60TH CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DOCUMENT PULP AND PAPER INCLUDING ADDITIONAL FOREIGN STATISTICS TIMBER RESOURCES AND WATER POWERS OF CANADA PULP-WOOD PROBLEMS OF CANADA WAGE STATISTICS FINAL REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE FEBRUARY 8-19, 1909 U.S. Congress, House. under House resolution 344. SELECT COMMITTEE OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JAMES R. MANN, Illinois, Chairman Reference 1-24-24 9704 ADDITIONAL FOREIGN STATISTICS. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR, Hon. J. R. MANN, M. C., BUREAU OF STATISTICS, Washington, January 15, 1909. House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. DEAR SIR: In compliance with your recent request I have the honor to transmit herewith, for use of the select committee in charge of the pulp and paper investigation, statistics of imports and exports of pulp wood, wood pulp, and printing paper for the leading European and other foreign countries. The matter contained in Bulletin 33 of the hearings has been revised and brought down to date by the addition of figures for the year 1907 and the fiscal year figures of 1908. I have not found it advisable to eliminate the figures for the earlier years and leave it to your judgment to have published either the figures for the latest year only or those for the several years. In the case of Germany data have been added for the two years 1906 and 1907. Figures have also been presented for China and Japan, which did not appear in the original statement. In the case of several European countries items for the years 1906 and 1907 are not the same as appear in the printed statement for 1905, for the reason that the statistical schedules of the respective countries were changed in the beginning of 1906 in conformity with the new tariffs which went into effect about that time; it was therefore impracticable in the case of those countries to place the data for the years 1906 and 1907 alongside the printed data for the earlier year. Hoping that the inclosed information will prove of service to the committee, I am, Yours, very truly, O. P. AUSTIN, 2783 |