The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-22
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terly valueless in the light of these disclosures. Giving credid where credit is due, the Ocean Falls plant is making fine grade of paper, is giving service and is probably entitled is to it. Business men always go into the best or most available market and the first man to forget his patri- otism is that one who can save nick le or evade any tax or customs duty.
 Returning to the plant which is located near Juneau,-this is only pulp mill. It is not equipped for the manufacture of paper. It had to find a market for it's pulp, and in view of the official record as above quoted, that market was mighty slim. There are pulp mills and paper mills located in the states of Washington and there is an inexhaustible supply of timber in this loctlity. Not far from Seattle there are several mills and there are others in California, to say nothing of those in the New England states. The truth of the matter is simply this that the plant near Juneau has yet to announce contract for a large out put and has yet to show that it has a permanen market and that it will be able to ship, let us say from 1000 to g. 900 tons regularly each week. Furthermore, there is no published tariff issued by any steamship com pany in Alaska covering this wood pulp, because the management of the mill is unable to say how many tons it can ship per week. Just the mom- ent that the management of the pulp out and state that it will lhave reg ular shipment of anywhere form 1000 to 5000 tons of pulp each week dur ing the calender year, there are dozens of steamships ready to haul it. And there is no doubt in the world that the rate will be eminently satisfac- tory. Delegate Sutherland naturally can be pardoned for jumping at this because 1t gives him a lot of cheap publicity and provides a new mode of attack against the steamship lines, but he cannot overcome the basic fact that at the date of writing there is no pulp within the territory of Alaska that has announced any contract showing that itncan be permanent shipper each week to an extent that would justify steamship line in mak- ing rate enabling it to move that output.
 The Alaska Daily Dispatch, some weeks ago, publishedan article on this subject which made no mention whatsoever of any steamship rate but pointed out in detail the difficulty of the company in finding market for it's pulp.
 We also find evidence of different nature in short paragraph in the Alaska department of the weekly pub lication of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce & Commercial Club. This paragraph says "The Alaska Pulp and Paper Company, the first pulp mill operated in the territory, located at Speel river, thirty miles south of Jun eau, has closed temporarily, owing to the low market price of pulp"
 Briefly, as far as the published rec ords go the pulp industry of Alaska has never even gotten to first base and yet, without market and without any published rates and lacking all outward evidence whereby such rate could be determined, the accred- ited congressional delegate from Alas ka announces at Washington that the steamship rate has killed the pulp in- dustry. It was started, as explained above, duhing a period when the out. look might have appeared more allur- ing, but today it is mearly a question of the survival of the fittest, and in the face of the importation into the United States of these basic reasons why the American consumer of pulp finds it more expedient to buy his stock from foreign countries.
 l If our friend Dan wants to make a real hit with his constituents to de- termine why the pulp mill has failed let him carefully and scientifically study all those intricate problems which go into our imports and then he might be able to determine why from the far away Scandinavian peninsula, in one year were received twenty mil