fa -rushing trap logs to canneries
iv ;• which they get $20 per M as
i ain.st $11 offered by the mills.
The logging camps of the Ket
i1 man .Spruce Mills can log their
; 1 iber faster than the mill can
i lit it even when one of their
camps is idle—not an unusual
uicurance.
Spj uco
Tho conclusion therefore is
that the Forestry Department
should give perrni. ion to log an
average of one million feet per
month for export. This would
enable the local small logger to
1 o to work -there are live such
outfits that have been idle since
last July.
Around the Wrangell section
there are tin ee Indian logging
cut fits that hav been idle for
more than one year because no
tody will buy their logs. With
fish gone, and the Department
orbidding their only market,
namely, export, the Indian is
naving a tough lime while a pa
ternal government forbids the
utilization of our forests. Pro
perly brought to the attention of
'he Secretary there is no doubt
that he will i sue permit for the
export of Spruce.
Heir, lock
Hemlock is a drug- on the mar
1 et. Every logger reports that if
they could line! a way to market
hemlock, they would begin to
make money on their logging for
local demand (entirely spruce)
even if they delivered the hem
lock at cost for export.
Last July, a logger offered two
million feet which he had been
COMPELLED to log under the
regulations of the Forest Ser
vice. This could not be handled
because the department contin
ued to talk about THEIR REGU
LATIONS when their attention
was called to the LAW
The Forest Service estimates
that one bill5on feet of timber
could be cut from the Alaska re
serves each year in perpetuity.
There should be no hesitation
in giving permits to export hem
lock at the rate of two million
feet per month with the right to
take more IF the local demand
is not endangered thereby.
Congress expected the Secre
tary to make rules and regula
tions to carry out their intent to
permit export, NOT prohibit it.
THE SUPER-BUREAU CHIEFS
Secretary Wilbur announced
recently that the President has
formed the three commissioners
for A’aska appointed under the
act of February 10, 19d7, into a
committee to recommend steps
for improving governmental ad
ministration in Alaska. T'*e first
meeting of the commit! eo will he
held in Juneau, Alaska during
the present month, to i < gin a
study of the administrate; prob
lems presenting themselves in
the far north.
.These commissioners rcpiesent
Departments of the Fedoia! Gov
ernment in Washington and
each has charge of huoortant
elements of administration in
Alaska. They are George Parks,
Governor of Alaska, representing
the Department of the Interior;
Dennis Winn, Representative of
the Department of Commerce,
having charge of fishing prob
lems in Alaska; and Charles H.
Flory, representing the Depart
ment of Agriculture, and having
charge of farm, stock and forest
ry problems in Alaska. Each ol'
these commissioners has long
been a resident of Alaska. Each
retains his post as representa
tive of his department and adds
to it the duties of commissioner.
The committee was appointed
by an Executive Order issued by
the President under the author
ity of an Act of February 10,
1027 The purpose of the com
mittee is to determine by study
whether recommendation could
be made leading t o theplacing of
more authority for the control of
Alaska in that territory rather
than in Washington, and thus
increasing the opportunity for
the economic and commercial
development of the territory. It
is in harmony with that recent
act of the Department of the In
terior which transferred respons
ibility for the reindeer herds of
Alaska from the Office of Edu
cation in Washington, to that of
the Governor of Alaska.
One of the first problems
scheduled for study and possible
reorganization is that of the san
itary and medical work of the
Territory. Another problem for
immediate study is a considera
tion of the reorganization of the
educational system of the Terri
tory. While the ex-olncio com
missioners have no authority for
final action their recommenda
tions to the President will make
it possible to bring about need
ed coordination.
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