The Cordova daily times., 1920-09-07
SEATTLE AFTER
 WATER POWER
 FIELD OFFICE

SEATTLE, Sept. Special to the Daily Times)-In pushing its claim that Seattle be designated as the field office of the federal water power com- mission for administration of the commission's business in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, the Seattle chamber of commerce in a statement today pointed out that it should not be necessary for those engaged in the development of the great power re- sources of the Northwestern states and Alaska to conduct all their busi- ness through an office in San Fran cisco, 95S miles from Seattle. A firm in southeastern Alaska would have to have their application and the cores pondence travel to and from Ketchi- kan to San Francisco, distance of 1906 miles, unless Seattle is designat- ed as the field office.
 It is estimated that the Tongas for est reserve alone can furnish over a million tons of paper products yearly and to date the forestry department has marked out fourteen areas in which there are paper pulp possibili- ties, each having from 5000 to 3O,OOO known horse power with surveys in- complete. The aggregate of Alaska's great water power resources cannot now be estimated, it was stated at the Alaska bureau of the chamber of commerce. The United States geolo- glcal survey and the bureau of fores- try have been conducting investiga- tions for number of years but have only covered small portion of the territory.
 Not only to the state of Washing ton and other northwestern states is the law a great boon, for it also ma- terially affects the development of Alaska. Alaska has paper pulp re- sources probably in excess of any sec tion of the United States. The bureau of forestry officials state the Tongas national forest alone will supply in- definitely from one-third to one-half of the present paper requirements of the entire country.
 It is only in the last few months that the bureau of forestry has been making any real effort toward bring ing about the development of this great resource which is all dependent upon the use of water power This spring the bureau of forestry, in order to hasten the paper pulp development in Alaska, made tentative division |of the TOngas national forest into fourteen paper pulp units, having an aggregate of about forty-one billion feet of paper pulp timber. Late ad- vices to the Alaska bureau of the Ichamber of commerce indicate that the forestry officials will probably re- arrange these units so as to provide for twenty paper pulp units, which would give an average stand for each unit of approximately two billion feet of timber. Th;o will provide for an indefinite supply for the larger type Of paper pulp mill.
 Seattle teachers in government schools located in the Eskimo region about Boring straits and the Kotzebue districts have experienced a cold and Istormy summer along with consider able suffering as a result of depleted food supplies, according to communi- cation received by w. T. Lopp, Alaska Alaska chief of the United States bu- reau of education, from Cape Prince of Wales, the westernmost point of the continent.
 Word came to pr. Lopp from Fred R. Tait, world war veteran MT. and Mrs. Tait are teachers in the govern ment Eskimo school at Wales, located on the isolated cape.
 Uncle Sams harvest of seals on the Pribolof islands this season will rep resent value of more than S,2,00O,- 900, according to preliminary advices of the 1920 catch received yesterday by Seattle headquarters of the Uni- ted States bureau of fisheries, which has control of the Boring sea seal islands. Last year skins from the Pribilof islands brought as high as $146 each at auction to furriers. The