The Wrangell sentinel., 1954-04-09
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Plans of Pacific Northern Timber Company for establishment of a lumber mill and eventually a pulp mill in the Wrangell area moved another step toward reality this week when the L. s. Forest Service announced it would accept bids on June 3, for three billion board feet of timber in this region to be har- vested over a period of years under Forest Service regulations.
 Pacific Northern, an affiliate of Georgia Pacific, one of the largest pulp companies in the industry. announced year ago it's tentative plans for a lumber plant and pulp chip mill in the Wrangell vicinity. 1 Il plans were based on the oDpor- tunity to purchase sufficient tim Der to meet it's anticipated needs. | The present bids now announced by the Forest Service are ill line with the company's plans to acquire the timber and are being made at it's request
 Acquires Property Here l Since announcing it's initial pro- posal, Pacific Northern has aequir- ed the former Alaska Packers can nery site of 43 acres at the north end Of town and has obtained on option from the city between 80 and 90 city lots with the plans of building housing to accommodate it's employees. Its originally an- nounced financing program called for an investment of around $4,- 500,000. This probably will be greatly inireased with the later de- yeloped pulp mill project.
 Timber being offered for sale by the Forest Service is located in a in the vicinity of Wrangell, to be cut over a period of 50 years. The stand includes Zarembo, Etolin, Wrangell, Woronkofski and part of Mitkof Islands, and on mainland in the vicinity of Bradfield Canal. It includes an estimated 1,980,O 0,O0O,- 000> board feet of western hemlock. | 72000O,0O0 { feet of Sitka spruce, l I60, 100000 feet of western red cedar and 120,000,0O0 board feet of Alaska cedar. Stumpage rates are $3.20 a thousand for spruce, $2.00 for hemlock and $1.70 for cedar.
 Sawmill by 1857
 The contract will require that he purchaser shall by December -, 1857, show possession of or nstall at some point in or adjacent the sale area a sawmill or saw ..II and other wood processing plants, having combined capacity of at least 40 million board feet annual capacity
 The contract will further require that prior to December 31, 1862, the purchaser shall install and have operative at some point or ad- jacent to the sale area pulp man. ufacturing plant of at least so tons daily capacity
 The purchaser shall submit gen eral plans and specifications for L1C bd " IhAil anu ACAtibNA oll 0SboA N~ by January 1, 1855, and prior to July l, 1855. shall submit detailed plans showing facilities to be built machinery to be installed and man ner of shipping the product.
 Bidders must meet requirements of the Forest Service, including financial ability, operating know ledge of industrial plants and other pertinent data. Bidders have until June ?, 1954,- to qualify under the | requirements. Pacific Northern i! understood to have met with tht necessary qualifications as a bid der.
 Headed By Johnson
 Pacific Northern Timber Com pany is headed by Robert F. John son of the c. D. Johnson Lumber Company, pioneer Portland, Ore. firm, and associated with him are William Crooks of the P. L. Crooks Co.,, and c. Girard Davidson, former Assistant Secretary of the Interior all of Portland. Several other Port land men are said to be interested Interest of the Portland group in