The Alaska daily empire., 1913-11-29
Sverdrup Company Plans
 $3,OOO,OOO Pulp Mill

Yesterday Capt. Otto Syerdrup ac- companied by J. Tn Davidson and H.. I.andseth. left for the South on the Dolphin enroute to Norway where they will confer with their financial asso- ciates and await the action of the fed eral government 70 which application has been made for certain concessions looking toward the establishing in Southeastern Alaska. not far from Jul neau. of immense mills for the manu- iacture of pulp, paper and lumOer. The gentlmen accompanying Capt. Svred- rup are expert foresters and also au- thorities on the manufacture of paper and pulp. Capt. Sverdrup represents a syndicate composed of capitalists of Norway that are willing to establish large paper pulp and saw mills here providing the federal government will permit the natural resources of the country to be used The mills alone will cost between two and three mill ion dollars at the start and will em- ploy continually over 1000 men.
 The establishing of this great indus try is predicated upon the possibility of receiving a concession either pat ent. or untrammelled lease for long period. of sites on which to build the mills. of sufficient water power (es- timated at 5000 horse power to op- crate them; and of a tract of forest that will supply the raw material One feature of the industry will be the cul- tivation of the forest land over which it has control in event the concessions are granted. The promoters claim that they must have absolute control of the forest tract to the end that they can husband the forest that may now ex- ist and re-forest with the kind of trees most suitable for the product to be obtained
 Capt. Sverdrup and associates made a very careful study of the section reaching from Ketchikan to Juneau and beyond, and are satisfied that the natural resources are here, the eli matic conditions are right and all that stands in the way is the federal regu- lations as to use of these resources.
 It will require something like 100 millions of feet of board measure an nually to supply the mills that it is proposed to erect. This does not mean that the tract must be of great dimensions as no part of a tree is lost in their system of work. That part of a tree not suitable for pulp is cut into lumber. All the sap and slabs usually wasted by lumber mills is made .Hto pulp and a great deal of the younger growth is used in like manner. Most of the larger timber here the report says. is too old to be used in pulp except the sap. Part of it is even too old to make good lum- Der.
 It is their plan, if given the tract of forest land desired, to commence forest culture immediately. on the removal of the present growth and in this way as they proceed through the tract it will be growing up in new tim ber all the time. For pulp and paper trees not above forty years in age are regarded as the best.
 Under the present system of hand ling the forest reserves the lumber men usually go in and cut that which can be most economically handled and leave the land to take care of itself and in this way it is argued the for ests are gradually being depleted and no practical efforts expended toward renewal