The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-22
WHAT'S THE MATTER
 WITH ALASKA?
nd Ellsworth Sumner in Railway and Marine News

s-s-e->-S >-A~ tablished in Alaska, for the supply of timber is seemingly inexhaustible and this country could then become great exporter of pulp and paper.
 But for the calender year 1920 we imported pulp wood and wood pulp to the value of $1O6,321, JOS. This was largely imported from Norway, Swed- en and Canada. (The official record will be found on pages 28.64-72, of the December issue of the monthly sum- mary of foreign and domestic com merce.) In weight or measurement this importation represented 1,214,444 cords of pulp wood and 809, tons of wood pulp of various classes. Dur ing the same year we exported only 36 cords of pulp wood valued at $1 ,O66, and 6,7O6 tons of wood pulp, valued product we exported but 28,69O tons of wood pulp valued at $2,949,S11. Our exports, therefore, of foreign and domestic pulp and pulp wood totalled small negligible tonnage valued at $3,676,010. That was our total expor- tation as compared with one hundred and six million dollars worth which we imported, largely from Norway, Sweden and Canada. With such a showing as this clearly indicating the lack of market for American wood pulp, how can Delegate Sutherland or those who have given him the in- formation excuse so great business blunder as party of supposedly successful business men going into a project of building pulp mill in far away Alaska without being assured of market. Not being in the paper business it is impossible to states why the United States, possessing the greatest stand of timber suitable for wood pulp to be found anywhere on the globe, has to import such quant- ities from abroad, but the official facts remain and MT. Sutherland has only to look up these references on the pages indicated to gain an intimate knowledge of the great discrepancy between American imports and ev- ports of wood pulp.
 Now all of the coast newspapers which continually parade their patrio- tism wish to attack Canada because it has been successful in establishing paper mills, but the most inconsistent thing about the whole argument is that all of these papers get news print from Ocean Falls, British Columbia, Canada We cannot explain why, for again we say that we are not in the paper business, but if it is case of patriotism or letting the eagle scream or singing the Star Spangled Banner, why do Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles papers go up to Canada for their news print paper. All these denunciatory articles written about the terrible treatment which this new company is given in Alaska are printed on Canadian paper and there are many American paper mills in the Pacific Coast states. It does seem to be the most absurd procedure imaginable to continually criticize or belittle Canadian industry at time when the same paper publishing such articles is one of the principal sup porters of this industry, and if it is case of patriotism the newspapers are certainly not standing back of their own manufacturing establish ments However, while most of the criticism is directed at Canada, the the Scandinavian countries last year sent us considerably more pulp than did Canada.
 Furthermore San Francisco paper not only gets it's news print from Can ada but is has given the contract to haul it to a Canadian steamship. All