Timber Industry
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MEMORIAL PRAYING FOR
REGULATION RELIEF
lo the Department of Agricul
ture to the Forestry Bureau,
and to the Honorable James
Wickersham, Delegate from
Alaska.
WHEREAS, More than forty
per cent of the total stand of
western hemlock saw-timber n.
the United States as a whol? i,;
found in the Ter itory of Al l •
ka to-wit' Sixtv-t’v' bin
board feet as agamst a total one
n indred and fr -ty-n ne billion
bo^rd feet in the entire United
States; such stand of timber
in Alaska being entirely within
the boundaries of the Forest
Re ervcs and,
WHEREAS, The stand of Sitka
Spruce in Alaska of commercial
size is approximately sixteen
bnlion four hundred million
be ard feet a quantity more than
two fifths of the entire avail
able supply of such timber with
in the United States as a whole
and,
WHEREAS, The cut of West
ern Hemlock in Alaska for the
past several years is less than
one two-hundredth part of the
total cut of Hemlock in the Un
it d States and,
WHEREAS, The total cut of
•pruce in Alaska is approximate
ly one-twentieth of the total cut
( f this variety of timber in the
United Staes and,
WHEREAS, As to both spruce
and hemlock the quantity cut
in Alaska is much less than the
normal increase would permit
and billions of board feet of
each of the above varieties
become too mature every year
causing a useless waste of the
i bove resources and a conse
quent loss to the people of this
ration as well as constituting a
positive detriment to the devel
opment to the growth of the
youg timber, and,
WHEREAS, The regulations o:
the Forestry Bureau forbid th<
exportation cf round timber anc
are further unfair and discrim
inatory in that stumpage charg
es are so assessed that approxi
mately twenty-five per cent oi
t,re timber, for which the log
ger must pay a stumpage charge
is decayed, checked and so full
of knots as to be practically use
less and,
WHEREAS , By reason of the
unfair regulations in force in
the Territory of Alaska the saw
mills and loggers of this Terri
tory have been forced to paj
•'turnpage on much useless tim
ber thereby increasing the cosR
to a degree which makes it al
most impossible to operate and
WHEREAS, By reason of the
inhibitions against the export ot
round timber on logging, the in
dustry is cut off from a large
potential source of revenue leav
ing the mature timber to be
come over ripe and to decay.
NOW THEREFORE, Your Me
morialist prays that the regula
tions of the Forestry Bureau of
the Department of Agriculture
be so amended as to permit the
export of round timber from the
Territory and furthermore that
i he regulations regarding cut
ting of timber be so altered as
to make a proper allowance on
itumpage charges to cover the
: defective and knotty timber.
‘ AND YOUR MEM OP I ALLS!
I WILL EVER PRAY.
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BIG SHIPMENT LUMBER TO
THE ORIE7NT
. .Fourteen million fet of lumber
and LOGS will be carried from
the North Pacific (excluding
Alaska) to the Orient by vessels
of fhe Canadian American Ship
ping Company. The British mo
torship Alynbank is loading 4,
600,000 feet of lumber in Grays
Harbor, for Yckomoma and
Osaka. The Antiope was loading
at Bellingham 4,500,000 feet of
lumber and logs for Osaka. Oth
er loads will follow.
While round timber exports
from Puget Sound are permit
ted, attention is called to tne
fact it is prohibited in Alaska.
Those who have defended tr c
discrimination against Alaska
are asked: “What makes it rig’rc
to export round timber from tie
States and why is it wrong to
export the same kind of timber
from Alaska?
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