EYES OF WORLD
ON PULP WOOD
OFNORTHLAND
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With the present scarcity of news
print forming the most critical con
dition in the history of the publishing
industry, and with the eyes of the
nation turned toward the Pacific North
west forests for relief, the Portland
offices of the United States forest serv
ice have received hundreds of inquir
ies from persons interested in paper
manufacture.
District 6 of the forest service com
prises all the national forests in Ore
gon, Washington and Alaska, the
greatest paper pulp producing centers
in the United States.
Mill Permits Asked
Twelve actual applications for defi
nite permits to establish pulp mills on
national forest lands in these three
regions have been received by District
Forester George Cecil, the greater
number of them being for sites in
Alaska, where the heavy stands of
Sitka spruce and abundant water
power combine to make the prospect
most desirable.
Two of these cases are now being
held up pending field examination by
the forest service to determine the
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best pulp chances in Alaska. One of
the forest service timber experts will
leave soon for Alaska to spend the
summer cruising and studying the lo
calities best suited for the installation
of pulp mill equipment.
Open Pulp Wood Forests
W. G. Weigle, former superintendent
of Alaska forests, and later supervisor
of the Snoquahnie national forest in
Washington, has been assigned to the
paper pulp situation and will devote
his entire attention to the greater ex
pansion of the paper pulp industry in
Oregon and Washington through the
supplying of government timber for
paper purposes.
It is estimated by forest service of
ficials that there are 100,000,000 cords
of pulp wood in the national forests of
Alaska. Under careful management
these pulp wood forests would produce
a continuous yield of 2,000.000 cords
per annum, or about one-third of the
present consumption in the United
States. The species are chiefly spruce
and hemlock. Its growth its compar
atively rapid, but it would be impos
sible to produce pulp wood in less
than fifty years, and it is probable,
say forest men, that to obtain maxi
mum production the timber should not
foe cut in less than seventy-five years.
Service Handicapped
The restriction on shipping timber
from public lands in Alaska does not
apply to national forests, it is said.
The forest service has been handi
capped in exploring the timber re
sources because of limited funds for
timber surveys, but a number of areas
have been examined and reported upon
as to the feasibility of operation. The
best expert of the forest service in
pulp wood developments spent two
seasons in Alaska examining and re
porting upon opportunities of pulp
wood enterprises, a number of streams
have been examined, and stream gaug
ing conducted to determine the avail
able water power. Although the serv
ice has sold 420,000,000 feet of timber
in the Alaska forests within the last
*en years, the lumber has gone into
box shooks, railroad ties and piling,
and none into pulp wood.
Plans Fall Through
While various applications for pulp
mill enterprises have been received by
the forest service in the past ten
years, the projects were all abandoned
because of financial difficulties on the
part of the applicant, and not through
any lack of co-operation on the part of
the service, say forestry officials.
“The policy of the forest service in
Alaska has been and still is to offer
sufficient quantities of pulp wood un
der an initial contract to supply a new
enterprise for not less than twenty
years,” say forest service men, “and
to insure a further supply for such a
plant by reserving additional large
quantities of pulp wood, properly lo
cated for the plant in question, from
all other use or disposition until the
initial contract should be cut out. The
pulp wood offered has been priced at
low rates, conforming to the general
scale of stumpage prices in Alaska,
representing the low timber values ob
taining in an inaccessible and unde
veloped region. A reconsideration of
stumpage rates is made at intervals
of five years, beginning when actual
cutting operations commence. In
creases are only made if a reappraisal
shows that the actual value of the
stumpage being cut has advanced over
the initial rates.
Funds Main Obstacle
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Delay in the development of the
paper pulp industry in Alaska has
been occasioned, say forest service
men, by the enormous transportation
problem, both as to distance and lack
of transport facilities, the general iso
lation and lack of development in
Alaska, particularly the utter absence
of local labor of the qualifications nec
essary for pulp and paper factories,
the large investment required for the
installation of pulp and paper plants,
together with the water power develop
ment necessary for their operation,
and unsatisfactory federal legislation
with reference to the development of
hydro-electric power on national for
ests, by which it has been impossible
to give any company a firm permit
for a stated period of years, but only
one that could be revocable by the
secretaary of agriculture. Legislation
removing the difficulty is now pending,
after persistent endeavors by the for
est service to obtain power legislation
from congress.
Not less than $4,000,000 will be re
quired to launch a single pulp mill en
terprise in Alaska, according to the
forest service, because of the high cost
of transportation on all materials and
machinery shipped to Alaska, and be
cause of the necessity for developing
local facilities in the way of towns,
dockage and local transportation.
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J. C. McBRIDE
(OF JUNEAU)
Candidate for Republican National
Committeeman
Twenty-two years’ continuous residence in Alaska.
Thoroughly conversant with Alaska’s needs. For many years
engaged in mining, merchandising and the fisheries of Alaska.
Stands unequivocally for Alaskans for all offices and the fullest
development of Alaska’s resources advantageously to all interested.
A VOTE FOR M’BRIDE AT THE PRIMARY ELECTION,
APRIL 27, MEANS TERRITORIAL PROGRESS AND PROS
PERITY.
JACK CHOVIN
THE PEOPLE’S CANDIDATE FOR
Republican National Committeeman
Twenty-three years in Alaska. An independent Republican.
The only candidate for National Committeeman who has received
the indorsement of the Republican Club of his own town.
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To Democratic Voters of the Third Division:
Having the indorsement of the Democratic
divisional committee of the Fourth division for
delegate to the Democratic national conven
tion, to be voted for at the territorial primaries
on April 27, I hereby request the support of
all Democrats at said election.
(Signed) J. H. CASKEY.
GEORGE C. HAZELET
CANDIDATE FOR
Delegate to Republican National Convention
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YOUR SUPPORT APPRECIATED
Primary Election, Tuesday, April 27
CHARLES A. DERRY
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CANDIDATE FOR
Delegate to Democratic National Convention
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E. E. CHAMBERLAIN
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THIRD DIVISION
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