H. N. EVANS
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Stores at
Kanatak, Egagik, Chignik
TRAPPERS OUTFITTED.
Mail Orders Given Careful
and prompt attention
ROADHOUSE
PORTAGE
Ha.is Seversen, Prop.
Piomer Trader - Fur Buyer
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Iliamna, Alaska
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WITHIN TEH OH
<By Forester Pratt)
Ten years hence, or possibly 20,
the timber cruisers working in the
forests of Alaska, may have been
compelled to change their me
thods entirely. Also their lan
guage. Instead of reporting the
timber as averaging so many
thousand board feet to the acre,
they may be, “ That last
patch we cruised went two thou
sand pair of* silk stockings to the
acre.”
Quick Shipment
to Alaska
Write or wire *ur or
der - it will be shipped on
the first boat. Our com
plete lumber service takes
care of every detail. Far
rell Lumber is your as
surance of Speed, Quality
and Satisfaction.
Good Materials - Careful
Grading - Fnie Finish
Lumber - These Are Our
Specialties.
Just send us your specifications
we make all shipping arrangements.
Farrell Lumber Co.
.Westlake and Prospect
SEATTLE^
Mel Holben, proprietor
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| Seward Light & Power Co.
Light, Power and Telephone Service
Contractors and Dealers in
Electrical Supplies and Appliances
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The KOHLER Automatic
produces 110-volt current
The Kohler Automatic Power and Light Plant produces
standard 110-volt electricity, and therefore allov.%youto
use the same standard electric light bulbs and appliances
used in cities. These appliances are available everywhere
and cost less than those oi lower voltage.
Coupled with this advantage of the Kohler Automatic is
the feature of “no storage batteries.” This does away with
the trouble and expense of maintaining a large bank of
glass-cell storage batteries. The only battery used with
the Kohler Automatic is a small, automobile-type, for
starting the engine.
Thus the Kohler Automatic gives you all the advantages
of city electricity with the same convenience—simply
turn any button on the circuit and you have electricity
for power or light. Send for illustrated booklet. Come in
and see the plant in operation. $
No Storage Batter'es *110 Volts Automatic 1300 Watt*
Seward Machine Shop
L The skylines of Alaskan cities
I will be hazy with smoke from ray- ’
; on factories, and the hum of the j
; spinning wheels weaving their
i dainty patterns of ‘“French nude”
I stockings will be heard night and
j day.
I The rayon industry, which ob- j
j tains raw materials from forest1
trees, is leaping ahead with such
i giant strides that it is impossible,
j for the layman to keep abreast
; of it.
Cellulose! A magic word used
] by chemists, is beginning to take
I on a new meaning to foresters.
From wood cellulose comes an
‘ endless variety of useful and beau- j
tiful articles. The oldest of these!
is gun-cotton: then comes, among
the newer cellulose products, cel
luioid and pyroxlyn toilet articles,
such as combs, backs for brushes
and mirrors, and the like; and al- !
so artificial leather, movie films:
| cellophane, that beautiful and i
j nearly airtight covering of candy
packages. And then to top it all,
, rayon, that marvelously beautiful j
I and artificial silk from which mi
lady’s gorgeous stockings and!
whatnots are made.
, All this comes from the forest. |
Right here in our front yard lies j
the raw material for all these in- i
, dustries. Heaven only knows how ;
i many nairs of silk stockings may
I be made from a single tree. We do
knowr that the cellulose industry j
utilizes the tree to a much closer
degree than does the lumber in- ;
i dustry. Instead of wasting two
thirds of the total cubic volume i
of the tree, as is sometimes the
case in wasteful lumbering op
ration, less than one-tenth is j
wasted in the cellulose industry.
One of the greatest research j
chemists in the United States re
cently said. “What is rayon? There
are four different ways of making '
lit. just four, but primarily all de
i pend upon the conversion of cell
: lllose into thread by getting it in
to solution by one means or an
| other. The main point is this:
| Cellulose, either from cotton or
I wood, is gotten into form where
; jt can be projected from small
openings, the solvent quickly eva
! porated. the threads of celhilose
' then twisted into larger threads
i and woven into the beautiful gar
ments we see today which have
| taken possession of the woman’s
| garment field and are already in
| the field of men’s underwear.”
The rayon industry is only eight
years old, and ye.t the annual nro
ductmn is now 100,000.000 pounds
and will reach 140,000,000 pounds
in 1930. ,
The industry uses about 30,000 i
tons of wood pulp a year and |
more than half as much cotton j
j linters. The authority quoted !
J above states that “research has so
j lmproved the quality of cellulose
j*r°m weod pulp that wood pulp is
finding its way into these finer
uses, until today we can freely say
that the possibility of making it
directly into the lady’s dress is
an accomplished fact.”
And the wonders of cellulose are
i nod yet ended. To quote further
| from our chemist friend, “It is
j an easy matter to convert cellu
lose into sugar; that is being
done. It isn’t quite economic at
j the present time, but again, it is
a question of research We know
that sugar can be fermented into
alcohol, and I am not talking ab- ;
out prohibition alcohol but indus
trial alcohol. The industries of the
country take enormous quantities
of alcohol. The production of in
dustrial alcohol has gone up the
past ten years, and there will be
no stopping of it as these indus
tries expand.”
He compares the cellulose in
dustry with the coal-tar industries
and concludes his remarks 'with
this bright picture:
"I don’t hesitate to say, and I
don’t think I am indulging in
any fancy whatever, that we have
iust as much right to expect an
infinite number of industries that
no chemist dreams of today, to
develop out of cellulose as from j
coal-tar.”
Some folks contend that our'
timber here in Alaska is not equal ■
to the Douglas fir of Puget
Sound. That point might s+and J
some arguing, too, but let it stand
for the present.
But when it comes to the manu
facture of silk stockings, step-ins,
teddy-bears, a n d shimmering
nightgowns, we might find the
forests of the North equal
anything that grows south of us. |
At any rate, let us Keep an eye
on the future, it will do no harm ,
to keep fire out of the woods. If!
■ve don't need all the timber for
building material now, we may
'later convert it into something
much easier on the eyes and
just as valuable.
The hope of reward sweetens
labor.
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May 26 — June 23
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September 15 — October 27
November 24 — December 22
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