Public Warehouse
Raises Anchorage Questions
Anchorage—Pacific Alaska De
velopment Co. officials, who have
plans to put up a $5,500,000 public
warehouse here, were questioned
on the warehouse by Anchorage
businessmen in a public hearing
held Tuesday at the Alaska Rail
road.
Bids on lease of land in the An
chorage railroad reserve for a
public warehouse will be opened
Feb. 4.
Harry Lewis, president of Lewis
Construction Co. of Seattle, and
Floyd Reischling, attorney for the
Pacific Alaska firm, said they
planned a 170,000 square foot
warehouse—“open to all on an
equal basis.” The lease will give
the Railroad the right- to set the
warehouse rates and profits.
Anchorage businessmen, repre
senting chiefly the wholesale and
retail grocery business, agreed that
a public warehouse would be a
benefit to the Railbelt, but said
they feared that the venture might
later branch off into retailing.
Kenneth J. Kadow, director of
the Alaska Field Staff of Juneau,
chairman of the meeting, said the
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Pacific Alaska firm was not con
sidering retailing at this1 time.
Kadow contended, however, that
the government could not stop
Lewis from going into the retail
ing business "on his own, with his
own money,” somewhere else in
the area, anymore than it could
prevent any business firm from
setting up a competitive venture.
Lewis said he was enticed into
looking over the venture by the
Interior Department and Col. J. P.
Johnson of the Railroad who told
him that there was a crying need
for both warehousing and housing
in the Railbelt. The firm also has
in mind a large Army and Rail
road rental housing project on
Government Hill in Anchorage.
Lewis said the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. might supply up to
60 percent of the amount. His firm
had to put up to 40 percent. The
loan has not been passed by the
RFC yet.
Kabow said the warehouse could
fill three objectives:
1. Alleviate the effects of a mari
time strike by offering a stockpile
of goods.
2. Be useful in an emergency.
3. Switch distributorship over to
Anchorage, rather than Seattle.
The latter is just a “logical step."
he said, and not an attempt to
“undo” Seattle.
The grocers' fears stemmed from
what they called an unfair com
petition if the Pacific Alaska firm
went into the retailing business.
They claimed that though the
stringent Alaska Railroad lease
would bar the company from us
ing Railroad reserve property for
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any purpose other than warehous- I
ing, the firm could set up a mer
chandising store somewhere else
in the area. They contended that
there wasn't enough profit in a
purely warehousing business for a
just return on so large an invest
ment.
Attorney Reischling answered: ,
“Call it speculation, if you want
. . . .Maybe we’ll lose our shirts,
but they’re our shirts.”
The lawyer said his firm had
i checked the need for a warehouse
j through the Interior Department ;
j figures. He said it could give a
I service to from 40 to 50.000 people.
I Warehouses—.which are really pub- i
| lie utilities in the U. S.—make a '
[ profit all over the nation, he i
claimed.
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