The Cordova daily times., 1915-10-22

Pinchot was the angel of many wrrt- CTS, and many of the space men will always regard him as their particular friend, and it is possible that this friendship of the space writers is one of the reasons why he can to this ] day put over false statements.
 Here are some of the statements in the forest bureaus article in the Star which Railway & Marine News as- serts are direct falshoods and which can be proven as such by any com mittee of expert timber men outside of the U. S. forestry bureau. Read
 carefully the following direct mis- representations if you would know the class of matter the press bureau of the forestry service has been putting out for many years past and Is now again publishing;
 "'The prime reason for Mir. Graves
 journey to the far North, it Is said. is to obtain material with which to con
 vince the people of the United States
 that the tinhe- reserves Of Alaska is well worth protecting for the benefit
 of the people at large; and that it
 would be a national calamity, in the
 face of dwindling lumber supply to
 permit these vast tracts-inexhausta-
 ble if handled with the proper care- to fall into the hands of Special in- terests," as a very great proportion of the natural resources in the United
 States proper has done, through flake" homesteading and other medi- ums.
 "'This activity on the part of the forest service and the geological sur vey comes as the direct result of the construction, now under way, of the new government railroad. which, run ming from Seward, on the Pacific, TAI miles inland to Fairbanks, will unlock for the first time the well stocked natural treasure value of Alaska
 "'Yet, in the Tongass preserve. cas- fly accessible in spite of the under growth, on account of the peculiar logging conditions which exist, there stands billion feet of marketable tim Der.
 "'The Chugach preserve lies on the Seward and Kenai peninsulas, Cook Inlet on the west and Prince William Sound on the east Within it's bor- ders there are some eight billions of feet of marketable timber.
 "Tt has been a little more than two years since the first shipload of com timber was taken from the Alaskan national forests. This cargo, 1 100000 board feets-was so large that it broke down the Hadley docks before it could be loaded upon the Melville Dollar, which carried it outside.
 "Together with this. some, 1,6O0 private sales have been made from the timber of the preserves in the past i four years, principally to concerns en- gag$d in Alaskan commerce. Added | to this there are at present about fifty canneries, each of which depends upon the forests for timber for building 1 docks, fish traps and crates; as we'll as about 450 private ventures, operating under special use permit" including | fox ranches, shore whaling stations. l mineral spring resorts. hotels and stores. within the borders of these preserves.
 But the real crux of the matter and the principal cause which has sent the government forester and his as- sistant scurrying into the northland, it | is declared, is information that the bu- reau has received that number of timber operators are considering the purchase of the numbering rights of vast tracts of these reserves with an eye to operations in the future, when hey intend to ship the timber in private hulls through the Panama Canal to the Atlantic Coast, It has