The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-01-21
MAYBE THERE'S A REASON.

Seattle has been greatly excluded from participation in the growing pulp and paper industry of Alaska Wrluhg in Tie Worlds Work, Col. w. B. Gree ley. former Chief of the Federal Forest Service. bandy routes the entire out mt of Alaska for all time. to the ports of California and through the Canal to the Eas. Coast. Seattle is accorded
 no share of 1t.
 Colonel Greeley's article itself shows that his disposal of cargoes is slightly at odds with natures trahlc laws lie descants upon the well-known fact that virtually all of Alaskas pulp timber is in the Southeastern part of the Terri
 tory To get the product, in any shape to the ports to which he so readily consigns it would mean to carry
 it right past Seattle and ether ports of
 Puget Sound.
 Nature" writes Colonel Greeley,
 ''has marked this picturesque stretch
 of the (Alaskan) coast the seat of great forest industries. It offers S0,-
 OOO000 900 of coniferous timber, all
 within few miles of marvellous net
 work of sheltered sea channels" And
 then he writes:
 Water power is there in streams
 cascading into the sea from hang
 ing" lakes. And many bays and
 roadsteads offer manufacturing sites
 Wllulu btOle lHiOW Uol DONH
 timber and power sites where
 ocean carriers could load for San
 Francisco orzLos Angeles or through
 the Panama Canal for New York
 and Baltimore.
 The former Chief Of the Forest Service is now an executive of the Northwest Inducements organization He makes his headquarters here and here abouts. and has his residence in Seat tlp really that he chould have stretched a point to give the home town occasional shipment from Alaska. We do a lot of trading with the Territory, and handle here and elsewhere on Puget Sound, the bulk of it's varied products It is too bad that Colonel Greeley should close against us the doors of what he calls Uncle Sams Coming Paper Factory" But,
 maybe, he is mistaken as to that
 Seattle Times)
 If Seattle is to be ignored and San Fra cisco exalted in anything connected with development of Alaska resources it natura would be in an article on our pulp and pal development and if there is any one who woi appreciate that circumstance 1t would probal be Col Greeley. Seattle has been Alaskas gC friend for more than three decades Alas has rarely called upon that City in vain, a many. many times movements of vast imp for the benefit of the Territory originated Seattle and have been carried through fri there to successful conclusion
 However it was different when we W, endeavoring to persuade the Government Washington to lberalize the contracts that W, being offered to prospective pulp and pal manufacturers so to make them attracti A group of Northwestern. tmbermen who W, very powerful in the Seattle Chamber of Co merce tried to obstruct our efforts It took ground that Alaska timber ought to wait up after the pulp and paper possibilities of Greg and Washington were developed A. & Ker when President of the Seattle Chamber of Co merce, argued ill season and out against a modification of the Alaska contracts and seemed to get all the space he desired in Seattle Times for the distribution of his idle The notifications that made the Alaska ii Der fields look good to prospective pulp and pa1 manufacturing were secured without much , rom Seattle-or from the Times And wh they were secured, the pulp and paper m who came to the front prepared to build mi were San Francisco citizens. George F Gamer Publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle. a associates, and l. and J. D. Zelerbach who sale paper dealers and extensive pulp and pal manufacturers, were the first to close contra with the Government for Alaska timber
 Col. Greeley at the head of the Pores Bureau at the time, and was familiar with t whole proceeding. Perhaps the information the back of his head had some influence as wrote
 However, The Empire does not wish this be regarded as general complaint agai Seattle-or against the Seattle Times Tf friendship for this Territory has been too of demonstrated, it has responded to requests aid too often, and too effectively, for flask to forget it.