THE NEPIGON
PULP LIMIT, 1910
General
conditions with respect to the Nepigon Pulp Limit offered for lease by tender 7th
October , 1910
The
successful tenderer shall enter into an agreement with the Government requiring
him to erect within the limits of the territory covered by the right to cut
pulpwood, or at some other place approved by the Lieutenant-Governor in
Council, a pulp and paper mill costing, with equipment thereof and machinery
contained therein, not less than five hundred thousand dollars, and will
operate the same so that the daily output thereof shall not be less than 150
tons of paper, and so that at least two hundred and fifty hands on an average
shall be kept employed in connection therein for at least ten month of each and
every year.
The said sum
of five hundred thousand dollars shall be expended as follows: - One hundred
thousand dollars during the first year, two hundred thousand dollars during the
second year, and the remainder of the said sum during the third year, it being
distinctly understood that the erection
of such mill and the employment of the hands shall form part of the
consideration for the price of the pulpwood, and that the cutting of the said
pulpwood for the use of the mill may begin as soon as and when fifty
thousand ($50,000) dollars shall have
been expended on the erection of said pulp and paper mill and equipment
thereof.
Two: The
successful tenderer to have the right to cut and remove spruce, poplar or
whitewood and banksian or jack pine, 9 inches and upwards in diameter, 2 feet
from the ground, sufficient to supply the mill or mills erected, for a period
of twenty-one years, from unoccupied, unsold and unlocated lands of the Crown,
for a distance of five miles in depth on
either side of the River Nepigon, and extending back a distance of five miles
from the shores of Lake Nepigon, subject to such reasonable terms , conditions
and regulations as to the cutting , measuring,, removing and driving of the
same as may from time to time be imposed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.
Three: The successful tenderer shall pay dues of 40
cents per cord for spruce and 20 cents per cord for the other woods mentioned,
or such other rates as may from time to time be fixed by Lieutenant- Governor
in Council.
Four: The
successful tenderer to get the right to cut the wood only, and not to have any
right to the soil or user thereof, except as may be necessary for cutting or
removing the wood.
Five: The
Government shall retain the right to sell, lease, locate or otherwise dispose
of any lands included in the territory on the same terms and conditions for
settlement, mining or other purposes as ordinary Crown Lands situated
elsewhere.
Six: The
successful tenderer shall not have the right to cut or remove timber of any
kind from any lands already under timber license or permit from Crown, or which
may hereafter be placed under such license or permit for the cutting of pine during the time such
license or permit is in force, or until after the pine timber has been cut
therefrom, nor shall any wood be cut in or in the immediate proximity of
territory covered with green merchantable pine available for lumbering purposes
or which may be considered by the Government to be pine bearing lands.
Seven: No
wood cut on the said territory shall be exported or sold or disposed of to any
other person or persons, but such wood shall be used for the purpose only of
supplying the said mill or mills.
Eight: The
Government will not guarantee any particular quantity of wood nor undertake to
do more than grant the right to cut such quantities of wood of the kinds
aforesaid as may be on the said property.
Nine:
Failure to erect the mill or mills and make the required expenditures within
the time specified shall entail forfeiture of the right to cut pulpwood and the
bonus paid for the same.
Ten: Proper
sworn returns of the quantity of wood cut each season shall be made to the
government in conformity with the Crown Timber Regulations and payment shall be
made for such wood not later than the first day of November in each year, and
the Government shall have all rights and powers in respect of enforcing such
payment as are now provided in the case of timber cut under timber license.
Eleven: No
refuse, saw-dust, chemicals or matter of any other kind shall be placed or
deposited in any river, stream or other waters which shall or may be injurious
to fish life.
Twelve: No
pulpwood, logs, timber or other material not in boats or scows shall be floated
or driven or allowed to be floated or driven down or to accumulate in the River
Nepigon above Camp Alexander, between the 15th days of June and
November in each and every year, and the floating or driving of pulpwood logs,
timber or other material down the said river shall be subject to further and
other regulations as may hereafter from time to time be made by the Government.
Thirteen: All Indian Reserves falling within the area
of any pulp limit are excluded therefrom.
Department
of Lands, Forests and Mines, Toronto, 8th
July, 1910
