The Alaska daily empire., 1920-01-07
ERICSSON ROOMS
 ALASKA PAPER
 CAPABILITIES
Juneau Man Says North Can End Paper Famine; He Also Boosts. Terri
 tory For Climate

world with print paper. Give Alaska the chance and there never will be a shortage of paper to print newspa- pers of the world and they can have as many papers as news and adver. Using can fill.'
 This is the statement of Claude Ericson, proprietor of the Gastineau hotel at Juneau, who is Pasadena winter visitor, says the Pasadena Star-News of December g.
 Continuing, MT. Ericson declares that Alaska is the storehouse of America and that there is unlimited quantity of best quality timber for paper pulp. So far this great re- source has been tied up by the con servation policies of the government Now. however. we are getting along to the time when these great trea- sures of Alaska will be thrown open to the public and MT Ericson be lieves that in a few months pulp mills will he started in Southeast Alaska ahd that it will be one of the [ greatest industries in the world; and furnish employment for thousands of persons. Mr.. Ericson is a booster for Alaska l Mining and fisheries are the prin cipal industries" he says. "The wea-
 thor is not bad. Zero In Juneau is l unusual have a telegram from Alaska dater December If stating
 that the weather there continues mild with light rains l wired for in- | formation owing to prophecies of
 Professor Porta saying there were storms in Alaska. My personal opin
 ion is that Alaska is just now getting q touch of the cold wave that has been raging in tho states. We usual ! ly get 1t four or five days later than l in the States. have been in Alaska ltS years, and love it. l started from Maine in 1898 on the wings of the Klondike boom, but never got to Klondike. landed in Juneau and never got away. being there ever since with exceptions of visits to the states.
 
 "I am going back after l stock up on sunshine. of the Southern Califor' nia brand. I advise tired business men of California to make the trip there. It would be real tonic. IL is an all inland channel to Alaska, no rough waters. You can eat four times day. and see the sunset at midnight. The ever changing seen. cry is beautiful, magnificent. It is a real country for real men.
 "The roads for automobiling are not much yet but we managed to do 5000 miles last summer It is some scenic drive from Juneau to Menden- hall glacier and Aux Lake. We can drive right out onto the glacier,
 Mir. Ericson has three children, two girls and boy. The girls were born on a July and are 100 per cent American. he declares. Mrs. Er.cson is with the father and children are enjoying the summer weather here.
 When their automobile numbered Juneau eS parked in front. of Library Park a Star.News writer talked with the two little girls who are typical American children They toll Of their automobile trip from Ala ka to Mexico and were delighted with Pasadena. They said thev had one summer in Juneau. now had another here and will have the third coassc- utive summer when they get hcne all in a row. They were ticklo1 with their row of summers and said they thought Pasadena was certainlv the garden spot of the world-ta't there was s s.a ace Ike it. Tho fact that rss uter Christmas and just like tnoir uwrler made great i'm press
 Jus hon a 1g came Mr. Ericson and l. aFr,ad vith tho children that South a Cal' rnia Is paradise. Then no tcl5 af Alaska aud the great future it h hfas for trade and com mercc They nlll be here until April