The Alaska daily empire., 1920-09-16

here this fall.
 neighborhood of Juneau All of this work is to be continued next year At the conclusion of his talk he was assured of the assistance of the Com mercial Association in any way it might be able to function.
 FIory A Booster
 Like Col Steese, who just pre- ceded me, I am an Alaska booster, declared c. H. Flory. "Both of Us are working for it's development. Our work dovetails. He is interested | in building roads and l am interested in getting out timber over them."
 Future in Pulp
 Mr Flory spoke briefly on the pulp and water power situation and the possibilities of their development in Alaska The Forestry Service, he said, has been interested in them foI years and has been persistent in it's efforts to interest capital in them also. "The pulp and paper industry l is a regional one, like the automobile industry" he said. Tt has been con fined largely to the New England and Lake States. The reason for this is twofold. They were near the sources of supply and right at the markets. But the supply is vanish ing in those districts" he said. "SiA ty per cent of the big mills in New York do not own any timber and are forced to import it from long dis tances Within five or ten years believe that the industry in Alaska will have developed to a status com paring to it's present development in the regions where it has heretofore been confined" ...
 Data not Assembled
 Mir. Flory said that the Govern nent lacked complete data regarding both the timber resources and the l water power Inadequate funds, he | said. had made it impossible for them to make surveys to get the nee essary information. Engineers rep, resenting Eastern firms, he said have been working in Southeastern Alaska all season gathering this in. ] formation for themselves at the ex pense of thousands of dollars ana which would be available for them | elves alone. The result of then work. in his opinion, will be seen in the real beginning of the devel' opment of the pulp and paper in 1ustry in Alaska.
 Big Development Here
 He referred to the construction oi
 he Speel River project of the Alaska Pulp and Paper Company and pre- dicted that others would come rap idly. The most desirable timber he said. is located on islands and along he mainland in Southeastern Alasks n the Tongass National Forest There are likewise good stands in
 he Chugach Forest to the Westward md eventually, in his opinion mills will be established there. All Alaska timber he said is suitable for pulp making. practically all of 1t being located on the public domain and ad- vantageous terms are being offered hv the Government to induce capita 70 enter the field. These include a 5ase contract for supplies for 3c years with renewal privileges Tor 15 or 20 years. The, rapid growtn 9f trees in this section, he said was such that lands on which cutting ,nerations were initiated at the be oinning of the contract term, would 1eain be ready to cut at the end oi the 30 year peroid covered in the contracts. thus assuring a perpetual
 iource of supply for milling.
 Means Much To Alaska The pulp and paper industry is stable one" declared MT. Flory "The erection of paper mill in wolves the expenditure of millions and means the building of towns
 the establishment of permanent
 nopulation which Alaska must have
 if if is to be developed. It also means that every legitimate busl ness enterprise will be benefited b! the establishment of such an in dustry.
 ] Committee Appointed President Allen Shattuck appointc' } a new entertainment committee 10 the next meeting of the Association composed of J J. ConnOrs. H. L Faulkner and J. H. Kline. Five neN members were enrolled as the re suit of individual effort on the par of the members at the last meeting On motion of George F. Forres' seconded by Charles Goldstein, at thority was granted to the ExecutiV Committee to extend honorary mem bership to Col James c. Steese President of the Alaska Road Con mission. c. H. Flory as head of tn Forestry Service in Alaska. Gov Thomas Riggs, and R J. Sommers b Territorial Secretary.