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BUSINESS MANAGER
i OUIS F. PAUL, - -
C. O. PARKS,
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lishing Company at Petersburg, Alaska.
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Change of National Forest Policy In Alaska
Essential to Life of Mill Industry
NATIONAL FOREST POLICY
Quotations from Technical Bul
letin No. 226, Dept. Agriculture
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"The management policy f u
<he Alaska national forests
as its objective the providing of
a continuous and adequate sup
ply of timber for the present
and future wood-using indus
tries of the region. Is is hoped
ihat such industries will in turn
tuster the permanent develop
ment of the Territory, and per
mit a sustained contribution to
the Nation’s supply of timber
products. The objectives, of
course, includes the furnishing
of a permanent and convenient
supply of timber for local con
sumption.
Timber Sales
"Timber sales are made with
the understanding that the
wood is to be used for primary
manufacture within the Terri
tory and is not to be exported
in the form of logs, cordwood, or
other raw products, except in
individual cases to permit more
complete utilization.
Ileintzleman Describes Timber
"The stands of timber are ev
rn-aged; many age classes are
umresented in the forest as a
whole; and the stands of the
older age classes are greatly ir
the majority, perhaps three
fourths of the commercial tim
her of the region being MATURI
A ND OVERMATURE.
Classification
“Commercial timber of thf
principal species in the Tongasc
National Forest is conservative
Jy estimated to occur by volume
;n the following amounts: West
ern hemlock, 74 per cent; Sitks
spruce, 20 per cent; western ce
dar, 3 per cent; and Alaska ce
dar, 3 per cent. The total Stan'-'
of saw timber in the forest v
about 78,500,000,000 feet, board
measure.
Timber Production, Export and
Yield
“For the year 1929, the timbe'
cut on the two national forest"
of Alaska amounted to 47,462,
<-•00 feet, board measure, with
stumpage value of $71,409. Ir
1929, 2,405,000 board feet of
“wood, timber, and lumber,” val
ued at $140,031, were shipped ts
other parts of the United Stater
and a total of 163.251 board fee1
cf sawed lumber, valued at $4
733. were shipped to foreipr
•ountries.
“ * * Allowing 9C years as a ro
cation Period for pulpwood and
assuming the present virgin
timber to be entirely cut in ttv
period, approximately 1.500,00r
cords of wood of 600 board fee*
each can be removed from th
fongass National Forest yearh
in this period. This output ir
sufficient to produce not lesc
than 1.000,000 tons of newsprint
a year, * * * a plan of forest
management based on a sustain
ed yield of 1,500,000 cords of
pulp wood _ should be conserva
tive.”
NOTE: Under these figures
the estimated timber cut would
be 900,000,000 per annum. Un
der the present system, then,
tnere is a waste of 852,578,000
board feet each year.. For ac
cording to Mr. Heintzleman
‘perhaps three-fourths of the
commercial timber of the region
is (being) mature and overma
ture.”
Hemlock Supply and Production
“The cut of western hemlock
in the United States in 1928 was
about 1,550,000,000 board feet,
and in Alaska 7,853,000 board
feet.
“The total stand of western
hemlock saw timber in the Unit
ed States, including Alaska, is
about 149,000,000,000 board feet
of which 62,000 000,000 board
feet are in Alaska.
Why the Discrmination?
A Comment
With almost half the available
western hemlock in the United
States, Alaska cuts 1,542,147,001
feet less than mills in the states
and. while export of round tim
ber is permitted in the states i1
is not permitted in Alaska, ex
cept in isolated instances. We
lave a right to ask the Forest
Officials, Why this discrimina
tion? ^ ryt
Spruce Supply and Production
“The estimated volume of Sit
ka spruce of commercial size on
the Tongass National Forest is
15,800,000,000 board measure
and on the Chugak National
Forest about 1,400,000,000 feet
board measure. Alaska contain'
about two-fifths of the total
supply.
But “of the 571.917,000 board
feet of spruce (all spruces) lum
ber produced in the United
States in 1928, Oregon and
Washington furnished over one
half, most of which was Sitk?
spruce. The production of spruce
lumber in Alaska in 1928 wa'
22.748.000 board feet. Export'
from Alaska to foreign countrie'
of spruce boards amounting tc
2.411.000 board feet in 1928 anc
15.000 board feet in 1929.
Note: Alaska exported to or
eign countries in 1929 approxi
mately one-tenth that exporiec
by Oregon and Washington. A'
no figures are given for 1929 ix
:orts the comparison cannot be
carried further. But an exporl
of 85,000 board feet for 1929 ap
pears to be rather a sickly look
ng sigm.
Other Discriminations
In previous articles on till
subject by E. S. Fungerford, i
logging operator, :t is poii.toc
sut that the forest regulation:
are so unfair and discriminator
..hat the logger cannot hope tc
iperate at a profit or even t(
■ell to the mills, decent timber
A prominent millman statec
to the writer that “twenty-fivt
ler cent of the timber that '
juy is decayed, checked and s(
-notty that it is imposible to gel
iven decent box shooks out of it
t costs just as much to cut 5
•otten log as a sound stick,
m thereby penalized by the
’orest Department just to per
lit me to operate ”
Taxing A Sick Industry
In order to permit the sav.
nills to operate with a hope 01
rofit, Representative Zieglei
>roposes to compel the canners
hrough taxation, to use Alask?
ox shooks or pay the higher
ate on fibre containers.
If a doctor prescribed iodine
or a stomach ache, he woulc
c the laughing stock of the
nedical fraternity and he would
•se all his patients. The tax or
'bre containers to secure relie
rom pains of the lumber indus
try due to unsound, discrimnia
ory regulations, is application
of iodine for a stomach ache
The only real cure for the ail -
nent is removal cf regulations
[that are unsound in business
md which only penalize the in
dustry.
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HIRE LOCAI LABOR
The road contractor working
out of Wrangell is employing
foreign labor, ten hours per day
at 40 cents per hour. While
Alaskans are asked to meet the
costs of local government, f or
eigners are imported and given
preference on local project
Tne Road Commission ~hi)ulc'
specify use only of local la,or
and permit importation of for
eign labor only when it ,s im
possible to secure local labor. It
should be further required to
maintain the local standard of
wages. Protection of Alaska’s
' wn will not be unappreciated
on elections while the imported
;ngs their ballots for other than
Alaska candidates.
The problem today in AL^'ii,
as elsewhere, is to maintain a
standard of wages that will give
the greatest purchasing power
so that there will be an equili
brium between supply and de
mand in the labor market. In
a large measure, American pro? -
perity has been built on such a
system. If maintenance of the
wage scale results in increased
purchasing power then those
who are employed and interests
which benefit thereby, should
stand together insisting that the
otandards be not changed nor
local labor displaced by cheap
er foreign labor—the migratory,
"iomeless wanderer, here today,
gone tomorrow.
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THE RED HERRING
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We are not certain of the or
!gin of the red herring industry.
According to one authority net
many years back, it was common
practice to drag a dead cat, and
“in case of necessity” a red her
i ing along the trail to throw the
fox-hunting dogs off the scent.
Red herrings today are freely
used by politicians to befuddle
the minds of voters thereby
making it easier to draw atten
tion away from real issues.
Such is the Boyle literacy law.
ft talks in high-sounding terms
of raising the standard of quali
fications of voters and the dan
ger of domination of Alaska’s
affairs by so-called “ignorant”
’• oters.
The real issue in the Boyle
measure is Shall the Indian par
ticipate in the management of
Alaska’s government or not. In
fiection times, Mr. Boyle sought
Tndian votes, begged, pleaded
and promised fair government in
return for the vote.
The real issue is Shall Alaska
lave a decent, fair literacy law
or shall it continue to have onl\>
men uniair, elastic, discrimina
tory propositions as he proposes
We demand enactment of the
New York law in Alaska. There
is no more severe literacy re
quirement in any state of the
Union—BUT, it is a fair law. II
VTr. Boyle is honest in his in
tentions to raise the standard oi
| qualifications, he will himmlJ
propose this amendment, but we
do not believe that he will ever
oermit such an amendment.
GAS TAX
■ Washington motorists begar
’ '^ying 2 cents more for gasoline
» throughout that state in con
formity with the law enacted
this year. Where the price ol
. gasoline was 12 cents in Seattle
. it is now two cents more.
In Alaska the full burden oi
the Hess gasoline tax woulc
iall upon the fishermen, hali
but, troller and seiner. There
■ would be no compensating ad
vantages and it would add sc
much more to the cost of pro
ducts from the ocean that th.
market would refuse to absort
c difference. The measure
proposed by Senator Hesse is not
orthy of any consideration.
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ATTENTION STEWAR1
EDWARD WRITE
A O OTHERS
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Stewart Edward White created
considerable opposition in Alas
ka to his plan to create havens
or the protection of brown and
grizzly bear. Mr. Frothingham
’ailed Alaskans every kind of a
coward that he could think of
end declared that Alaskans are
i«st naturally afraid of those
“harmless” creatures. We have
"eclared this to be misspent
energy and the creation of need
less reservations and needless
protection of animals which are
becoming too plentiful.
Down in the Deschutes coun
try, Oregon, Stanley G. Jewett,
in charge of predatory animal
control work for the Biological
Survey, is making arrangements
to exterminate a large colony of
groundhogs. Destruction of this
animal was ordered because
they were causing considerable
damage to crops.
The groundhog is an edible
animal and it is neither danger
ous nor vicious. Not a tenth part
as much as the Alaska brown
and grizzly bear. It would be far
more reasonable that the literati i
which visits Alaska spend their
effort at conservation of other
things rather than grizzly bear.
Record Bear Killed
Charles Madsen, noted Alas
kan guide living at Kodiak re
ports that Chief Charliago, Kar
i.ik Indian, had killed a grizzly
jbear which measured 14 feet 3
I inches in length. When stretched
it would probably reach over 15
feet over-all. According to che
hunters of the North Country,
.this is the largest bear of any
species billed in Alaska. The next
in size killed, was brought in to
Wrangell a number of years ago
measuring over 13 feet. This was'
killed by “Little Andrew,” Wran
gell Indian, and was purchased
by the late F. Matheson. Andrew
killed three bear from the same
group, using one shot from a 22
Special, and two shots from a
25-35 Winchester. He took ah
three shots from a distance less
than 25 feet of the animals
“They were that harmless” but
he did not advise anyone else to
! cry the same stunt.
BULLDOZING AS USUAL
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Sportsmen and other interests
in Oregon have been fighting the
proposal of fishermen that the1
i Willamette River be opened to
j commercial fishing. Practically j
all of the Chinook salmon eggs!
i
for the Oregon hatcheries are(
secured from this river.
1 Commissioner Henry O’Malley
expressed his opinion on the
matter in the following teiegram
published in the Pacific Fisher
man:
“The Bureau of Fisheries is
opposed to reopening the Wil
lamette River, its slough and tri
1 butaries to commercial fishing.
! Fishing of small rivers of this
type is entirely in conflict with
any sound conservation policy
and will eventually cause the de
struction of the valuable indus
try of the Columbia River. The
Bureau contemplates requesting
Congress (sic) year for a large
appropriation for the Clackamas
hatchery. If the action indicated
(opening of the river) is taken it
will undoubtedly be necessary to
abandon that plan and also to
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;urtail operations in Oregon,
?ince the federal bureau is not
permitted to operate in areas
vhere conservation measures are
not maintained and enforced. It
is strongly urged that in the in
terest of conservation industry
in Oregon the measure in ques
tion be not passed.”
Some students of fisheries le
gislation point to the above tele
gram and declare it a club in the
hands of a bulldozer; others de
clare it a bribe with which op
position of Oregon fisheries offi
cials and interests is silenced
Either, bulldozing or bribing is
reprehensible to say the least but
not surprising to Alaskans who
have felt the iron heel of the
Czar of Alaska’s fisheries.
Allow, your moral, stamina to
ooze out and yon’*! 1< se out
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