The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-10
Newsprint Future For Alaska Bright
 Report Indicates

| t1ai start in the newSprint industry is contained in a report of ''Wood pulp supply, power sites, transpor- tation and other matters entering into the possible projection of the newsprint industry into Alaska" |" transmitted to the senate recently by the secretary of the interior, Ray Lyman Wilbur. pursuant to Senate Resolution PIP. directing such a re- port.
 The statement, contained in a re- port prepared by the district forest CT Of Alaska, said:
 with responsible parties now in- terested in Alaskan projects; with the government offering timber and water power under conditions ap- parently equitable to all concerned. and with detailed surveys confirm ing the value of the Alaskan re- sources for large scale newsprint production, it is believed that the territory is on the eve of substan- tial start in this industry"
 Cheap Transnortation
 The governor of Alaska, George A. Parks, in a letter to the secre- tary of the interior. which accompa- nied the report. stated:
 Practically all of the coastal for fc able sources of commercial pulp tim Der, are adjacent to tidewater. By far the greatest part of the forests are easily accessible from excellent deep-water harbors. Ocean going vessels of almost any tonnage may be brought very close to the source of supply This condition assures cheap transportation at all times, and it is one of the most important factors in the proposed development,
 The report of the district forester said in part:
 Alaska has no paper mills at present. British Columbia, with timber and physical conditions which quite closely resemble those of southeastern Alaska, has two newsprint mills and a number of pulp mills. The more northerly of these newsprint mills is located at Ocean Falls, B. O., 196 miles south of Ketchikan, Alaska. The establish ment of newsprint plants in Alaska will be merely an extension of the industry to a more distant section of the one general field represented by Oregon, Washington, British Co., lumbia and southeastern Alaska. and will not involve adaptation to an entirely new set of conditions or to surmounting of difficulties not already known to West Coast oper- ators.
 Conditions in southeastern Alas ka are apparently favorable for the large scale united operations that now characterize the manufacture of newsprint in the United States and Canada.
 Water power at a reasonable de- velopment cost is available to meet the power needs of the modern pa per mill of 400 to 500 tons daily ca- pacity"
 The report continued:
 Studies by the forest service in- dicate that the timberlands of southeastern Alaska under a proper system of silvi-cultural management can produce 1,5O0.0OO cords of pulp wood annually in perpetuity. In oth- CT words this amount of timber can be cut yearly and be fully renewed through tree growth Converted into newsprint this represents production of 100000 tons or about one-fourth of the present yearly consumption in the United States.
 "Other favorable factors of south eastern Alaska for the newsprint manufacturing industry are mild winter climate, the accessibility of the timber to tidewater which per mits of cheap logging, and the avail ability of water transportation for the raw material to the plants and for the finished product from the plants to the general markets"