost all the softwood timber resources. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1923 when paper making was first under- 
     
     taken in the Maritimes at Bathurst, New 
     
     Brunswick, the other ten active mills were 
     
     engaged in the production of various kinds of 
     
     pulp for export, those in Nova Scotia being 
     
     confined solely to groundwood pulp made largely 
     
     from spruce, notwithstanding that balsam fir is 
     
     the commonest occurring conifer, especially in 
     
     northern Cape Breton where it forms an almost 
     
     continuous forest with only small amounts of 
     
     red spruce and white birch. Since 1928, how- 
     
     ever, two complete newsprint mills have been 
     
     built—the mill of the New Brunswick Inter- 
     
     national Paper Company at Dalhousie in New 
     
     Brunswick, and the Mersey Paper Company’s 
     
     plant near Liverpool, Nova Scotia, each of 
     
     which has an initial capacity of 250 tons a day; 
     
     at Athol, near Campbellton on Chaleur bay, 
     
     a bleached sulphite mill with a daily capacity of 
     
     150 tons has just been completed (March, 1930); 
     
     large additions have been made to the sulphite 
     
     and paper board mills at Edmundston, New 
     
     Brunswick; and the capacity of the newsprint 
     
     mill at Bathurst, also in that province, has been 
     
    
   
   
    
     doubled. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Of the 469,401 cords representing the apparent 
     
     total production of pulpwood in New Brunswick 
     
     during 1927, 62-2 per cent was used in domestic 
     
     manufacture, while only 17-8 per cent of Nova 
     
     Scotia’s production (213,768 cords) was so used, 
     
     but in 1930 these percentages will doubtless be 
     
     much greater. 
     
    
   
   
    
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