The Wrangell sentinel., 1921-03-10
Liberal Terms Offered Pulp Manufacturers in
 Southeastern Alaska
Now Possible to Secure Large Areas of Public Timber and Public Water Power in Alaska on Long Terms at Reasonable Rates.

The tremendous forests of the Pacific Coast from San Francisco Bay to Cook Inlet, Alaska. lie par allel to the line of the sea beach and between that line and the sum- init of the Coast range of mountains. Eastward of this range in Califor- mia, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and in Alaska, the cli- mate is dry, hot in the summer and extremely cold in the winter and with only a light forest cover- ing. But on the western slope of the coast range, from the summit 10 the sea, for 2,ooo miles north and south, the redwoods of Califor- nia, the fir and cedar of Oregon and Washington, and the hemlock and spruce of British Columbia and Alaska, form the most dense and valuable pulp forest Tn or adjacent to the United States.
 There are two forest reserves in Alaska-the Tongass in South eastern Alaska and the Chugach in Southern Alaska which practically cover the coastal front from Ketch- ikan to Cook Inlet. These two re- serves contain 4I,8G5 square miles "a greater area than that of the State ot Indiana, or Kentucky, or Ohio. They are reported by the Forest Service to contain more than 05,ooo, GOO, 900 feet of timber val ued al sI48,75o, 900. It is also es- tlmated that there is an equal amount of timber in Alaska not within any forest reservation. Much of this Forest Reserve covering is saw timber, and substantially all of It is valuable for pulp.
 Western hemlock forms 50 per cent of the native timber stand on the Tongass Forest in Southeastern Alaska. Spruce forms about 20 per cent, while cedar, cottonwood and other scattering trees make up the remainder. On the Chngach Forest Reservation, around Prince Williams Sound, farther north. hemlock and spruce form substan- tially the entire forest, both being high grade pulp material.
 Economic deposits of limestone, gypsum, marble, silica, pvrites and other ingredients necessary to pulp making, exist in large quantities on the public lands Tn Southeastern Alaska on the sea beach. Coalrin quantity and excellent steaming quality is being mined on Admiralty Island in Southeastern Alaska, and good steaming coal is also imported from Ladysmith, B. C., and mined in the katalla and Matanuska coal fields, Alaska.
 Transportation is, next to timber and water power, the most import ant item in the promotion of pulp making in Alaska. It is thou sana miles from Seattle to Skagway and every mile behind forest cov- cred islands which protect the deep water ways of the Inside Passage" from the swells of the Pacific. Deep and commodious harbors, densely timbered islands, water power ard security of sportation-t these are the inducements which nature offers to pulp makers in Alaska. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, whose western terminal is Prince Rupert, only one hundred miles south of Ketchikan, offers the pulp manufacturers direct transconti- mental communication with Chicago, Boston. New York, and all eastern United States. A much cheaper steamship transportation by the Inside Passage" in his own boat permits him to enter the Pacific Coast market at Seattle, while the wide Pacific invites him to ship his product to Asiatic ports, his mill In Alaska being one quarter of the distance or the route from Seattle to Yokohoma.
 The Alaska coast thus offers: First, mild and humid climate, t2) regular and sufficient rainfall, (3) constant summer and winter supply of water, (4) the minimum annoyance from ice and snow and freezing weather, (5) good water power, (6) large untouched forests of western hemlock and spruce, the best pulp material in the country, t7) plenty of limestone, etc., (8) safe and comnodious harbors, and (o) the security of an Inside Passage" to the Pacific Coast, the direct transcontinentalG Grand Trunk Pacific Railway to Eastern United
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