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valuable for pulp rather than lum
ber. We, therefore, are trying to
encourage the building of paper
mills on these forests, and espec
ially mills making newsprint paper
as our timber, water power, water
transportation ,etc., make a more
attractive “set-up” for newsprint
plants than for any other grade of
paper. Also, newsprint mills will
require such huge investments that
they can be regarded as permanent
when once established and, in addi
tion, they are exten'sive employers
of labor and these two factors—
! permanent investments and large
| labor employers—seem to me to be
| what the Territory is especially in
ineed of.
EXCELLENT SAWTIMBEIt
“However, our forests have a con
jsiderable quantity in the aggregate
| of good sawtimber suitable for saw
mills and in addition timber is ab
' solutely required for other uses such
!as piling, mine timbers, railroad
ties, etc. We cannot, therefore,
hold up all of our timber for sale to
the paper mills but must have an
assured supply available for pur
chase by sawmills, canneries, mines
and the public generally. You will
notice from the mimeographed
statement that we have definitely
provided for such purposes by set
ting aside local use areas in which
we will grant no large pulpwood
sales and they are to be located
where the timber is best suited for
the purpose intended and where it
is readily accessible.
HUGE INVESTMENTS
! “Referring again to the pulp tim -
ber. Because of the enormous in
vestment required for a modern
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Wayne Blue, Agent
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Coal
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and mine run coal—Try it
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lewsprint mill we have to offer
sales of pulpwood sufficient to car
ry a plant of 500 tons daily capacity
for as long a period as 50 years. In
:his we have to compete with east- |
irn Canada where there has been a j
irery great development of the news!
print industry in recent years to
supply the United States market
and where they offer a much great
er supply of wood than we ar e now
offering. When we started trying
to Induce paper mills to come into
Alaska about five years ago we thot
that a 30-year supply of wood under
contract would interest them but
we had to increase the supply in
order to have the manufacturers
give us consideration along with
Canada. But in granting this long
term supply of wood we reserve the
right to increase the stumpage rates
on the timber at the end of the first
10 years and at the end of each rive
year period thereafter. As you know
the stumpage is paid to the govern
ment as the cutting process thru
out the years covered by the con
tract.
COMPACT UNITS
“In granting these large sales of
timber the areas to be covered by
the contract will consist of a few
compact units as these will cause a
less amount of interference with
other interests than if the sales
were made up of dozens of small
patches scattered over the country.
Also, the paper mills are simply
given cutting rights on their con
tract areas and have no control
over the use of the land. Tracts
valuable for homesteads, mines, in
dustrial plants, residences, etc., can
be taken up by the public on such
lands the same as if the large tim
ber sale had not been made. In
addition the pulp timber contracts
provide that we can sell small
quantities of timber to others from
these areas to supply local needs.
SPECIFY DEVELOPMENT
“Large concerns cannot purchase
large tracts of Alaska timber and
hold them indefinitely without de
velopment. The contracts specify
that the necessary timber cruising
and other investigations shall be
carried on in the first three years
after they are awarded the timber,
and that by the end of five years
the mill shall have been built and
that a start be made in actual
paper production. The licenses
under which the concerns take up
water power are made to agree
with the timber sale contracts so
that they also cannot hold power
sites without developing them.
Failure to develop the power and
produce paper in the time allowed
subject the contract to cancella
tion.
LOGGING BY CONTRACT
“The pulp timber contracts allow
the paper mills to purchase one
third of their wood supply each
year from outside parties rather
than take all of it from their own
contract areas. The purpose of
this is to give the paper mills a
chance to buy from outside loggers
who will buy stumpage from the
government on their own account,
and then sell their saw logs to (.he
sawmills, their piling to the can
neries and the poorer material that
is left to the paper mills. It is likely
too, that practically all logging on
the paper mill’s areas will be done
by contract rather than by the
! company itself as this is the general
practice in other paper making re
gions. I look, therefore, for a veiv
great increase in the number of
Ismail logging outfits in Alaska as
soon as the paper industry starts.
TWO AWARDS MADE
“We have made two awards of
timber and water power for paper
mill use. Each covers 5,000,000,000
board feet of timber to be cut-over
a period of 50 years after allowing
five years at the start to get^the
plant in operation. The date by
which the plant, in each case, must
be brought into production is 1932.
The plant on that date must be ca
pable of making not less than 200
| tons of newsprint paper per day
;and the contract provides that this
capacity must be doubled within
the first 10 years of operation. If
the plant Is not installed by 1932
the timber and water power awards
will be cancelled, and if not doubled
by 1942 the amount of timber and
water power held will be reduced.
I “These two plants will have a
total of 10,000,000,000 feet of timber
under contract and perhaos WO.OOQi
horse power of water power. As
the National Forests of Alaska have j
at least 85,000,000,000 board feet of !
timber and between 500.000 and >
600,000 horse power of undeveloped I
water power it will be seen that* j
granting these projects will not j
cause a monopoly. Much room is !
available for additional plants, j
while sawmills, piling dealers, can- !
neries, mines and other industries i
have been very little restricted in |
their source of timber supply and j
their chances to develop water j
power.
CHEAP LOGGING, POWER
"Alaska has a disadvantage to
the establishment of paper mills in
that we are located so far from the
large markets and, of course, the
freight is a big item on a cheap
I bulky commodity like newsprint.
‘But we have the advantage of
cheap logging costs and cheap pow
er which helps to off-set the heavy
freight costs. In one other import
ant matter we are as well off as
! Canada. There the forests are
|publicly rather than privately ow
ed so that it is possible for the
paper companies to get long terr
awards of timber from the govern
ment and pay for the timber only
as it is cut. As the timber in Alas
ka is also publicly owned we can of
jfer the companies much the same
!kind of a contract, in tact, we cou’d
inot get them into Alaska on eny
| other basis than that of contracting
for a large supply of timber and
paying a stumpage charge as it is
icut for they would go to Canada in
stead. It is impossible for a large
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THERE.S A BUNCH OF HEAT SATISFACTION THAT
LEAVES OUR YARDS. WHETHER FOR COOKING OR
HEATING PURFOSES. A TON OF OUR COAL WILL
GIVE A GOOD ACCOUNT OF ITSELF. NOW IS THE
TIME TO LAY IN THAT WINTER.S SUPPLY.