The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-01-23
MARKETING FOREST PRODUCTS.

In another column will be found editorial from the New York Times commenting on the article Alaska written by Gen. Wids r. Richardson, former President of the Alaska Road Commission, and which appeared in the current Atlantic Monthly Generally the Timess pos ton is sound and in agreement with the line of thought pursued by General Richardson In one respect we believe it is in error the result of a viewpoint influenced by the magnitude of eastern industry that it is more local than national
 This is the Tilnes's conclusion to the con ditons which will lead to the development of Southeastern Aaska's forest resources. In this connection fl said:
 Her wood pulp will be sold in larger
 volume when the forests accessible
 to the Atlantic seaboard exhausted.
 It is not competition from the eastern coast of the United States and Canada which impedes the development of Alaskan forests 1t is more than possible that none of Alaskas wood pulp and manufactured paper products will ever come into the markets now generally supplied by Atlantic seaboard resources. It is not alto gether improbable that the two may compete in the markets of the Gulf Coast because Alaskan manufactures will have all-water route avail able while those of the Atlantic strip must de- pend to some extent on rail as we'll as water. There are markets however, so far west of the Atlantic that under presnt day costs and at present day prices Alaskan newsprint could be sold at a profitable figure which would leave nthe Naasteru branch of the industry margin Of profit This is one of the several conditions which have encouraged the United States Forest Service in its promotion program and made it possible for it to interest Pacific Coast capital in Alaskan timber and waterpowers.
 Exhaustion of the forests of the Atlantic sea board would of course, lead inevitably to east ern capital, now interested there in paper manu- featuring, turning it's attention to Alaska once it's source of investment in the familiar regions of New England and Eastern Canada is exhaust ed naturally it will become interested in virgin fields, if there are any left But it is a grave question whether Southeastern Alaska will longer be virgin field when that occurs Long before that time if Pacific Coast interests are as wise as~they are credited with being, Alaskan timber and waterpower sites will be tied up with long term leases at terms that will then seem so ad- vantageous that some of the larger Eastern in- terests foresighted though they claim to be, will be astonished that they passed by such oppor- tunities.
 Timber for wood pulp in Canada and the United States is not inexhaustible Experts al ready can estimate with fair degree of ac- curacy how many years it will supply the de- mands of an growing publishing business There few spots anywhere that natural growth will replace the stands rapidly and with so little expense to private capital or the Government as in Alaska That is one Of the most highly attractive inducements to interests which have been sufficiently awake to investi- gate this field. Other opportunities being equal it alone would justify investments in Alaskan newsprint manufacturing enterprises in prefer ence to fields having timber of similar quality, in proportionate quantity and sso accessible to logging, with waerpower resources conven- iently situated and capable of just as economic development as i'll this part of Alaska