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DEVELOPING ALASKA BY BUREAUS —IS MY
COMPLAINT REASONABLE
Willi few exceptions no seiner or trailer made
liis expenses this year. The canneries are closed,
the cases shipped, the laborers have returned to
the “States,” and the traps dismantled and their
owners paid oil “in Seattle.”
The people of Alaska are looking for work.
The lumber mills are either closed or closing.
The Forestry Department knows that there
is no local market and yet it insists that no timber
may be exported unless first manufactured into
lumber by some local mill.
The occasion for my inquiry was this—X had
an order for two million feet of hemlock (not
saleable in Alaska) for export to the Orient—vu .
order to be followed by one for sixty million feet
valued at $660,000—enough to employ 200 men.
The Forestry Department admits that there
is no local market and yet forbids exnortaion, ex
cept under conditions which are impossible, name
ly, only logs that are cut incidental to the filling
of orders for local mills and not saleabe to them.
“Dog-in-the-manger” or “X cannot eat the
hay, but you’ll not eat it either” or to be honest,
the Forestry Department is once more showing
that it is the creature of the Pulp Mills.
WILLIAM L. PAUL