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< i the public domam, we will not at
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least die, blaming the United States i
Government for refusing us a
Jiance at our place in the sun or
the home o*' our hearts desire.
If I could see any good, or even
any ultimate good in the policy of
the Forest Service it wrould not be
so hard. But all I can see is the
rape of another of Alaska’s resourc
es when the time comes.
It it were being held as a play
ground or even as a national reserve
supply of timber, I could see some
1 ossible justification. But it is
m t. The timber rights are being
hawked about by the Forest Service
in immense parcels at a ridiculous
ly low price—at a price indeed that
will little more than pay the salar
ies and expenses of the Forest Ser
vice employees necessary to admin
ister the cutting. Think that over!
These same Forestry Officials hold
over us a bugaboo that under pri
vate ownership, large tracts would
eventually fall into the hands of
private owners. Maybe so. But it
w 11. in transit, have left something
cf its value in the hands of a pio
neer with gu's eIK)ugh to have made
it his own.
They also overlook the fact that
the United States Government is
cheapening itself in the eyes of the
people when it acts as a holding
! company for the pulp people.
Another thing of interest and
which should not be overlooked by
those who have visions of a future
for this country and statehood. Pri
vately owned land is taxable. Here
are some figures from the census of
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In the State of Washington there
j are nearly 11 million acres of State
and National Forests. In the State
J cf Oregon, ever 13 million acres.
Yet, in the State of Washington,
taxable timber land and timber in
dustries paid over 7 million dollars
in taxes. In Oregon they paid 7 and
a quarter million dollars. In some
counties in Oregon, over half of the
revenue of the counties is derived
f”om this source.
The timber here is ripe, overripe
and rotting yet the Forest Service
has deliberately introduced and is
enforcing a ruling that has worked
great hardship on what little timber
industries we have.
The restricted cutting area has
forced so much cull and second
class logs onto the sawmills that
they are making heavy weather of
it financially
This and heavy advance stumpage
payments have practically forced
all but a farored few and the most
< atomistic out of the logging game.
I have often wondered why this
is. Are they, or those who pull the
stiings, afraid that if they allow our
little sawmills to become healthy
youngsters that they might some
nay protest the sale of firstclass
timber to the pulp mills.
Or is it that the narrow-minded
fatheads, given a little authority, are
willing to throttle an indusrty to
show their importance?
The matter of cuttings is left to
•he discretion of the Forestry officer j
in charge. A little leniency in the j
matter of removing rotten and cull j
*imber would go far toward putting j
onr sawmills on a sound financial
basis. It would allow small logging
< utfits to operate and supply the
mills with a grade of logs that
tney could handle at a profit. Nor
would it materially effect the value
of pulp timber stands.
The only difference I can see
would be in the number of logging
outfits. Instead of one or two big
outfits dominating the market, thir
ty or forty small camps could oper
lte.
if we could offer our transient
summer cannery help, the privilege
of taking up a timber claim, we
could hold a certain number of
• hem. If we could offer the same
to all comers, legally entitled to gov
ernment land, then we could have
a solid basis to work from.
But NO. This timber is being
Held from the people of Alaska and
t these United States, that he For
est Service may ,in due time, pass
it over to the pulp mills, at a price
which, based on their present pric
es and estimates, is around 20 mil
lion dollars.
i nirty pieces of silver tor timber
which these same pulp mills are to
day paying in the east a rate which
brings its value to one and one-half
billion dollars.
For Shame! For very shame!
You men in high places. Is the be
trayal of your country’s honor and
vour fellow citizens’ trust worth the
price?
Deny no man the right to build
himself a home in a place that he
lives. We cannot all attain wealth,
or high honor in the eyes of our fel
low men. But we all have the
dream of a home.
If preseiB. conditions are allowed
to continue, all that I can see in the
i'uLure is the rape of another of Alas
ka’s resources.
Immense pulp plants and paper
mills, perhaps company towns, rent
ed houses, hired help, the proverb
ial three crews—one coming, one
working, one southbound.
Work until they get a stake! Back
to the States to spend it. Come and
go like the cannery crews. Come to
Alaska to make a stake ! Stay here?
HELL NO ! Why should they? There
would be nothing here for them but
a job.
Build up a country that way?
Lever.
Attain statehood that way? Never.
The blight that is over Southeast
t n Alaska must be lifted. We must
nave our land and timber for pii
vate ownership.
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