The Cordova daily times., 1915-07-26
P|NCH0T THEORY AGAIN PROVEN
 WRONG

| structi0n or the government railroad
 in Alaska timber is being purchased
 outside of the territory and shipped
 to the north, it will be interesting tC
 exhibit the Pinchot record, coyerinl
 this important phase of the Alaska
 situation. At the outset 1t should bs
 explained that the government could
 not take other action and this article
 should not be understood to be. ever a suggestion of criticism of the rail road builders as it has all along been I argued that Pinchots false valuation | upon all of the natural resources ol Alaska was the purest moonshine and all railroad and mining timbers for the successful private enterprises of the territory have had to be shipped from Seattle. About 7,O00,OO0 feet will be shipped this summerD
 Pinchot's greatest idea was the ere. ation of forest reserves and one of the largest reservations in Alaska is now easily accessible to the railroad build CTS of 1915. In all of his public speeches he dilated upon the value of the natural resources of Alaska to prove the wisdom of locking up such resources for all time. He spoke re- peatedly of the timber and, with briny tears running down his cadaverous cheeks, he reiterated the old cry "Woodman spare that tree" He spoke and wrote about the timber of Alaska and the necessity for creating forest reserves until the entire population of the east really believed that Alaska within it's boundaries contained the greatest area of merchantable timber to be found anywhere in the world. In fact Plnchot so stated time and again. No matter how strongly were his theoretical utterances denied nor how yehemently Alaskan writers at- tempted to show that he was a falsi- fer, the east refused to believe and the vast area of forest reserves in Alaska was allowed to remain and the mere suggestion that they be opened caused the undertaking press to renew it's attacks upon the unfortunate territory.
 In it's issue of December 16, 1911, the Saturday Evening Post confined as its leading feature an article by Clifford Pinchot, ander the caption Who Shall Own Alaska a?-Some facts about it's farm lands, forests, mines and harvest" This was written at a time when Pinchot had been dis. credited in the west and some honest publications of the east had accepted stories sent to them during 1910 and 1911. Despite the fact that he had previously been dlscredited, the Sat urday Evening Post accepted his article and published it on the day mentioned. It was answered at the time and shown to be a falsehood from beginning to end, with even geogra phical and geological facts misrepre. scented, while his discussion of re. sources, transportation charges and the like were entirely foreign to facts Listen to what this man wrote in that article:
 Tt is true that the timber oi Alaska Is inferior when compared with that of Puget Sound. (Puget Sound ranks very high.) But compare il with the timber of Maine, Pennsyl vanai or Georgia, or with that oI France, Germany or Switzerland ,and its value jumps. Some 40,000,000 fee, are cut from the national forests every year *. It is especially necessary that an effective system oi | fire prevention should be extended to the forests of the great river valleys as well as to the valuable reindeer pastures on the Seward Peninsula and further north Some com plaint was made to me of the work lings of the national forests of Alaska. Otherwise his entire article was de voted to transportation, the coal situa ton and various other features cover ing the Alaska controversy, all oI which were fully answered at the time | It will be remembered that Railway X
 Marine News published parallel or Clifford Pinchot's description Control Ter and Katalla i'll this article, with ! authoritative statement of that alleged harbor by the Raflraod Commission | appointed by President Taft in 1912 ! Various other corrections were made ] proving the entire article in the Pos,
 to be false.
 i Now, however, his references to tn,
 timber, not only in this artcile but 1T |