Longview Gets Big
Mew Pulp Mill
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Longview has cause to give
thanks. The Weyerhauser pulp
plant, comprising a group of ten
major buildings on the com
pany’s 700-acre waterfront site,
has gone into production, giving
employment to 175 skilled and
unskilled workers.
The plant, first of its kind on
the Coast, manufactures a high
grade bleached sulphite puln
which is shipped to paper manu -
facturing plants in the New
England and Great Lakes states.
Hemlock is used.
Put Under Arrest
Clark M. Garber, superintend
ent of the western district of the
office on Indian acairs with
headquarters at Akiak, has been
bound over to the grand jury on
a charge of grand larceny, ac
cording' to a report appearing in
the Fairbanks News-Miner.
The government contends that
when an agent of the adminis
trator of the Peter Williams es
tate presented a note for col
lection Mr. Garber took it and
refused to return it, and that it
was obtained only after a
search warrant had been sworn
out and his house searched. It is
raid he borrowed money from
Williams, a well-to-do Indian
who was drowned about a year
ago.—Anchorage . Times.
FUR BEARERS COMING BACK
After two lean years, fur
bearers are reported coming
back in the Fort Yukon district.
The trappers are not benefi ted
to any extent because of the
continued depressed condition
of the fur markets.
Gov. Parks Makes
Annual Report
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Governor George A Parks
made his annual report to Sec
retary of the Interior Ray Ly
man Wilbur.
He recommended:
Reopening the Yukon River to
commercial fishing.
Repeal of existing restrictions
limiting locations of placer
claims.
Open season on all small fur
bearers to relieve trappers who
are needy as a result of low
prices.
Construction of not less than
10 schools each year to provide
sufficient education equipment.
Appointment of a medical di
rector, placing the health ser
\:ee on a better operating basis.
Construction of additional
hospitals.
Emergency funds for relief of
destitution among natives.
Discontinuance of district of
fices of the bureau of Indian af
fairs and appointment of inspec
tors in their stead.
Approval of the reindeer coun
cil’s plan for supervision of the
industry.
Approval of the Alaska Road
Commission’s tentative 10-year
improvement program.
Improvement of various har
bors and rivers.
Better charting of Glacier Bay
and other inlets.
Changing the boundaries of
MeKinlev Park to conform with
the natural boundaries.
Governor Parks reported an
increase of a million and a half
dollars in Alaska’s gold produc
tion, with a total of $8,476,000.
Fifty-seven per cent of the pro
duction came from placers
Decline in copper prices re
sulted in a production of only
S4,244,600, compared with $7,130,
GOO in 1929.
The value of the fisheries out
put dropped from $57,095,819 to
$37,670,049 and whaling returns
declined from $502,081 to $472,
065.
Seal skins brought $621,757.
The seal herd numbers 1,045,101
as against 132,000 in 1910.
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ORIENTAL OIL CONTRACT
MAY BE FILLED FROM
INNISKIN BAY DISTRICT
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A party of oil engineers, oper
ating in the interests of the
Pamsey Petrol Organization, a
$50,000,000 concern of Oklahoma
City, will next summer geologize
the Inniskin Bay district, to the
Westward of Seward, with the
definite thought o f locating
areas. Under authority and di
rection of Carl Beal, largest
single oil property holder in the
Oklahoma fields, the inspection
will be thorough; and the plan
is to proceed with drilling if re
ports are inviting, reports the
Seldovia Herald.
The Ramsey company holds
option on prospective oil proper
ties at the bay and moreover
has already pocketed a neat con
tract calling for annual deliv
eries of 2,000,000 barrels to the
Doi Shoten Company, of Japan,
from Inniskin oil fields—if oil
field there be.
The Doi Shoten became ac
tively interested because of the
shorter haul from the Alaskan
fields to the Oriental market.
The outcome was that the Nip
ponese company contracted for
the annual 2,000,000 barrel de
livery, fulfillment, of course,
hinging upon oil development.
With this contract as leverage it
was not hard for Alaskans in
terested in the Inniskin and
Cold Pay oil fields to enlist the
cooperation of the Ramsey peo
ple. Hence, the plans for next
summer’s geological survey.—
Anchorage Times.