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Prospect Of Pulp-Timber Development
In Alaska Seems Certain
I
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WASHINGTON, (A*)—Alaska appeared today to be on the long
awaited verge of pulp-timber development.
“Conversations have been under way for many months with several
interests who are actively seeking to develop the pulp and paper indus
try in the Territory,” Secretary J. A. Krug told a reporter. Krug es
timates that Alaska can produce 1,000000 tons of newsprint paper a
year—a quarter of the nation’s needs. From Senator Carl Hayden (D
Ariz.), chairman of the point com-*
mittee on printing, came an in
timation that if private industry
continues to be slow about Alas
kan development, the government
may have to take a hand.
“Nobody wants the government
to build a paper mill up there if
private industry will do so,” the
Senator told a reporter.
“But we have to print the Con
gressional Record—and we have to
have the paper to do it.”
Other signs of likely future de
velopment:
1. The interior department has
j completed a study of Alaskan
power prospects.
| 2. The forest service has sur
I veyed half a dozen blocks of pulp
timber which could be made
available for public advertisement
i upon short notice.
3. Three large industrial groups
! investigated the major Alaskan
pulp-timber stands last summer,
the first to interest themselves
seriously since the ambitious de
| velopment plans of the late 20’s
were nullified by the depression.
On an annual visit to Washing
ton last week, Dr. C. Earl Albrecht
of Juneau, Alaska’s commissioner
»—
of health, said in an interview that j
“scads of people, including some
big operators, have been looking
into the situation recently. He and
other observers predicted definite
action within a few months.
Referring to a recent suggestion
by John S. Knight, president of
Knight Newspapers Inc., to the
Senate small business committee
that the government “inquire into
the feasibility of developing the
newsprint industry in Alaska,”
Krug said:
“During my visit to Alaska last
summer, the need of the Territory
for the establishment of more
year-round enterprises was vividly
impressed upon me.
“The government has found that
without question there is a large i
and profitable field for develop-!
ment. Alaska could produce one
million tons of newsprint paper a
year—one-fourth of the nation’s
annual consumption.
“The interior department is
keenly interested in the utiliza
tion of this Alaskan resource, pre
ferably by private industry, to
add to the national supply of pulp
for newsprint paper.
"The interior department is pre
pared to give the utmost coopera
tion to any private organization
preparing to establish a paper and
pulp mill in Alaska.
“Experts advise me that pro
duction of paper and pulp in Alas
ka is ecnomically sound at present
prices. No single new business
could do more for the Territory
than the establishment of a paper
mill."
Hayden said the paper shortage
confronting the government has
been aggravted by the tremendous
volume required for printing the
federal register, adding that the
register (which reprints all gov
ernment orders) is "something for
Congress to give thought to a sec
ond time” in reducing paper con
sumption.
An interior department survey
discloses that Alaska has a pri
mary hydroelectric power poten
tial of 800,000 horsepower.
The power potential by areas: *
Ketchikan — 62,500 horsepower
available from Swan. Manzanita,
Ella, Mirror ,Grace Mahoney and
Orchard lakes; 61-mile transmis
sion line would be required.
Wrangell-Bradfield Canal—42,
100 hrsepower from Type Creek
and Harding River.
Petersburg-Thomas Bay—53,000
horsepower from Cascade and
Scenery Creeks.
Juneau — Millsite at Thane,
three miles south of Juneau, 73.600
horsepower from Dorothy, Crater
and Long Lakes, with an addition
al 60,000 horsepower available
elsewhere in the area; would re
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