Arizona republican., 1920-08-30
TO DIVIDE FOREST
 INTO IA TENTATIVE
 PAPER PULP UNITS

SEATTLE, Aug. 29.-The bureau of forestry. to hasten the paper pulp de- velopment in Alaska, has made a ten tative division of the Tongass national forest into fourteen paper pulp units having an aggregate of about 41.00o, OOO. 900 feet of paper pulp timber Forestry officials expect to rearrange this area so as to provide for twenty paper pulp units with an average standing for each unit of approximate ly 2,000, ,000,0 900 feet of timber, which will provide for an indefinite supply for the larger type of paper mill. It is. estimated that the Tongass forest alone can furnish over a million tons of paper products yearly. Each of the designated units are shown to have available water power ranging from 5000 to 300O0 horsepower.
 An effort is being made to have Seattle made the regional headquart- CTS for the federal water power com mission to handle its business in Alaska, where the power possibilities are as yet unsurveyed, and for the Pa cific northwest. the state of Washing ton having 125 horsepower per square mile. which is double that of any other state in the union.
 When Uncle Sam. through the land leasing bill, passed February 26. opened up to the prospector the oil lands of AIdSkd. OH lO ldke lne pldC6 of gold and the northland is resound ing to the thump of the oil derrick where 20 years ago it was the sour dough's pick. Operators say they can drill wells cheaper in Alaska than in the United States. The oil develop ment is in its infancy in Alaska al- though it is known that there are plenty of oil seepages.
 Re-routing mail to the interior of Alaska to take effect October 1. whereby two mails a week with 2400 pounds to the trip will be carried. Since 1904 mail has been landed at Cordova, taken on the Copper River railroad to Cnitina and thence over land to Fairbanks. which was the dis tributing center for the interior. Now mail will be taken from Seattle by boat to Sewart. thence over the gov ernment railroad to Nenana, thence to Fairbanks.
 There are not more than 57.000 whites and natives in Alaska which is about one-fifth the area of the United States, according to unofficial esti-
 mates made by the census office in Seattle. and it is expected that the final figures will show between 30,O0O and 35.O00 whites. the rest being ma
 tives. Many of the towns which as sumed prominence in the old gold rush | days have lost substantially all their population, and even Fairbanks has l less than half the population it had | ten years ago.
 1 Puget Sound, one of the greatest timber producing sections in the world 1 is getting Alaska spruce and lath | pr. F. l.. Forbes. D. D.. just returned 1 from three years service among the i Eskimo of the Arctic ocean and the native Indians of interior Alaska. has recommended to the government the | creation of a large reservation cn the Yukon river to comprise modern in 1 dustrial school. orphanage, old peoples I home, and tubercular sanitarium and hospital Dr. Forbes hopes to have 1 ESkimos in attendance from the viii | lages along the Arctic ocean and plans l to make it a central institution for the I far north. Dr. Forbes, in his work a. census enumerator last winter. went or | snowshoes 1700 miles in his distric in counting the population.