Valdez daily prospector., 1913-12-13
B|G PULP MILL
 F0R ALASKA
Norweuians Plan Construction of $3,- 100000 Plant in Southeastern
 Alaska.

Captain Otto Svredrup, J. Davidson and H. Landseth, recently left Juneau for Norway, says the Empire, where they will confer with their financial associates and await the action of the federal government, to which appli- cation has been made for certain con- sessions looking toward the establish ing in Southeastern Alaska, not far from Juneau, of immense mills for the manufacture of pulp, paper and lum- Der. The gentlemen accompanying Captain Svredrup are expert foresters and also authorities on the manufac- ture of paper and pulp. Capt. Svred- rup represents a syndicate composed of capitalists of Norway that are will ing to establish large paper pulp and saw mills here providing the fed eral government will permit the nat ural resources of the country to be used. The mills alone will cost be- i tween two and three million dollars at the start and will employ continu- ally over 1000 men.
 The establishing of this great in- dustry is predicated upon the possi- bility of receiving concession either patent, or untrammelled lease for long period, of sites on which to build the mills, of sufficient water power /! (estimated at 5000 horse power) to operate them: and of a tract of forest that will supply the raw material One feature of the industry will be the cultivation of the forest land over which it has control in event the con- sessions 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 exist and re-forest with the kind Of trees most suitable for the product to be obtained.
 1 Capt. Svredrup and associates made very careful study of the section reaching from ketchikan to Juneau and beyond, and are satisfied that the natural resources are here, the climatic conditions are right and all that stands ill the way is the feder- al regulations as to use of these re- sources.
 It will require something like one hundred millions of feet of board measure annually 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 into pulp and great deal of the younger growth is used in like manner. Most of the larger tim Der 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 lumber.
 It is their plan, if given the tract of forest land desired, to commence forest culture immediately, on the re- moval of the present growth and in /, this way, as they proceed through the 1 tract, it will be growing up in new timber 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 gre gradually t.eing depleted and nc practical efforts expended toward renewal