The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-04

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 print and other paper exports to this country were worth $I38, ,440,- 243; it's pulp exports $39,059 .979: :: and sufficient pulp wood to manu- facture 100000 tons Of newsprint worth more than $15,OOo,OOO addi- tional.
 Consumption Is Large
 The newsprint consumption in the United States in 1880 was B. 553,347 tons. Of this vast quan- tity, the country's manufacturers produced at home only 1,282 ,0Oo tons. Of the remainder, Canada shipped us 1,973,698 tons, New foundland 156,174 tons, Sweden 76,- g53 tons, Finland fl ,618 tons, Ger many 12,773 tons, and Norway 9,131 tons.
 Eighty per cent of Canada's aewsprint production now comes to the United States and is entered duty free.
 The growth of it's industry has been spectacular since 1913. In that year the United States pro duced 1,3o5,000 tons, or more than
 t manufactured last year. In the same year Cahada's production was paltry 5eO,O0O tons.
 But each year since that date has seen an Increase by gigantic strides. Tn 1925 it tied the United States, surpassed it in 1926 and has increased it's lead every year since that time.
 Financed by American Funds
 In 1913, the United States manu- factured all of the news print it consumed. Today more than 63 percent of its requirements are supplied by foreign-made paper or hat made of foreign materials. Its output is not as large now as it was then and under the guidance of it's own industrial leaders in that field it has become dependent to a highly dangerous degree upon that foreign commodity.
 It is true that it is only wholly foreign in it's source of material. In the past decade, the great ex- 2ansion in Canadian manufacture has come about almost entirely through the use of funds furnished oy manufacturers of this country whose interests are a substantial part of the whole and are scat tered from the Atlantic to the Pa life Ocean
 The great plants of Three Rivers, l Gatineau, St. Johns, Kapuskasing and other noted manufacturing centers of Canada were conceived, financed and built by industrial ists of the United States, utiliz- ng Canadian forest resources and furnishing employment to thou ,ands of Canadian workmen. If here is such thing as a paper 1 rust, as has been frequently charg { ed, its workings can be seen in .tlese great projects.
 Nearer at home, on the Pacific 1 Coast, there isn't a single news print mill of respectable size in neighborLBritish Colum- is not either owned or | controlled by American capital.
 Pass Alaska By
 Most of this tremendous cxpan- sion, which is bringing Canada to- day upwards of $150,000,0o0 an- aually has transpired since the present. decade began. In other words, during the period when the United States Government, through i ,he Forest Service, was undertak- Ing to establish the very same in 1ustry in Alaska as the most inn source of steady employ nent and permanent population.
 Forestry experts in the Gov srnment's employ after years of ,areful study, later checked by ex- oerienced men employed by pri- sate capital, estimate the timber 'esources of Southeast Alaska alone ire capable of sustained yearly | production of 100000 tons of 1ewsprint in perpetuity; that it ;an be manufactured at cost | it to be marketed prof tably in wide area of the United States on an open competitive bas- s; that it does not need any tariff | o keep out the foreign-made prod- | lct. Tn other words, here inz Alas "a there is an opportunity to build | ID great industry to utilize tim 1 ,er that is and has been for years ! past, rotting away in utter waste md to the detriment of all forest l, ,rowth.
 Costs Territory Enormously
 How much this has cost Alaska s almost incomprehensible. To annually 100000 ons of newsprint would require thousands of actual workers in hills, woods, transportation, etc, md they and their families would |
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