The Alaska daily empire., 1919-04-26

of re-establishing the railway mall service to Alaska"
 Paper Industry and the Future
 E. C. Russell spoke on the possi- bilities of the paper industry, and urged that the need of Alaska now is promoters. He thought the Ter ritory should aid those attempting | to promote paper and pulp enter prises.
 Maurice D. Leehey of Seattle, who spent nearly a year in connection with wealthy Alaskans and others in an effort to establish a paper ana pulp industry in Alaska, said that Alaska has 55,000, 100000 feet oi timber suitable for the manufacture of ground pulp, the largest avail able supply in the world, and one, that if logged as planned by the forestry service, will perpetuate it. self He said that the insistance of the Forestry service on contracts requiring a readjustment of stump age charges every five years, is now one of the greatest obstacles to be overcome in the introduction of the paper making industry in Al aska He paid a fine tribute to the late Delegate Charles A. Sulzer for the intelligent, tactful and vigorous manner in which he had conducted the campaign for a solution Of the problem of getting a satisfactory arrangement with the forestry bu- reau. and said that he had succeed ed in most particulars and had brought nearly all the matters to. I satisfactory conclusion. He also paid w. c. Weigle of the Alaska Forestry Service many compliments for the fine cooperation he had shown. He pronounced MT. Weigle he strongest man in the service. MT Leehey said there should be four or five great paper manufac- turing industries in Alaska He bought the contract for stumpage charges should run for twenty years without change.
 Forestry Service Making Progress Gov Riggs said that his last in terview with Chief H. s. Graves of the Forestry Bureau he offered to make contracts with fixed prices for stumpage for wood pulp timber for ten year periods, with readjustments thereafter to be based on the price of paper. Gov. Riggs said the great est difficulty was to get water pow er rights that would not be subject 10 cancellation at the option of the Government. Gov. Riggs also ex- plained the work he already has lone on the musk OK question. He has secured the interest and promis- ed cooperation of the United States Government, and the promise of the lse of the steamer Roosevelt for TWO years in transporting musk oxen from Eastern Canadian territory to the Americans the right to capture and transport. musk oxen in exchange for the right to purchase and trans port to Canada 2,500 Alaska rein deer. Gov Riggs also explained the work that had been done on the mail service uueSllOH
 Josin Said We Want Local Gov
 ernment
 Falcon Joslin called attention to he fact that there are many great resources of Alaska that no attempt has been made to develop. He called attention to the fact that we have the largest fisheries area, the largest available timber supply for paper, great deposits of fuel oil and coal, and other industries that are not developed or only partly so Our fisheries use imported fuel while they operate within sight of the Alaskan deposits. He said the magnitude of Alaska's resources is told by the fact that we have ten times greater per capita export and import commerce than any other country He said we should now have a population of 500,O00 instead ,f 50,O00, and we should be trading with each other, keeping the pro lucts of our capital and labor at home and developing civilization here He said the prime cause or t all is that we are governed by officials living 5000 miles away in stead of here in Alaska. He was for self-government.
 Collins Pledges Legislation Representative E. B. Collins pledg ed the support of the Legislature for the program outlined in the Forrest resolutions.
 Representative A. A. Allan en- dorsed the program. and spoke, par ticularly in favor of the musk oxen and paper and pulp industries.
 More Animal Industries
 Gov. Riggs said that in addition % urging the introduction of the musk OK into Alaska, he is invesn yating the llama of the Andes and the wild board of Germany. The llama is valuable for wool, food and as beast of burden, and experts believe it would thrive in Alaska The wild board is a fine game animal and provides excellent food.
 Will Aid Governor