al Indians whom you believe to
be your “Indian friends” have
copies of that contract. I will
leave it to you to determine why
they have not given you the
same IF you requested them for
a copy as you claim.
Yours very truly,
William L. Paul.
rorest Department and
Local Development
John Rustgarci would like peo
ple to believe that William L.
Paul is against pulpmills, e^en
though he knows that Paul is
not against either pulp mills o1
any other inve tment of capital
in Alaska.
Paul complained about the
dog-in-the—manger attitude of
the Forest Department which
declares in its annual reports
that over SEVENTY MILLION
board feet of timber is going
to waste EACH year and yet it
Will not allow export of hemlock
a wood that is a drug oa the
market.
Ask any logger ard he will tell
you that if he could find a mar
ket for the hemlock, he could
make money logging. The For
est Department compells the
loggers to log it, and yet the
mills won’t buy it. These log
gers have told Paul that if he
could find a market for it, it
would be a great blessing.
The proposition Paul put up
to the Forest Department was
this—that the Department give
him a permit to export the logs
for just one year, after which
time, the matter could be recon
sidered.
• If the Forest Department had
granted this request, $500,000
would have been spent among
the loggers, merchants and citi
zens of Ketchikan, Wrangell and
Petersburg during 1929, and for
a timber that has no market at
present.
What is wrong with that?
$500,000 is quite a sum of
money.
While John Rustgard was
drawing his $5,000 from the Ter
ritorial Treasury, Paul proposed
to bring $500,000 of real money
into the Territory to benefit log
gers and merchants alike. Paul
got turned down while the For
est Department is helping Mr.
Rustgard transfer from his pre
sent job to a better paying one.
-X
MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE
COLLEGE
With the exception of $60,000
appropriated by the Legislature
in 1917, for the construction of
buildings, the Territorial Legis
lature has appropriated $602,710
from 1921 to 1929, inclusive, for
the maintenance and construe
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