Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-03

cabins built, trails made and indus trial and town sites platted. The expenditure of time and labor to date, exceeds 5,00O-expended with the assurance that would have the aid and cooperation ofthe Forest Ser vice.
 In November q believe), L. and J. D. Zellerbsch filed upon these identical power sites, including, for the sake of giving some little varia- tion to their grab" two minor mill operation, but of possibly great future value to the nearby city of Ketchikan for diversion to the city's power plants which are now drawing all the available water. All that the Zellerbachs have done in con- nection with the filing of their appli- cation is to have been personally es- corted around the waters adjacent to these power sites by officials of the Forest Service, the chief spokesman and inspirational head of the exclusive expedition being one Heintzleman, whose official title is assistant district forester, but who is actually the For est Service promoter" of the pulp and paper projects of Alaska, notwith- standing these officials hold up their hands in horror when some poor citi- zen of the United States is tagged with that opprobrious name. Howe it, this fve-hour trip was sufficient for these Pacific coast representatives of the power trust to see the vast possibilities of the 'tBerry" project, and right then and there decided upon getting it, notwithstanding the Forest Service officials had all along tried to locate paper projects adjacent to Jul neau, not having themselves realized the merits of any of the more south erly projects.
 Late in December, another filing was made on these power sites by the International Paper company (which is the other name of the Zellerbach Paper company, calculated to scare the original applicant (myself) into fading out of the picture, which said applicant is 10th to do.
 The above represents in a concise manner, the situation that now exists. according to MT. Berry. The whole matter, as he explains it, is the carry ing to Alaska the economic battle now raging between the paper trust and the publishing interests. Further deve velopment inCanada by the paper con- bine is to be seriously curtailed and groups of publishers of metropolitan dailies are forming to cast off the shackles of price fixing combinations; the great stand of pulp timber for newsprint is in Alaska and the strug- gle is being focused in the Territory.
 An article by Mr. Berry, appearing in The Alaska Weekly some two years ago, entitled Pulp and Paper Possi- bilities in Alaska was widely read and reprinted; the attention it ere ated, served to fix the attention of the paper industry, as far as newsprlnt was concerned, on Alaska. MT. Ber- ry, having made his determination
 more upon the timber and logging end 1 of the industry, chose a location for the establishment of paper industry 1 at the extreme southerly end of the
 Tongass forest, represented some Of those publishers whose names, for ob- vious reasons, MT. Berry was not per
 mitted to divulge. However, cor poration organized under the laws of Alaska has been in the hands of the attorneys and organizers, awaiting the completion of the group syndicate. Commission has advertised a timber ! sale in behalf of the Zellerbachs of five billion feet of pulp timber adja- cent to this power site group; MT Berry's application for three billion feet is 'on file Gan amendment to the original act allowing any citizen to make application for NOT OVER three billion feet, recently having been put in effect). The application of the latter awaits the final act of making deposit and furnishing of statement of financial responsibility. all of which Mr. Berry states he will lido.
 This is an age and is the time when monopolies are seeking to grab the national resources and make the people subservient to their dicta- tion. Alaska is our last great store house of unappropriated timber and power and this paper making combine is attempting to get full control in the Territory and seems to have made the Forest Service and Federal Power move recently hte Federal Power Commission see it as they want them