but we are selling a lot of them.
People say this store
is a good place to buy
—our service Only
begins with the sale.
Shaving Supplies
In our stock will be found a complete assort
ment of Shaving Supplies, including all the
well-known advertised brands of
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[ BRYAN FINDS 1920 GETTING NEAR 1
William Jennings Bryan is back it
the public eye again, this time in the
role of assailant of the National Se
curity league. He finds his ammuni
tion in the report of the special com
mittee to investigate the National Se
curity league, submitted to the house
of representatives on March 3, 1919.
The house of representatives adopted
the report of the committee. Mr.
Bryan says this report should be read
by every voter, because we are ap
proaching the campaign of 1930. He
says in part:
“Here we have it; the secret is
out. The men connected with the
league as supporters or officials rep
resented almost every predatory in
terest and favor-seeking corporation.
Tile questions indicated that the two
things uppermost in the minds of
those in charge of the league's activi
ties were first, the protection of the
meat packers, and, second, opposition
i« guvcijiuicin owuersiup or tin' rnuroaus, ana to tins may ue anueu me
transfer of income tax from the rich to the poor.
“The foresight of the league must be admitted; the department of justice
has announced its intention to prosecute the packers for violations of the
antitrust laws, and the question of government ownership of the railroads is
now before congress.”
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Delivered to the trade or families in
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ON DISPLAY
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Bankers’ Grays, Fancy Wor
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ALASKA TIMBER
ISSUITABLEFOR
PAPERJAKING
(By W. F. Weigle, Forest Supervisor
Snoqualmie National Forest, and
Former Superintendent Alaska
National Forests)
Most people throughout the States
think of Alaska only in terms of ice
bergs and polar bears, and they look
up with surprise when told of its
splendid summer climate and luxuri
ous vegetation, which includes vast
areas of continuous forest.
The forests of Alaska come under
two classes—the forests of the wet
and the forests of the dry regions,
with an annual precipitation of from
eighty to a hundred inches in the wet
and ten to twenty inches in the dry
regions.
The forests of the wet regions cover
numerous large and small islands and
a narrow coastal belt on the mainland
extending from the southern boun
dary of Alaska north to Kodiak. This
coastal belt is very narrow, and the
total area of the forests of the wet
belt, although covering about 20,000
acres, is very small in comparison to
the forested area of the dry region.
Country Has Much Timber
The timber species of the wet belt
are very similar to those of the Puget
sound region, consisting of Sitka
spruce, western hemlock, black hem
lock. red cedar, yellow cypress (yel
low cedar), with a small amount of
lodgepole pine, yew amabiiis fir and
cottonwood. In the dry region the
species consist of white spruce, black
spruce, aspen,- white birch, cotton
wood, lodgepole pine and larch.
Much of the area comprising the
great valleys of the Yukon, Tanana,
Kuskokwim, Susitna and Copper riv
ers, with their tributaries, either are
now or have been timbered; the slopes
i wun pure stands or a neavy mixture
of birch anrl aspen, while the bottom
! of the valleys along the streams eon
I tain the best stands of spruce.
The birch on the slopes seldom at
tains a diameter of more than from
six to twelve inches and a height of
from forty to sixty feet, while the
best spruce, which is the saw timber
of the Yukon, Tanana, Kuskokwim,
Susitna and Copper river valleys, sel
dom exceeds twenty inches in diam
eter and seventy-five feet in height.
The white birch and white spruce have
contributed most of the saw timber
and fuel used in the great gold re
gions of the Yukon and Tanana rivers.
Although millions of acres of this
small timber, which extends in many
places far north ot the Arctic circle,
have been burned, there is yet many
millions of acres in good condition,
waiting to serve as an aid to various
kinds of local development. Much of
the small timber that has been logged
throughout the Yukon valley and
other places in the dry region has
been transported to streams or place
of use by means of dog teams.
The best timber in the coastal re
gion or wet belt is found in the Ton
gass national forest, which comprises
practically all of Southeastern Alaska.
It is estimated that this region con
tains 70,000,000,000 board feet of mer
chantable timber, the several species
occurring approximately as follows:
Hemlock, 65 per cent; Sitka spruce,
20 per cent; red cedar, 7 per cent;
yellow cypress, 5 per cent; other
species, 3 per cent.
Even though the quantity of tim
ber in Alaska is quite large, on ac
count of it being badly scattered, sal
dom occurring in bodies sufficiently
large to justify the necessary improve
ments to get it out, and the quality not
being equal in every respect to the
finest belt of timber in the world
along the coast farther south with
which it must compete, it is not con
sidered that Alaska will ever contrib
ute any large quantity of saw timber
» to the general market.
1 Timber Good for Pulp
The timber in Alaska is much more
[ suitable for pulp and paper than it
is for saw timber. Consequently, on
account of the unlimited amount of
cheap wood and immense quantities
of cheaply-installed water power, with
deep water transportation to the doors
of the world, Southeast Alaska in the
comparatively near future must be
come one of the great paper centers
of the world.
Hemlock stands first in quantity
but is very inferior in quality on the
lowlands, where logging is being
chiefly conducted at the present ffme.
Consequently, very little hemlock is
being logged for saw timber. There
are, however, on the slopes large
quantities of hemlock of excellent
quality and very suitable for saw tim
bef. Hemlock is being cut exten
sively at the present time for piling.
During the season of 1918 approxi
mately 3,500,000 linear feet of hem
lock piling was cut on the Tongass
national forest, which is equivalent
to approximately 18,000,000 board
feet. This piling is used for fish traps
and wharves for fish traps.
Hemlock Best for Piling
Hemlock is much preferred to
spruce or cedar for piling, inasmuch
as it is less buoyant for driving and
fully as resistant to the attack of the
teredo. Douglas fir is also very suit
able for piling, but Douglas fir is not
found in Alaska, its northern limit
being Queen Charlotte sound.
Sitka spruce has always been the
chief saw timber of Southeast Alaska,
also of the Prince William Sound re
gion. This species reaches a fine de
velopment throughout, the west belt.
It is quite common to find trees of
this species in Southeast Alaska from
six to eight feet in diameter and 200
feet in height, comparatively very fa
vorable in quality and size to the
spruce timber being logged on Prince
sound.
During the progress of the world
war Alaska furnished large quantities
of the very best airplane lumber that
was secured, this being practically the
only lumber that Alaska has ever ex
ported.
New Mill for Ketchikan
From 30,000,000 to 40,000,000 feet
of Sitka spruce is cut annually on the
Tongass anti Chugach national for
ests, which includes practically all of
the saw timber cut in Alaska.
The saw timber that is cut in Alaska
is used in supplying the local needs,
chiefly of mining and fishing, more
spruce being used in the construction
of salmon boxes than for any other
purpose.
Red cedar is found quite plentifully
in the southern part of Southeastern
Alaska, but it is not found north of
latitude 57 degrees. It has thus far
only been logged in a small way sup
plying the needs of the three small
shingle mills, two at Ketchikan and
one at Wrangell.
A new shingle mill is planned for
construction in the Ketchikan region
in the near future, and will enter the
eastern market by way of Prince Ru
pert and the Grand Trunk railroad.
Yellow cypress, commonly called
yellow cedar or Alaska cedar, is quite
plentiful throughout Alaska, and is
handled* in a small way by several of
the small mills.
On account of the exceptionally fine
quality of this wood for patterns, toys,
furniture and many other things, there
is an increasing demand.
The logging operations in Alaska
are comparatively small, most of the
timber being cut near the shore and
pulled into the water by means of a
donkey engine. The largest operation
consists of two or three yarders and
one road engine. Four thousand feet
is about the greatest distance that
anyone has reached out from the
shore up to the present time. The
logs are in all cases placed into rafts
or booms to be towed to the mill.
Sawmills in Alaska, although numer
ous, are very small, the daily ca
pacity of the largest being 40,000 to
50,000 board feet. The Ketchikan
Power Company, at Ketchikan, is the
only mill in Alaska operating a band
saw.
Halloween masquerade Friday night,
October 31.
Ham or bacon and eggs, 50c, at Cor
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The Beau-Nash of the Screen
BERT
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In the Six-Act Comedy Drama
HITTING
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SPOTS
Adversity makes strange
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land, played by Bert Lytell,
draws the line at donkeys,
pigs and chickens
Repeated by Request—the
Three-Reel Comedy
“A DOG’S LIFE”
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
SUNDAY—TWO SHOWS—7:30, 9
VIVIAN
MARTIN
I In 5 Reels of Fun
THE FAIR
BARBARIAN
Dainty Vivian, pet
ted daughter of an
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Herbert Brenon’s
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