YEARLY CUT FOREST
I STEADY INCREASE
FIGURES REVEAL $1,000 DAY DIS
TRIBUTED IN FOREST PAST
SEVENTEEN YEARS
TWO GREAT TIMBER FARMS
One Moderate Sized Pulp Mill Will
Consume One-Fifth Timber
Year Now Used
One thousand dollars for every
working day in the year, throughout
the past seventeen years, has been
distributed in the form of wages to
resident within and adjacent to the
Chugaeh national forest as a result of
the cutting of timber from that for
est, according to figures compiled by
the local forest office.
The timber industry in Alaska is
still in its swaddling clothes. This
vast resource has scarcely been touch
ed. And yet Tn the two national for
ests of the territory the stream of
wealth that flows out in the form of
wages reaches the astonishing total
of §5,500 for every working day of
the year. And this figure represents
the average for a 17-year period.
During that 17-year period these
two national forests have harvested
approximately 685,000,000 board feet
of timber. For every thousand board
feet cut, not less than §10 goes to
loggers and woods workers in wages,
a second §10 goes to lumber em
ploees, and §20 goes to carpenters
and other construction workers. The
total thus distributed, as a direct re
sult of cutting of timber from the
two national forests of Alaska in the
past 17 years is §27,500,000.00. This
sum represents nearly four Times what
the United States paid for the Terri
tory sixty years ago.
The yearly cut shows a steady in
crease, so that the average for the
17-year period does not represent the
figures for recent years. Last year,
lor example, the cut was nearly double
the figures for ten years ago—1915.
The 20 odd million acres included
in the two Alaska national forests
constitute a great timber farm thiat
is capable of harvesting one-half a
billion feet of lumber a year in per
petuity. Timber like any other soil
crop, should be harvested when it is
ripe, and the soil prepared for a new
crop. The difference between growing
timber and growing wheat is that the
latter ripens and may be harvested
every year, while the former may
only be harvested every 100 or 200
years. The principle in each case is
the same, however, and true conser
vation can only be served by utiliz
ing the mature crops in each case and
starting a new crop on its way.
When the great paper industry of
the country invades Alaska, as it is
sure to do in the near future, the re
turns to the territory, in wages as a
result of the cutting of national for
est timber, will be greatly accelerat
ed. One moderate sized pulp mill
will consume one-fifth as much tim
ber in a year as is now cut from the
two national forests for all other pur
poses.
The criticism is sometimes heard
that the great areas set aside for na
tional forest purposes in the terri
tory would bring a greater return in
the form of taxes if they were in pri
vate ownership. This is open to ques
tion. In the 17-year period mention
ed above, stumpage collected by the
government for timber cut within the
forests amounted to approximately
31,000,000.00. In one form or another
this is exactly equivalent to taxes.
Thirty-five per cent of this money was
spent in the territory for school and
road purposes, and the balance went
into the treasury of the United States.
Foresters are confident that the
time is nearly at hand when the
timber of Southeastern Alaska will
produce an appreciable amount of the
nations pulp requirements. It is es
timated that one-third of our pulp re
quirements can be furnished by the
Alaska national forests in perpetuity.
FOX MEETING WILL BE
WELL ATTENDED, JULY
Nearly all of the fox farmers on
Prince William Sound will probably
be in Cordova the first week in July
to attend the reorganization meeting
of the South Central Alaska Blue
Fox Farmers association, according
to Fred Lambert, who was there re
cently from Perry island. Mr. Lam
bert, who is president of the associa
tion, said he expects about 30 ranch
ers, as many have already signified
there eagerness to come. The meet
ing will be the largest since the or
ganization was formed. A like issue
to come up is the request for a re
duction in the rental on the island
leases.
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Why not use a stimulant diuretic to
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Philadelphia 0, New York 3.
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Cleveland 7, St. Lois 3.
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Seattle 1, Los Angeles 6.
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FRATERNAL ORDERS
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows Hall; F. B.
Moore, President; C. M. Brosius, Sec
retary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth ‘Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Dorothy Urbach,
W. M.; E. L. Sweek, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. Gust Peter
son, N. G., Sigrid E. Merritt, sec’y.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
Meets every first
and third Tues
day each month
at 8 p. m., at
Odd Fellows
Hall. All visit
i n g members
welcome.
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER. Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
A Stated communications first
^KOFand third Wednesdays of each
i\r\month; visiting brethren wel
come, H. V. Hoben, W. M.; Elwyn
Swetmann, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
L O. O. F.
rf-h _ Meets every Thursday at
p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Ludvig Larsson,
N. G., Charles Lechner, secretary.
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Seward’s Finest.
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SMALL SOUTHBOUND LIST
F.ew reservations were made locally
for passage south on the Admiral
Watson which departed for the south
at 8:30 o’clock last evening. C. R.
Stahl left for Valdez, George Waltz
for Cordova, P. A. Woldon and Nels
Anderson for Latouche, and four
steerage.'
Read the ads every day.
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
7:30 A. M.
MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
TRAINS ARRIVE SEWARD
7:30 P. M.
WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS
MAY DAY DANCE
The Fourth Annual Dance to be Given
Under the Auspices of the
American Legion Auxiliary
SATURDAY MAY, 1
ODD FELLOWS HALL
Magnificent floral decorations—Splendid music
Entertaining Program — Favors for dancers
C.M.B
Builders’ Supplies
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Approximately four billion feet of
timber was used last year to
replace wood destroyed by decay.
USE SUPERIOR CEMENT AND
HAVE NO DECAY
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Capt. 0. A. Johansen.
NEXT SAILING STR. STARR OUT OF SEWARD
FOR BRISTOL BAY, MAY 10TH
G. C. Henderson' Agent
PHONE MADISON 139 SEWARD, ALASKA
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
Vessel
Alaska
Northwestern
Yukon
Alaska
Northwestern
Yukon
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
April 24
May 1
MMay 8
May 15
May 22
May 29
Scheduled
So. fm. Seward
May 1
May 8
May 15
May 22
May 29
June 6
A. H. MCDONALD, Agent.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Residence Madison 40
Pacific Coastwise .Service
^admiral line
Aprir 27 May 5 ‘May 12, 9 p.m.
* Connecting with train.
S.S. ADMIRAL WATSON
Sails from Seattle Arrives Seward South Seward
April 13 April 21 *Apr. 28, 9 p.m.
S.S. ADMIRAL EVANS
I H.F. ALEX AN DER. PRESIDENT