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AN OFFER FOR SIXTY DAYS ONLY.
575 Town Lots in Cordova.
Hanging in price from $50 up to $3000, and 600
Town lots in Chitina from $50 to $1000. Any
, or all of them on easy terms.
Now is the time to buy.
For particulars—Call on or write to
GEO. C. HAZELET,
Cordova, Alaska. Trustee and Agent.
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FOREST RESERVE
WORTHLESS
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Granted permission by the forestry
department to cut 85,000,000 feet of
lumber from the Chugach forest re
serve, the Alaska Engineering Com
mission is on the horns of a dilemma
If it uses the Northern timber, which
is composed of about 60 per cent
moisture, the road will have to be re
built in ten years and the commission
will be subjected to considerable ad
viersel criticism from the practical
railroad builders of the United States.
If it doesn't use the timber another
department of the government will
have to explain the reasons for the
creation of the colossal forest reserves.
Meantime the engineering commis
sion is taking no chances, but, like
other railroad builders in the North,
| is importing its ties and other timbers
from the mills of Puget Sound and
Oregon. These facts are pointed out
in the current number of the Railway
& Marine News, which anticipates
having a good laugh at the expense of
Henry C. Graves, chief forester heir
apparent to Gifford Pinchot, who has
been busy spilling countless thousands
of words in various magazines telling
what wonderful things he and Pinchot
did for the people in conserving this
apparently worthless timber for fu
i ture generations.
The fact is, there is much good tim
ber in Alaska, but it is mostly in
Southeastern Alaska, and not where
the railroad is being built. Although
Mr. Graves has written many reams
of arguments in support of the Alas
kan forest reserves, which articles
were published in The Saturday Even
ing Post and other influential journals,
he is now making his first trip to Alas
ka, and it is his avowed intention to
gather data with which to fight the
bill coming up in the next Congress
which* provides for the restoration to
entry of the land embraced in the
Chugach forest reserve.
Good for Paper Pulp.
The Alaskan timber has a decided
utility for paper pulp. There are
many pulp mills along the shores of
British Columbia, but owing to the
reservations, the Alaskan timber has
been allowed to rot in the forests. A
small percentage of it is used for mak
ing lumber for fish boxes and salmon
cases.
In pointing out some of the things
which he will see on his jurney North,
Kail way & Marine News says:
“Mr. Graves and his companions will
pass steamships loaded with a total of
5,000,000 feet of Seattle loaded lumber,
all bound for unloading directly on the
Chugach forest reserve, and, mark this
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well Mr. Graves, If you get to Anchor- 1
age In time you will find a fire where !
tjie government engineers In their
laudable and quite practicable effort to '
clear land have had to bum off this
worthless timber to locate its town
site on this same Chugach reserve. '
And the new town Is being mostly
built of Puget Sound lumber.
“There is no limit to the mileage
you can make In covering the timber-j
bordered water courses of Alaska.
Taking each fjord, strait, channel, bay,
gulf or other Indentation and the
mileage of the shore line covered with
trees, as illustrated herewith, might
represent 15,000 miles, and yet un
loading at Latouche. at Ellamar. at
Cwdova, at Valdes, at Seward, at An
chorage and all other places in thi9
wonderful forest reserve, falsety creat
ed by theorists upon a false statement
of valuation, will be seen Imported
ties, bridge of mining timbers, floor
ing building material and general con
struction lumber to the extent of mil
lions of feet, and this in the face of a
statement that all Industrial builders
of Alaska can take what timber they
require.
Lack of Knowledge.
“The whole of the statement of this
theorist is working out upon moon
I shine, buncombe and a lack of rudi
mentary knowledge of Alaska’s timber
and Alaska’s needs. It is perfectly
true that many thousand feet of Urn
ber are annually cut from the forest
reserves of Alaska, but it would be far
j more pertinent to remark that for
every 1,000 feet cut from such re
serves and utilized for crude fish boxes
or commercial building purposes that
an amount must be shipped in from
Seattle each year reaching a valuation
of $1,000,000. (This year it will reach
: $2,000,000.1
"It is good to know that the chief
forester is going to make his first visit
to the land of the greatest forest re- .
serves. If, on his return, he has the .
manhood to admit that the creation
of these forest reserves in Alaska on
the ground that they were of such
great commercial value has been one
of the most serious blunders ever
made, then his trip will not have been
made in vain.
"But the hardest nut for Chief For
ester Graves to crack will be the
immense Seattle shipments of United
States government railroad timbers to
be unloaded in the very heart of that
vast Chugach forest reserve."
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The Supreme Lodge of the Loyal
Order of Moose, held at San Diego,
elected the following officers: Su
preme Dictator, E. J. Henning, of San
Diego; Supreme Trustee, Judge
Creighton, of San Francisco; Prelate,
John Ford, of Pittsburg.
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“See America first, and see Alaska
before the rest of the country.” This
should be a slogan promoted by the
people of this territory.—Ex.
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