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better, within the next decade. Practical engi- 

 neers realize that every dollar of Federal and 

 State funds appropriated for these surveys, if 

 spent in the next twenty years, will save many 

 dollars that otherwise must be spent by corpora- 

 tions and individuals in fragmentary surveys made 

 for special purposes, and the worst feature of 

 such an uneconomic procedure would be that it 

 would provide no maps for the use of the general 

 public. 



THE TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST 



One million cords of pulpwood on the Ton- 

 gas8 National Forest, Alaska, has been sold 

 by the Forest Service of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture to the Alaskan- 

 American Paper Corporation. The timber is 

 from the east shore of the Behm Canal, Ee- 

 villagigedo Island, about 32 miles from 

 Ketchikan, the largest city in the Territory. 

 The contract price of the timber was 60 

 cents per 100 cubic feet for spruce and cedar, 

 and 30 cents per 100 cubic feet for all other 

 species. The sale area covers 45,000 acres, 

 and extends for 55 miles along the coast. 

 Twenty per cent, of the forest is spruce, 66 

 per cent, hemlock, and 14 per cent. Alaska and 

 western red cedar. 



A conditional award has been made by the 

 Forest Service to the company, pending ap- 

 proval by the Federal Power Commission of 

 their application for a hydro-electric power 

 license. The timber sale contract covers an 

 initial period of 32 years, or until 1953. The 

 price of the stumpage will be redetermined 

 and fixed by the Federal Government in 1928, 

 and every five years thereafter. Cutting must 

 begin by October 1, 1923, thus allowing two 

 years for organization and construction of im- 

 provements. The contract also requires the 

 establishment of a pulp mill of not less than 

 25 tons capacity by October 1, 1926. A yearly 

 cut of from 2,500,000 to 3,000,000 cubic feet 

 is contemplated. 



The award of this sale is in line with the 

 general policy of the Forest Service for making 

 available the timber resources of Alaska as a 

 means of increasing the supply of pulpwood 

 for the United States. The national forests 

 of the Territory probably contain 100,000,000 



cords of timber suitable for the manufacture 

 of newsprint and other grades of paper. Un- 

 der scientific management, experts say these 

 forests can be made to produce 2,000,000 cords 

 of pulpwood annually for all time, or enough 

 to manufacture one third of the pulp products 

 now consumed in this country. 



The Alaska forests also contain the second 

 chief essential of the pulp and paper manu- 

 facturing industry, namely, water power. No 

 accurate survey of the power resources has 

 yet been made, but known projects have a pos- 

 sible development of over 100,000 horsepower, 

 and it is believed that a complete exploration 

 of the national forests in southern Alaska 

 will show not less than 250,000 potential horse- 

 power that can be developed from water. 



Forest Service cruisers are now working in 

 Alaska collecting data for further use and de- 

 velopment of the forests. One block of timber 

 containing 335,000,000 cubic feet — enough to 

 keep a 100-ton pulp mill running — has been 

 advertised and is now ready for sale. 



THE ROOSEVELT WILD LIFE MEMORIAL 



The wild life memorial established by New 

 York State to Theodore Roosevelt, The Roose- 

 velt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station at 

 Syracuse, is this summer conducting field 

 investigations in New York State in the newly 

 established seven thousand acre Allegheny 

 State Park, which lies south of Buffalo on 

 the Allegheny River. Here Mr. Aretas A. 

 Saunders is investigating the birds, and Pro- 

 fessor T. L. Hankinson the fishes. Through 

 friends of the station funds have been provided 

 to investigate the beaver in the Adirondacks, 

 where numerous complaints of the injuries 

 have necessitated a study of their present 

 status. This investigation is being made by 

 Dr. Charles E. Johnson. .Through the cooper- 

 ation of President Howard H. Hays, of the 

 Yellowstone Park Camps Company, and with 

 the approval and cooperation of Director 

 Mather, of the Park Service, and of Superin- 

 tendent Albright, of the Yellowstone National 

 Park, a field party has been at work in the 

 Yellowstone studying wild life problems, with 

 headquarters at Camp Roosevelt, in the north- 



