The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1926-06-04
B. |. THANE AND
B. F. HEINTzLEMAN
DISCUSS PAPER.
Official and Former juneau
lite Tell Chamber About e.
forts to Get Industry Here

B. F. Heintzleman, assistant dis
trict forester for Alaska. and Bart L.
Thane, managing director of the
Alaska Gastineau Co, discussed hope-
fully the pulp and paper situation in
Southeastern Alaska at the MONDAY
luncheon of the Chamber of Com
merce at the Gastineau Cafe today
Mr.. Heintzleman briefly told of his
five months trip East in an endeav
or to get the pulp and paper manu-
facturers and water power interests
interested in Southeastern Alaska
resources and Mr.. Thane outlined his
efforts toward interesting them in
the situation at Juneau
Four Groups Impressed
Mr. Heintzleman said that at least
four of the paper manufacturing
groups were greatly impressed with
the Alaska situation, and that they
would have experts in the Alaska
field this season. If the situation
appeared to them to be as he had
represented, he said some of them
at least would take the necessary
steps toward the development of the
industry in Alaska. He declared
that he believed it would be far bet
ter to attract those who are engaged
in the business, those who have the
capital, the organizations, and access
to the markets rather than to inter
est those who would have to raise
capital, form organizations and find
market for their products. The lat
ter sort of combination would, he
said, probably meet with failure AMI
retard rather than aid in general
development. He said the Forestry
Bureau and Water Power Commits
sion at Washington were cooperating
with the local officials in every way
and had prepared a contract to Of
fer to those interested that was sat
isfactory to all concerned in it's
major features.
Power Is Basis of Alaskas Hope
Bart l.. Thane, in opening his re
marks, declared that power is the
basis of Alaskas hope for future de-
velOpment as it is the basis of oil
industry and all human activities.
He outlined the history of his eff
iorts to get industry here that would
use the water power that is going to
waste, for, he said, water power is
valuable only when used. He declar-
ed that to utilize Alaska's power it
is necessary to bring industry here
for there are no established indus
fri u nf
population in the East to whom to
sell it. He said his company is
planning on the development of both
paper and nitrate manufacturing
here at an early date.
Mr.. Thane said that he had begun
his efforts to interest capital in the
paper industry at juneau in 1920.
and at his suggestion DR.. Alfred II.
Brooks caused to be made a survey
of Southeastern Alaska water power
potentialities. At that time, he said,
they demonstrated that paper could
be manufactured at Juneau as cheap
ly as at Ocean Falls or any other
place, but they found difficulty in
guaranteeing a market. He went to
Japan for the purpose of arranging
market for paper, and succeeded
in part but was confronted there
with the advice that he consider the
manufacture of amonium sulphate
fertilizer instead, as the need for it
was greater and the engineers of
that country believed that conditions
here were ideal for its manufacture.
Switched Back to Paper
I'VE were switched back to paper
as the major proposition" said Mr..
Thane. "by the concrete circum-
stance that a group of Pacific Coast
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