IjKSK MA.JFSTE
liFT’S CUT FRICK OF STUMFACT
(From Kctcliikan Sunday Chronicle,
In the Tonga ss National Fores!
surrounding Ketchikan stnmpage
charges are from one to two dollars
per thousand for logs. These log a
ere landed at the sawmills at costs
approximating $10. per thousand
Thus it appears that the stum png* ■
charges amount to as much as 2 0
per cent of their gross incomes.
There are reports that the* for
estry Bureau, in order to induce
capital to come to Alaska to build
paper mills, is to contract with the
companies to the* effect that their
sompanies to the effect that the!*
stumpage may not he more than
fifty cents per thousand or less.
Tn this the forestry bureau is co
reel. They should offer all these in
duements to the paper manutac;
urors. but at the same time they
should lend encouragement to
the present loggers and lumber in
dastry. They likewise should give
ail loggers I his low si umpa.ge rale
i rgument will ho put forth that
Iho paper nianul'aelurers will be re
qrired lo log off everything in their
areas while the smaller logging out
fits of today are given the choice of
the host stands of timber. This ar
gument does not hold. All men. all
corporations, all industry should he
treated on an equality basis. Ifd.
Note—So say the seiners, also.
it will he maintaind by some
that the forestry bureau even at. its
present slumpage rates is not abb
to pay its own expenses. This mu.
all be true, but likewise is it a fa's
that the navy, the biological survey,
tie coast and geodetic survey, the
lighthouse ser\ice. and other dc
parlments are not self support ing.
’t hey never were intended to In .
They were intended as service arm
of our government, maintained at
the general expense of the tax pnv
an.l so (hex should be.
The logging and lumber industry
ol Alaska is always hard put. It i
a struggle to compete with t b 1
mills of the states, and if the stump
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Established in I9C6
ago rates should l»e cut it would
moan i ha I some of the loggers and
mills which are now having difficul
ties in making ends meet would be
prosperous. With their prosperity
would come more employment, big
in r payrolls, improved, conditions
generally'. Editor’s note—The same
arg uncut is put forth by the sein
Opponents of reduced stumpage
charges to all loggers may claim
thiC logs are available to the mills
;'n Alaska at lower costs than on Pu
g'd Sound and elsewhere. This will
ne conceded but there are so many
o'her disadvantages in Alaska oper
1 ions that the loggers and the mills
ie°d a greater differential if the in
insiry is to prosper.
Common kit bodies of Southeasi
r" 11 Amska, the towns officials, ev
• ! \ i. dy should agitate for lowe
s' '.nrpage rates in the Tongass Na
t: mil Forest.
Scarcity' of the larger herring
<■(• ipled with an unexpectedly firm
(!< • and from the Poston and New
York akols caused this (ish to be
in keei mud in the Pay of Funds
during t • latter part of March and
most of Ai. ■ i 1.
As an I'Minir’ > of how quickly
pn price li" • ied we find that
* >on on day the price per
sliead was • so.00 and at noon on
following day, the price was
down to $ 32.
For many years the price has
been about $20. during the early
vr;ve so keen that shipments were
ma le by express.
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Sheldon Jackson
School
SITKA, ALASKA
High School
and
Industrial Training
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