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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



STEAMSHIP DOCKS ON COPPER RIVER 



Cordova is a thriving town with railroad and steamship facilities. 

 The town is headquarters for the Chugach National Forest that public 

 property roughly estimated as holding eight and one-half billion 

 board feet. 



board feet. To the early gold-seekers, this great natural 

 wealth appeared to have no value beyond supplying them 

 with logs for their cabins, timbers for their mines and 

 sluice-boxes, and fuel for their' stoves. With the develop- 

 ment of the Ter- 

 ritory the once- 

 despised forests 

 are assuming a 

 more important 

 place, and at 

 present they 

 promise to rival 

 gold in the re- 

 turn of wealth. 

 Native lumber is 

 now depended 

 upon almost ex- 

 c 1 u s i v ely for 

 construction of 

 all kinds in 

 Alaska, and it is 

 beginning to find 

 favor in outside 

 markets, espe- 

 cially the Sitka 

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FOREST SERVICE LAUNCH 



The Alaskan forest 

 his equipment in hi 

 Alaskan forests. 



ranger's "bronc," and a most necessary part of 

 work along the extended coast line of the 



spruce which is exported in considerable quantities. 

 The sale of mature timber from the Chugach has 

 shown a steady increase since the creation of the For- 

 est. During the fiscal year 1920 individual sales to the 



number of 112 

 were made, cov- 

 ering more than 

 six million board 

 feet. In addi- 

 tion to this, the 

 Alaskan Engi- 

 neering Commis- 

 sion cut from 

 the Forest un- 

 der free-use per- 

 mit the equiva- 

 lent of over four 

 million board 

 feet in the form 

 of lumber, ties, 

 piling, poles, and 

 bridge timbers, 

 for use in the 



THE FLAGPOST OF CIVILIZATION 



construction o f 



Hand in hand with railroad construction, Such schoolhouses as this are heralding progress in pioneer 



villages carved out of the wilderness. the Government 



