brought in men known in their
field from coast to coast. Wolfe
himself has a record of more
than thirty years in Atlantic
Coast pulp manfacture culmin
ating- in the presidency of the
Pulp Bleaching Corporation of
New York City. His specialty is
bleaching, the key factor in
production of highest grades of
pulp.
The Weyerhasuser plant is a
175-ton daily capacity industry
employing 175 men.
Development Important
A statement by F. R. Titcomb,
general manager of the Weyer
haeuser Timber Company, west
ern division, illustrates the im
portance of the pulp develop
ment from the standpoint of the
timber owner. Mr. Titcomb ex
plained that his company has no
favorable outlet for a large part
of the material making up the
forest. Western hemlock com
prised a considerable part of
tiie wood left after logging op
erations removed trees most de
sirable for lumber manufacture.
The hemlock, he pointed out,
proved to be highly desirable
for pulp and its acceptance and
popularity on the market was
growing. The Weyerhaeuser
Company, therefor, became in -
terested in pulp manufacture
as timber owners, rather than as
lumber manufacturers seeking
new fields. Pulp manufacture, he
sold, offers new hope to stump
age owners and will also exert
a stabilizing influence on the
lumber industry and will not
conflict with the lumber busi
ness.
This situation is apparent in
the Longview operations, where
one of the three head mills on
the Weyerhaeuser site is engag
ed most of the time is cutting
hemlock to supply the pulp
ruil-l. This division of the lumber
plant operates irrespective of
the lumber situation.
There has never been any
question on the practicability of
the Pacific Northwest as a scene
of some types of paper manu
facture. But in choosing to start
its pulp operation by manufac
ture of the highest possible
quality product, the Weyerhaeu
ser Company has pioneered, just
as did the newsprint and card
board makers, and is perhaps
stepping into an even broader
plane. Already most persistent
and well founded rumors are
heard of other large scale oper
ations preparing to establish
here on the Columbia River
waterfront within the shadow of
the Weyerhaeuser pulp division.
—Seattle Times.
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Ressurrecting An
Old Skeleton
X
Just about the time elections
begin to warm up, the funny
crowd of federalists and others
in Juneau talk of introducing
pulp mills to Alaska. So far these
promisers of labor have been
strangely silent. Perhaps it is
because official Washington is
beginning to really understand
the gigantic timber steal deal
consummation of which was at
tempted by the Forest Bureau;
perhaps it is because one of
their representatives who went
to Washington comes back with
disquieting news. That the deal
is oil—but does not tell why.
Who knows?
Ten billion of feet of timber
“sold” to two companies. For a
song—the people of Alaska un
able to get even fair considera
tion from this department must
even pay for the rotten sticks
they take out of the woods for
wood.
A fine how-de-do. Noble, pat
riotic citizens! Guardians of the
resources of the country! All
honorable men. We take our
hats off to them—every one of
them—because they are more
licked now than they ever have
been and it is becoming appar
ent that they have reached al
most the end of their rope.
Good-bye!
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WHY DID HE COME BACK?
--x- ,
In November 1930 B. F. Hein'c
zelmann, assistant regional for
ester of the Forest Service in
Alaska went to Washington, D.
C. “to assist in every way pos
sible in bringing about the es
tablishment of paper and pulp
mills in Alaska. He reports that
he is going to stay there until
he has succeeded in securing
this new industry for the terri
tory—with the certainty of op
erations being commenced in
the near future.” Some one has
asked why Mr. Heintzelmann
returned to Alaska and inci
dentally points out that the pulp
and paper mills seem as vague
a proposition as they ever were.
_V- -.- -
FARKS WARNING COAST
WORKERS TO KEEP AWAY
-x
Asserting that an influx of
job-seekers into Alaska would
bring serious relief problems to
the fore in all communities in
the territory, and handicap ef
forts to take care of local unem
ployed, Governor Geo. A. Parks
Issued a warning to those con
templating coming to Alaska in
search of work.
“Anyone who has sufficient
funds to defray the cost of a
trip to Alaska and the expense
incidental to looking for jobs
which do not exist,” the govern
or said in his warning, ‘would be
wiser to remain where he can
use the money to live on than to
come here.”
The governor pointed out that
Alaska wants settlers but that
just now the territory cannot
offer prospective ones any .in
ducement in the way of jobs at
which to earn a livelihood.