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SALTS
An Active Efficient
Effervescent
Saline Laxative
Does not gripe or cause nausea. Does stimulate
liver and bowel actively.
5 Ounce Bottle 65c (25 doses)
14 Ounce^Bottle $1.50
REXALL LIVER SALTS
Particularly recommended to house, office, store
workers and all persons whose work is confining.
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POOL TABLE IN CONNECTION
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Col. W. B. Greeley, chief forrester
of the United States, in an address be
fore the Ketchikan Commercial club
recently said that pulp mills must
come because of the nation’s needs and
that there is an opportunity to ex
tend the paper industry to Alaska.
“It is our desire to do our utmost
to develop the resources of Alaska,”
he continued, “in co-operation with
you of Alaska. And it is a problem
of co-operation, a case of pull to
gether.
“When I became chief forester, a
few months .ago, I felt that one of
the first responsibilities was to get
acquainted with Alaska, to be in a
position to guide the development as
far as our department is concerned.
“In 1911, I entered the timber de
partment of the forestry service. We
appreciated that early the importance
| of developing industry in Alaska, and
| one of the first things I did was to
send experts north to test the paper
and pulp possibilities, to compare the
timber resources with those of the east
and south and west, so that we might
show engineers what they might do
commercially. Also we made some
study of the water power, for they
must go together.
REPORTS DISCOURAGING
“For years these reports were dis
couraging. ‘Timber and water power
is there,’ they said, ‘and the shipping
facilities are all right, but there is
no market.’ Only ten years ago the
United States manufactured sufficient
paper for its own use, and experts said
that Alaska development must wait.
“As time went on, we sent other
j experts. We felt somewhat as did
' General Grant when president. If
a comptroller of the treasury ren
dered a decision that did not suit him,
he said: ‘Let’s have a new comptrol
ler,’ and so we felt about similar to
the first. Then along came the war,
upsetting everything, giving a new
deal which gives us our opportunity
in Alaska.
CONSUMPTION IS GREAT
In the United States today, the
average consumption of paper prod
ucts is thirty-five pounds per person
and the amount is increasing stead
ily. It is the history of nations that
as the country becomes more thickly
settled the consumption of wood de
creases and the consumption of paper
increases. We are now forced to im
port from Canada one-third of all pap
er used in the Unit* d States and two
thirds of all the newsprint paper con
sumed in America is manufactured in
Canada.
“Price levels of paper and pulp are
high, and I think the prices are rela
tively permanent, with little chance of
a decrease. Whatever the possibili
ties were ten years ago, opportunity
' is here today to extend the pulp and
paper industry to Southeastern Alas
ka. My purpose here is to gain an
understanding that I may aid in
bringing the paper industry here.”
TIMBER IS EXCELLENT
Colonel Greeley then went on to
tell of his experiences of the past
month, visiting all parts of the pan
handle. Although he had touched at
only a few of the high spots he found
large areas of timber of much better
quality then he had supposed were
growing. He estimated roughly that
there are one hundred million cords of
timber in Southeastern Alaska which
would produce two million tons of
newsprint annually, all that is used in
the United States, or it would make
one- third of all the paper products
used in the country. Such production
would make the United States inde
pendent of Canada or other foreign
countries.
It is the aim of the government to
bring this about, to make Alaska an
other Norway in paper production, and
thereby have the nation selfsupporting
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in this as in many other phases of in
dustry.
OTHER INDUSTRIES j
Col. Greeley also sees, in connection
with the pulp industry ,the advance
of the logging and lumber industry
in the better grades of spruce and
cedar. At present there are large
shipments going forward from some
parts of Southeastern Alaska. A dif
iculty not encountered is that it is too
expensive to get out the better grade
of logs from so many of inferior qual
ity. . With the paper industry going
this will be an easy matter, the speak
er said.
In these works, it will be necessary
to build railroads back from the
coast, as the logging cannot be carried
on with donkey engines from the coast
piercnig only to a depth of 200 or 800
yards.
In conclusion, Col. Greeley said that
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he expected to see four or five, orj
possibly ten or twelve paper and pulp
mills in operation in Southeastern Al
aska, and he urged the commercial
clubs of the North to do all they could
in securing facts and figures for pros
pective investors, giving them only the
truth that they might not later fail
because of erroneous information.
Answering questions of one of the
members of the club. Col. Greeley
said that he intended to recommend
that the millsite laws and regulations
be extended to the forestry areas as
it applies now to the land under the
jurisdiction of the general land of
fice.
That interest in the Alaska pulp mill
project is nation wide and that plans
for its establishment are taking ma
terial form is reflected in a story re
centy published in the Seattle Daily
Times, sent from its Washington bu
reau :
The dream of Alaska becoming a
great pulp manufacturing center ap
parently is about to be realized. Word
was received at the department of ag
riculture that the local agent of the
forest service at Portland has entered
into a contract with the California
Paper & Water Power Co., for the
sale of one billion feet of pulp wood
timber situated at Port Snettisham,
Alaska, about 50 miles southeast of
Juneau.
PLANS UNKNOWN
Nothing is known here concerning
the plans of the company but it was
intimated by representatives of that
concern when negotiating the deal
with forest service officials that the
company would invest $2,000,000 in
the venture and that the company
had available water power.
It has been known for some time
that the management of the Alaska
Gold company, operating at Juneau
has contemplated going into the paper
pulp industry and using the surplus
of the 100,000 horsepower which was
harnessed for the operation of the
Alaska Gastineau crushing plant. The i
company planned the installation of
three units but because of the advanc
ing cost of mining operations without
corresponding increase in the price of
gold, only one of the units was in
stalled. This left the company about
60,000 horsepower running to waste.
If the management of the Alaska Gold j
Co. is connected with the deal for |
northern timber the surplus power can
be transmitted by wire to a pulp crush
ing plant at Port Snettisham. If the
plans contemplate the conversion of
the rock crushing machinery plant in
to a crushing plant for pulp wood the
timber can be towed to Juneau.
On the other hand there is an abun
dance of power at Port Snettisham and
on the Spiel river and many other
places contiguous to it might easily be
developed under the recently enacted
water power leasing law.
TIMBER IS PURCHASED
The contract entered into by the
forest service is not a lease but an
outright purchase for 100,000,000 feet
which is the equivalent to 200,000
AND THEN ALONG COMES CHARLIE
YES, WE MEAN THE
CHARLES-RAY
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“THE GIRL
DODGER”F
Now Charlie was bashful. When he saw a girlie he
dived for the linen closet but along came “Pinkie”
La Rue, with a “kick” in her methods, and friend
Charles awoke, and behold, his man-about-town.
chum wasn’t even in the running.
SOME SPEED TO CHARLES
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