ALASKA PULP
OPPORTUNITY
IS SET FORTH
J. J. Underwood, Washington corre
spondent of the Seattle Times, in a.
recent dispatch says there is every
reason to expect that the great pulp
wood resources of the Northwestern
spates and Alaska shortly will be uti
lised in the manufacture of news
print paper. This will mean the estab
lishment in that region of a number
of new settlements, the erection of big
plants, costing millions of dollars, and
large payrolls.
The essentials of the news print in- 1
dustry are cheap hydro-electric energy
and plenty of spruce or other suitable
timber. There is an abundance of
both on the Pacific coast, but one is
useless without the other, and the
water powers of the whole country are
withdrawn from entry and will remain
so until such time as the water-power
leasing bill now pending before con
gress is enacted into law.
The measure nas been passed by the
house and favorably reported by the
senate commerce committee. It prob
ably will not be called up for consid
eration in the senate until after the
peace treaty and other pressing mat
ters are disposed of. In all proba
bility the bill will become law before
the present special session ends in
November.
Information presented to the senate
by Senator Watson indicates that two
thirds of the news print paper used
by American newspapers is imported
or manufactured from pulp imported
from Canada. Only one-third is made
from wood grown in the United States.
And while the importation of news
print and pulp are increasing, the
amount produced in the United States
is steadily declining. Practically all
of the domestic news print manufac
turing industry is located in the North
eastern states. Half of it is in the
state of New York. The Northeastern
forests are being depleted so rapidly
that there will be practically no pulp
wood left in this region in twenty
years.
Apart from the suitable timber In
Washington, Oregon. Northwestern
Montana and Northern Idaho, there
are enormous areas of forests in
Alaska, the annual growth of which
would supply half the pulp used in
the United States.
It is said by officials of the forestry
department that the lack of transpor
tation facilities to an Eastern market
is partially responsible for the lack
of development in Alaska, but it also ,
is true that the restrictions in the
way of obtaining this timber, even
where water power is available and
already had passed out of the hands
of the government before the with
drawal order was made, has prevented
development.
The forestry bureau policy has been
to give leases on this timber only for
periods of five years. Naturally cap
ital refused to invest millions in plants
in places where the supply of raw ma
terial was likely to be cut off. It is
understood that the bureau has now
changed this policy and will make
leases renewable from time to time
for periods of fifty years, and there
is some talk of converting into a pulp
plant one of the big gold-producing
properties, the owners of which have
an abundant supply of hydro-electric
energy.
Representatives of Eastern states,
who formerly were opposed to the
opening of the resources of the West
and Alaska, are now ardently advocat
ing the passage of the water-power
leasing bill and the development of
the Western resources, for the news
print paper situation has brought them
to a realization of the fact that to use
up the raw materials of the East and
transport a large portion of them to
the West, and later to transport the
raw materials of the West to the East,
is not true conservation, but on the
other hand, is decidedly wasteful.
For many years it was contended
that the Alaska timber had great po
tential value in the making of lumber,
but the aircraft investigation decidedly
disproved that theory so far as air
craft lumber is concerned. It was
found that the trees grow boughs
from the ground up. Every bough
makes a knot in the lumber and de
stroys its tensile strength. It is, how
ever, ideal wood for the manufacture
of pulp.
Under a proper system of refores
tation, it is believed, a permanent
domestic supply of pulp, sufficient for
the needs of the country, can be main
tained indefinitely, and the purpose
of the resolution introduced by Senator
Watson is to bring about action that
» will have this result.
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