The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-03-01
FOR
PAPER INDUSTRY
ARE EXCELLENT
Heintzelman Looks for Plant
Here and Near Ketchi-
kan in Short Time.

Confident that offerings will be
. made for the two big tracts of Al
asEa pulpwood now being advertised
for sale by the Government, b. F.
| Ieintzelman, Assistant District For.
ester, returned home yesterday from
| a fourmonth absence in the States.
For the past year he has been in
charge of the work of the L. S
J Forest Service in undertaking TO in
! tcrest capital in opportunities fol
investment in Alaskan timber and
waterpoWcrs.
J Il am confident several BIDS will
be received next month on The Two
! advertizcd tracts. am also very
I hopeful that in the very near future
two large pulp and paper manufac-
turing plants in this vicinity
and another in the southern end Of
the district-will be developed as
result of the negotiations carried on
and work done since January 1926,
Mr.. IIeintZelman said.
Looking Toward Alaska
The manufacturers of pulp and
paper are looking toward Alaska
Investigating the possibilities for de
velopment here" he added And
what is of equal significance. the
banking interests which must be
depended upon for financing such
development are exhibiting on equal
amount Of interest in the chances
for establishing profitable industry
here in the utilization of forests now
| largely waster and waterpowers lying
dormant"
Conditions which exist at present
in the pulp and paper manufat turing
| industry made very timely the Forest
Services efforts to launch the ia
dustry here. 1T was and is the
psyeholoeical moment for this under
taking" he commented.
Era of Expansion
Unprecedented demand for news
PRINT has led to very great eX-
pansi0n OF plants manufacturing that
commodity. Last year production in |
creased Is per cent over 1925. And |
the production growth during the cur |
rent year will probably be equally |
as large.
Principally the growth in manufac-
turing plants has been in eastern |
Canada. American corporations have
made tremendously large investments !
in enterprises in that section and |
are even now continuing to expand !
their holdings. During his stay in |
the States, Mr.. Heintzelman visited
large manufacturing plants near
Montreal and Ottawa
Large Scale Development
There the manufacturers are car
rying on large scale development. |
Enormous tracts of timber have |
been secured, big plants constructed, !
and great hydroelectric power pro
jects developed.
1t was early recognized that to
compete with such an already estab- /
lished industry which is growing i
by leaps and bounds, it. would be /
necessary to offer comparable sup
plies to attract the capital necessary
for local development. Operating on
a leasehold basis, it was found alb
solutely essential to, guarantee the
manufacturers d 50-year supply of
timber.
Supply Here Adequate
Fortunately, Mr. Heintzelman point
ed out, the supply of timber in
Southeastern Alaska forests was not
only adequate for all manufacturing
purposes, but the timber is also
ideally suited to the making of news
print paper. And it is ideally located
| for logging has the best of roads to
mills, an all-year round sheltered
water route for towing RATS, and
situated around strategically placed
| power sites capable OF almost un-
PARALLEL low-cost development.
''In short, Alaska had everything
10 offer the manufacturers of wood
pulp and newsprint that was needed"
he summed it, 1T rested with the
Government to demonstrate this and
to offer terms which, while fair
to it and the Territory, would be
just to those who might be willing
to pioneer in developing the industry
in a new land"
Liberalized Old Contract
! During the past year the Forest
Service has been undertaking to work
out such proposition. In series
of informal conversations, confer
ences and negotiations, coupled with
close study of marketing and man.
ufacturing conditions, a basis was
finally reached on which it is be.
lieyed development can be projected.
'The Government has materially
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