The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-07-11
THOSE LOGGERS PERMITS.

During the past few weeks permits have been granted by the Forestry Service for the shipment of logs to the States or else where. We question not the motive nor the reason. Apparently, in the minds of those officials in charge there was ample jus tifcation.
 For many years it has been the policy of the Forestry Bureau, as we are informed, to look with askance at applications for the shipment of logs from the Territory. This seems proper and constructive. Alaska never will be built if its raw products shipped to the States or elsewhere for manufacture. They must be manufactured at home.
 Alaskans generally should use their every effort in preventing the shipment of un- finished products from the Territory, pro- vided of course that such action is in ac- cord with the law
 While there must be general objections to the shipment of logs to the States or to Canada to be manufactured, and while it may be said that such regulations rebound to the advantage of the sawmills, it must not be forgotten that in Southeastern AL aska there is not more than one or possibly two mills flourishng It may be said even that such permission for shipment will aid the small logger. That is not true. The shipment of logs will only hurt the loggers and their operations whether they be large small.
 If the logs are worth being shipped out at great and wasteful cost, they are worth being manufactured at home that the waste may be eliminated. And it must never be forgotten that a sawmill payroll in the States or Canada never builds any homes in Ketchikan Alaska. And we are for Alaska
 However, it occurs that there is a field for development. Throughout the country there is demand by the large companies of communication for poles. In Alaska we have thousands, ten of thousands, of these poles, suitable for use by the telephone and telegraph companies. They are not par ticuarly valuable for the manufacture of lumber They are, however, suitable and we refer particularly to yellow cedar, to the needs of the communications systems
 Let us develop this pole business to its extent but let us urge the Forestry Service to protect the lumber mills of Alaska, the development of work and payrolls by keeping the natural resources in the Territory until turned out, the finished product (Ketchi- kan Chroncle)
 The Chronicle seems to have missed the DC the recent action of the Forestry Bureau wh ermits some Alaska loggers to sell in Canad Washington. markets logs that had already b 1t and which they had not been able to sell ,cal sawmills These logs were cut to sell to lc fills, but trade and industrial conditions eau ome of the Alaska mills to close and others urtail their operations So the loggers found tht elves with logs they could not sell and obligati hey could not meet. They discovered that t ould sell their logs to Outside consumers. orestry Bureau has permitted them to do u did not issue any permits to allow loggers ut logs for sale to Canadians or others outside territory The permits that were issued did urt the local mills. They can get all the hey can use On the other hand they W godsend to the loggers and their creditors. forestry Bureau simply met an emergency ir usinesslike manner