The Alaska daily empire., 1920-04-06
Same Facts About National Forests
 m Akaska and tie Paper InduShy Rx w. G Meigle Superintendent of the National
veigle, Former Superintendent of the National
 Forests of Alaska.)

I of not to exceed 25c. per cord, with
 the privilege of renewal of consecu-
 tive periods of 21 years on such conditions as might be in force at the termination of the period or de- termined by the government. This law was repealed in 1903 after 353.- 250 acres had been so granted It is believed that most of the mills located in British Columbia are hold ing lands acquired under the act of 1901, and inasmuch as they were required to pay 25c a cord and an
 annual rental of 20. per acre these leases offered very little advantage, if any, over Alaska. These leases
 will all expire in 1922, when they
 will have to be renewed under eX
 isting conditions, which will make the stumpage rate the same as at the present time and fully as high in price as the timber in Alas ka. The forest act of 1912 provid- ed for the disposal of pulp licenses as timber sales and also provided
 for the increase of the rental on all leases under the original act of 1901 to 22c. per acre rental and a royalty of soc. per M The Timber Royalty Act of 1914 in creased the royalty on all leased tim Der to S5c. per M. for the upper grades, the same as that cut under license except that the 21-year re- movable leases are not affected until the current leases expire in 1922 Renewals of these leases will be granted in the same manner as ordinary timber licenses as applied to what is commonly known as
 timber limits of which about 75 per cent of the alienated timber age -rate- the licensed lands Or timber limits of B. C., therefore, is governed by the Royalty Act of March 4, 1914, which became eff fective January 1, 1915, and pro vides for an adjustment of the stumpage rate at the end of every five-year period from January l, lJlD, to JdnudTY l, lJ00.
 The increase at the end of the first five-year period consists of 25 per cent. of the increase eff Iany) in the average wholesale sell ing price of lumber free on board point of manufacture above $1S.00 per M. On January l, 1920, the average wholesale selling price of lumber for the five-year period was adjudged to be SEAS. Consequent
 ly the stumpage rate, which was 85c. per M was increased approximately 37c on January 1, 1920. On Jan uary l, 1925, the stumpage will be increased 30 per cent. on the same basis; January 1, 1885, 35 per cent; and January 1, 1945, 40 per cent. In addition to the stumpage rate or royalty, an annual rental of $140.00 must be paid for renewal of every special license each license covers GAO acres or less; in addition to this the licenses must also contribute F cents an acre annually as a fire protection fund although much of the pulp timber of British Columbia must come from the Timber Limits. The act of 1912 provides for making timber sales from Grown lands which are known as Pulp Licenses
 The sale of pulp licenses is lim- ited to purchasers who have either already expended at least $350, 900 in the erection of a mill for the manufacture of wood pulp or paper, which is not appurtenant to any existing pulp lease, or who are pre- pared to execute guarantee bond of at least $50,000 that such a mill will bc built within three years, not less than $100,000 being spent during each of the first two years for that purpose. The license is sued must be appurtenant to the, pl.p or paper mill and the amount of timber to be taken up is deter-I mined by the capacity of the mill, not more than 30 years supply being allowed at any one time. The rental payable by lessees operating pulp mill is one-half that on spec ia licenses, namely $70 per square mile on the coast The royalty on pulpwood cut from these pulp li- censes is 25c. per cord of TOO board